View Full Version : am i going to overstock??
For my 15G i am planning on adding 4 cories, 10neons, 1betta (maybe). How would 2 shrimps go?? Would i be overstocking with that??
Wippit Guud
01-22-2004, 7:44 AM
No, you should be ok with that.
NatakuTseng
01-22-2004, 8:14 AM
You should be ok, but its toward the upper limits of the stocking levelf or a 15gal.
Lauren
01-22-2004, 1:25 PM
please, for the sake of your other fish, remove the betta. He'd chase your neons around until they die with stress. It seems to be a great myth on this site that bettas can do well in small community tanks. My lfs said no, I still tried in the 10g and quickly removed the betta. They simply dont' play nice.
I would like to try it at least....if he starts annoying them. then he will be reomoved.
F.sparverius
01-22-2004, 6:23 PM
Female bettas are fairly calm. I had one in a 10 gallon tank with some cories and a Black Tetra for years. I think she was almost as pretty as a male and not so territorial.
can anyone give me an answer on fish and shrimp are they ok together??
JesseJ
01-22-2004, 10:39 PM
Fish and small shrimp schould be fine together. Make sure that the shrimp are well fed and have lot's of hiding places so they will not be hungry for or threatened by the other fish.
4 corys and 2 shrimp is more bottem dwelling fish then you really need in a 15 g tank. Unless you are constantly overfeeding 1-2 corys and the shrimp will be fine.
Aquarius0015
01-22-2004, 10:49 PM
Cories like to be kept in groups of at least 3, right?
Concerning the bettas- each is an individual. Some bettas play nice, others don't. Mine happens to do fine in a community tank.
Must4ng s4lly
01-22-2004, 11:39 PM
I have a betta male and female in a heavily planted tank with two cories and three swordtails and swordtail half - grown fry. All is peaceful and fine! the bettas hang out in the top of tank and are very peaceful with all!
dethjam316
01-22-2004, 11:44 PM
your betta might be okay...depends on the fish. as for the shrimp, they'd likely be okay. what kind of shrimp are you considering? your betta might attack them if they are really small.
I aint sure on what to get. What are some good types??
Aquarius0015
01-23-2004, 12:49 AM
Good types of shrimp? I would start out with ghost shrimp. It would be a pity to spend $9 on a few Amano shrimp just to learn that your other fish like the taste of them. At 25 cents a pop, you won't feel as bad if ghost shrimp get eaten.
But if they do eat the ghosts, I might look into a Singapore/Wood shrimp. They are more money, but they are larger. They are filter feeders and neat to watch, if not as active as the other kinds of shrimp.
kool how big do gohst shrimp get??
dethjam316
01-23-2004, 1:54 AM
they stay pretty small. 1", maybe a little more. ghost shrimp are pretty cool....they just end up being feeder shrimp in my gourami/loach tank, though.
Cool so they should stay alive then.
PumaWard
01-23-2004, 6:52 AM
Originally posted by Lauren.
please, for the sake of your other fish, remove the betta. He'd chase your neons around until they die with stress. It seems to be a great myth on this site that bettas can do well in small community tanks. My lfs said no, I still tried in the 10g and quickly removed the betta. They simply dont' play nice.
It has been my own experience (have had 6 male bettas in community tanks) that bettas make excellant community fish as long as some common sense goes into choosing tank mates. Neons would be fine with a male betta, as they don't have long finnage, are small, and don't occupy the same zone as bettas normally do; therefore, the betta would not mistake them for another betta. I would dare go to the length to say that your LFS is misinformed and believe the common assumption that male bettas are highly aggressive, which is simply untrue. If anything, bettas are more often the victims than the aggressor.
I agree. My male betta would often flare or chase my white cloud minnows but only for short periods of time then give up and go about his bussiness. Occasionally I would see the school of white clouds chasing him around as well.
Actually i should have thought to say this. I have a guppy that floated into the bag with my pictus catfish at the lfs anyways it was a tiny baby when it came and i has lasted in my 125G living near the filter with my betta since it was .5cm long. Male bettas really are a nice community fish.
Wippit Guud
01-23-2004, 7:16 AM
Well, I watched my betta constanly harrass a rainbow shark for about a week, and it was completely ignored.
Then one day, the shark grabbed the betta and slammed it against a rock.
Bettas might start stuff, but they won't finish it.