2 Gallon Eclipse, any idea what to put in it ?

[Orbitorly]

A friend of mine got a 37 gal Eclipse, it came with a free 2 gallon Eclipse tank, any idea on what fish to put in it ?

[Pootspete]

Hi and Welcome to AC.

You would want to cycle the tank first.

With that limited of space you can put a Beta in the 3 gallon along with maybe a couple of corry cats.

[Orbitorly]

No need to welcome me I used to have over 500 posts, I just havent been on ;)

I know about cycling, and all the other stuff lol:p I just need tips on what fish to put in it. I don't like Betta's and corries are not in my league any other ideas ?

[slipknottin]

if you want a betta you should add a heater.

without a heater some white cloud minnows would be a good choice.

with a heater some dwarf puffers would work.

[dwayne]

Definately get a little heater. If you do twice monthly water changes, you could put a nice little school of neon tetras (my favorite fish!). Maybe 5 or 7 of them would be very nice! If you don't fancy neons, maybe 3 or 4 male guppies?

[Orbitorly]

Could I use is to breed guppies ? or the filter would suck them up ?

[dwayne]

Well I imagine you could use it to breed guppies, but they'd quickly outgrow the tank. I used to put my baby guppy fry into my eclipse 3 gallon and move them to other tanks or give them away once they outgrew the tank. I just put a piece of nylon stocking over the end of the filter to prevent them from getting sucked up.

I suggested male guppies because it would be just them in the tank, very pretty. If you do want to breed the guppies, be sure to get 2 females to 1 male, to prevent sexual harrassment of the females!

[blee358]

You could breed guppies in a 2 gallon tank, but it would eventually get very crowded. How about a small school of danios?

[Andy16]

I was just going to mention the zebra danios, how about an aqautic frog?

[Jeremy S]

I would put a couple of ghost shrimp and some african dwarf frogs in it.

[mhmh]

Originally posted by slipknottin
if you want a betta you should add a heater.

without a heater some white cloud minnows would be a good choice.

with a heater some dwarf puffers would work.

Slipknottin, can you really put more than one dwarf puffer in such a small tank? I thought they needed lots of room because they're feisty amongst themselves.

I also have a 3 gallon Eclipse I want to buy a heater for and if I can really have a couple of dwarf puffers, I'd be delighted.

[OrionGirl]

The biggest problem with the dwarf puffers is to keep them well fed. They will do fine in a small tank. Try to keep to one gender, otherwise you'll have conflicts. My pair of males hang out, no chasing, no nipping. When the females were in there--it was a constant battle. The males ended up killing off the females. Males have yellow-ish tummies, girls tend to be white.


I'd avoid the danios--they tend to be active swimmers, and that small tank is going to be a whirlwind of movement. White clouds would do fine, as would pygmy cories.

[mhmh]

Thanks, OG.

I'm going to order my heater from Big Al's today. Once it's past noon I get double VIP points.

When it arrives, I'm heading out to the LFS near my office to see about getting a couple of male dwarf puffers.

[NJ Devils Fan]

I would get a school of neons as mentioned. Just my opinion though.