Betta in a 2.5 gallon tank. Can we add a catfish?

sypp said:
I'd suggest ghost shrimp then a snail... We were quite surprised at how interesting they are to watch when we first got them. Of course 6 months after getting our golden mystery snail we had something like 20 little ones climbing around... Everyone we know with a tank was promptly given a few. :Angel:
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That's kinda like spreading a disease though. Once you get them, they are impossible to get rid of. A small apple snail would be best. ...especially since they don't reproduce asexually.
 
One question no one else has asked yet - is the tank cycled? Having only been on for a few weeks I would be sure that the tank is fully cycled before considering any new friends for your betta.

I'm actually considering adding a cory to my 2.5g but I consistently decide against it due to the limited size of the aquarium. Yet I keep watching the corys in gf's ten gallon and all they really do is look for food all day. They don't seem like they would require a lot of room to do that. Plus I'm unsure as to whether they really need a friend; her albino came with a friend who died in a matter of days but he's been perfectly happy for months now without him.

I'll probably end up not putting anyone in the tank when all is said and done.

Yeah this was pointless but I guess I just wanted to share my thoughts so that you could know even the most experienced of us have these dilemmas.
 
sypp said:
I'd suggest ghost shrimp then a snail... We were quite surprised at how interesting they are to watch when we first got them. Of course 6 months after getting our golden mystery snail we had something like 20 little ones climbing around... Everyone we know with a tank was promptly given a few. :Angel:
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If you had babies without a definite clutch being laid above the waterline (looks like a big, hard cocoon) You didnt have mystery snails..
Mystery snails are not hermaphroditic and not asexual..You need a male and a female to breed... They also lay a clutch (like the one described above) that is easy to remove if you dont want babies... Speaking of whih, anyone want a Pomacea Bridgesii clutch? I have oodles...
 
snail would be alright but keep in mind they poop a lot so more water changes would be in order.

and they need to be fed veggies- they can't get by on algae alone.

ghost shrimp are facinating to watch you could put 2 or 3 in there with your betta i bet. and your betta might even enjoy herding them around the tank.
 
TheMightyQueenPixie said:
If you had babies without a definite clutch being laid above the waterline (looks like a big, hard cocoon) You didnt have mystery snails..
Mystery snails are not hermaphroditic and not asexual..You need a male and a female to breed... They also lay a clutch (like the one described above) that is easy to remove if you dont want babies... Speaking of whih, anyone want a Pomacea Bridgesii clutch? I have oodles...
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At first we didn't know whose eggs they were (noticed them on the bottom of the door-flap of the hood), but we soon saw it was the snail making them. If I had to guess I'd say we ended up with about 9 or so egg clusters, about half above the water. It was very unexpected (to us) because we hadn't added any fish/snails to the tank for a few months, so we assumed it was asexual.

It was a yellow snail in the 'mystery snail' tank at petsmart, so we never researched it much. We did enjoy the little guys until they reached dime size, then started giving them away. We kept the original and one other, both of which died a month or so later. Actually thier empty upside-down shells were found in the tank one morning, so we suspect they became lunch.
 
Ok, makes sense now...Females can store sperm for up to 9 months, so she was probably bred ages before you got her...The clutches are easy enough to deal with though... One word of caution about Petsmart. The have been receiving Pomacea Cananiculatas mixed in with Pomacea Bridgesii... They are very difficult to tell the difference between, however Canas get huge (baseball sized) and will destroy a planted tank...Brigs wont do that nor get as big.
 
TheMightyQueenPixie said:
If you had babies without a definite clutch being laid above the waterline (looks like a big, hard cocoon) You didnt have mystery snails..
Mystery snails are not hermaphroditic and not asexual..You need a male and a female to breed... They also lay a clutch (like the one described above) that is easy to remove if you dont want babies... Speaking of whih, anyone want a Pomacea Bridgesii clutch? I have oodles...
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Gotcha. I was thinking of those annoying pea-sized snails. What are they called? MTS?

I'd love to have a few more dime-sized snails. My 2 apples are awesome scavengers. They often get to the sinking food before my corys can find it.
 
Yeah a snail is probaly yuor best option and I have heard that some reproduce sexually instead of asexually.
 
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