Cold unfiltered office bowl?

kyle3

kyle3

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so i want a little something to put on my desk at work- good for stress right ;)

i want to keep to a bare minnumum- small -no heater- no filter (i have no problem with daily water changes)

what can i get away with - i thought of white clouds although i've never kept them- may be some ghost shrimp- do they need a heater-

anyway just looking for suggestions

thx a million-K
 
How small do you want to go? I have 3 white clouds in a 5.5G, although I do filter it. Anything smaller and I would think that you would be limited to shrimp. Also, you could keep a few plants in with them--I keep red melon swords and java moss in a tank with only overhead lighting. Live plants would help an unfiltered tank.

Jackie
 
If I was you I would do something that looks like this with a betta.
http://www.robertsflorist.com/fish/
Make sure you have a real plant. That way the plant will take up the amonia, and you will have to do less water changes. Maybe more like every 3 days or so. Stick with one betta, and make sure the vase is big enough for the fish to swim around.
 
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OMG, joeyg2100, please do not recommend crap like that to people.

NO betta should be in a bowl like that and regardless if there is a plant in there or not, they would have to have the water changed every day.

Bettas need HEAT and surface area to breath air.

The only thing that belongs in a bowl, imho, are goldfish crackers.

Roan
 
I know you said that you do not want a filter, but there are simple desk kits out there. A one gallon for shrimp can be purchased for around $15. If you want fish, the slightly larger tanks can cost anywhere from $15-40ish. Right now a lot of stores have small aquariums on sale. Having a small filter will ensure that the fish (or shrimp) gets air over the weekends. If it gets cool or cold where you live just don't get a beta with out a heater.
 
I know I would never do that to a fish. One of my co-workers has this setup. The fish swims around all the time, looks healthy, acts healthy. She changed the water in it twice a week. She has had this fish for 6 or so months, and it still is going strong. I know that most of you on here will say that this is not good for a fish, and I agree with that. I was just giving this person and idea of what to do as a last resort. I would suggest that they get a small filltered tank.
 
im not against clean water or letting a fish swim but between 2 diffrent forums ive read like 10 threads of exsperts who cant keep bettas alive but know some noobs that kept them for years in a jar.

personallly i have a beta in a 5 gallon with a filter and heater and clean water

one thing i want to try is a plant and a drawf frog in oine of those little gallon or half gallon acrylic bowfronts. i may try a shrimp or something in it. right now i have praying mantises in one
 
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