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I'm going back to college in a week and I want to have some sort of tank down there with me. I already have a 1g betta tank but I'd like something different.

I've heard various ideas for small tanks: sand bottom with loaches, puffers, shrimp tanks, etc.

I'd like to plant it at least moderately but I'd like something "different" as well.

please list ideas for 2.5 and 5g here, thanks.
 
Not sure if this is 'different' or not, but you could try creating a biotope - I really enjoy my little Sri Lanka biotope. It has a natural fine-grade gravel, Cryptocoryne wendtii (brown and green) and a small group of fm cherry barbs and a few snails. It's a fun little tank to watch, and pretty undemanding. I really like the cherry barbs for their personality - they're funny and completely fearless :D

You could also create a tank where your betta is the centrepiece - I'm sure he'd love a 5.5g with some live plants :)
 
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Little tanks, my favorite!!! Go with the 5 gallon. More room for stuff!

Easy to light--- Buy an incandescent clamp light (like the aluminum dome-things they sell for iguanas and lizards) but instead of incandescent bulbs, go to Lowe's or WalMart and buy a screw-in power compact bulb (they are self-ballasted) that is a daylight bulb (ie, it's 6500 K). They cost like $5 and last forever. Plenty of light!

White clouds are very, very hard to beat as far as color, size, and action for a 5 gallon. Six of them and a couple of pygmy cory cats and a couple of oto's with a mini-aquaclear filter (and maybe, just maybe a DIY CO2 pop-bottle reactor) would be a fantastic setup.
 
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White clouds are very, very hard to beat as far as color, size, and action for a 5 gallon. Six of them and a couple of pygmy cory cats and a couple of oto's with a mini-aquaclear filter (and maybe, just maybe a DIY CO2 pop-bottle reactor) would be a fantastic setup.
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isn't that way too many fish for 5g?? if your gonna cram in that many fish, may as well get a 10g.
 
I think if I'm going to go planted then I'll plant it really heavily since it's so easy to add a lot of light/co2/ferts to a small tank for cheap.

Maybe I'll do some pearl grass and bacopa for a background wall, some lobelia and a dwarf anubias for midground, and some microsword as a foreground filler, how's that sound? Maybe a tiny bit of driftwood just for a focus.

I'm liking the idea of a betta and some pygmy cories, maybe a few ghost shrimp just to clean things up a bit and eat algae?
 
Ghost shrimp are good. Consider some algae eating shrimp (are they still called "amano" shrimp"?)

Originally posted by paccula
isn't that way too many fish for 5g?? if your gonna cram in that many fish, may as well get a 10g.[/b]

It's all a matter of opinion. So long as it's got a good filter and good plant growth, I don't see any problems.
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