one gallon possible?

maybe a couple of male endlers, heterandria formosa, or mosquito fish. any way you go i would put a small powerhead in there (like something from an in-home water fountain) for surface movement and aeration, and do 50% changes once a week or 20-30% twice a week with aged water.
 
wataugachicken said:
maybe a couple of male endlers, heterandria formosa, or mosquito fish. any way you go i would put a small powerhead in there (like something from an in-home water fountain) for surface movement and aeration, and do 50% changes once a week or 20-30% twice a week with aged water.
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Consider if you and a friend were trapped in a bathroom...
 
davexstumpe said:
thats a TERRIBLE analogy. The toilet would flush the waste out and there for you'd have a clean environment atleast. lol.

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I would go along the lines of a walk in closet.
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ok, be stuck in a bathroom with your friend, a broken toilet valve, and no tools. (nor the mechanical inclinement to diagnose the problem) :)

My recommendation? nothing short of a couple snails and MAYBE some shrimp should be kept in a 1 gallon. I don't care who thinks they know what or how, there is not a single advanced aquatic organism in this world that lives solely in a small puddle for its entire lifespan.
 
GUYS.

Not to belabor the already obvious, BUt IF any one was stuck in a bathroom with ME,....( that would be a GREAT analogy), b/c eventually when I hadda use the facilties, even if the toilet got rid of the waste,....it could NEVER make the environment CLEAN again!!! The memory & smell alone would kill both of us!!


LOL I'm jus' sayin'.......:1zhelp: :thud: :rant2:

:silly:
 
I normally use this analogy for customers "you are stuck in a closet, there is no ventilation until someone you don't know opens a window in the top, there is no toilet and no trash can and you rely on someone else to take out the waste, but cannot ask them to do so. having fun yet?"
for when ppl ask "but how do betta's breed in the wild if the male will attack the female" i give the above analogy, plus "want to live there with your significant other?" cuz i can tell you...if i were in a stuffy closet with my bf i'd be apt to hurt him too! (lol)
As far as the bowl I'll tell you the same thing I tell everyone. the only fish that can survive long-term in a 1G bowl without a filter system is a betta. No fish will be happy about it.
The way I've understood betta's is that they generally live in streams and rice paddies, but occasionally will get stuck in a puddle and then live there until rains come and take them back to the stream. When I was first getting into fish I was definitely told they live in puddles (and my bf laughed at me when I told him, hence, the betta research project began!)
 
I have a one gallon tank on my desk at work. I have kept two plants alive for nearly two months with the 7 watt bulb that it comes with (not florescent) and the tank is fine. it has a UG filter and though right now I have a few baby platies in it, they are moving home once they do get bigger than a quarter inch, but they have plenty of room for now... In the future, I plan on keeping a Beta in it, with a few ghost shrimp. It will do fine in here too.


Since gouramis are very similar to betas, you could probably keep a true honey dwarf gourami in the 1 gallon as well. Kids in south america keep wild gouramis in jelly jars...
 
Brian Bivens said:
I have a one gallon tank on my desk at work. I have kept two plants alive for nearly two months with the 7 watt bulb that it comes with (not florescent) and the tank is fine. it has a UG filter and though right now I have a few baby platies in it, they are moving home once they do get bigger than a quarter inch, but they have plenty of room for now... In the future, I plan on keeping a Beta in it, with a few ghost shrimp. It will do fine in here too.


Since gouramis are very similar to betas, you could probably keep a true honey dwarf gourami in the 1 gallon as well. Kids in south america keep wild gouramis in jelly jars...
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Is it good that they do that? How long do they live? A week? A couple days? How can you justify keeping a betta in something equivalent to you living in a bathroom with no toilet for the rest of his life? He'll live 2-3 years max in a bowl, but is likely to live 5-7 years in a well-maintained 10g
 
id do a female betta and some shrimp. female bettas can be extremely colorful..you sort of have to look for them. I'd also do an algae eating shrimp. and some anacharis.
 
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