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Agreed on the betta myth, I had an empty 5 gallon and a rehomed betta to care for though :P The reason I suggested wild type neocaridina was that they seemed like the hardiest beginner friendly species I could find. They're the same species as RCS, but the RCS is a red mutation.

Yeah, I have to be honest with you here, 2.5 gallons is pretty much only big enough for RCS imo. I have a betta by himself in my 5 gallon and I wouldn't feel right adding shrimp, because he's hunted all of the crustaceous life in my tank to extinction, he also ate all my baby snails I had in the...

Tbh, I do not know. But, I would recommend putting the shrimp in first, and I would doubly recommend looking into their comatibility first. I haven't kept shrimp, but I was considering it and did a lot of research about them. I wasn't going to keep them with fish though, so I didn't really look...

Amano shrimp might be cramped in there, I would go with wild type neocaridina.

The only thing my research pulled was that kissing fish are very nervous and slow eaters. Are they looking stressed or discolored or anything? You said they're getting thin, I'm just trying to make sure they aren't ill, and not eating because of something else. I had a pair of them when I was...

Hey! Bert gives some excellent suggestions and advice here, I just wanted to wish you luck! Big thing to consider is how much you want to maintain the plants, and how much you want to spend on everything. Slow growing plants mean less maintenance for you. I have 1 sprig of hornwort in my 5...

Welcome to the forums! Have you tried a feeding tube? I just got a betta who wouldn't even look at his food until after I started using a feeding tube. What are you feeding them now?

Yeah, I adopted a betta (Damocles) and he ate all the baby snails, detritus worms, crustaceans like daphnia and a few other types in a few days. I don't think he's going to be good with shrimp, and I'm even reconsidering a larger snail. I do want something to help clean the tank though, I would...

Do it! :3 the betta will appreciate it, even if your sister in law doesn't!

His head scar is healing very nicely, already starting to regain its natural color :D he is also very intelligent, he's learned who I am, and he know when I feed him, I've taught him to follow my finger and flare on a hand signal. Took all of about 5 minutes over 3 days...

I definitely will be posting more pictures once more time has passed, although after a few days of CO2 and about a week after I added azomite, my plants are doing very well. I watched single 2 inch strands of java moss turn into 3 inch x 2 inches wide (with new growth on both sides about 1.5mm...

I hope the rescape goes well, unfortunately I just don't know enough about this to give you any good advice. I would only be able to recommend researching what kind of fish you want to use, just basing it off of a search for popular feed fish. After that you have to invent an enclosure for them...

Hmm.. Maybe try getting a mesh net breeder box to put inside the tank, with a m/f pair inside the net box. Let them mate and then depending on what breeder box and what fish you select, the fry will escape through the mesh and be eaten. Leaving the parents to safely generate another generation...

Firstly, welcome to the forums. Secondly, I don't know how likely it would be to set up feeder fish to breed in that tank. The parents might get eaten. With that said, I would suggest looking at popular choices for feeder fish, selecting a smaller, faster breeding species; and then I suppose...

That betta is going to look so much better when he's healthy again! I'm excited to see a picture in a couple months! Good deeds should go rewarded, and even though it isn't worth much, you did a good thing and should be proud. Also, I was given professional advice about dealing with superiors a...

Thanks Barliman! :D

He always comes up to greet me when I peek in, they really are intelligent. You're making me feel better about my tank though, the last couple days I was having diatome issues, but today they've cleared up a lot, so I did a water change and cleaned up my filter / replaced the 2nd cartridge in my...

Thank you, Blue! I love this little guy, instant addition to the family haha I'm just glad he likes the tank :3

Me too, and this guy seems to be very inquisitive and.. Well I don't know how else to say it but he's a goof. He swims between strands of java fern that become little hoops, come up and shows off for me when I walk up to the tank, and he's done a couple high speed laps around the perimeter of...

Just rescued this guy today from a vase at a friend's house, apparently he was purchased from Wal-Mart like a week ago and after my buddy did some research on them, he realized he was mistreating Damo(cles). When I went over today, I told him about my new 5 gallon and how I was going to get a...

I love the look of dragon stone though. Very attractive hardscape imho.

That is a bladder snail, I'm dealing with them in my 5 gallon. Word of warning, 1 will turn into 15, 15 will turn into a billion. They breed asexually and I had 1 small bladder snail lay 4 clutches in a day before I removed it and the clutches. I still ended up with a 2nd generation of them.

I haven't done any research on dwarf puffers yet, I'll look into them. Thanks :)

I have been considering ADF, but I used to have them in a community tank when I was in high school and they weren't my favorite additions to the tank. I've been leaning more towards shrimp though, probably wild type neocaridina divaldi since they're pretty neat looking, and I think it would be...

I'm using a tetra heaterthat isn't adjustable, it's permanently set to 80f. Since its still winter for me. The tank stays circulating between 78 and 80 depending on where in the tank you check. Its pretty large profile, which I'm not a huge fan of. It was like $7 on amazon so I got it and it's...