Saturday, May 22, 2010

Best fish for a 10 gallon tank and 1.5 gallon tank?

any fish you can come up with that would do best in those size tanks
Answers:
a wide variety of fish could live in a ten gallon; such as 4 or 5 guppies in the tank by themselves, 3 or 4 danios in the tank by themselves (dwarf frogs tend to be compatible with danios if you wanted one less danio then you could get an african dwarf frog! they are basically frogs that live like fish), or two small goldfish in the tank by themselves (they would eventually grow out of it-my two feeder goldfish started off in a ten gallon tank by themselves but less than a year later we had to upgrade to a twenty gallon tank by themselves because they grow so much... I like guppies because they are colorful, do well in communities, and don't out grow their tanks very often)
my thoughts towards a 1.5 gal is that it is an awful small tank, there fore it could not house much...
betta fish thrive in tanks that are between 1 gallon and 10 gallons, so maybe a betta in the 1.5 gallon tank and a small community of fish in the 10 gal tank?
here's a link to a list of freshwater fish, if you find one that interests you click on it and learn more about it:
http://www.petco.com/caresheets/careshee...
also, here's one on bettas because I absolutely love bettas!
http://www.petco.com/caresheets/fish/bet...
angel fish suckers tigerbarbs guppies ghostshrimp ect
You should get Platies they're awesome.
Here is a list of fish that can be used for 10 gallon tanks at the link below. As for the 1.5 gallon, I am afraid that you would be limited to a Betta.