Muffymouse

before I knew what I was doing with fish, I bought a 1.5 gallon tank kit. What can I keep in here? is this good for anything except taking up socket space and electricity?

COBettaCouple

it'd be good for a hospital tank or temporary tank for very young fry.

Tom

A way you could keep the tank cycled is by putting some sort of small invert in there.
Tom

Muffymouse

What kind of invert would be recommended? ps, I don't like the look of shrimp

sirdarksol

Hmmmm... That's a problem.
There are a few really tiny fish that can go in such a tank, but they're usually either pretty plain (like an oto) or difficult to keep alive (like a dwarf puffer)
Another problem is keeping the water parameters. Many people suggest nothing smaller than a 20g for beginners, because the larger quantity of water is better at keeping pH, waste products, and temp at a pretty steady level. (although I haven't had problems with my 10g)
You could keep a snail in the tank to keep it cycled.

COBettaCouple

maybe a dwarf puffer? they get to about 1.5".. it would mean extra tank maint, but they're cute little fish with personality.

armadillo

One dwarf puffer is supposed to need 3G, so your waste might be enormous? We're doing research on this ourselves at the moment for our 10G. I have no first hand experience of them, though, so it might work? How about dwarf kuhli loaches? They look quite cool (long fish) but small. They like to school, so you could get maybe 3 of them? Just saw them at the pet store today for the first time and they looked sooo cool.

COBettaCouple

yea, that's the extra tank maint.. a trio of dwarf loaches would give the same problem.. trying to think of 1.5" fish that like solitude... not getting any more fish ideas but a small invertebrate could be happy in there and easy to tend to with no tankmates.

lolagurl

what about a cool crab?
a african frog?

armadillo

Oh that's a great idea. We saw some seriously cool crabs yesterday. Reaaaally nice.

COBettaCouple

i often see crabs at the store.. those grumpy people need to cheer up!

Muffymouse

The tank itself, after doing some research, is not very good for setting up a crab tank. Crabs need some real land to walk around on and a tight fitting lid to avoid escaping, it is too tall to put in land and keep water filtered and heated and the lid does not fit tightly at all. But the idea of a frog sounds good.

Can I keep a frog by itself?? does it have to be heated?? Could my size of tank hold two frogs??

COBettaCouple

http://allaboutfrogs.org/info/mypets/dwarfs.html & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_dwarf_frog.. looks like 2 would be a little overstocked and they like 70-75, so heating would depend on room temp and i think mostly would be warm enough.

Jendayi

I have a one gallon tank that is cycled. Right now it is home to about 15 tiny baby apple snails, which are doing fine in there. I would think that one apple or mystery snail would be just fine in it. I guess that probably wouldn't be a very exciting tank to sit and gaze at, lol. I only have a lamp to heat it, tho, so anything that would require a constant temp would be out.

COBettaCouple

a mystery snail would be.. but an apple snail gets baseball/softball size - would it fit?

lolagurl

i honestly dont think she'll go for the snail...really apple snails get that big..i have one? uh oh! theyre pretty though.
what about 1 frog?
i have seen these really tiny water crabs before..at the lfs but dont know what theyre called..

Carillon

I've heard 1 gallon per frog, so I guess you could do that one ...

OR

Make your own little brine shrimp colony, and feed your other fish like kings!

punkrockviolet5

Get yourself a Betta Fish!! He'd be *super* happy!!