josh11551

i am clueless and need to know what can go in a 5 gal SW tank it dosent have to be fish just stuff to make it look kool lol

Tropical Aquarist

I am no salt guy, but I love fire fish and i think that one of them works fine in a 5 gallon, or you could go classic and do a cool clown fish.

josh11551

those are pretty cool i have to check them out

ATP

personally, I wouldn't put any fish in a 5 gallon. You could make it an invertebrate reef.

AlexBurnsRed

I second that ATP.

You could have a shrimp or crab and a few corals.

aquarist48

Best of luck with your new salt set up Josh!
Ken

josh11551

i set it upand the pet store guy gave me some free glass anenomes what would be ok with them?

i really ned the help ifall of you who view this could help....45 or so views 6 answers? i could use some help but if you cant it ok

Hello. I've merged your two threads to save some space. Have patience We have a lot more of fresh water members than we do salt members. Don't forget there is an "edit" key at the bottom of every post for corrections and additional thoughts if there are no responses.
Thanks!
Ken

ATP

wow dude. You got ripped. Your pet store guy gave you pest anemones that you don't want for your tank. Glass Anemones are all so called aiptasia

locoyo386

Hi there, well if I went with my rules for stocking the tanks. I would go no bigger than 2.5 inch fish. You could try a clown goby or something like that. You might be able to put two, but you have to check them and make sure they are not getting stressed. You could have a couple of fire shrimp with a sun coral or something like that.

I have a 5.5 gallon tank that I used to see how well playsand does in saltwater tanks. I have a blue damsel in the tank and he seems to be doing fine. The tank has been up and running around 4 months now. I tried two damsels but they were fitting too much, thus I took one out.

sgould

+1

Red1313

Have you checked out the Saltwater section? They might have some idea's there.

josh11551

i have tried nothing really helped

ineed some more suggestions please..... im not getting the glass anenomes i just want to put some fish and inverts in there

eiginh

Nothing much really, except snails and crabs. I have a thread with the same question but with a 6.6, a couple of members suggested gobys

pepetj

You could try a small reef tank. With soft corals and maybe zoanthid species. Once your tank matures you could place a reef safe urchin as centerpiece.

Or you could set up a wonderful refugium-like tank. Raising small crustaceans and macro algae.

If there are viable options for SW fish I would like to know.

An experienced keeper could keep dwarf Seahorses in it. Feeding them would require a somewhat complex set up.

Pepetj
Santo Domingo

ATP

skunk cleaner shrimps, hermits, snails. again I would not put any fish in a 5 gal.

aquarist48

Hello Josh. I have merged your two threads. Only one thread per topic is required. People that have the answers to your questions will respond in due time. Please be patient. Creating duplicate threads only confuses other members.
Thanks!
Ken

josh11551

k thanks all (and ken) ill think this stuff through but istill need more help. someone sent me a message the other day saying that they had a single damsel in a 5 gallon and its been happy for 4 months so is it ll right to try that since they grow till only 2.5 inches long

j12a12

Hi,
You Could Try A Bettas Or Zebra Danios Or Guppies Or Just Don't Get Fish Bigger Than 2 "
David

j12a12

Just Stick To Freshwater Mate

rae64

freshwater is wayyy simpler... haha. if you turned it into freshwater you could do like j12a12 said... a betta they have lots of really cool decor and plants you could put in there to make it look neat. they even sell fake corals and stuff.

some people have had success keeping betas with a few tetras.

NAC1999

Start small, thats what I wold do!

MAMW93

Blue/green chromis but I would go with Percula Clownfish.

fishmann

the only salt-water fish in a 5 gallon tank would be blue chromis and clown fish , just 1

harpua2002

No chromis or clowns in a 5 gallon IMO. The only thing I'd keep in a 5 is a clown goby.

ldbrown3138

Some live rock and a shrimp. 5 gallons is not big enough for marine fish. Maybe a molly.

harpua2002

Mollies are much more active swimmers than clown gobies. Clown gobies do well in nano tanks IME.

Evan McKay

i would do 1 fish either damsel or chromis and a clean up crew small. like a few snails some hermitcrabs and a shrimp maybe a small crab veriety as well and then keep to corals other then that. ive had a 10 gallon salt tank up for about a year now and its doing great 3 fish live rock and a shrimp with hermits gonna get some corals as soon as i can

charzar-g

I am another who wouldn't put a fish in a tank that small. I don't know their reasons but i feel its a little inhumane is it not?

claudicles

Just out of curiosity, what size tank would the salt water officianados think would be the smallest they would be happy to run?

ATP

I say a 55 gallon is a good start.