Oddballs For 20 Gallon Tank

Hey guys I have an eye for the weird and wonderful. I might be getting a 20 gallon tank and was wondering what oddballs can live their whole life in it?
after cycling of course

 

Hello!

This depends on how much time your willing to invest, present skill, and how much you want to spend lol. Also, what's your desirability for plants?

 

Hello!

This depends on how much time your willing to invest, present skill, and how much you want to spend lol. Also, what's your desirability for plants?

honestly its flexible I just need suggestions

 

How about marbled hatchetfish?
What about Indostomus paradoxus, the stickleback? Those are oddballs.

 

20 gal high or long?

 

Ha! I was just about to say hatchetfish. Lucky you! You've got both stocking masters here

 

Peacock Gudgeons (they'll inhabit the lower regions of the tank while those hatchets will stay up closer to the surface).

 

What about a freshwater blue neon goby

 

20 gal high or long?

long

 

You could do an African butterfly fish then? They're super cool fish

 

Halfbeaks are cool and odd. Might need brackish tho and some are pretty active too. Check with the stocking experts on them.

 

Ha! I was just about to say hatchetfish. Lucky you! You've got both stocking masters here

quick question. What about Polypterus Senegalus? Can they survive in a 20 gallon long?

 

quick question. What about Polypterus Senegalus? Can they survive in a 20 gallon long?

I think they need like a 5 foot tank.

 

quick question. What about Polypterus Senegalus? Can they survive in a 20 gallon long?

lol definelty need a bigger tank; they get up to ~2 feet

 

What about a school of some of the smaller species of rainbowfish like Pseudomugilidae sp.?

They get waaaaaay too big for a 20g.

 

Blind Mexican tetra. Good luck finding them tho

 

-Dwarf pencilfish (minI group, 3-5)
- clown killifish (should have mature aquarium)
- bumblebee or neon gobies (brackish water, and could only really have one)
-Leaf-fish

 

Dwarf pencilfish are not odballs, they are one of the prettiest fish I have seen in my life!

 

I think by oddball she means hard-to-find when she said those, lol.

 

I guess I need to take english classes lol

 

How about an axolotl? Not a fish technically, but an awesome oddball if you can accommodate. Since we're on the non-fish route, African Dwarf frogs are unique.

If you don't mind going low-end brackish, dwarf mudskippers are some of the coolest oddballs. Or go with a Figure 8 puffer.

Not really oddballs, but if you like cool behavior, check out some of the Lake Tanganyika shell dwellers.

Or make the tank into a river and do a hillstream biotope, with hillstream loaches and stiphodon gobies.

My 2 cents...on most things I personally like.

 

I've read somewhere a single African Butterflyfish can live in a 20G(Don't know if this is true though).

 

I've read somewhere a single African Butterflyfish can live in a 20G(Don't know if this is true though).

I read the same thing somewhere - as long as it's a 20 gal long tank.

 

How about an axolotl? Not a fish technically, but an awesome oddball if you can accommodate. Since we're on the non-fish route, African Dwarf frogs are unique.

If you don't mind going low-end brackish, dwarf mudskippers are some of the coolest oddballs. Or go with a Figure 8 puffer.

Not really oddballs, but if you like cool behavior, check out some of the Lake Tanganyika shell dwellers.

Or make the tank into a river and do a hillstream biotope, with hillstream loaches and stiphodon gobies.

My 2 cents...on most things I personally like.

I actually have a figure 8 puffer. With 3 bumblebee gobies. I'm having trouble getting the gobies to eat. they won't take frozen brine shrimp

 

Yeah, ABFs would be fine in a 20 long, imo.

 

I agree, that's why I suggested one earlier when OP said it was a 20 gal long

 

I was going to say figure 8 puffer but you already have one I believe? What about shell dwellers? Or maybe red claw crab tank? That's just my input I have for sale my old rimless tank which was my reef, I wanted a figure 8 puffer but have enough fish now so its a no, plus I'm more than happy with my current wet pets lol will be interesting to see what you go with.

 

How about a group of 8 Pea/BB Puffers or a pair of Lionhead Cichlids

 

I think a colony of shell dwellers would be really cool. Or... you could go into marine and get some of those fish!