what to put in a 1 gal
- Thread starter rshxt9
- Start date
Have you researched the rope fish at all? at ALL??? It gets from 16 to 36 inches long. It likes to have buddies, you should keep at least two. It ain't no neon tetra, buddy. If you don't have at least a 55 to put it in, don't even think about it. So NO, you CAN'T put a rope fish in a one gallon tank!!
Google is a wonderful tool. Use it.
EDIT: Okay, maybe I was a little harsh. Sorry. But we do need to research fish and we have the whole Internet full of info on them. Sometimes after we research a fish we still have questions that we can't find answers to and that's where our fellow fishkeepers come in with their personal experience.
Your question just shocked me royally. I have a couple of 1.75 gallon tanks lying around and am reticent to even put a couple of dwarf platies or neon tetras in those tiny things. I have dojo loaches, which only get to about six to eight inches, and there's no way they'd have any room in there by any stretch of the imagination. We gotta give fish room to turn around at least.
And Walmart is known for selling fish that really don't belong in the average home aquarium, as well as giving completely wrong information on these fish, sometimes even labelling them with incorrect names. We can't depend on them to let us know if the fish are appropriate for our aquariums.
Last edited:
Basically, I'm going to say that just about anything you can get, besides a few ghost shrimp, is going to be miserable in a 1 gallon tank. If you really want something, you could possibly get a small betta, provided that you kept it in a warm room(they like temps 78-82). But you'd have to change the water twice a week...
Nope - those wouldn't work either as they are tropical fish and need heated water (78 degrees - 82 degrees). The only thing I would think of is a betta as well. Really, those one gallon tanks are too small for anything. A betta could *survive* in it, I guess. But surviving isnt the same as flourishing.
A betta could *survive* in it, I guess. But surviving isnt the same as flourishing.
I'd do it with a plant or two, a couple cherry shrimp and possibly a ramshorn (red or normal, your choice) snail. That's about it. I tend to keep my bettas in 5gal+ tanks, although I would put a lone betta in a 2.5gal minimum if I needed to. They really like to 'patrol' their environment, they don't have the room to do that in tiny tanks, and I don't know about you, but I tend to miss a water change now and then and I would really hate to see a betta suffer in a 1gal if I got busy.
