I got my five gallon tank in the middle of December 2007 after I got three swordtail fry. I just threw them in there without the tank being cycled and they survived. (Unfortunately they all died for unknown reasons later.) I kept the tank bare until they were big enough to find food and used gravel from my twenty gallon along with a cave like thing. I recently added a plant from the twenty gallon as well. At the beginning I put in Finfin (my second male betta) along with two ghost shrimp. One of the ghost shrimp died after which I added two otos (Gaby and Sonja.) I kept switching Finfin and Kissyboots (my female beta) and now it is empty since Kissyboots recently died. I want to add a dwarf puffer soon along with two more otos.
Time line of tank:
When I first used it, it didn’t have anything in it. Later I added gravel and a cheap background (blue construction paper) that I later removed.
With rock structure.
Then I added “plant” from the 20g that was dying due to lack of light for more than a week.
It died so I removed it too. Then I stole one of the plants from the 20g and that is the current setup.
My new plan is to put 2 otos and a puffer in there. All suggestions and comments are welcome.
