Getting Back into the Hobby

[Magickiwi]

I have a FW 2g tank on my desk at work and it is very well looked after. Something about having it a couple feet away from me all day every day and a touch of OCD. I don't arrange for feeding on the weekends and if I go away for vacation I ask a co-worker to add a pinch of food daily. Usually I have a few volunteers wanting to look after my fish and snails

[IanWR]

I suggest a shrimp tank, lots of fun to look at. Put some hearty lower light plants like java fern, anubias, and/or an interesting moss like a flame moss or willow moss and a nice piece of driftwood. You avoid some of the algae issues that come with running higher intensity lights and can run all of those off some quite small leds. Add a nerite snail (they cannot breed in FW, so no snail bloom) to help with clean up. If you like some fish to watch, the small galaxy rasbora (aka celestial pearl danio) are a beautiful small fish, and they don't interfere with the shrimp. Just my 2 cents.

- Ian

[Magickiwi]

Originally Posted by IanWR

Add a nerite snail (they cannot breed in FW, so no snail bloom) to help with clean up.
- Ian

And yet they lay eggs everywhere... How ironic.

[Robchops]

Thanks Everyone for the advice.

I really like the idea of doing some tetras, but I always thought they needed a bigger tank (20G +).

I would probably avoid running a fully planted tank as I have had really bad luck with them in the past. Preferably something simple, with maybe one or two smaller aquatic plants at most.

Magickiwi: I am the same way, I will probably obsess over the tank during the week making sure everything is doing ok. I thought it was acceptable for fish to go more than a day without food, but wasn't completely sure. I figure I would feed them right before I leave Friday night, and then as soon as I get in Monday morning.

Are there any other Cleaner fish that would do well in a 15G aquarium? I love bottom dwellers, but I don't know if any would be ok in such a small space.

Thanks again everyone for the help!

Rob

[Ross]

Originally Posted by Robchops

Are there any other Cleaner fish that would do well in a 15G aquarium? I love bottom dwellers, but I don't know if any would be ok in such a small space.

I've had Hillstream loaches in my 77 gallon for 3 years now, and they are not any bigger than 2". They like the bottom and the glass. They move around a lot unlike a pleco that just sits there.
Plus they look different than most fish.