I have a spare 21 litre tank that is looking very sad and empty at the moment. It used to house my brothers goldfish (for an impressive 8 months) before they came to live with my 2 baby blackmoors in my 200 litre tank.

Sooo, I'm wondering if there is anything that could happily live in this dinky little tank, as it somehow seems a shame not to be using it!

Suggestions, anyone?

well i hope you can fit all those fish in !

If you added a heater you could get some Microrasboras.

I had to google microrasboras - never heard of them before!
They do look like lovely little fish though so a definite possibility, assuming I can find them somewhere... are they commonly found in your typical lfs? I can't recall ever seeing them before.

I probably should have said that I most likely will get a heater, as I don't really want another cold water tank. And I have some White Clouds in my big tank anyways, but ta for the suggestion Fishyfins

I'll tell you what PM me with your location (just the general area) and I'll pinpoint some good aquatic stores for you.

Microrasboras aren't too difficult to find however you probably won't find them in your average pet store, the best places to look would be the Maidenhead aquatic stores (a well known UK chain) and specialist aquatic stores such as the Waterzoo, Wharf aquatics, Shirley aquatics (there are two stores), Trimar, STM, Pier aquatics etc.

I would suggest 5-7 smallish fish, it doesnt really matter what they are - anything from platies to tetra's or guppies(just male or female would proberly be best because they breed so much!) Or maybe a Male and 2 Female Siamese fighters? a nice pretty easy going fish.

Maidenhead Aquatics and Waterzoo only do fish but I would like to add that we are 15-20 miles from the Waterzoo and one of the members of staff comes to us to buy his fish, with his dad now aswell. Wharf and Shirley Aquatics are tecnically not specialists as they also do reptiles(and a specialist only has one thing).

In general anyone who is a member of OATA(as we are) should be a pretty good retailer, as they are the fishkeeping governing body.

*Heidi*

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The guppies and platies can all grow to a couple of inches, basically I wouldn't recommend stocking the tank with anything that grows bigger than around an inch.

PM'd you!

As long as there arn't too many of them, I can't see what difference it makes. So you have 8 Neons or 4 Platies - whats the difference? Its not as if at 2 inches they wont be able to swim around.
If you do length in inches x width in inches /10 that will give you the inches of fish you can have in that tank, then stock it with what you want, not something someone tells you to have.

*Heidi*

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We stock Pearl Danio's and they are pretty and busy little things.

*Heidi*

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