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Hello, members of planet catfish! I come to you again with a question about which fish to put in. I have a 1 gallon desktop aquarium which used to house a betta, unfortunately, the aquarium was higher than it is wide, so the betta could not get to the top poor fishie. Now, this aquarium came with an air pump and incandesant light and an undergravel filter. I can buy a mini heater for it to raise the temperature to 75 F, any suggestions? I was thinking maybe 3 neon tetras or something along those lines. My water specifications are:
Ph: 6.8
Ammonia: 0
Nitrate: 10 ppm
Ntirite: 0

Thanks!
Silent Doh

get like, 2 really nice guppies
or, like you said, neons

I personally wouldn't put fish in one gallon jars, but that's just me. Neons do better longer aquariums because they like to zip across the tank. Guppies might be better for a small tank like that, until they have babies. You could use the tank to keep snails in, seeing that they die in your other tank. You could breed them for yourself so I would't need to keep giving you more. Oh yeah, the mini heaters I've seen only heat the water a few degrees, so they wouln't help much if the room is cold.

How about Noneichthys atallii?

that is a good point, you should get a slightly bigger tank, then you would have more choices
If you got the Cherry red shrimp, and put a tall pillar like peice of bogwood, would they climb up and down it? if so, i think you should definately go for this!! that sounds ace!!

A pair of male Endler's Livebearers should be fine in there as long as there are some live plants. They are very colorful, hardy, and interesting to watch. They should also be fine without a heater as long as the tank won't get below about 65 degrees.

The temperature of my house is about 70 F, so I don't need to worry about a cold tank. Actually, I have this tank because we just don't know what to do with it My brother originally got it for his betta, bob, but he died, we got another, but that one too died within a month. Now we have a very small aquarium too tall for a betta and don't know what to do with it. BTW, Ender's livebearers would be good, but my lfs doesn't stock them.

what are the actual dimensions of the tank?

One US gallon is approximately 232 cubic inches. A cube to make us 232 ci would have the dimensions of 6.1 inches to each side. Obviously, if it's taller than wide, it must be around 8 or more inches tall. Calculating back from 8 inches we get: sqrt( 232 / 8 ) -> 5.4 inches bottom. At ten inches tall, the bottom would be around 4.5 inches square.

Obviously, any cubic equation with only one positive result could give an infinite number of results. A twelve foot tall one-gallon "tank" would be just over a square inch at the bottom .

You could have one male gourami in there, dwarf gourami that is. I'm not sure what there water temps are but since this is a desktop you could use the heat of the computer to warm the water a little.

The reason why a Gourami would work is that they, like the bettas, have a lung and therefore don't have to swim as much to receive Oxygen.

You could try some snails and shimps with some plants.
A couple dwarf otocinclus would probably be ok, they are pretty inactive most of the time.
Beyond that I cannot really help...personally, I wouldn't put fish in it. I like the shrimp/plant idea myself.

My desktop tank contains a Paradise fish (Macropodus opercularis) and two Apple snails for scavenging and algae control. The Paradise fish is named Bigfoot.