However, considering my wife isn't particularly fond of animals in the home (excluding our two monkeys), having such a tank at home was out of the question. Yet, in the spur of the moment, I bought a tank from Daiso and got a red betta for the home (more details on this in my next post).
Having scoured the Web for more info, I decided that my little aquatic community would constitute of triops, bettas, guppies and shrimps. As such, I went to locate fish shops close to my office that would sell the stuff I needed.
During this period, I bought 2 males and 5 females to populate my 1-foot tank, yet somehow the guppies did not seem to thrive as all the females died within a week of buying them. Only the 2 males survived past the first week (and they're still alive now).
As my main tank has been allocated for betta breeding, the males have been moved to the secondary shrimp tank to avoid being attacked by the male during breeding.
Below are the pictures of my office main tank (brand new, with the male guppies and after one week) and the secondary tank (guppies and shrimps).
