You could start with a group of six White Clouds. Click here for more about information about them, including compatible tank mates. I would recommend a few Ghost Shrimp and perhaps a group of Corydoras Catfish. It depends on what you prefer.

You'll notice that if you got six White Clouds, a few Ghost Shrimp, and six Cory Catfish, that you'd have a total of more than 6" of fish in your 6 gallon aquarium. But this would probably be OK because of the BIO-Wheel, which greatly improves the water quality.

Of course you'd need to follow a good maintenance schedule, but I have a feeling that you would. Click here to read a suggested Maintenance Schedule that lists daily, weekly, and monthly tasks for aquariums, fish bowls, and ponds.

"Recommended Diet. African Dwarf Frogs need live food such as live Black Worms and live brine shrimp. Perhaps they will eat frozen brine shrimp and frozen blood worms. A few frogs will eat freeze dried blood worms and maybe even some flake fish food or dry shrimp pellets."

"Plan on feeding live Black Worms to your African Dwarf Frogs at least twice a week. I feed my frogs Black Worms every other day. Click here for more about Black Worms. Click here for more about feeding."

Now you know what we recommend for feeding African Dwarf Frogs.

Another suggestion is to keep one Cichlid in your aquarium with the Synodontis Catfish. I have done this a couple of times, and the Cichlids did not seem to mind being alone without other Cichlid tank mates. In each case the Cichlid grew fast to be very large and more colorful than most other Cichlids.

(1) None of the delivery companies that we use has overnight service from San Diego to your area. A shipment would leave here in the evening, and arrive to you by 3PM on the second day. This means the fish will be in the bags for a total of 42 hours, which is about the reasonable limit.

(2) Shipping live fish increases the cost. The fish must be carefully packed in a special insulated carton.

(3) There is one shipping charge for each order to one address in the U.S. That order might have just a few fish, or it might have lots of fish, but our shipping charge is the same for all orders.

(4) See (1) above.

(5) You said you clean your filter. I recommend that you have a filter with a BIO-Wheel. In this sort of filter you do not really clean the BIO-Wheel. You do occasionally replace the filter pad. What sort of filter do you have? How thick is the layer of gravel in your aquarium? Are your fish warm water fish? Do you have an aquarium heater?

If you are having problems with your fish, I suggest you carefully read the Seven Essentials of Keeping Fish. Click here now to read the Seven Essentials.

(6) I could help you better, if I knew the names of the fish you have in your aquarium, and if I had a list of which ones are being aggressive.

(7) I recommend that you keep only the Betta in the vase without any other fish, because most of the vases that I've seen are rather small for a Betta. Click here to read more about keeping a Betta in a vase.

(8, 9) If your vase is usually dirty, I recommend that you move your Betta to a large Fish Bowl. Click here to read more about our Fish Bowl Kit, which has a large six quart fish bowl.

(10) Click here to read about the methods of payment that we accept.

(11, 12) I hope my answers have helped you.

Many times I have had long discussions trying to help someone with their problem aquarium. After discussing many possibilities, they would mention having something in their aquarium that was not labeled for use in aquariums. It might have been a rock, or decorative gravel, shells, a silk plant, a ceramic ornament, etc. Using such items, that are not labeled for use in aquariums, often causes problems.

Recently I have seen many very attractive ornaments that are labeled for use in aquariums. Thanks again for your email.

When male Bettas look in a mirror at themselves, they think that they are looking at another male Betta. The bigger they stretch their fins, the bigger the Betta in the mirror stretches his fins. I think this may be OK for a short duration, but not for more than a few minutes.

Usually female Guppies will not eat their babies for about two days after they release babies. I recommend putting a female Guppy in a Net Breeder when she gets huge, and leaving her in the Net Breeder for about two days, after she releases her babies, so she can recover, before she goes back in the aquarium with the rest of the fish. Click here for more details about breeding Mollies which are similar to guppies.

If you can get live or frozen brine shrimp, it's a good food for most fish. Don't feed too much of it. Just feed a small amount, after you've fed the other foods.

But Green Spotted Puffers will live better in brackish water than in fresh water; that's what I said, and that is what I believe.

Your Pacu will do better in fresh water than in brackish water. So it's not a good tank mate for a brackish water Puffer. I would not recommend keeping a Pacus and a Green Spotted Puffer in the same aquarium.

Like you, I also live in Southern California, and last winter the water in my little pond got down to about 55 degrees F., and I could see this was too cold for my White Clouds. Click here to read more about that.

I appreciate your compliment. Thank you.

I noticed you wrote that you feed your Betta freeze dried blood worms, which are mosquito larvae. This is not a balanced diet. I recommend you add a pellet food that is labeled for Betta Fish to your Betta's diet. Click here for information about feeding fish.