10gal tank suggestions

[bsuball41]

Just wondering if anyone had any ideas about some interesting inhabitants for a 10 gal FW tank...I do realize my options are limited but it's all I have room for.

I kind of have my heart set on a couple of Inca Gold snails...anyone know of any off-the-wall specimens that would get along with the snails and be relatively happy in a 10 gal?

Thanks in advance...

 

[ferret]

Smaller tetras, long finned zebra danios. Avoid larger gourami's and larger tetras (Especially Beunos aires, too small a tank). Dwarf gouramis might be ok.

 

[Scottw68TN]

Avoid barbs they love snail. they can only eat it a little bite at a time but they will eventually kill em. If you have soft water get a blue rams, my gallery has a picture. or any small cichlid very colorful and have personality.

 

[tkos]

You can't go wrong with the good old platy. Colourful, lots of varieties, peaceful, hardy and cheap. Plus they eat regular flake food so not a lot of work either.

 

[juliemichelle]

In my 10 gal I have a red male and blue female betta, raphael catfish and one almost translucent baby goldfish. I did have 2 dwarf powder blue gouramis but they died of...something.

 

[TankGirl]

I would avoid the zebra danios in a 10-gal because they really like room to zoom! I have kept a male dwarf gourami in a 10-gal with snails and great success. Maybe 3 pygmy cory cats, too. You can do dwarf puffers, but not with snails. You could get an African dwarf frog, or a single pair of kribs. You could go with a betta and a small school of white clouds.... Oh somebody stop me!

 

[Terry]

I know how you feel Tankgirl, there are so many combination as long as you don't go mad.

If it was me i would go for a pair of Kribs, i love em. with a nice cave and some plant it won't be long before they would spawn. The down side to that is once they start spawning you wont be able to stop them.

 

[tkos]

I had 3 dwarf cories, a betta and 5 white cloud minnows in my 10 gallon and everyone was very happy. All pretty cheap and fun fish and I had lots of plants. The betta has since moved to his own tank.

 

[bsuball41]

or any small cichlid very colorful and have personality.

Would the cichlids leave the snails alone, though?

 

[Scottw68TN]

My rams leave my mts alone and never bit the foot of my apples. Doesn't mean they wont they are veeeery curious fish. I cant even net another fish without them wanting to get in the net. I don't know what there thinking! free net rides weeeeeeeee

 

[madasafish]

Ooh. Kribs. I agree. Do something different! So many zebra danio/small tetra tanks out there (e.g. mine ). Plus, it'll give you a lot of props on the website to have African Cichlids!!!

Here's a pic: http://www.justbajan.com/pets/fish/species/krebensis/ Though I think they're not just hard to find in "Barbadian" petshops... I've never seen them in any of my LFSs. www.liveaquaria.com does have them for $8 each if you're interested: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=21&pCatId=1575

Good luck deciding. Be novel, and be happy!

 

[TankGirl]

Probably any dwarf cichild that would go in a 10-gal would leave snails alone. My rams did not bother snails, and my angels have never bothered snails either, except for tiny baby ones that I smoosh first!

 

[silvi-p]

hi guys,
could somebody tell me the latin name for those "white cloud minnows"? I'd love to research them here.

I have heard a lot of people recommend heterandria formosa (don't know the english name) for those tank sizes, although they are hard to get. platys also need quite a lot of space to race , as do guppies. What else, there also is the pseudomugil family (gertrudae, furcatus... one of the is called "spotted...." in english). they are really small and beautiful, might be hard to get, and I don't know if it's not close to the limit since you'd better put 6-8 of those.

I think shrimp are the best.... bumble bees or bees or red fire or chrystal red or sri lanka...
If you want to keep the dwarf froggies (so cool! so cute!! I have them!), it'll be hard to find companions, because everybody, I mean everybody, eats their food away before they even notice that there is some...

tell us what you got at last!
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EDIT: found out about white cloud minnows. tanichthys albonubes. yep, that's another candidate. rather lower temp. - they say 21° will bring most fry, not very hard water.
the page said the aquarium should be at least ~20" long (~x8x8 probably). have to be kept in group.

 

[Sinuhe]

How about a Honey Gourami pair?

I wouldn't put Danios in a 10 gallon, either. Even if they are small in size, they are very lively and fast swimmers, and a 10 gallon will get small for them fast.