Purple Fish?

[rich311k]

I have them. They school well and are pretty peaceful little fish. They do not bother their tankmates and are quite active.

[Loachie]

I know you already have lots of options for gold-colored fish, but I couldn't help but mention my favorite - the golden dojo loach. They're grow a little large for a 10 gallon, but I've kept one in that size tank before and he did just fine. They're unusual shape makes a good contrast to guppies and other such fish, and they have very interesting behavior, often resting on the tank ornaments and occasionally even propping themselves up at odd angles, for a little while.

[Loachie]

You could also try gold-colored fish on solid purple substrate. The fish would stand out really well.

[Courtney8526]

I have been looking at kribs and I think that they are really pretty. So I was looking up info on them. Can these not be kept by themselves (just one)? All of the info that I find on them says to keep a pair in at least 15-20 gallons. Well, even if I had 15-20 gallons, I wouldn't want a pair because I wouldn't want babies. Can just one be kept in a smaller tank, like 10 gallons? I couldn't find too much info about them that wasn't geared towards breeding so I would appreciate any other info.

I may decide what kind of fish I want by the time this thing is finished!

[JohnPaul]

Many bettas come in purple. You could get several female bettas and they would do fine in a "community" setting. Avoid getting two, as the more dominant one will pick on the other (though nowhere near "to the death" like the males fight!), but if you get 3-4 of them they will take a week or two of bickering with each other while they establish their pecking order, and then will be fine. And I never had problems with female bettas in any of the community tanks I have kept them in.

[black hills tj]

If it weren't a 10 gallon tank, I would suggest Emperor Tetras for purple. Yellow...silver tipped tetras, pristella tetras.

[chris127]

purple and yellow guppies! petstores everywhere have yellow. even walmart. you may have to do some shopping for the purple ones though. oh german and bolivian rams. theyre tiny community cichlids and sometimes have a yellow and purple color to em.

[Courtney8526]

Thanks everyone! I have decided to get some yellow apistogramma cichlids. Probably the umbrella cichlid. I'm going to put a purple background on it so they will really pop with a purple background. If anyone thinks that this is a bad idea (a pair in a 10 gallon), please let me know because I can't find too much info about them buy my LFS said they should do good in a 10 gallon.

[removedastars]

10 gallons should be alright for just a pair of apisto. cichlids

[Courtney8526]

Thanks, removedaststars! I think I'll be happy with these, I think they are very pretty.