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[ToastyHippie]

Hey guys I'm Haley from Ohio, I'm a fifteen , nearly sixteen, year old girl just starting into the hobby due to the fact of a long story of rescuing a goldfish at the fair , which I rehomed . After that my dad bought me a ten gallon tank as a suprise and now I'm trying to figure out what to home in this pretty little tank.


I'm thinking some neon tetras, a betta and a mystery snail/ghost shrimp






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[HN1]

Welcome to AA!

 

[MICEY]

a school of around 20 neon or cardinal tetras would be nice

 

[NatureFish]

Neons are supposedly really sensitive. Bettas are good. I haven't had much luck with snails and I've never tried ghost shrimp.


NatureFish
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[HN1]

20 of either would be far too many for a 10G tank long term. A betta and a small school of either would work. Micro rasboras or the like would as well.

 

[emerald76]

a school of around 20 neon or cardinal tetras would be nice

Not in a ten!


Emerald76

 

[ToastyHippie]

I was thinking like six? Would that be a big enough group?


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[ToastyHippie]

Also should I add more plants or is that plenty? I went with fake because I have bad luck with plants


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[emerald76]

I wouldn't do neons with a betta in a ten if that's what you are planning because they will really bother a betta with their activity.


Emerald76

 

[emerald76]

Instead I would do the neons and three cories or the betta and three cories.


Emerald76

 

[ToastyHippie]

I've heard of people successfully introducing them together by getting a younger betta and introducing it after the neons are a bit older




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[emerald76]

It's the activity of the neons that stresses the slower moving bettas.


Emerald76

 

[ToastyHippie]

Don't they swim on different levels?


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[emerald76]

It doesn't matter- a ten is too small for the different levels thing to make a difference and they are both middle-top level swimmers.


Emerald76

 

[Aliray]

In my 10 gal tank which does have some live plants, I have 6 neons, 7 glowlight tetras, and 6 ember tetras, a ghost shrimp and at the moment 4 netrite snails. Three of the snails will be moved to my other 2 -10 gal tanks when they are done cycling. Alison..

 

[ToastyHippie]

That sounds super cool!


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