10 gal tank question

[jazzx101]

Have had my 10 gal up and running for over a year in the current configuration and just wanted to ask your opinion about whether it is full already or if I could reasonbly put in another dwarf fish. It's a full 10 gals and I have a tetra powerfilter in it. Right now I have one male betta,two zebra danios, and one dwarf gold spot pleco. Could I put in another dwarf pleco or maybe something else? If I could, any ideas would be helpful. I'm going to research for a week or two of course before doing anything, but thanks for the help.

 

[_]im]

IMO you could manage to add another if you kept with water changes and vacuuming I think the addition of one more should be ok.

 

[Da_Oz]

I would not add another Pl*co, some other fish maybe but in a 10g tank your Pl*co's will fight. If you add them at the same time most times they will do fine but if one has been there for awile they will not like another one moving in.

 

[jazzx101]

Any good ideas/options on what else could fit in if not the pleco? I wasn't completelly fixed on the idea of pleco, it was just the idea. If you have something in mind that you think would work well, please tell me.

 

[skimpy]

If you are going to do some research perhaps looking into the 1" rule might help you decide if you can add more fish. Its not how many gallons but what water surface area you have. I have just posted this for someone else Here

HTH

 

[-cAtFiSh-]

i would suggest some more zebra danios as they prefer to be in shoals

 

[kev_kb]

How do your Danios get on with your Betta, aren't they supposed to be fin nippers?

 

[jazzx101]

They get along with this particular Betta just fine. They don't nip his fins, and once and a while he gives them a good scare by turning around and chasing them all over the tank. And the tank is a standard rectangular tank, no hexagon thing.

 

[corrosive]

If you are going to do some research perhaps looking into the 1" rule might help you decide if you can add more fish. Its not how many gallons but what water surface area you have. I have just posted this for someone else Here

HTH

Personally i thought the rule was, "How long is your tank" 50", Right you can have 50inchs of fish in that tank, but on every thing you add, make sure u work out the maximum adult size, for example: bristlenose pleco, max size say 7" just to be extra safe, so you take 7" away from your total of 50" leaving you with 43".

But another thing to think about with tanks, is that for example, pleco's poop apsolute loads, so more frequent water changes etc will be needed, and that could possibly take off some inchs" in your tank, as im sure some fish wont want to swim around in fish poop.

 

[clutterydrawer]

corrosive that depends on the other dimensions of the tank, you could probablyl fit 50" of low bioload fish into a 50" x 12" tank but not into a 50" x 8" tank.

 

[Arfie]

I'd steer clear of another pl*co unless you like cleaning the poo and I breifly had 2 in my tank and they fought all the time.

Zebra Danio should be in shoal's so I'd get 3 or 4 more of them and make sure the Betta has somewhere to hide.

Arfie

 

[Aquascaper]

IMO your 10g is a little small for danios as they prefer lots of room to swim fast. As yours have been in there for a year leave them but I wouldn't get any more (even though they prefer a shoal). As mentioned by others I wouldn't get another plec as they are too territorial for a 10g, just not enough space, not to mention the increased bioload when compared to other fish.
As for what to add, at the moment you have the danios on the upper/middle levels, the betta middle/upper and the plec on the bottom so I would think about filling the bottom rather than anywhere else. How about a small shoal of corys?

HTH

 

[jazzx101]

Yeah, I'm not really interested in getting more zebra danios, I have had this type of fish for a long time. And at the moment 10 gal is my max capacity, so I have to make sure whatever I buy will not outgrow the tank.