10 Gal?

[RLHam3]

hey, i've mainly had southamerican cichlids so i'm used to having big aggressive fish, and could use advice on smaller fish. I have an empty 10gal lying around and i kinda wanna put somethin in it. i want to have a community aquarium with pretty active fish. i have all of the equiptment for a freshwater tank so thats what im gonna go with. but anyways, i was wondering what i could put in there. I wouldn't care if the fish in the tank mated or anything either. The fish that i know that i don't like are mollies, platys, and guppies. but if anyone out there has any ideas i'd love to hear what you have to say. i would consider any species no matter what. Thanks everybody

 

[Colin_T]

what about South American dwarf cichlids like the Apistogrammas.
Some of the small species of rainbowfish or blue-eyes
Sparkling, chocolate or licorice gouramis, betta imbellis or pugnax
perhaps a group of black pahntom or emperor tetras.

check out the link for different rainbowfish & blue-eyes.
http/members.optushome.com.au/chelmon/Melano.htm

 

[Thomas 2507]

How about...:

1 Blue Ram
6 Neon Tetras

or...:

1 Gold Ram
6 Ember Tetras

?

 

[Callum]

Because a Ram does better with a companion, it would be sad on it's own.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

How about a planted tank with sand and these inhabitants for stocking;

3 amano or ghost shrimp
3 pygmy cories
1 large golden apple snail
1 dwarf gourami
5-6 penguin tetra's

With this set up you would have a top dweller with the gourami, mid dwellers with the tetras and bottom dwellers with the cories and a clean-up crew with the shrimp and snail . You would need decent filtration and some good lighting to get the planting to work, but it could look very good . It does sound like a lot of inhabitants for a 10gallon, however because they all occupy different area's of the tank and are all small growing critters it would not be over-crowded nor overstocked (decent filtration would be a must though). The tank would definitely need to be established though, the penguin tetras are very hardy, but cories, gourami's and shrimp do not fair well in tanks with fluctuating water quality.