10 Gallon Aquarium Plan

[hakisuma_chan]

Ok, here's the plan:

10 Gallon Aquarium with hanging filter, heater, fluorescent 15 watt lighting with hood.

Substrate: Flourite, maybe sand.

Plants:
1 Anacharis
2 Blood Stargrass
3 Japanese Fans
1 Dwarf Lily Plant
4 Dwarf Onions
1 Ambulia
10 Tall Sagittaria subulata
1 small red-spot Ozelot sword
8 Crypt Walkeri
3 Java Ferns

Fish:
1 Rubber Lip Pleco
1 Dwarf Gourami
3 Sparkling/Croaking Gourami
2 Pygmy Cories

Sound good? Suggestions? Thanks!

 

[jakeroberts]

it sounds good apart from the rubber lip pleco how big do they actually grow

 

[SJ2K]

Sounds good, aslong as your sure that with that many plants you'll actually be able to see some fish

 

[dwarfgourami]

Sparkling gouramis can be little horrors, I'd keep either them or the dwarf- if I went for sparkling, I'd go for 4+. And if you get the dwarf, check all tank inhabitants in the shope VERY carefully for signs of ill health, lots of dwarf gouramis carry an incurable virus.

Also, pygmy corys really like to be in bigger groups, I'd go for either the plec (they stay small, folks) or a proper school of 5-6 corys.

 

[jakeroberts]

If i was you i would go for the corys

 

[freshwaterfishlover]

Pleco are realy not for 10g. Dwarf kind are good for 20g or more. Big ones are good for 29g or more.

 

[Straydum]

correction, big plecos need around 75gallons or so. they do get up to a feet or two

 

[hakisuma_chan]

Oh. As for the Rubber Lip Pleco, I now know they get really big. I was kinda dumb and listened to the petshop person. I might keep it until it gets too big, then give it to my friend who has a 55? gallon aquarium. (somewhere around there)

Why only the cories? They're bottom dwellers, right? So it'd look weird with no fish swimming in the middle or top...^^;

Why are sparkling gouramis little horrors? XD
"Sparkling gouramis can be little horrors, I'd keep either them or the dwarf- if I went for sparkling, I'd go for 4+. And if you get the dwarf, check all tank inhabitants in the shope VERY carefully for signs of ill health, lots of dwarf gouramis carry an incurable virus.

Also, pygmy corys really like to be in bigger groups, I'd go for either the plec (they stay small, folks) or a proper school of 5-6 corys."

So 4 Sparkling Gouramis and 5 cories and I'm set?

Or if I got a dwarf gourami and wanted smaller fish to balance my tank out, which ones would you recommend?

Combinations of fish suitable for 10 gallons would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Musho3210]

correction, big plecos need around 75gallons or so. they do get up to a feet or two

some plecs will need something in the hundreds of gallons even...

 

[dwarfgourami]

The reason sparkling gouramis are little horrors is that they, like most gouramis, are highly territorial. And there is the added complication that they, unlike many other gouramis, are extremely difficult to sex, so you may end up with two males trying to establish their territory in the same spot. If you keep a large group, they will just be unable to do the territory thing anyway- or you can keep a single specimen, which will then be happy with the tank as its territory (and not mind the other species in the tank).

I am confused by the posters who claim a rubber lip plec needs a very large tank. Could it be that there is a mix up of common names, so that what is known as a rubber lip in my neck of a woods is not what other people would be thinking of? I'd say freshwaterfishlover is right and a 20 gallon would be fine- but then maybe I'm thinking of a different fish? So many plecs around.

My suggestion:

1 sparkling gourami, 6 corydoras habrosus, 6 cherry shrimps

 

[hakisuma_chan]

Ooh, thank you for your suggestions! I can't wait for my tank to come together!!!~

 

[hakisuma_chan]

The fish and shrimp you suggested are for a ten gallon tank? I don't want overcrowding... last time that happened the water turned yellow. D: XD Do you know any websites or people that I could get cherry shrimps from for little money? All the places I've seen are super-expensive. If I substituted a dwarf gourami for the sparkling gourami in your suggestion, would that work? Thanks!!!

The reason sparkling gouramis are little horrors is that they, like most gouramis, are highly territorial. And there is the added complication that they, unlike many other gouramis, are extremely difficult to sex, so you may end up with two males trying to establish their territory in the same spot. If you keep a large group, they will just be unable to do the territory thing anyway- or you can keep a single specimen, which will then be happy with the tank as its territory (and not mind the other species in the tank).

I am confused by the posters who claim a rubber lip plec needs a very large tank. Could it be that there is a mix up of common names, so that what is known as a rubber lip in my neck of a woods is not what other people would be thinking of? I'd say freshwaterfishlover is right and a 20 gallon would be fine- but then maybe I'm thinking of a different fish? So many plecs around.

My suggestion:

1 sparkling gourami, 6 corydoras habrosus, 6 cherry shrimps

 

[dwarfgourami]

Hi! Shrimps unfortunately are quite expensive, you could look around, but there probably isn't anywhere that sells them really cheap. Their bioload is small, so I don't think they'd mess up the water for you.

Yes, you could substitute another small gourami for the sparkler but I wouldn't go for a dwarf, so many of them are sickly and carry a lethal virus. A honey or a croaking gourami would make a better choice IMO.