10 Gallon Stocking

[splashyfishy]

I am setting up a 10 gallon aquarium and I'd like some stocking advice. The tank will have live plants, filtration, and heating, and will of course be cycled. I've been playing around with different ideas and numbers. 
- 3 guppies
- 5-6 tetras (not sure what kind, maybe neons or embers?)
- ghost or cherry shrimp
- and maybe something else?
Would my tank be fully stocked with the guppies, tetras, and shrimp or could I add something else? 
Thank you

 

[attibones]

Well you shouldn't add the guppies with tetras as they prefer different water parameters (guppies prefer hard water and tetras in general prefer soft). Ember tetras, chili rasboras, least killifish, dwarf puffers, and a pair of peacock gudgeons are all good candidates for a ten gallon, as well as guppies, endlers, or a betta. Do you know the pH of your water from the tap as well as your water hardness? While pH will alter a bit in a tank (especially during the cycle) due to dissolved solids and junk (it's a technical term ), knowing the pH from the tap will help determine what is best for your tank if you don't want to have to add peat or calcium or other buffers.

 

[RyanTheFishGuy64]

A pair of Shell Dwelling Cichlids would be awesome..... As long as you have hard water!

 

[Ch4rlie]

I have a 10 gal tank myself, have 6 black bar endlers, 6 microrasboras, red cherry shrimps and assassin snails, that may help give you ideas.

 

[Byron]

I agree with others to stay with the "dwarf" fish species, like those several mentioned.  Water hardness is critical, especially here as with these species one is usually dealing with wild caught and their health will be compromised in unsuitable water parameters.  On a purely visual aspect, staying with tiny fish means you can have more of them, and in small tanks this makes the space seem larger as there is more colour, activity, variety and such, as opposed to a small group of one species of the more "normal" fish like the neons which should if healthy get significantly larger than any of the dwarf types.
 
Byron.

 

[the_lock_man]

We really need to know your water chemistry (particularly pH and KH hardness). THere's some good suggestions above, but knowing the hardness would help narrow it down for you.