10 Gallon Tank Stocking

[Fate2006]

Hey all!

Just moved my bullfrog from his 10gallon tank to a new 15gallon tank and I need some stocking ideas lol...

currently setting it up, like right now as I type I've got the last bucket of water filling for it .

So far I've got 3 corrie cats going from a 5 gallon tank into when I get back from work tonight, but I want to know what else? I was thinking somewhere along the lines of

5 peppered cory cats (I've got 3)
5 Neon Tetras
3 Black skrit tetras
and 1 Gourami of some sort

Would this work? Or overstocking? I've got a 15gallon filter for it and I'm adding a 20gallon filter tonight when I get home some 35gallons of filtration...

 

[paul_219]

If these fishes are in the 5 gal tank u must remove them coz your are over stocking.

 

[Fate2006]

Paul, please read more thouroughly before you tell me I'm overstocking the tank, I said the 3 cory cats r in a 5gallon tank. nothing else is in the tank with them. They will be moved to the 10gallon tank tonight.


The 10gallon tank stocking scheme that I am thinking of is;

3-5peppered cory cats (I have 3)
5 neon tetras
3 black skirt tetras
and some kind of dwarf gourami

I realize that it's overstocking the tank, however I also have (or will by the end of the night) 35gallons of filtration.

 

[Picoreefer4966]

Paul, please read more thouroughly before you tell me I'm overstocking the tank, I said the 3 cory cats r in a 5gallon tank. nothing else is in the tank with them. They will be moved to the 10gallon tank tonight.


The 10gallon tank stocking scheme that I am thinking of is;

3-5peppered cory cats (I have 3)
5 neon tetras
3 black skirt tetras
and some kind of dwarf gourami

I realize that it's overstocking the tank, however I also have (or will by the end of the night) 35gallons of filtration.

It might be a few fish toomany for a ten, but the neons are tiny and with adequte filtration and dilligent water changes you should be fine with that. Personally I would go with Cardinals rather than Neons because they's a bit heartier, but that's just my preference. And definately a dwarf species gourami. I'd also stay with only three cories.

 

[Fate2006]

alright thanks much for the input, 3 corys it is ^^

I'd love to get the cardinal tetras, but my LFS that I work at sells em for to much, $1.99 for neon tetras $4.99 for cardinals... OUTRAGEOUS! so I think the neons are going to be the ones in the tank... for now , so the scheme is;

5 neon tetras
3 cory cats
1 dwarf gourami
and 3 Black skirt tetras


EDIT---> any suggestions beside the black skirts? I don't really like them all that much, but they're cheap and look half decent lol

 

[J4MES]

Ya change the phantoms for red ones, much nicer.

J4MES

 

[Fate2006]

What Phantoms? I mention black skirt tetras also known as black widow tetras, but I never said a thing about Phantom tetras

 

[J4MES]

woops lol sorry. Yes Red Phantom Tetras are much nicer than black widows.

J4MES

 

[Fate2006]

k... thx, ya I agree red phantoms are better looking than black skrits... Mabye I'll get some of those

 

[J4MES]

OK Just be sure to get them not serpaes!!

J4MES

 

[MojoDex]

id scrap the black skirts and get more neons if i were u there social little buggers

 

[Fate2006]

true... hmmm may have to do so... gunna try to get my dad to help fund my fish buying gunna tell him I don't have enough money for the fish and that if the tanks gunna look nice I need his help He buys into that all the time lol that's how I got my Arrowana after all lol

 

[LisaLQ]

The black skirts aka black widows will get too big for a 10g tank. Mine are 2" easily if not a little bigger. As shoaling fish, they need to be in at least 5s or above, so that'd be your stocking done just with those if you want to keep them correctly. I'd be wary of the dwarf gouramis, quality wise nowadays they're pretty naff with this horrible disease going round them (even PFK say they dont recommend them any more - every one I've had has died), and it'll no doubt be a waste of money - especially in such a small tank where params dont stay stable.

 

[n3ont3tra]

I'd get more neons and no black widows. Just in case you're interested, in my 10g I have:
6 Marbled Hatchetfish
1 Dwarf Gourami
3 Otocinclus
and about... 15 shrimp


Also, the only thing I'd really worry about there is the extra filtration. Having extra filtration also puts out more current, which some fish may not like. I'm not sure a gourami would like it, nor would neons, most likely, because IME they are a bit more delicate, and not quite as good swimmers as a lot of other fish. Maybe you could have some white clouds, they'd like it with some current, but they also like lower water temperatures... I think your cories would like lower temps, too, but I'm not totally sure on that.

 

[mollylver]

Have you concidered pristella tetra? They are the hardiest fish that I have ever seen. A school of six survived a 40g tank with nitrite off of the charts for a month and they survived the move into an emergency uncycled 10 gallon. They are also translucent which is kinda cool.