10 Gallon

[Quietriot]

Located in my office. I like the black background because of the contrast and it just seems to bring out the colors of the fish a bit more. Again... Open to suggestions.

 

[mark.w.jones]

I'm gonna be honest. Its not my cup of tea at all.

My pet hates include coloured gravel, plastic plants and sparse empty tanks with little planting or wood. Sorry

I would rip it all out and start again but then that's only my opinion. My advice would be:

1. Natural gravel or sand.
2. Some wood. Mopani or curly bog wood.
3. Loads of real plants. 50% of substrate covered.

Good luck

 

[paul_219]

Your tank is gr8 but pretty over stocked.

 

[Quietriot]

Thanks for the thoughts. I am a big fan of natural plants, but in my opinion it takes as much care if not more than salt water which is what I was in to before and found it to be quite time and money consuming.

The red tail shark will be comming out and going by the size of fish that there are in this tank, I wouldn't think that it would be overstocked.

 

[Catfish Jack]

I'm gonna be honest. Its not my cup of tea at all.

My pet hates include coloured gravel, plastic plants and sparse empty tanks with little planting or wood. Sorry

I would rip it all out and start again but then that's only my opinion. My advice would be:

1. Natural gravel or sand.
2. Some wood. Mopani or curly bog wood.
3. Loads of real plants. 50% of substrate covered.

Good luck

i second that notion. i used to just buy the apothgeon bulbs for my ten gallon, and it filled it up nicely along withg a few rocks.

 

[SJ2K]

Thanks for the thoughts. I am a big fan of natural plants, but in my opinion it takes as much care if not more than salt water which is what I was in to before and found it to be quite time and money consuming.

The red tail shark will be comming out and going by the size of fish that there are in this tank, I wouldn't think that it would be overstocked.

Planted and SW are 2 completly different kettles of fish (excuse the expression), if you were to stick to hardy plants like java ferns etc then aslong your lighting isnt too strong you wont need to do anything in particular to keep them they can live off fish waste.

 

[mark.w.jones]

You are over stocked as well as being rather poorly stocked I'm afraid. Tiger Barbs, Julii Corys, Cherry Barbs and tetras are all schooling species and should always be kept in groups. They will be far happier and longer lived in groups of 5+ which is really the minimum sized school they should be in. Serpaes and Tigers are also notoriously nippy, mainly with each other but also with other slower more peaceful species. Keeping them in bigger groups means that it's less likely that one fish will get picked on constantly. Only having two means that they will only have the other one to pick on. I'm also surprised they haven't given your gourami or cherry barbs a hard time yet.

Stockingwise you are also very overstocked at the moment and bound to get problems with high ammonia and nitrite as your current stock grows bigger and produces more waste. I think you really need to give things a huge re think as the only fish you currently have that are truly suitable for a 10 gallon tank are the cherry barbs and the dwarf flame gourami. All the rest are too active or will grow too big for that tank.