10 Us Gallon Tank Stocking

[JoshuaA]

My girlfriend keeps as GBR in a 15 UKG tank temperature is around 27.5/28 and she ensures the Nitrates are lower than 40.

It does great and gets on with the other tank mates, corys/gouramis/molly however it is a female (so I believe for attempting to sex it) however it does have a specific area of the tank it likes to sit in and won't really appreciate if anyone else goes there. Usually on the Corys venture there. Its quite a heavily planted tanked so they can all hide from each other however I do question whether even the 15G tank is big enough for one, nevermind putting a pair in a 10G tank. The ram is a VERY fast swimmer when it wants to be and I just have the feeling 2 in a 10G tank may be far too much of an overkill with other fish.

Our substrate is a mixture of Medium and small gravel, mostly small gravel. You just have to ensure when you use the gravel filter you bring the smoother and smaller pieces up to the top for the Corys. Those the gravel doesn't move much at all between changes.

The ram is gorgeous though always sits at the front of the tank watching me as soon as I walk in the room.

 

[pumh]

So would it make a difference if I used Bolivian rams instead of german blues? I have both available around me. Also why aelfr some more possibilities for the tetra, barb, etc. Fish in these possible stockings?

Choice 1

2 gbr
6 bloodfin tetra (would pristella/ xray tetras work?)
6 hatchetfish ( any other posibilities?)

Choice 2

2 bolivian rams
6 neon tetra ( other options?)
6 harlequin rasbora ( other options?)

Choice 3

2-3 some sort of apistograma ( I left the list at moms will post probably on the 11th when I get back)
6 group of small middle dweller
6 group of small top dweller

I know that a lot of you think that you think on apistogrammas but I want to see all my possibilities open because they don't always have apistos in

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

10 US gallons is just over 8 imperial gallons, that's not going to hold much at all "fairly."

Personally I would choose something small for the bottom, perhaps a pair of the small Tanganyikan shell-dwellers, with some small surface-dweller eg. 6 Hatchets

 

[pumh]

I was originally going to do shell dweller but I have none available around me and even if there are they are more than I would like to pay for a single fish, about 15-25$. I don't mean to sound frugal though. I had mentioned why I would not like to spend too much but am willing to pay anything less than 15 a fish for a piaf or trio.

 

[Wills]

I would go for one of the apisto species, Norberti are probably one of the smallest apistos around so would work really well lot of colour for the size though I would mix them with ember tetras and marbeled hatchet fish if you want the two types but I would personally go with one big school of ember tetras though as they would compliment the tank really nice.

Wills

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

I would go for one of the apisto species, Norberti are probably one of the smallest apistos around so would work really well lot of colour for the size though

I would mix them with ember tetras and marbeled hatchet fish if you want the two types but I would personally go with one big school of ember tetras though as they would compliment the tank really nice.

Wills

I was trying to remember Ember Tetra when writing about "micro" fish in a stocking thread last night, lovely little guys!

 

[pumh]

Okay ember tetras look really nice thank for the reccomedation!!! But I've read that they tend to stay in the middle to bottom area so I was wondering if Theyd ever run into problems with that bigger fish getting annoyed and biting, eating, or killing the tetras? Also would that leave the top portion looking empty? Sorry I have so many questions.

 

[Wills]

Think is you have to remember that compared to the natural environments our tanks are not really that deep so for all you will see bottom dwellers stick to the bottom and top dwellers like hatchets stick to the top but any open water fish that are termed as sticking around a specific area are still open water fish so though they stay low in the water in a 12 inch tall tank you will see them stick in the middle of the tank rather than around the rocks and caves like the apistos plus the territorial pressure from the apistos might keep them an inch or two higher as well just to keep them safe if you see what I mean. So basically for all they are documented as staying low in water in a relitivley shallow captive tank its not going to be bottom dwellers in the same way as a cory for example.

Wills

 

[Harlequins]

Ember tetras are fab little fish and great shoalers,but has you say they do tend to hang around the mid to bottom of the tank,so has long has you have good plant coverings,they'll do fine

 

[pumh]

I was research through on ember tetra and came upon vob rio flame tetras which now that I think about it I think I might hve mistaken these ad ember tetras at lfs and they seem to have be same water stat needs would they be okay in my tank as well? Just n case I go and they're these and not ember u
I can still us them but ember are my preffered choice. About how many ember tetras should I get? And if the con rio flame tetras can go in how manyof them? I will probably do one big school as previously reccommended ( thank for that advice!)

 

[Wills]

Von Rio tetras get a little large for a 10g I would avoid the disky tetras and stick to the torpedo ones and try and stay with the smaller ones at that, like ember, green neon, platinum etc

Wills

 

[pumh]

Would pristella / x- ray tetras work? I know they can habdle warmer water. Would you consider them as torpedo shaped?

 

[pumh]

if i get apistos should i get two or three of them? could i do glow light tetras in the tank?How do these two possible stockings look?

2 rams
6 glowlight tetra

or

2 or 3 depending on response apistogramma(will post exact species once ive decided)
6 glowlight tetra

i again apoligize for my numerous questions and such but all the responses are apretiated!

 

[pumh]

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[kizno1]

if i get apistos should i get two or three of them? could i do glow light tetras in the tank?How do these two possible stockings look?

2 rams
6 glowlight tetra

or

2 or 3 depending on response apistogramma(will post exact species once ive decided)
6 glowlight tetra

i again apoligize for my numerous questions and such but all the responses are apretiated!

glowlights should be fine. Apisto do best in trios of 1male 2 females but in a 10G i would stick to a pair of 1 male 1 female.