10g Stocking

[Shaucid]

Hi everyone, I'm trying to plan on what fish I'm going to stock my new 10 gallon tank with after I cycle it.

I want a fish that won't disturb or eat shrimp and snails, one that can be kept singly or in a group of 2 or at most 3, can survive in slightly alkaline to neutral water with hardness off the charts, and obviously one that won't grow to a large size.

I have been kind of interested in gobies, but I'm unsure about which variety of goby meets my needs. I also like mollies quite a bit.

Any advice is appreciated.

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[gregswimm]

Humm, be careful with gobies, many require some degree of salinity. If you found a fw canidate, you would most likely only be able to keep one which may eat your shrimp.

A colony of Lamprologus multifasciatus would be my top choice in most circumstances BUT they don't get along with shrimp....

 

[Blitz]

Be very careful with what kind of gobies you pick out. Some are brackish and do not get them mixed up with the freshwater gobies.
For instance, Bumble Bee gobies are brackish.....that's if I remember correctly... /

Platies? Two platies? I'm not sure if they meet your "can survive in slightly alkaline to neutral water with hardness off the charts, and obviously one that won't grow to a large size" expectations though.

 

[Ruskull]

Tank's too small for Mollies..............maybe some Guppies? Or Platys? Or even Dwarf Gouramis or make it a nice Betta tank. A single male or maybe 3 to 5 females.

EDIT: Hatchet Fish also seem to like hard water

 

[HAMBONE]

i'd get guppys..

 

[daizeUK]

Platies? Two platies? I'm not sure if they meet your "can survive in slightly alkaline to neutral water with hardness off the charts, and obviously one that won't grow to a large size" expectations though.

I have selected platies for my 60L tank because I also have very very hard, alkaline water. I also want guppies to go with them for the same reason, but they would need to be kept in a group of about six so guppies would be no good in groups of 2-3. I think you can keep 2-3 platies, but it would be best to have 1 male + 2 female or no males.

 

[Shaucid]

Thanks for the advice everyone. I've decided that this is going to be a species tank of what ever fish I'm going to keep in it. (as well as various invertebrates)

I did a little research this morning and I found two fish that caught my eye: The Red-Tailed Goodeid and the Peacock Goby.

http/www.seriouslyfish.com/species/tateurndina-ocellicauda/

http/www.seriouslyfish.com/species/xenotoca-eiseni/

From what I have read from various resources that peacocks don't eat shrimp, and they don't require brackish. Would a pair of these gobies do fine in my tank?

If I chose on keeping goodeids would a trio or two pairs live happily?

-Thanks

 

[gregswimm]

You may have territorial issues with 2.

You could keep 1 maybe 2 Carinotetraodon travancoricus (pea puffer). A truly interesting fish, but quite agressive and feeds on snails and probably shrimp.


If you really like gobies, go brackish. It is incredibly easy to keep and there are a plethora of shrimp, snails and plants that do well in low salinity conditions. You could do 'bumble bee gobies' in a brackish 10. Even some awesome fish like a Neovespicula depressifrons (butterfly-goby waspfish) and Redigobius balteatus (rhinohorn goby). The only extra water parameter you would have to monitor with brackish is salinity (which is easy).

Just becareful with bumblebee gobies. 2 different species are called this, one needs brackish and the other doesn't but the only true way to differentiate between the two is with a microscope and necropsy.