Hi all,
Great forum. Brilliant for us beginners - best of the forums i looed at.
Apologies if i waffle on a bit, but here goes........
) Right, my wife and I have a 10 US gallon tank (38 litres for us UK residents) and we're in the process of turning it into a tropical tank. We're cycling it as i type using Homebase own brand ammonia - about 3 weeks in and all going fine so far. We have a Hagen Elite Stingray 10 filter (suitable for up to 10g tanks), tetra APS 100 air pump and the tanks going to be planted.
My question is regarding the number of fish we can keep. I read the very informative article in the beginners resource centre titled "Suitable fish for a 10g tank" and had sort of set my sights on keeping 1x Honey Gourami, 4x endlers livebearers and 4x pygmy cories (as recommeded in the article). However, when i check on the Aq Advisor website and add this quantity based on my set up, it implies this is too many fish!
Can anyone with more knowledge than me shed some light on whether this quanity of fish is ok for my set up and whether Aq Advisor is a good source for stocking information?
Thanks in advanced.
Get yourself a pair or even trio of Honey Gourami's, get 6 pygmy corys, they will be perfectly fine on gravel as long as it isn't sharp, roll it around in your hand to find out. Then consider a small school of Ember/Flame tetras or small Rasboras, like Celestial Pearl Danios. You could even put in some cherry shrimp. Stocking...done.
Then forget the air pump, it will look crap and make too much noise
Also ignore AQ Advisor, its pants.
You can do a lot with 38 litres, here are my nanos
As long as you keep looking into small fish (preferably ones that don't breed like mad) and not barbs or anything daft like that, you can get some cracking setups.
(Low Dust Cat Litter is in the right hand tank, £3.50 from Tescos, probably a better option for Corys than gravel. needs a lot of cleaning though.)
Yeah, the more research i do now the more i think we ought to have got a better filter! I don't really want to put another filter in there as hardly any room as it is! Im gonna go with 2 h gouramis and a handful of small colourful shoaling fish. Give it a few months and i'm certain we'll be upgrading to a bigger tank 
