Ok So I Think I Got It Right This Time... Correct Me If I'm Wrong

[Imcanadieneh]

I have a 10 gallon tank heated and filtered. I want to put in two dwarf gouramis and 5 glowlight tetras. The gouramis are going to be one male and one female so they don't fight and one will be power blue and the other red. I want 5 tetras because I read that 5+ tetras should be in a tank because they like to be in schools. I am going to be going to be buying silk and plastic plants because I also read that the gouramis "MAY" bicker if they were both male, but I'm going to be doubly sure they don't have a problem with eachother. will this work?

sorry i posted twice in thwrong section by accident

sorry i posted twice in the wrong section

 

[nmonks]

Ten gallons is too small for Colisa lalia, and in any case Colisa lalia is such a pathetically weak fish nowadays unless you like flushing cash down the pan, I wouldn't bother with it. Commercial stock is ridden with contagious viral infections, and inbreeding to come up with fancy forms like neon gouramis has made things even worse. I spend far too much time answering questions about sick dwarf gouramis for magazines and commercial web sites: if I could, I'd ban farm-bred stock from the hobby!

Tetras should be in groups of six, and preferably more. The aim isn't to find the smallest number that survives, but the right number that they look good. Tetras in small groups never school properly and end up being nervous little things scattered about the tank. A group of ten or twelve by contrast will move as a school, and the visual impact is far greater. No-one who has kept twenty tetras and enjoyed how they look would ever recommend a group of six! Such small groups may survive, but they're a total waste of money.

Ten gallon tanks are tough to stock. I wrote an article on the topic for TFH a year or so back, so if you have some back issues, have a browse. I'd encourage you to think very carefully, and concentrate on species such as gobies, cherry shrimps, pygmy Corydoras and Aspidoras, kuhli loaches, sparkling gouramis and so on.

Cheers, Neale