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What brackish fish are small enough for a 10 gallon tank? If you could give me some names I could then look them up to see what my options are. I just can't get any results on my searches without fish names. It keeps giving me big fish.
Thank you so much
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Bumble Bee Gobies are your best bet. you could have around 10



other possibilities: wrestling halfbeaks glass fish or maybe a single figure 8 puffer although a 20g tank would be better
 
There's more than just BBGs. Small soles (flatfish) work well, too, as they hardly move at all. Also consider killifish. There are various kinds, but you'll have to see what's on sale near you; blue-eyes, Aplocheilichthys normani, work well in low salinity tanks. Also Florida flagfish, though a 10 gallon might be a little small for these territorial beasts. Other killifish are very much on a "see what's available" basis.

Lots of gobies. There seem to be a lot of Redigobius balteatus gobies about, and these are a nice change from BBGs.

Pipefish are a definite option if you have regular live food supplies (like a garden pond). Endler guppies will thrive in brackish water even though it isn't natural. Wrestling halfbeaks will thrive in a 10 gallon provided there's a decent water current for them to play in (they don't explore the tank much, but they do expect to be able to swim into a current).

Malayan snails, nerites, and glass shrimps give you some options at the invertebrate end of things, and in really saline water (50% seawater upwards) you can give blue leg hermit crabs a go, too.

Cheers, Neale
 
how about a puffer fish ?

i think 1 would be great i had one cool little guys

little rough of food and work thou
 
how about a puffer fish ?

i think 1 would be great i had one cool little guys

little rough of food and work thou


Check the pinned topic in the Oddballs forum to see why most species are inappropriate for 10g brackish tanks.
 

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