Starting A New Tank...soon--questions

[slimj1983]

Hey Mates,

Good day to everyone. In the future I will be starting a new tank. Currently I have a 20 gallon tank which is doing pretty well. The fish seem healthy and seem to be comfortable in their surroundings. I have tetra, danios (zebra and large) and a rainbow shark (has not become a bully yet thankfully).

Anyhow, I was at petco today and they had a blowout on these ten gallon tanks. It was forty bucks and i could not pass it up. So i brought two. Anyhow in the future I want to start one with one of them. Now I am new...so I am taking my time and not starting tanks left and right. Trying to do it the right way. Currently, my 20 gallon has fake plants and a few good statues for hiding places, decoration etc.

What I was thinking, since they look so nice is that my ten gallon i would go with live plants...Any feedback for doing this with a ten gallon tank? Also, I really would be interested in starting a tank of the same fish predominately rather than a mix. My thoughts so far although I am far from sold on them is to start one with just tiger barbs....Their own tank...

So what I am curious is that if anyone has a tank just for a certain type of fish...what would you suggest as a fun attractive fish to be able to put all into one 10 gallon. How many too? And just for fun...Would they be compatible with a few catfish who would be hanging out at the bottom.

Again, thank you all for your helpful advice and comments.


Jim

 

[waterdrop]

Hi Jim and welcome to the forums,

Because you are thinking about a tank with basically only one type of fish, it becomes an even more personal thing. It could be any type of fish except those for which a 10G is too small (there are plenty of those but even more that will fit just fine.)

Personally I like the thought of a school of tetras of some sort appearing in and out of a lot of plants, but that's just my own idea of what would be fun. Lots of people would want a couple of fish a bit bigger that have more personality. I once had a couple of Jack Dempseys that made you feel like they were personal friends, but they need a bigger tank than you have.

One of the great values of this forum you will find are the pinned articles for beginners. If you haven't taken a look, you might want to to see if there are any new areas of fishkeeping practice that you want to explore.

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[LosC519]

Long finned Danios, a school of a certain kind of tetras (rummy nose, glow light, cardinal, etc), a school of harlequin rasboras. Either of these will look nice in a small planted tank. They're also very active and fun to watch.