Yes, another 10 gal set-up

[perfectjukebox]

Hello there.

A donation: I'll have a 10 gal to play with. I want something original and lively in it.

From reading here, I found that I could do one of the 5 things here

1- A trio of dwarf puffers with 2 ottos

2- School of Harl. Rasboras and 4 small corys

3- A Blue Ram couple

4- Shell Dwellers AC

5- Ghost Shrimps and Snails.

6- Some live-bearers (not too crazy about those mollies/platties/guppies thingies)

7- Dwarfs Gouramis maybe?

No bettas, thanks...

The idea is to have something that will move a lot and since it's a small tank, something that could survive occasionnal water quality variations... but something flashier could be interesting too.

Lots of small fishes would be great, but I hear that puffers are really fun and the shrimp set-up has to be the most original...

What to do???

[jm1212]

ok. ill start with the dwarf gouramis
the can get pretty agressive toward other males, and if you want more than one male, you need at least 3 females per male, and your tank cannot support all of those fish; and, there is not much room for a lesser male to escape the greater male he is chaing the lesser one.

shell dwllers by themselves would be great

IME, a pair of rams do best in a 20 gallon, but a single ram and his girl may work if they are by themselves.

besides what livebearers you have listed, the only ones i can think of are dwarf livebearers, and you could have alot of them in your tank, but good luck finding them :D

im pretty sure that 6 harlequins and 4 corydoras would be to much for your tank, so why not instead skip the corys and then get two more rasboras?

i havent had dwarf puffers, but i have heard that if you have enough plants otos can work

[perfectjukebox]

OK, so I started with 5 ideas and added 3 more before the END of my first post.

Here are a couple of things I did not think of and I hope they can be done:

A loach or cory set-up. Now that could be an active tank!

Dwarf loach (active during the day is a plus) or Kulih (weird look)or another? That would be a nice set-up. Could these 2 be combined? What other fish could go with them?

For the catfish, any suggestions?

I like the idea to have a species only tank. Again, I want a lively tank with something of interest in it. The fish can't be too fragile, it is a 10 gal and sometimes things go wrong pretty quickly in there...

I narrowed it to these:

Loach (what species, how many, with what?)
Dwarf Puffer trio (with a couple of ottos and shrimps. or...?)
Catfish (something that looks on speed like albinos, but not albinos and hatchets I guess)
Shrimp set-up...

I like them all equally, and the AC shell dwellers too, but I want to keep it simple, so I ruled them out.

I guess what would be best would be Puffers with shrimps and dwarf loaches, but I don't think that can be done in a 10 gal...

Or start the tank with snails and shrimps, wait until the plants are big and then put the puffers in...

I really like what I read about puffers, but are they a ***** kind of fish? How fragile are they?

[phreakkn0t]

I have a 10g with 3 Dwarf Puffers and 2 otos, working very well so far and I really enjoy having the DPs, they are really cool little fish.