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Be aware that guppies can and will reproduce like theres no tomorrow. Have a plan for the fry or plan on getting just males (sometimes risky due to agression). Even if you get only females, its odds on that they are already pregnant if they were in a mixed sex tank at the LFS.
Zebra danios are active and interesting fish. Small cories, like pandas are fun. A dwarf puffer would be neat (Im going to switchmy 10 gallon to a puffer tank someday - probably just 1, maybe 2.) Blind cave fish are interesting, a bit odd though. Just some ideas!
 
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I would advise against dwarf puffers until you get more experience. I'm having a heck of a time trying to get mine to accept anything other than live blackworms. Most people have a similar struggle just getting theirs to eat anything at all. And, like nerdyguy said, they are indeed territorial and aggressive, despite their tiny size and misleading cute looks.

As for snails, sumthinfishy, mine love to eat them, but they usually suck the flesh out without chewing the shells. I've read on dwarfpuffers.com that the consensus is that dp's don't have the overgrowth of beak problems that other puffers do. However, no one has really had them for more than 5 years, so maybe we just haven't found out yet.

Good luck, cheeseluva. By the way, I love cheese, too :)
 
cheeseluva said:
I think I might buy a lobster :) but I'm not sure if I should.
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hum...nobody has touched on this yet, so I thought I might mumble a few words of caution. Lobsters can get big (much too big for a 10g) and eat anything and everything they can catch, which would be every fish in your tank. They are also excellent escape artists and often people report finding them out of the tank even with a 'secure' lid. Plus they are very sensitive to water conditions.

*also, I assume you mean something like a 'blue lobster?'*
 
Yes it was a blue lobster. I thjink right now it's platies or guppies.
 
"Blue lobsters" that are often sold under that name are usually crayfish. Aren't they brackish as well? In either case, inverts and catfish of any kind (referring to the otos) are not the easiest things in the world for someone new to the hobby. I still vote for getting livebearers of some kind. Maybe only get a couple so you can expand into other species once you get the hang of it. Someone mentioned earlier that male guppies are agressive, which is true, but only when the male/female ratio is unfavorable. All males is fine, but if you have females make sure it is 3:1 (f:m) or they will fight.
 
Good news I just got home from my LFS and got 2 Platies named Mary-Kate and Ashley!
 
nerdyguy83 said:
"Blue lobsters" that are often sold under that name are usually crayfish. Aren't they brackish as well? In either case, inverts and catfish of any kind (referring to the otos) are not the easiest things in the world for someone new to the hobby. I still vote for getting livebearers of some kind. Maybe only get a couple so you can expand into other species once you get the hang of it. Someone mentioned earlier that male guppies are agressive, which is true, but only when the male/female ratio is unfavorable. All males is fine, but if you have females make sure it is 3:1 (f:m) or they will fight.
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I though that the blue in the crayfish was similar the the recesive gene that Jack Dempsy's have, and if they are brackish then every crayfish I have seen is living in the wrong area.
 
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