Tropical newbie stocking question

[-KT-]

Hi,

I have a 10 gallon I recently converted to tropical planted tank after my almost 10 year old goldfish passed away 3 weeks ago. I have 2 siamese algae eaters, 7 ghost shrimp and 2 dwarf frogs. I am probably going to give one of the algae eaters back to the store I got them at since I stupidly didn't realize they got so big. I was wondering if it was possible to get 2 or 3 fancy guppies or something else that stays small and is very colorful. I'm not really keen on neon tetras unfortunately.

I have an Aqua clear filter for tanks up to 20 gallons, do a 25% water change once a week, and have Anacharis,dwarf Bacopa,Amazon sword and some type of tall grass plant. Everyone seems to get along very well right now and I don't want to mess it up .

All advice is very appreciated

Katie

 

[Dwarf Puffers]

Ok, the siamese algae eaters get 7", give both back, get maybe 6 pygmy or panda corys, your fancy guppys, and you should have a nice tank with an active cory bottom, and fancy guppys patrolling the middle.

The ghost shrimp should be fine, but the ADFs usually need to be handfed, and they must eat frozen or live foods, mine died even after that. Of course, I was trying them in quarantine from Walmart (bleh)...

But yeah, sounds like a nice tank, if you can get assorted MTS or other small aquarium snails (or a couple biggys), go ahead, and if algae becomes a problem, get 2 or 3 otos.

 

[-KT-]

Darn, I knew you were going to say that about the Siamese algea eaters. I don't even know why I bought them on a whim, thats really against what I usually do.

With the frogs I feed them using a mini turkey baster technique I learned about on an ADf forum and the shrimp clean up what they leave behind, so far they are getting on pretty good, they are very active.

Thanks for the advice.

 

[-KT-]

I will update on my tank now. I returned the Algae eaters to my boyfriends dismay, and have set-up a seperate tank for my frogs. I'm just waiting for it to finish cycling. I have eco-complete and a ton of plants and i'm using some filter media from my existing 10 gallon. I have 5 fancy boy guppies in my existing ten gallon, but before I get more fish i'm going to redo the bottom by mixing eco-complete with the rock thats already there and more plants.

 

[Dwarf Puffers]

Darn, I knew you were going to say that about the Siamese algea eaters. I don't even know why I bought them on a whim, thats really against what I usually do.

With the frogs I feed them using a mini turkey baster technique I learned about on an ADf forum and the shrimp clean up what they leave behind, so far they are getting on pretty good, they are very active.

Thanks for the advice.

I will update on my tank now. I returned the Algae eaters to my boyfriends dismay, and have set-up a seperate tank for my frogs. I'm just waiting for it to finish cycling. I have eco-complete and a ton of plants and i'm using some filter media from my existing 10 gallon. I have 5 fancy boy guppies in my existing ten gallon, but before I get more fish i'm going to redo the bottom by mixing eco-complete with the rock thats already there and more plants.

Good that you returned the algae eaters, and sounds good that you have alot of plants.

You can probably still have 6 dwarf corys in there with the guppys, prolly the limit though, if your interested

And the ADFs prolly apreciate their own tank, and what your feeding should work out nicely.

Good progress!