What are The perfect fish's for a ten gallon aquarium

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I have a ten gallon fish tank, what are the best fish for me to get?

1. I prefer cheaper,
2. slightly big( just not too small to become hard to find)
3. somewhat active in movements, any info?

Today, I bought three Red Pacus's for $12( 2 for $12 deal) at a nice small fish store, but from the research I gathered today the aquarium will be too small for them very soon.

Any help?
 
I'm going to assume this is a genuine question... Pacu get HUGE and need tanks in the range of hundreds (better yet thousands) of gallons. Your best bet is to return them ASAP, then research fish that will live happily in a 10g before buying more. Pacu are freshwater fish - if your tank is FW, it would be best to post stocking questions in the 'General Freshwater' section, rather than the marine section of the forum. If you're switching over to marine, I'd spend some time doing research before taking the plunge.
 
feeder goldfish is the best most active fun loving fish i ever had and easy to take car of too.
 
try a platy or 2, get an inch or 2.
or try some tetras! they go fast in a school of like 4 0r 5.
go for neons or glowlightm only like 1-2$ each
 
TipStylez said:
feeder goldfish is the best most active fun loving fish i ever had and easy to take car of too.
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except they too will outgrow a 10gal. tank.

and I would agree I think this seems to be a question more suited for general freshwater. And here I am getting all excited thinking it was a nano-reef thread :(
 
As long as you are talkinng about ten gallon aquariums

I was thinking about starting a ten gallon reef aquarium and was wondering if some kinds of sea horses could be kept in an aquarium that size, or I have heard about keeping mandarin fish in mini reefs, is that actually an acceptable thing to do.
 
Mardarins need a WELL established tank of about a year with plenty of pods to feed on. It is advised against keeping a mandarin in anything less than a 55g tank with 2 pounds of live rock per gallon and less than a year old. These fish are very picky about what they eat and very seldom eat anything other than pods.

Bradd
 
Thank yall!

feeder goldfish

platy or 2, an inch or 2.
tetras! school of like 4 0r 5.
neons or glowlightm 1-2$ each

I'll check the freshwater forum too,
 
My 10 gallon coldwater marine (yes for real) tank!

On a whim, I made a 10 gallon saltwater tank. I live in the Washington State Puget Sound area.

I went to the marina in Olympia, got me some water out of the Sound, collected a few rocks with barnacles and mussels and such on them, eight small rock crabs and a stickleback that was unlucky enough to get nabbed.

I bought a small hanging filter and bottom filter.

Four weeks have passed now. I've changed the water once a week, about 2 gallons at a go. Feeding has consisted of siamese fighting fish (betta) flakes daily (left over from a betta no longer amongst the living) and water turtle pellets. Crabs will eat anything, and between these foods I knew there was a fair variety of nutrients that are similar to what would be eaten in the wild). The mussels and barnacles suffer greatly for need of food, being filter-feeders. The barnacles are hanging in there but the mussels have mostly given up. The rock crabs - one survives and seems quite lively still: He's the only one that didn't crawl out and try a life as an apartment cockroach.

Temperatures haven't become ungodly hot yet except for twice, and those times I floated ice bags.

Yup, I know it's a brutal and crazy thing, but all in all I call it a good and cheap way to learn what works.

My next, serious attempt involves building an intertidal coldwater aquarium with rising and falling water levels to mimic tides. It's all sketched out and on the verge.

Anyone with interest in coldwater marine aquariums, PLEASE WRITE me at aric_001@hotmail.com . I'm developing a website devoted solely to this medium.
 
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