Best tropical freshwater community container?
Hi,
I'm planning on setting up a planted tropical community tank in a 10 gallon aquarium. I will be using sand for a substrate, and am pretty set on getting some corydoras catfish.
I keep shifting, but at various times I'm thought about many different combinations of cherry barb, tetras, guppies, and maybe a dwarf gourami if it won't bother the other fish.
What do you think?
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ill name some tropical fish that will go correct together. and you can pick and choose.
bettas mollies platies gouramis guppies barbs tetras african dwarf frogs (so cute!) thats all i can think of.
don't mix tetras with barb or guppies..In fact keep them all apart
mollies, platies and leopard danois are a huge bio-load avoid those. plus near greedy eaters and spas fish.
For that size tank
try 5 pigmy cory cats to scoot around the sand
Maybe 6 rummy nosed tetras or 6 cardinal tetras and a golden honey gourami.
That would work well.. and look really nice.
Avoid tangible plants at first, there actually far harder to keep than fish
and mistakes next to them will kill the fish.
Go low light plants if you want a short time ago make sure you use a 6700k light approaching a hagen life glo 2 etc..
good luck
Answers: a community reservoir is great, i have one myself, but remember the common rule of 1 inch of fish per gallon. you have a 10 gallon cistern. usually fish are about an inch, but even so, when you factor in the sea displacement from the items in the tank it's about 8 gallons, 6-8 fish is what i would recommend. i started beside a 10 gallon and my population varied from 5-7. the tank will get too polluted whether you have too many or the fish will be stressed and can get diseased slickly. but those fish you're talking about all move about good together, i've had them all and currently hold most, but in a larger tank. if you go and get both cherry barbs and guppies (if the guppies are fancy) then get at least possible 3 barbs so they mess with each other and not the guppies, because they will nip at their fins. gouramis are upright too, but if you get one just stick to barb, tetras, and guppies and not cichlids and such because they may fight. good luck!
