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I have an amazon sword and water wisteria in my cycled 10g sand planted tank, what fish would do well in this aquarium?

It sounds like your tank would do well as a small community aquarium. Those two plants are really easy to maintain. If I had your tank I would stick to a small community, with just livebearers, or just tetras. That's just me, though. You could definitely mix the two.

i suggest 6 cories and a male betta it would be quite charming

Yep, yep, yep...go with a betta and cories. Or maybe a community tank of female bettas. A ten would be really great for a male to strut his stuff.

Ah, the 10g. Seemingly small, but and almost endless list of possibilities:

COMMUNITY TANK:
~small cory school (6 is good) or a BN pleco
~a school or 2 of tetras (depending on the size and number)
~a centerpiece dwarf gourami or betta

AMAZON BIOTIOPE:
~corys
~tetras
~ram
~otos if room

ASIAN BIOTOPE:
~small rasboras (like brilliants)
~2 or 3 cherry brabs
~dwarf gourami
~smaller loaches like zebras

BREEDING:
~kribensis
~rams
~bettas
~corys

SHELLIES

Those are just a few ideas. Hopefully that gave you a place to start. Try to narrow it down and we'll help you figure it out

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No one has yet mentioned snails. With a sand tank that's been planted you NEED snails in it to stir up the substrate. With non planted sand tanks you can easily do it by hand, and or keep the substrate shallow enough that you won't have a problem with anerobic pockets.
With a planted tank the substrate of course ends up a bit deeper. Additionally you have the plant roots that you don't want to disturb. Therefore malaysian trumpet snails are an absolute must. Unless of course you want your fish to die .

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Personally I'd go with brightly colored fish, my first two choices would be male Endler's or a mix of M and F cherry barbs. A trio of kuhli loaches for the bottom. You can start out with just a few trumpet snails and soon have many. I've never had my kuhlis bother them and a bonus is these snails won't eat your plants.

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Hi,
I'd skip the Amazon Sword if I were you. If it has the
right conditions (light and nutrients) it will over grow
the tank in no time. They can take over a 125G tank!

Keep the substrate thin, no more than an inch to an
inch and a half at its deepest and, as Babelfish said
toss in some MTS snails.

Stick with the wisteria, and perhaps some low growing
carpet plants, and you will have a gem.

Frank


Last edited by FRANK at 08-Mar-2005 12:19

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I've heard that amazon sword roots can even break the glass of tanks No surprise, the larger specimens of these plants are incredible. And trust me, they will grow through anything, live through anything, and grow fast. Personal experience. I still have baby amazon plants popping up in my tank close to a year after removing the mother plants.

Wisteria is a great plant, though. It was the first one I ever kept, and it's growing like mad. I happen to like the look of it, as well. You can trim it and keep it inside the middle column of the water, or you can let it grow on its own and let it create a canopy on top of your water. Mine also grows above the water.

If I personally had a 10g tank, I'd have apistogrammas.

2 blue rams and 6 threadfin rainbowfish or lemon tetras

oh btw, on the amazon swordplant thing, I have one in my 10 gallon and a bigger one in my 29 gallon that always has shoots/baby plants that i replant... im planning that if/when the swordplant in the small tank gets too big i will move it out and replace it with a more appropriately sized one that grew in my 29 g

Yeah I wanted some MTS snails but I can't get some in my area. I guess I'll wait for the summer to have some shipped from the internet.

About the fishs, I'm still unsure... maybe fancy guppies or neons and a small algae eater , it's only 10g so options are limited.

well, funny as this sounds, my corys stirr the sand for me, they stick their faces all the way down into the sand and root for food, in the summer, i put in live blood worms from one of my ponds, thats how they get em so they are always lookin bubt, some ottos would be nice for algae eaters, they totally cleaned my 29 of a horrible brownalgae problem, in like a week but dont get them till u have a problem, mine cleaned so well, i now have to substitute in algae wafers and peas, but they are all fat and happy