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Are there any fish other than white clouds and paradise fish that can tolerate a room temp (75-77) tank? It would be a 10g.

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A betta could tolerate it, but it wouldn't necessarily be the best setup for it. Just make sure the rooms temperature doesn't fluctuate much.

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guppies, white cloud mountain minnows, some corys, but mostly the larger ones (I'm thinking peppers). Actually alot of fish fall into that temp range...the hard part is that it's a 10 gallon tank.

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Hillstream Loaches.

I've heard shiners can be pretty cool, actually. If you had a larger tank, a sunfish would be in order; they can be really awesome, many looking like coolwater cichlids.

[span class="edited"][Edited by Shinigami 2004-08-26 10:20][/span]

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Would this work?

-small school of white clouds
-female betta
-ADF
-dwarf crayfish

Mainly wondering about the crayfish attacking any of the others.

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The crawdad would certainly attack your fish if it got a chance, mainly when the fish are sleeping.

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Neolamprologus brevis in my experience and according to a few better-known (than me, anyway) shellie keepers does very well in normal room temperatures. I've read several articles that mention other shellies doing well that way but as I've only kept brevis that way I won't advocate something I have no experience with. The brevis, though, seem to fare very, very well in 72 or around there, so 75-77 is just fine. In fact, my usual rec for tropical tanks is 76, so it seems to me you could stock most fish!

EDIT: I should probably note that I strongly recommend against L. meleagris in a cool tank, as they seem very susceptible to ich when the temp swings or the heater is unplugged. So, this doesn't cover all shellies.

[span class="edited"][Edited by LittleMousling 2004-08-26 13:29][/span]

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I would recommend agains tthe crawfish due to the betta and ADF. The white clouds would probably be okay due to their speed, but the betta and the frog would probably get eaten rather quickly...

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In the wild, if there is such a thing anymore, fish are constantly presented with water temp fluctuations...

Whether it be the Amazon or Great Lakes it's a fact of life.

The secret is water temps that do not change rapidly such as adding new unheated water that would be 2 to 3 degrees cooler than the tank water.

In a large tank the volume of water would buffer the temp but in a small tank like a 10 gallon it would depend on the amount of water being changed.

A 10% water change in a small tank may indeed rapidly drop the temp a few degrees if the new water was not temp matched.

Rapid temp changes stress tropicals and immune systems are taxed allowing the ich parasite to attack.

Otherwise almost any tropical can be kept at room temps if the temps change slowly.

--garyroland.

Zebra or leopard danios have also been kept at room temps very successfully...

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Here's a short list off the top of my head that do not need heaters, just so long as they temp doesn't go too far below 70...

WCMM
Leopard danios
Zebra danios
Most corys (and all of the readily available species)
Most plecos
Head and tail light tetras
Serpae tetras
Cochu's blue tetras
Blind cave fish
Silver-tipped tetras
Buenos Aires tetras
Black skirt tetras
Tiger barbs
Cherry Barbs
Rosy barbs
Platies
Swortails
Guppies
Endler's livebearers
Mollies
Bettas
Paradise fish
Hillstream loaches
Most Australian rainbowfishes

So you have a lot of choices... I'll probably think of even more later.

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