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I was looking to get some ideas for stocking a ten gallon tank. I have had experience with many species of fish before so delicate fish aren't a problem

Hi benny,

I just went to "search" & typed in "stocking". I also typed in "10 gal".. Under "stocking" there is enough reading there to keep you busy all winter!
Have fun!
Let us know what you decide on.

Well tomorrow i am going to finish my stock for my 10 gallon tank.
I am going to add 6 flame tetras to my 4 otto's
this is an idea or you can try

8 pandas
and
6 Cardinals


other small tetras are head and tail lights, neons, lemons, cochos blues, and glolight tetras.
other fish for a ten gallon include guppies, platies and rasboras



-Vincent

Cochus blue are not a 10g tank fish. They are extremely active. Even when I had just 3 of them they took over my 55g. They bounce around all day worse than danios and can become agressive or nippy in small tanks or cramped conditions. The other tetras would do ok although I don't recommend schooling fish for a 10g. I prefer to do species tanks since a 10g isn't really long enough to allow schooling fish to swim naturally. One of my favorites are small gouramis like sparkling or spiketail paradise(Pseudosphromenus dayi) not the more commonly sold blue or red paradise fish which is Macropodus opercularis. Dwarf puffers are also interesting and completely freshwater. You could keep a good sized group in a 10g(heavily decorated) and might even end up with puffer fry. Livebearers are entirely possible but if your not careful will overstock a 10g within a month or 2 and most stores won't take any of the common livebearer fry. Small shellies could also be good especially if you want something to breed and that stores might be willing to buy.

There are tons of ideas and somewhere a small tank stocking guide if you do a search.

I was going to suggest rams to you, but decided to look them up on "search" on this site to make sure they would go in a 10 gal.. Some people said yes. Also there were a lot of reccomendations for shellies, whatever they are. I plan to look them up myself.

If you're ok with delicate fish I would go with maybe 4-5 Panda or pygmy cories and either 4 Chocolate gouramis or some killies.

I think that a great stocking for a 10 gallon is this:

1x Male Betta
5 - 6x Rosaboras
2 - 3x Ottos (if you have any algea)

^_^ I think that is a lovely combonation

Inky