Coolest fish for a 10 gallon
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dwarf rams are nice fish as long as you can keep your water in pristine condition. I had a few of them in the past and did a little bit of research on them too. Apparently they have a pretty short life cycle too. I had 5 adult size rams, 3 passed a month later, 2 followed about a year later. My water condition was perfect and it was a fully planted 20 gallon long tank. Overall great fish and very colorful!
My suggestion for your tank: go low tech planted, with some small species pleco, and your current tetras. maybe a snail or two.
My suggestion for your tank: go low tech planted, with some small species pleco, and your current tetras. maybe a snail or two.
Curviceps Cichlid (Dwarf Flag cichlid), they are neat and I don't get why they are not more popular.
mottled sculpin
of course ur other tank mates are gonna disappear but a small demonic finger chaser will def get some attention
of course ur other tank mates are gonna disappear but a small demonic finger chaser will def get some attention
Bumblebee catfish. They look monster, but they're awesome little miniatures.
Kuhli loaches are awesome, and are best kept in groups. You could put a good bunch of them in a 10, as long as filtration is adequate.
A while back I set up an awesome community tank that I filled with cherry barbs, albino cherry barbs, Harlequin rasboras, pork chop rasboras, and several varieties of danios, focusing on longfins. The variety of colors was a lot of fun, and the pictus cat that was cleanup crew added lots of character.
You could also talk to your LFS about raising monsters- buy a small "monster" (IE: any fish that will outgrow your tank), raise it up a bit, and trade it in for a small one again when it outgrows the tank. There was a customer who did this with some cichlids at the LFS I used to work for. The store loved it, because they sold the larger ones for twice what they sell the small ones for, so they always made extra money from the trade. Thing is, only certain stores will do this, and not with all fish. That could be an exciting tank to show off.
Kuhli loaches are awesome, and are best kept in groups. You could put a good bunch of them in a 10, as long as filtration is adequate.
A while back I set up an awesome community tank that I filled with cherry barbs, albino cherry barbs, Harlequin rasboras, pork chop rasboras, and several varieties of danios, focusing on longfins. The variety of colors was a lot of fun, and the pictus cat that was cleanup crew added lots of character.
You could also talk to your LFS about raising monsters- buy a small "monster" (IE: any fish that will outgrow your tank), raise it up a bit, and trade it in for a small one again when it outgrows the tank. There was a customer who did this with some cichlids at the LFS I used to work for. The store loved it, because they sold the larger ones for twice what they sell the small ones for, so they always made extra money from the trade. Thing is, only certain stores will do this, and not with all fish. That could be an exciting tank to show off.
Yeah, I'm going to avoid the ram thing completely and suggest one long-finned albino bristlenosed pleco all by his own tentacled and personable self. Feed lightly and do a 50% water change every three or four days with a gravel vacuum, filter well, let him live in half a coconut to enhance the weirdness and you'll be golden. If a golden tentacled fish that eats fresh vegetables and lives in a seed doesn't impress your friends, they're just not drunk enough yet.
