Need help stocking a 10 gallon tank

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arkmann

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I have a 10 gallon tank that currently serves as my QT tank. In the two years that I have kept fish, I've only had one incident wherein my fish had ich and its not from my tank but from the LFS. All I did was dump the sick fish in the tank and I didn't do anything special and the ich disappeared. I guess my water parameters are pretty good (I really don't know what the actual numbers are because I only owned a master test kit once when I was cycling my first tank 2 years ago).

So I have decided to set-up the 10 gallon. The small tank will be filtered by a Penguin 350. I am mostly looking to set-up a South African tank. I am looking to stock it with the small colorful fish that are usually yellow and blue. As you have noticed, I haven't researched on them yet but I will once you guys tell me what they are.

So any thoughts on how to stock this tank?? Actually, any colorful fish that won't grow too big is fine with me. I want to see more colors other than yellow and black in a vertical fashion...
 
many [smaller]tanganyikans, jewels, tetras, dwarf south americans such as rams, etc.
 
The tank is way too small for tanganyikans, only the shellies would work. The Lamprologus meleagris or Lamprologus stappersii are the most beautiful shellies in my opinion. They are also known as pearly occelatus and are very beautiful with many spanglings.
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/profiles/species.php?id=1760
And yes, rams are also perfect, they would work with some neon or cardinal tetras and may even breed for you.
 
My rams beat up on eachother in a 10 gallon, but do fine in a 20 gallon long, but i have also seen a pair kept sucessfully in an 8 gallon biocube...so it depends on their individual personalities.
A paif of apistos would be a nice additin as an alternative to rams.
Cardinals are beautiful as are my orange von rio tetras and they stay small as well. Lemon tetras are pretty as well but im not sure if a ten gallon would be too small.
 
JeninOK;1925339; said:
My rams beat up on eachother in a 10 gallon, but do fine in a 20 gallon long, but i have also seen a pair kept sucessfully in an 8 gallon biocube...so it depends on their individual personalities.
A paif of apistos would be a nice additin as an alternative to rams.
Cardinals are beautiful as are my orange von rio tetras and they stay small as well. Lemon tetras are pretty as well but im not sure if a ten gallon would be too small.
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I guess its time to do research on rams then.

Cichlaholics Anonymous said:
also, make sure the ich is actually out of the system too
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Thanks and yes, they are out of the system. I've had the thinbars for 3 months and the ich disappeared within the first month being in my 100 gallon with all the other fish. I think the "good" water is enough of a treatment.
 
I think the blue and yellow fish you were talking about are Electric Yellow Cichlids and Electric Blue Cichlids but those get way to big for a 10 gallon. They get about 8 inches long so even if you did keep them it wouldnt work for long.
 
xFLEAxx;1925637; said:
I think the blue and yellow fish you were talking about are Electric Yellow Cichlids and Electric Blue Cichlids but those get way to big for a 10 gallon. They get about 8 inches long so even if you did keep them it wouldnt work for long.
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Thanks for clearing that up. I guess I'll keep rams in it.
 
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