Planted 10 Gallon Stocking?

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What should I put in a planted 10 gallon tank? Nothing is set in stone except that the tank will be running a Marine Land Penguin 100 and the lighting is a 27w full daylight spectrum lamp. I plan on using Seachem Flourite on top of a thin layer of API Laterite.

I wanted to breed something so I was thinking 1 m and 2-3 f guppies. What could I keep ontop of these fish or instead of these fish? ( easily preferebly breedable)
 
Cherry shrimp would be easy and the breed profusely. There arent really many options for a ten gallon if you wanna breed. If you stepped it up to a 20g there are plenty of dwarf cichlids that would breed well. But in a ten guppies or dario dario. maybe pearl danios . . .
 
in a 20g the lighting wouldnt be 2.7 wpg =/.
What could I keep with guppies? and how are tetras to breed? frmo what i read blind cave tetras are easy to breed
 
Guppies breed like crazy man, although if you are planning to use the offspring for feeders you should be ok, but with the rate at which they breed I'd say to just stick with the guppies and maybe a trio of ottos for algae detail. You would definitely have to stay on top of your water changes for sure. I don't know about breeding tetras as I have never done so.

A few years ago when I was in college a friend of mine really wanted to breed German Blue Rams. We went to the best LFS in the area and the lady happened to breed Rams. She said that it was possible, in a planted tank with 20% (no more no less) weekly water changes to breed Rams and have a school of five dither fish (either cherry barbs, neons or something of similar size and activity level). Many people would disagree, and others would agree. Ten gallons are hard.

I read an article that same year about breeding ottos in a ten gallon.

Basically the rule is, if you are using a ten gallon as a breeder tank, what you breed is what you have. At least that's my take on it.
 
Tifftastic;4123962; said:
Guppies breed like crazy man, although if you are planning to use the offspring for feeders you should be ok, but with the rate at which they breed I'd say to just stick with the guppies and maybe a trio of ottos for algae detail. You would definitely have to stay on top of your water changes for sure. I don't know about breeding tetras as I have never done so.

A few years ago when I was in college a friend of mine really wanted to breed German Blue Rams. We went to the best LFS in the area and the lady happened to breed Rams. She said that it was possible, in a planted tank with 20% (no more no less) weekly water changes to breed Rams and have a school of five dither fish (either cherry barbs, neons or something of similar size and activity level). Many people would disagree, and others would agree. Ten gallons are hard.

I read an article that same year about breeding ottos in a ten gallon.

Basically the rule is, if you are using a ten gallon as a breeder tank, what you breed is what you have. At least that's my take on it.
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Yeah I won't keep the fry as ill begin to have weird inbreeding going on eventually, theyll be used for feeders for baby indos or just thrown into the bichir tank just cause. I would love to breed rams but they would get aggressive during breeding times right?
 
Not necessarily aggressive as territorial. They have to be the only thing breeding in the tank. They wont actively chase the dithers around the tank but will chase them off from the corner they used for breeding.

If you stick with guppies I would say a trio of ottos for algae detail or maybe a trio of pygmy cories. I still wouldnt add any other schoolers, but maybe up the guppy count to five or six and call it good. Its really easy to accidentally overstock a 10g.
 
Tifftastic;4123993; said:
Not necessarily aggressive as territorial. They have to be the only thing breeding in the tank. They wont actively chase the dithers around the tank but will chase them off from the corner they used for breeding.

If you stick with guppies I would say a trio of ottos for algae detail or maybe a trio of pygmy cories. I still wouldnt add any other schoolers, but maybe up the guppy count to five or six and call it good. Its really easy to accidentally overstock a 10g.
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yeah I know, I really want to do schooolers like tetras (blind caves=D) but I also want to spawn and I know in a 10g its hard for that to happen

maybe ill do a pair of rams but i have no idea how to sex them do you? ive had experience with egg layers I just stopped because i got tired of siphoning out fry etc.
 
They are really easy to sex, males are very obviously blue and females much paler. Google a few images and you will be able to tell. Also if your LFS is a good one they should know. A female in spawning condition will have a pink belly.

But like I said if you wanna go guppies by all means do it. I thin fish are like tattoos, if you arent sure dont get it. Personally, I have a soft spot for those colorful little overpopulators.

If you think you are up for the challenge try the cave tetras, I wouldnt think you could have too many in a 10g though, and the smaller the numbers the more of a challenge its gonna be. However, the more the challenge the more the reward when you succeed.

Guppies could be fun, cuz there are so many colors and types and you could easily play with selective breeding. That's just the wanna be geneticist in me talking though.
 
Tifftastic;4124020; said:
They are really easy to sex, males are very obviously blue and females much paler. Google a few images and you will be able to tell. Also if your LFS is a good one they should know. A female in spawning condition will have a pink belly.

But like I said if you wanna go guppies by all means do it. I thin fish are like tattoos, if you arent sure dont get it. Personally, I have a soft spot for those colorful little overpopulators.

If you think you are up for the challenge try the cave tetras, I wouldnt think you could have too many in a 10g though, and the smaller the numbers the more of a challenge its gonna be. However, the more the challenge the more the reward when you succeed.

Guppies could be fun, cuz there are so many colors and types and you could easily play with selective breeding. That's just the wanna be geneticist in me talking though.
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Thats true, cus I'll be stuck with them and all, I think ill do guppies. I plan on having another fish in the tank but that can be taken care of later

as for the blind cave tetras I have a soon to be empty 20 that I can turn into a dark creepy cave like tank for aestetics:grinno:
 
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