Dwarf golden barbs can grow in length up to 2 inches, so a couple of fish will fit in a gallon tank. Pygmy catfish also called pygmy corydoras are a species of tropical freshwater fish that are native to the inland waters of South America. The maximum length of the species is about 1. The fish are also quite peaceful and can be kept in a community tank with other small fish species such as ember tetras.
They are also best kept in groups of at least four individuals and will behave more naturally in larger groups of 10 or more. Unlike other cory fish, pygmy catfish swim in shoals around the midwater regions as well as lower regions in the aquarium.
Guppies also called million fish or rainbow fish are one of the most popular and widely spread freshwater aquarium species. The fish are native to North-East South America and also found in small numbers spread around the world. The size of guppies vary, but males are typically 0. Though it will depend on your setup, filtration, substrate, and frequency of water changes. Interestingly, they can withstand levels of salinity up to percent than normal seawater, which means they will live even in saltwater tanks.
The ph value found in normal guppies habitant is from 6. All the fish mentioned above are good candidates for gallon aquariums, especially for beginner hobbyist. These include inverts like shrimp and snails, amphibians like African dwarf frog, lizards, snakes, crayfish and more. See this article by PetHelpful for more insight. If you are located in the USA more so Florida and are looking to buy tropical freshwater mentioned in this or any other post and more , check out Consolidated Fish Farms Inc.
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Most of these tend to form harems rather than pairs; that is, the male needs to be kept with a group of two or more females. Each fish needs its own shell, and the male will mate with all the females, and will show little interest in guarding the eggs or fry.
Basic care is otherwise similar to N. Inexperienced aquarists are often advised to avoid the pencilfish of the genus Nannostomus. While they are certainly pretty and peaceful, they are sensitive to water chemistry and often fail to adapt to busy community aquaria.
The one notable exception is the golden pencilfish Nannostomus beckfordi. The golden pencilfish is a small, slender fish that gets to about 2 inches in length. Its basic color is golden green with several blue-black bands running from nose to tail and brilliant red markings on the anal and tail fins.
Golden pencilfish need to be kept in groups of six or more specimens. Males are distinctly territorial though, and will spend a lot of time chasing one another. No harm is ever done, and their boisterous antics really only add to their charm. Because pencilfish move about in a slow, rather deliberate sort of way, they work well in small planted tanks.
Golden pencilfish are adaptable and will eat all sorts of foods, including flakes, something that cannot be said for most other pencilfish. Also unlike most other pencilfish, golden pencilfish will adapt successfully to hard, alkaline water conditions. All in all, they make an excellent alternative to the more commonly kept characins. The least killifish is, despite its name, a livebearer and not a killifish at all.
It is one of the smallest fish known to science, and a native of the southern United States. Both sexes are rather similar in looks, being semi-transparent silvery green with a dark band running from behind the eye to the base of the tail.
There are distinctive black blotches on the anal and dorsal fins. The least killifish is not a difficult fish to keep, despite its miniscule size. It prefers hard and alkaline fresh water, but will also do well in slightly brackish systems. The least killifish appreciates a thickly planted aquarium. Floating plants are especially useful as cover for newborn fish, which are tiny and at severe risk of being eaten by any carnivorous tankmates.
Initially known as the galaxy rasbora Microrasbora sp. Because wild populations turned out to be small and vulnerable to extinction, the Burmese government has restricted exports of wild fish, but C. The fins are marked with red and black stripes. Males have brighter colors than females, but otherwise the two sexes are similar. They are shy, and need to be kept as a group in a well-planted aquarium.
Its tiny adult size of well under an inch makes it a viable schooling fish for the small aquarium despite being quite active. But they do bring a quirky splash of color to the small aquarium, and they can perform a useful role as combination algae eater and scavenger. Some are red and are called by such names as cherry and crystal red shrimps. These are small around an inch long and work extremely well alongside fish of similar size. They are sociable and best kept in groups. Aside from algae, they will eat scraps of fish food as well as decaying organic detritus and various microorganisms.
They seem to do best in moderately hard water with a neutral to slightly alkaline pH. In the solid red species, juveniles and mature males are transparent with a few red markings, whereas mature females are red all over.
Under good conditions, cherry shrimps breed freely. Females will carry bunches of eggs under their abdomen for about two weeks, at which point the eggs hatch and a few dozen miniature shrimps will emerge. In a planted tank with lots of hiding places, at least a few shrimps will survive to maturity. A big lump of Java moss seems to suit cherry shrimps perfectly.
Not only does it give the juveniles cover and the adults somewhere to molt safely, the moss also traps algae and small particles of food. The shrimps will congregate on the moss and graze away contentedly. Is a 10 gallon tank too small to have goldfish? Hi Mary - Your pleco is not appropriate for a gallon tank. It may lash at other fish at feeding time if its needs aren't met. But plecos usually aren't fin nipppers so I don't think it would be my number one suspect.
I think your guess about the GloFish may be correct. What kind do you have? There are a few different species. Some are semi-aggressive, like the sharks, and some may nip fins if they are stessed, like the tetras. That's where I'd start my investigation. Rememeber that even though they are GloFish they still have the needs and requirements of an umodified fish. Good luck! We had a few more guppies but they died. We never found its body. So we returned him to Petco.
But this other glofish seems pretty calm. So now I am kind of suspecting the suckerfish pleco. What is your opinion? He has gotten pretty big since we got him.
Thank you! Dillon - More otos. They are schooling fish and best kept in groups of six or more. Otherwise, they will get along with anything that will not eat them. I plan on keeping 3 ottocinclus catfish in my fluval flex This is a planted aquarium with lots of hiding spots what would you recommend to go with the otto's?
Steve: As I noted in the article, both cories and neons are schooling fish that are best kept in groups of or more. Good morning, I currently have 4 neon tetras and 2 blue dwarf gourami in a 10 gallon tank. I was thinking about adding a cory catfish to catch the food going to the bottom of the tank. What do you suggest? Rutherford - They should not conflict with each other but it comes down to whether you have the right tank size and setup.
The cories are easy but it would be smart to do some research of ADFs before purchasing. Corydoras and guppies generally like harder, slightly alkaline water while the rest like soft acid water.
So I would not keep them with the other fish. I would replace a corydoras in a soft acid tank with loaches. A good algae eater in a small tank is a small plecostomus type fish. Ancistrus bristlenose catfish are small and ideally suited to a 10G. I had a pair which bred in the tank successfully the kuhli loaches in that tank bred too. The one in there now is the last of that litter.
Ancistrus are eager algae eaters but will also appreciate a blanched lettuce leaf weighted down with a lead strip or a thick slice of blanched zucchini also weighted down I cut a slot and fit the strip through it.
Red - I think you are okay with your fish or any listed above in a half moon. However, if you were talking about a long tank, they are more shallow and often better suited to specific species. Do your suggestions for best fish for a 10 gal change with the shape of the tank?
I just decided to downgrade from a 20 gallon rectangle to a 10 gallon half-moon. I have barbs and neons. There is no need to call out big box stores-This just feeds into the stigma that I had to face while I was working there of people not taking me seriously. I no longer am employed at one but I remember the impact. I work at an aquarium now. The one inch of fish per gallon is a fallacy, what you want to look at is the bio-load of the fish and the size tank they'll need as an individual fish when they are fully grown.
Which you kind of pointed out. They also do well on a sand substrate to lower the risk of injury to their barbels. They do clean up to an extent, they are bottom feeders and will check out left-over food that falls to the bottom but they don't clean up, they will make waste themselves. As with ANY animal that is living in your tank it will need its own diet.
These guys are cute and one of my favorite stocks to fill a tank with. There is a disease that is common amongst them called neon tetra disease, caused by an organism called Pleistophora hyphessobryconis. So long as you quarantine fish, and do your acclimations to each tank they are in they should do alright. I had some live over ten years and it was pretty awesome.
I wouldn't put more than 12 in a ten gallon if it is just those fish alone. Yes, they are semi-aggressive. They're in the same family as betta and have a labyrinth breathing organ just like the betta do : These I typically suggest one per tank and try to choose dither fish that won't be too much for the gourami, either.
Danio are too fast and nippy and get rather large for 10 gallons, chili rasbora, pearl danios and ember tetras typically do well and you could use about of them for the tank. Make sure you're getting the dwarf and not another species that gets larger : Sometimes they are mis-labled [even during shipping sometimes the shipper mis-labels a thing.. They exhibit a lot of interesting behaviors, and use their 'feelers' for a lot of different things!
These fish also have a lot of similar behaviors to betta but not as obvious and not as aggressive, it's more in the simple nuances of how they are. Guppies you typically want to stick to all male, or all female. If you combine male and female you want at least three females to each male or they'll become overly aggressive in trying to breed and can possibly kill the female if there are too many males.
Even just one male should have the same ratio as aforementioned. I would suggest that even though they are typically at the top, they venture around too. Give them some guppy grass, a nicely planted tank or silk plants, little things to go through and explore.
They need stimulation just like anything else. A ten gallon planted set up would be most ideal for these guys as stated. Hit or miss with the shrimp and I would opt for a horned nerite than an apple, as snails definitely have a quite a large bio-load for their size. Shrimp, if they can work, are a lot of fun to watch and love plants and driftwood and the like and they have their own set of little needs.
Once you start digging into the world of shrimp you learn a lot more about them and their needs-I'll leave all that up to you all to research the different species and their needs. You WILL of course have a higher risk of the betta just being aggressive and not want roommates at all. I suggest to always start small with a few shrimp or couple of fish and see how the betta does. You can always float the betta in the tank while you're adding the new roomies as well, and maybe even re-arrange the tank some so that established territories are no longer a thing for the betta to fight over.
The other fish mentioned certainly do need larger tanks than ten gallons. Cichlids can be a lot of fun but there are plenty of colorful fish that can give salt water tanks a run for their money, cichlids are just one of the more well known ones but not the only ones :.
The smallest "pleco" is in the ancistrus line. Those are the ones that I commonly see at most pet stores to be sold aside from the common plecostomus. Landon - You should have cycled the tank before adding fish. If you mean water changes, you can start doing them the week after you stock your tank.
It is a good idea to get a gravel vac - small ones for gallon tanks aren't very expensive. They make water changes easier. It's also a good idea to get a freshwater testing kit so you can know if you water is healthy or not. I got this 10 gallon tank about a week and half ago everything seems to be doing all right. Landon - See if the store you bought them from will take them back. If not, check with other pet stores in the area to see if they can help you re-home them.
We all make mistakes. It's always better to do your own research instead of relying on store employees. I made a bad choice by going to Walmart to get fish advise about what fish gets along with who and what not and ended up with 1 angelfish,2 Redtail Sharks,and a black molly.
Luis - Please re-read this article and do additional research. Your tank is overstocked and you have a couple of inappropriate fish in there. For a 10 gallon is 3 ghost shrimp,1 pleco,2 mystery snail,1 beta and 5 neon tetra great or it to much wondering if this would be a great tank for a 10 gallon tank.
Anna - I think I the second idea better, but that's still a little tight in my opinon. For neons and cories you should really have at least 6 of each. Guppies should be in groups of three, with one male and two females per trio.
Keeping two dwarf gouramis, six neons and three guppies along with the six cories is a little too much for a gallon, in my opinion. I am getting ready to stock a 10 gallon tank. Based on this article, I'm considering 4 cory catfish, 3 guppies, 3 neon tetras, and 2 dwarf gourami.
Is this too much? Should I stick to 6 cories, guppies or tetras, and 2 draft gourami? Aquarium space - My advice in this article was to stock no less than 6 so I'm not sure why you'd disagree with that. Do you think six is too many? If so, why?
I respectfully disagree. You should never stock less than 3 cory catfish. They prefer to shoal in this minimum number. The otos would be fine, but, once again, the kuhli loaches are not. The dinosaur bichir needs a much, much larger tank than 15 gallons and will likely eat your other fish eventually. As I said before, please do some research before choosing fish.
A quick search of their max size and care requirements can save you from major problems. Yeah, I assumed pufferfish and by pleco I meant the rather smaller ones Could two of those possibly work? Figure 8s are best kept in single-specimen tanks minimum 15g. That means alone, with no tankmates.
They also require brackish water, where the rest of your fish are freshwater. I suggest you do you some research so you can make appropriate choices. If you are going to have a gallon tank there are many appropriate fish, but the ones you've listed here are not. Question time. So I want a gallon and want to stock these: 4 kuhli loaches, 2 figure 8 puffers, 2 pleco, and maybe some other small fish. Hi Megan. I think I agree with the guy at the pet store.
It's possible you added too much Safe Start, but it should correct itself over time. If it is still murky in a day or so you can do a partial water change if you want. Either way, let the cycle run and don't add any fish until it comes around. I agree with only adding a few at a time as well. I think you're on the right track there. As for which fish, you have a lot of choices. Zebra danios are hardy little fish, as are platies. Not sure if that would be interesting to your son, but just a thought.
Whatever you choose, do you research beforehand so you know they are appropriate for the tank you have as well as good tankmates for whatever else is in the tank.
Complete newbie here. Our birthday boy turning 8 asked for an aquarium for his birthday so we started a 10gallon yesterday. We used tap water, safe start plus and stress coat as recommended by the pet store employee , we rinsed everything before starting and wiped the aquarium down. Everything was looking great when we got it up and running no fish yet but now, 24hours later, its completely clouded over and the ammonia levels are testing very high.
The salesman at pet smart said to retest in 24 hours that it may correct itself as this is typical when starting a new tank. But I'm wondering if maybe we used to much of the starter and stress coat? We won't be buying any fish till its stable which leads me to my next question. What fish should a beginner get? The salesman said to add 3 fish at a time and get no more than and one snail when algae starts to show up. But we truly don't know what fish to start with.
Any recommendations? Ava P - Yes, that is too much, and there many issues with that stocking strategy. The cichlid, rainbow shark and probably the algae eater - depending on what species- are all inappropriate for a gallon community tank. The guppy should be in a school. Please re-reread this article and do additional research before stocking your tank.
I am thinking about getting a 10 gallon tank and I want to stock 2 green lantern platys, 1 rainbow shark, 1 female fancy guppy, 1 algae eater, and 1 jewel cichlid. Is this to much for my tank? Matt - Some cories might be nice. They stay on the bottom for the most part. I wouldn't push it beyond that though. Hey, I have 7 guppies in my 10 gallon tank and they have been doing great for a couple weeks now. Can I add anything else or is this too much?
If I added anything else I would probably want it to be a different species instead of another guppy. Any suggestions? Adding only one female may be asking for trouble. You never know until you try, but personally I wouldn't. Hi Ava - I would not put platies in a 3. I'd go 10 gallons or bigger for them. They are active fish and they need swimming space. Honestly, I wouldn't put any tropical fish in a 3. Five gallons and up for bettas; 10 gallons and up for everybody else.
Scott: Are you monitoring your water conditions? Are there any other fish in the tank? What size tank? It's hard to guess what's happening without knowing more about the situation. Help I've been trying to keep guppies alive it seems the fish we get come to our house to die We had two males and decided to add four females and one male. Bought them Sunday only have one of my old males left. Hi Emma - You may wish to re-read this article.
You should not put even one plecostomus in a gallon tank. They grow much too large. The guppies and platies are fine. Can I put two plecostomus, three guppies, and three platies in a ten-gallon tank? Would it be too crowded? Tre - Like neons, guppies should be kept in small schools. You'd probably be fine with five of each in a gallon tank if you don't add any more fish. I want to get 5 neon tetras for my 10 gallon tank. Can I add one guppie with them or should I get another guppie? Mark: I don't think the gourami will eat the neons, but, as mentioned and this article, neons, cories and guppies and schooling fish that do best in groups of at least 5 or 6.
I have a ten gallon fish tank and was wondering if this stock sounds good, 1 dwarf gourami, cory cory catfish, and a couple guppies or neons.
IF so what better fish species will do better? Thanks Rose! You could have a couple of schools of cories in your 55 gallon. They're hard-working little bottom feeders.
I would think about getting those angelfish into a bigger tank. They will grow much too large for a gallon. Small tetras seem to struggle in tanks where conditions are less than ideal.
If you really like them go for it. Size-wise they are a fine choice. I'd go with a small school of Roz: Otos eat algae. You can toss an algae wafer in there once every day two to supplement their diet. I would not get more glowfish. Cories are a good choice, as are the otos.
You may want to consider platies, zebra danios and swords. Just be careful not to overstock the tank. Thanks for the support I know I am not raising them in ideal conditions. What do ottocats eat? Should I get another one? I heard it is bad to keep them alone. What are fish hardy enough to survive that tank? Should I get more glowlights they seem hardy compared to others.
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