Need Help Stocking Strange Fish

[tonyale]

i hav a planted 1o gal gravl bottom tank and i want strange fish help please

 

[crazyforcordoras]

You cold do a couple dwarf puffers.they are strange.

 

[tonyale]

You cold do a couple dwarf puffers.they are strange.

i know but i already have some in another tank

 

[ruckaisawesome]

10g is way to small to stock a lot of strange fish... one or two borneo suckers should be fine. Search it up.. like look like mini flounders. Half beaks also are pretty cool. they are also easy to breed and look like miniature gars. You could try 3 or 4. If you want, you could combine them... 2 bottom dwellers and 3 top dwellers and a few glowfish as the mid dwellers.

If you dont mind keeping only one fish, you could try puffers. For example, you could keep
1 red eye puffer by iteself or 1-2 figure 8s. I even kept a small congo and a baby arrowhead puffer in a 10g once... eventually, they grew too big, but took a while. DONT mix shrimp with them.. they wont stand a chance.

 

[McCool]

10g is way to small to stock a lot of strange fish... one or two borneo suckers should be fine. Search it up.. like look like mini flounders. Half beaks also are pretty cool. they are also easy to breed and look like miniature gars. You could try 3 or 4. If you want, you could combine them... 2 bottom dwellers and 3 top dwellers and a few glowfish as the mid dwellers.

If you dont mind keeping only one fish, you could try puffers. For example, you could keep
1 red eye puffer by iteself or 1-2 figure 8s. I even kept a small congo and a baby arrowhead puffer in a 10g once... eventually, they grew too big, but took a while. DONT mix shrimp with them.. they wont stand a chance.

10Gal is a bit small for two fig 8s....
What about one figure eight and some bumblebee gobies?

 

[Shovelman]

10g is way to small to stock a lot of strange fish... one or two borneo suckers should be fine. Search it up.. like look like mini flounders. Half beaks also are pretty cool. they are also easy to breed and look like miniature gars. You could try 3 or 4. If you want, you could combine them... 2 bottom dwellers and 3 top dwellers and a few glowfish as the mid dwellers.

If you dont mind keeping only one fish, you could try puffers. For example, you could keep
1 red eye puffer by iteself or 1-2 figure 8s. I even kept a small congo and a baby arrowhead puffer in a 10g once... eventually, they grew too big, but took a while. DONT mix shrimp with them.. they wont stand a chance.

10Gal is a bit small for two fig 8s....
What about one figure eight and some bumblebee gobies?

in a 10g? still too small.... 20g per figure eight! dont forget their lowend brackish and some of the halfbeaks are brackish too as the different species are hard to tell apart.

what about doing a crayfish tank? Their fun and interesting. You could keep one of the bright blue temperate species...and you wouldn't need a heater for its tank either!

 

[Donna_G]

Congo and Arrowhead puffers are not suitable for a 10g, they also need 3 to 4 inches of sand to bury in as they are an ambush predator. The only puffer really suitable for a tank that size are dwarf puffers as already mentioned

 

[tonyale]

would cray fish do good in planted tank and could i do crayfish with pea puffers

 

[McCool]

would cray fish do good in planted tank and could i do crayfish with pea puffers

Crayfish will sometimes go after fish if they can, so I wouldn't take a chance. I also think they may shred plants, but someone else will have to verify that as I haven't owned them.

 

[Shovelman]

would cray fish do good in planted tank and could i do crayfish with pea puffers

Puffers would harass/stress/ bite off chunks of the cray either during the period of time after the cray molt, or just during any plain old time. or the cray just pinches the poop out of the puffers. A friend of mine had his puffers with a cray, and the puffers bit off its eyes >.>

In all honesty there isn't much you can do in a 10g tank oddball wise that hasn't already been mentioned on this thread, or your other thread.

 

[aether.ed]

Ah so you started a new topic. Had a feeling you we'rent gonna have any more luck regrading stocking suggestions, it seems its pea puffers and thats it. I have posted a few alternative suggestions on ur ropefish thread you may want to look at tho, killie fish, dwarf frogs, nerite snails etc.

Again, good luck!

Ed