Stocking Tip!

[ohheyyouitsme]

Hello! I have a 10 gallon established tank with a single moss ball, two balloon belly mollies, one albino cory catfish and one dwarf male gourami.

Would it be possible to get another male gourami and another cory catfish? Or should I just get one OR the other? Or two more corys? I would love suggestions and comments on why! Also, if I get a panda cory, will he be compatable with my albino or should I stick to albinos?

 

[kylealastairlove]

id get a couple more corys the gourami would be fine on his own, but your albino cory could probably do with some company of his own kind

 

[Scates11]

I'm no expert but 2 male Gourami's of any kind in a 10g tank is sure to be trouble

 

[ohheyyouitsme]

id get a couple more corys

the gourami would be fine on his own, but your albino cory could probably do with some company of his own kind

That's what I was thinking! Would he be alright with different colored/patterned corys or should I stick to the albino and just get a little school of them going?

 

[kylealastairlove]

yeah he would be okay with other types of cory and would more than likely still school with them, but like any schooling fish they would prefer to be with their own particular species if it were me i would get some more albino's but its your decision really isnt it

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Hello! I have a 10 gallon established tank with a single moss ball, two balloon belly mollies, one albino cory catfish and one dwarf male gourami.

Would it be possible to get another male gourami and another cory catfish? Or should I just get one OR the other? Or two more corys? I would love suggestions and comments on why! Also, if I get a panda cory, will he be compatable with my albino or should I stick to albinos?

The only fish vaguely compatable with your 10 (US?) g or ~38litre tank is your Dwarf Gourami.

Albino (often Bronze) Corydoras should reach ~5cm SL, need a far bigger tank footprint (75x30cm is the absolute minimum IMO) but importtantly also need at least a group of 6+ (ideally more). You do not have stocking room for 6 Bronze Corydoras in a 10g. Each species of Corydoras a keeper has should have a group of its own kind, playing "mian 'n' match with a collection of singleton fish is very unfair on these social catfish. Even a small group of miniture Corydoras (pygmeus; habrosus; hastatus) that inhabit all levels of the tank would fully stock a 10g.

Mollies are far too active and grow far too big for a 10g, a standard Molly should reach in excess of 10cm. They deserve at least a 90x30cm tank footprint.

You might just about get away with three Dwarf Gourami as your total stocking, for this to have any chance of working you should anly get one male, but an all-female group would be safer. Keeping just two is a bad idea, a common theme in hobby fish is that as a duo, one will become a bully and the other a victim.

 

[ohheyyouitsme]

Hello! I have a 10 gallon established tank with a single moss ball, two balloon belly mollies, one albino cory catfish and one dwarf male gourami.

Would it be possible to get another male gourami and another cory catfish? Or should I just get one OR the other? Or two more corys? I would love suggestions and comments on why! Also, if I get a panda cory, will he be compatable with my albino or should I stick to albinos?

The only fish vaguely compatable with your 10 (US?) g or ~38litre tank is your Dwarf Gourami.

Albino (often Bronze) Corydoras should reach ~5cm SL, need a far bigger tank footprint (75x30cm is the absolute minimum IMO) but importtantly also need at least a group of 6+ (ideally more). You do not have stocking room for 6 Bronze Corydoras in a 10g. Each species of Corydoras a keeper has should have a group of its own kind, playing "mian 'n' match with a collection of singleton fish is very unfair on these social catfish. Even a small group of miniture Corydoras (pygmeus; habrosus; hastatus) that inhabit all levels of the tank would fully stock a 10g.

Mollies are far too active and grow far too big for a 10g, a standard Molly should reach in excess of 10cm. They deserve at least a 90x30cm tank footprint.

You might just about get away with three Dwarf Gourami as your total stocking, for this to have any chance of working you should anly get one male, but an all-female group would be safer. Keeping just two is a bad idea, a common theme in hobby fish is that as a duo, one will become a bully and the other a victim.

Oh, well gosh. I guess that's something to think about? But pertaining to my mollies, they're balloon belly and they're about 3cm long right now and I've had them 6 months and they've not gotten any bigger since I bought them. I don't think this particular strand of mollies DOES get bigger, to be honest? Otherwise I wouldn't have gotten them because I specifically didn't want big mollies.