Whats in Your 10gal Community?!

I started a 10 gallon tank about 3 months ago, telling myself, and my wife (who has said you already have to many tanks so no more fish) that this tank would be a Nano tank. After cycling the tank. I started planting. but I first had to figure the scape. On the right side I placed a very nice piece of red lava rock which sticks up about half way up the tank and takes up a corner by the filter. On the left side I used a piece of driftwood root that is in the left corner standing on an angle from the bottom to the top of the tank. I planted 3 bunches of Chinese Ivy across the back and mixed in 2 bunches of red ludwigia and Brazilian penny wort. I placed two swords in mid ground around the front of the Lava rock and driftwood and planted an anubias baiteri in the foreground. I stated having trouble keeping the PH at 7.0 because of the heavy planting and driftwood and finally had to be satisfied with a PH of 6.8. The tank was done. looks very natural and very nice. (I told my wife) and then I started adding fish. (oh the looks I got ) 2 dwarf gouramis, one dwarf panda cory, one zebra loach one dwarf pleco, and 5 head and tail light golden tetra. The only problem I really had after all was done was with snails (bladder snails that came in on one or tow of the plants. ( the reason for the Loach, I don't have any problem now, all the snails are gone.) I crowded the tank a little but with everything that is in there the tank thrives and my water conditions are PH 6.8, ammonia 0 PPM, nitrites 0 PPM, nitrates 0 PPM. Water changes are done at 30% once a week and filter change is done once every two weeks. The tank is healthy and the fish are getting along just fine.

The most I've ever had in my 10 gallon tank:

1 glass catfish
3 neon tetra
1 female betta fish
1 mystery snail
4 spotted corry

Everyone got along fine in the tank. My filter was a quietflow built for a 20 gallon tank with an air stone and heater.

lflaviii said:

-1 Male DeT Beta
-1 ADF
-1 Dwarf Crawfish
-2 Panda Cories
-1 Rainbow Shark
-1 Mystery Snail

Upgrading to a 30 gallon soon though. Then I'm going to get some Zebra Rasboras!

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Dwarf frogs need to be held in communities of 4-6 bare minimum for them to be comfortable.

I noticed that some of you who have catfish don't have enough. Cories, plecos, etc need to be in groups of at least 4.
Also, I'd strongly advise against danios in anything smaller than a 40 gallon. They can't be their hyper, fast-swimming selves in a 10 gallon tank.

At one time I had my 10 gallon divided for two bettas- one male on one side, and one female on the other.
Then I rearranged some stuff and I took out the divider and made it into a betta sorority with 8 females, 5 neon tetras, and two nerite snails.
Last week I moved them all over to my 55- I divided a section for them with craft mesh/plastic canvas. I think it's about 8 gallons worth of space. Although at first I didn't have a ton of plant coverage until the next day and the bettas made quick work of killing the two remaining neon tetras. 0.0 Maybe they killed the other three in the other tank- they just disappeared over time... but there was enough plant cover in there for them to be not out in the open so much...
Somehow fish from the main section of the tank keep ending up in the bettas' section. There are 3 serpae tetras and one pearl danio in there and I can't figure out how they got in. And I'm having a hard time getting them out.