10gal stocking

big54bob

big54bob

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Dec 20, 2006
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Ok I have a ten gallon that I want to finish sometime this summer. I was thinking on setting it up as either a Fire belly toad/newt paulidarium or go brackish and get some crabs/BBGs.

OR I could go with some kind of biotope like do an asian theme tank with a betta and some Rasboras/WCMMs or do a NA setup with Misquiter Fish and a cray. Hell I could do a amazonian tank with neons and GBRs.

OR I could set it up and get a tarrantuala/ emp. scorpion setup.

Give me ideas.
 

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blue_ram

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Jun 21, 2008
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Do not do the mosuito fish. My daughter scooped up 3 tiny grain sized fry from a pond and wanted to keep them. I said yes and after 1 year had 23 full grown ones that attacked each other constanty and any other fish in the tank.
 

homebunnyj

homebunnyj

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Jul 13, 2005
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My fave 10g setup was an Asian biotope. I had a betta, 3 or 4 harlequin rasboras, java moss, various other plants I don't remember (maybe java fern for one), a piece of driftwood in one corner with plants all over it, sand, 'boulders' and river rock arranged in a natural riverbed style, and toward the end I added a few stalks of resin-coated bamboo, which I harvested locally and resined myself. For a while I had a couple of otos in there even though they're not Asian just to help with an algae outbreak. (I then placed them back in the big tank with the other otos.) I got more compliments on that tank than I did on my 55g Amazon, which got quite a few. I am seriously thinking of doing another tank like that.
 

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D'Cecilia

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Apr 22, 2009
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HomebunnyJ:
that really sounsd like a nice set up, mind sharing
some pictures wiht us?
ahah
i tried looking for some in google but they dont
look nice, at leaset the few that i found. ahha
 

bmoraski

bmoraski

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Mar 9, 2009
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while at the LFS i saw 2 fish i never even heard of
a bubble eye gold fish
and an upside down catfish
they were definatly different ! lol
also got to see some dwarfs and ghost shrimp and a bunch of others i read about on this forum.
my daughter was like lets get this lets get that lol
any way just thought id throw that out there lol
good luck with what ever route you go !
later
 

DesignsOnYou

DesignsOnYou

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Jun 21, 2008
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Brilliant. That's one of the best things I've seen on this forum. As far as the tank. Bob - I had fire bellied newts at one point. I had bad luck with the frogs, but the newts were really cool and I enjoyed them while I had them. For what it's worth.
 

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