Fish for 10 gallon
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Permalink Reply by PaducahFishFan on
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This is a great question. The rule is usually one inch of fish for gallon of water. Some fish need more space and some need less. This is a heated/tropical fresh water rule. Warm water holds more oxygen than cold water.
Here is a handy chart: http://www.howmanyfish.com/#page=page-1
Based on the surface area of a standard 10 gallon I have roughly 20 inches long and 11 inches wide. Rounded up from 10.5 and the length is really 20.25 based on this chart: http://alysta.com/books/fishtank.htm
So it states for a 10 gallon you should only get 18 inches of fish. If you over filter and have live plants you can stretch that but it's risky. If for example you lose electrical power and your pumps stop working you will probably loose fish. They do make battery backed up air pumps as well as sell cheap UPS (battery backed up power strips) but they only last for so long.
I would try to go for fish at the top bottom and middle. Hard on a 10 gallon.
So 2 Marble Hatchet fish a max size of 2'' with total being 4 inches.
Two cory cats with a max size of 2.5 inches which takes you to 5 inches.
Cardinal neons witha max size of 2 inches. I would get 7.
14 inches cardinals (schools in the middle)
4 inches for hatchet fish (top swimmer)
5 inches for catfish. (bottom swimmer)
This bumps you a little over the max at 23 inches. Get a filter that is rated for say a 20 gallon tank. The rule on filters is it has to move 2 times the tanks volume in an hour. So a pump for a 20 gallon tank would move 40 gallons in an hour. My filter on my 120 gallon for example is rated at 925 gallons per an hour. (Fx5 - can be used on a 400 gallon tank) Your ALWAYS better off getting more filter than less but don't go crazy on this unless you want to make your tank look like a fresh water stream in the Rocky Mountains. ;-)
Add live plants. A good life plant would be two amazon swords. One on each back corner. Then maybe a small rock or something in the middle.
For the live plant the critical thing is PUT YOUR LIGHTS ON A TIMER. They need both day and night. No more than 12 hours of light max.
Have fun!
BTW
Here is a great link to check the max size of each fish your looking at: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=830+890+895&a...
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Permalink Reply by Meagan Wyers, Blaine's BFF on
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Thanks!:) this helped alot!
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Permalink Reply by Enna on
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I own a 10 gallon and I have Mollies and a Guppy in mine. They really like it! But Tetras, GloFish, Platys, and others do well too!
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Permalink Reply by Keith the Aquatard on
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I think this is awesome advice, but I always thought cold water was able to hold more oxygen than warm water? Not vice versa.
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Permalink Reply by AquaRolla on
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If you want to be safe, I would suggest using an air pump of bubbles to help increase oxygen as well.
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Permalink Reply by Martin Seel on
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yeah that's rite higher temp = lower the oxygen
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This does not
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The solubility of oxygen is greater in colder water than in warm water. Oxygen slips into "pockets" that exist in the loose hydrogen-bonded network of water molecules without forcing them apart. The oxygen is then caged by water molecules, which weakly pin it in place. The dissolution is exothermic overall, so cooling shifts the equilibrium towards the dissolved form
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