Ten gallon fish

[AWillroth]

Had some spare stuff laying around and now I have a standard pet store ten gallon with some live rock in it cycling. I don't have a good light so I'm pretty much going fish only. What would be something cool to put in it? I'm all for pushing the envelope a little bit as far as tank size requirements.

[joshvollberg]

Ocelaris clownfish or percula? Goby? F-O wrasse?

[Psychosis]

Mantis shrimp. Trust me.

[Fishsticks2187]

possum wrasse are great fish. such amazing personality. but you need to have caves for it to swim in and out of and also to sleep in. the only fish i every had who actually would lay flat in a rock crevice to go to sleep. the first night i thought it was dead.

[Halo_003]

Definitely a Mantis Shrimp lol.

[AWillroth]

I think my ultimate stocking plan is going to be a yasha goby a tail spot blenny, a clown goby and a fire fish. Gonna put lost of rock work in the to give them all their own space.

[DriftingNemo]

4 fish in a 10 gallon is too much, I was pushing it by having 3 fish in a 15 gallon. I would say 2 clownfish, they would make a spectacular display.

[spazizz]

Percula over occ. They stay small.

 

Imo the two gobies and the fire fish would be fine if you stayed on top of things.

[DriftingNemo]

Doesn't the female clownfish grow to her maximum size and the male stays small? I had an overrated canister on my 15 gallon which enabled me to keep a high bioload, the only problem with nano tanks is territory. If you have good filtration, you shouldn't run into too many problems.

 

A YouTube channel by the name of Sadnear365 has a 10 gallon low tech reef tank. He only has 1 Damsel and a Cleaner Shrimp, his tank is a great example of what you can do with a 10 gallon tank.

[AWillroth]

If I nixed anything it'd be the firefish, but the others are all tiny and really don't equal the bio load of a clownfish pair, imo. I'm not planning on having corals in this tank, so moderate nitrates shouldn't be a big problem.