My 10 gallon Freshwater

nebthet · Member Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 375 Location: Belleville

Here is the pic of my newly set up 10 gallon freshwater tank.

I have the following in it:

Subtrate & Decorations:

Eco-Complete for planted tanks
2 granite pieces
2 4inch pots.

Livestock:

- 5 black neon tetra
- 5 glowlight tetra
- 2 columbian tetra
- 3 fire tetra
- 2 blue ram cichlids, a male and a female

Plants:

- Red Ludwigia (1 bunch plant)
- Black amazon sword (1)
- Micro amazon chain sword (Bigger than the pygmy chain sword, but gets no larger than 7 inches) (2 plants)
- Java fern (1)
- Riccia (on 1 rock)
- Red Hygro from larger tank to this (better lighting) (2)
- Dwarf Rotala (1 bunch)
- Green Hygro (1 just starting to grow)
- dwarf sag (1 small daughter)
- Jungle Val (2 small)
- Dwarf Lily (1)
- Pennywort (3 small cuts - left as a floaty until I can figure out what I wanna do with it)

**FishEd** · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:33 am Post subject:

Looking good Nebthet!
Keep us posted as stuff starts to fill in! I really like the clay pots you have in there it looks awesome.
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06Honda · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject:

Nice layout, it will look even better with some plant growth. Substrate is really nice., good job.

nebthet · Member Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 375 Location: Belleville

It has been a while since I have updated this thread, so I thought I would give a couple of pics and detail a couple of changes.

Livestock:

- 5 black neon tetra
- 5 glowlight tetra
- 2 blue ram cichlids, a male and a female
- 1 albino cory
- 1 bronze cory
- 1 Oto
- couple of cherry shrimp

Plants:

- Red Ludwigia (1 bunch plant)
- Black amazon sword (1)
- Micro amazon chain sword (Bigger than the pygmy chain sword, but gets no larger than 7 inches) (1 plants)
- Java fern (1)
- Dwarf Rotala (1 bunch. I cut it down to the base because it wasnt looking good to let the roots grow out and hopefully it will come back.)
- Green Hygro (3)
- dwarf sag (1 small daughter)
- Jungle Val (2 small. I trimmed back the one while I was cleaning.)
- Dwarf Lily (1)

I put the big columbian tetras and the red fire tetras into my 33g tank to give my rams some more room and to take away the aggressors.

I removed the 1 plant container because they were not using it for their next and only the bronze cory and oto were using the other one so I left it and the rams were using it as a barrier so I positioned it a little closer to the one sword so the corys couldnt push through to the next as easily.

The rams seem rather happy with the changes. They are now the two largest fish in the tank and put everyone else in line. The tetras have been trained well by them to stay away from the next.

I am hoping this will help the rams succeed in keeping and raising their fry. Seeing how the new female didnt go crazy after she laid her last eggs, but they kept on being disturbed by the red fires and cory's.

Here are the pics.. tell me what you think.
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