What fish can i put in my 10 gallon tank?

Question

I have a spare 10 gallon (high) tank and was wondering what fish i could put in it?

I was thinking of putting my male betta in there but what fish could i put with him?

If i take the betta out could i put some honey gourami in there? If so how many?

Answer 1

setup 1

male betta

3-4 otos

shrimp

1 or 2 platies

live plants

setup 2

1 honey gourami

3-4 otos

shrimp

1 or 2 platies/guppies

Answer 2

Betta's and gouramis are not a good mix, gouramis are far to colorful. In a 10 high, you could have a small school of 4-6 rummy nose tetras and a small school of 4-6 cory cats on the bottom, or kuhli loaches! Along with a betta, or you could replace the betta with a male dwarf gourami. more than 2 male gourami is not reccommended as they tent to fight. You could have 2 females and 1 male, but females are not nearly as colorful. Good luck with the new tank!=)

Answer 3

If you put the betta in, you could add a few small tropical schooling fish (3-6, depending on their size) as long as they are not brightly colored and are not fin nippers.

Male bettas generally get along with danios, rasboras, catfish, black or silver mollies, and peaceful, non-brightly colored tetras, like black skirt tetras, head and taillight tetras, or x-ray tetras

Bettas do not get along with gouramis, guppies, tiger barbs, or any other fish whose colors or fins may resemble another male betta.

If you got honey gouramis and only honey gouramis, you could probably fit about 4-5 in the tank. But generally, male gouramis can be aggressive towards each other if kept in groups of less than 4 without any females, so 4-5 male honey gouramis or 1-2 males to 3-4 females should be okay. Most guidebooks suggest 2 females to every 1 male when keeping most types of gouramis so that the male doesn't wear one female out chasing her all the time.