I am looking to get a 10 gallon tank with a few small coldwater fish.
I dont want to have to buy a filter ....
They will be in a room tempature of 67-72 F
I was thinking of getting one dwarf gourami or paradise fish with a few white clouds.
or
3 rosy red minnows
Suggestions are welcome! I would like eye-catching pretty fish!
Thanks
No trolling or ignorant answers please
Seriously, get some form of filter.
All fish, even small ones, make waste. If you are not constantly changing the water, that waste builds up to toxic levels, and the fish die. Constantly doing large water changes is hard work for you, and stressful for the fish.
It is technically possible to filter a tank biologically using plants, but you need a LOT of plants, and a lot less fish, maybe 20% of what a conventionally filtered tank will support. So in a ten gal, thats not even a school of White Clouds, and you need good lighting as the plants must be growing strong to work as filtration. The lights will cost more than a filter.
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The filtering need not be exotic or expensive, a small tank like that can run with an air powered sponge or even an under-gravel filter, cheap as.
White Clouds are probably the best choice. Get just a small school of those and plant the tank, they will probably breed for you which makes them much more interesting. Dwarf gourami are strictly tropical, they wont do well under about 75F, so they need a heater. Zebra danios will be OK at they temperature range, they are considered tropical, but prefer the lower range or temps, and will be happy down to about 65F. Paradise fish are an option, as they don't mind small tanks and cooler temps, they can handle it down to about 60F.
I guess technically you could plant the tank, and just add a single paradise fish, and it would be OK, but if you want to do that AND the White Clouds or Rosy Reds, then you will want filtering. Don't expect the White Clouds to breed successfully with the Paradise Fish in there though.
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Well if you don't want a filter then you can't get fish simple as that. You do know filters aid in biological bacteria cycles as well as filtering out waste? It also sirculates the water without one it will go stagnant.
No dwarf gourami, they need a heater.
Rosy red minnows need 30 + gallons.
Paradise fish need 30 + gallons also.
I may be wrong they may need bigger but this is definately minimum.
White cloud mountain minnows need clean water, so if your serious about this get one and you can have 5 in there.
Eye catching pretty fish need heaters, get one and stick in 6 guppies if you want colourful eye catching fish.
Remember no goldfish, they need LOADS of air and BIG filters and BIG tanks.
Your going to have to get a filter or your fish will not live more than a day or two ... Also, search "aquarium cycling" and read up because without understanding how all this works you will not be able to keep any type of fish alive for more than a few days. Please do some research before buying any aquariums or fish because at this point you are bound for disappointment. Don 't mean to be a party pooper, but there is a lot more to keeping fish than most people realize. They are easy pets, as long as you know what your doing, so please read up before buying and you will have a much better experiance and your fish will live much longer :-)
you will need a filter no matter what, but they aren't that expensive for a 10 gallon. dwarf gouramis are warm water so no to them. you can minnows and zebra danios though.
i would recommend a filter, otherwise you can poison your fish and they will die
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if i was you i would get 6-10 white cloud minnows
* No filter means NO fish *
All fish should be kept with filtration in order for their waste to be properly broken down and a stable environment maintained.
WITH a filter, the only fish I would recommend for a coldwater 10 gallon tank is a group of white cloud minnows.
Of course you would have more options if you were to purchase a heater.
