10 Gallon Tank New khuli loaches and harlequin rasboras!

I decided to do an easy aquascape with 3 harlequin rasboras, 4 khuli loaches, 1 mystery snail, 2 corydoras, and 2 fancy guppies.
The tank consist of plant thrive tabs, bioactive ball, sand, 3 lava stones, 2 swordtails, Christmas moss, 1 spider wood, 1 sponge filter, and more plants to be added.
Any suggestions on further additions in fish, plants, and woods/rocks?
Khuli loaches have been the top of my fish list for a while, and I'm so happy I was able to find some. They are on slightly higher demand in my area for some reason. I got two from two fish stores, with landed me with 4 tiny khulis. They are so cute, and are doing great in their new tank. They love burrowing under the sponge filter; they stick very close together!
I unfortunately lost one guppy last night, but the other two are getting along wonderfully.

 

Sounds like an exciting tank adventure. What size tank are you using? I ask because in my experience, the kuhlis, rasbora & corys all need larger groups to shoal but their numbers will depend on tank size. For me, I see 'content' in each of these shoaling animals in minimum groups of 6, preferably more. Hope you can find the numbers you need as well as the tank footprint.

However you do it, I'd recommend live plants & lots of them too if that's up your alley. I like vals, various stems, lillies & floaters for this particular configuration. Kuhli groups turn heavily planted tanks into playgrounds, sliding, swinging & resting on leaves, rasbora seem to prefer jungles to dart throughout & while corys need free space for sifting, also make lots of use of dense planting for hides.

I know you know about catappa, driftwood & tannins too, which all of these animals will benefit from. The corys in particular will want the driftwood for nibbling biofilm! Too, they'll want a big footprint for their lively scavenging alongside the kuhlis doing the same.

Hope you enjoy the community tank & new species.

Sorry - just noticed that this is a 10g RSBettas. I'm afraid you need a bigger tank for the corys alone - minimum 20g long in my experience. It's woefully overstocked as is.

Hope you're able to set up & transfer these fish into an appropriately sized tank for them. Perhaps try the stock calculator here as a help? Sorry. It sounds like you were really looking forward to trying out a community tank! Just wouldn't recommend it in such small quarters & limited numbers.

 

I am happy for you!, it is great when you finally get that dream fish! I hope that you will consider upgrading soon to a 30 gallon, but even better a 48-inch-long tank so that you can get at least minimum size schools of 6 of each species, but ideally more than minimum size schools, especially of the kuhlie loaches, as those little monkeys love bouncing off of each other in a large shoal of 12 or even more.

 

Understandable. I will upgrade the tank when the khulis outgrow it, but the plants are definitely doable. Thank so much for all your comments, I'll keep you posted on what I do with it!

 

Understandable. I will upgrade the tank when the khulis outgrow it, but the plants are definitely doable. Thank so much for all your comments, I'll keep you posted on what I do with it!

I'm a little confused? Will you be able to transfer some of these animals to other tanks to reduce the overstock, keeping the kuhlis alone till they're bigger?

Hoping you can find larger tanks soon! Once they have access to enough food regularly, kuhlis can grow from threads to long, hefty animals surprisingly quickly. The rasbora, guppies & corys too of course, but kuhlis rapid growth is pretty amazing to me every time.

Good luck with them! Hope it all works out.

 

Sorry, im not trying not to be rude, but you cant wait for the fish to grow out, Your tank is extremely overstocked, and you need to move the fish ASAP to a much larger = 48 inch long tank, "aka = 40 gallon breeder, 55, 60, 75 or 90" for the 4 species before they get stunted or die of stress or water pollution.

 

Thanks for the wishes. I'm on a work trip right now, but il send pictures around Monday. The fish are in the hands of a trusty local fish keeper.

 

Everyone is doing great! Here's a full tank view.

 

Slight incidents, but here's the now updated tank.
Six guppies, two Cory's, four loaches, four rasboras, and tiny snails.


Also one free baby shrimp