Setting Up A 10 Gallon Planted Tank With Tetras

I have a spare 10 gallon tank and I want to set up a low tech (No CO2) planted tank with tetras. I have never had a planted tank before and never have I ever kept tetras before .So, I want to ask if all tetras are good for planted tank I mean if some tetras will eat plants ?and how many fishes should I keep in this tank with those plants. Also any suggestions on what gravel can I use to cap my soil(which would suit those tetras).

 

You're going to need small tetras for a 10 gallon. Do you have soft, acidic water where you are? That's key for tetras. People are always forcing them to live in hard water around here, and then they go belly up fast.

If you have soft, acidic water, and you can get healthy neons, 5 of them with 5 golden Pristellas will look quite nice. Neons and golden Pristellas will shoal together.

Cardinal tetras, black neons, and green neon tetras are some other small fish that would do fine in a 10 gallon. Just don't go over 10 total, and you'll be fine.

Some easy plants are anubias (just stay away from the ones that get huge, such as congensis), java fern, windelov fern, bacopa, small cryptocorynes, various hygrophilas, and smaller swords. If you put down an inch of organic potting soil and then an inch of sand, you'll have a very nice substrate for the plants.

 

Cardinal tetras need a 20 gallon minimum, and I believe that black neons do as well.

Ember tetras would be good, as well as green neon tetras.
A fish similar in personality would be chilI rasboras. Another option would be celestial danios.
These fish would be comepletely fine with plants. Any gravel made for aquariums will do, just be sure to rinse them off before putting it into the tank.

I agree with above for plant suggestions ^v^

 

Do you have soft, acidic water where you are? That's key for tetras. People are always forcing them to live in hard water around here, and then they go belly up fast.

I know right? I wanted to get them because I wanted to see them school and they are very colourful. But my water can get up to 8.5 and I really didn't wanna have to chase ph. Also I learn that they don't school often so that was a disappointment. But now my going to get a little family of 4 platys along with some amano shrimp in my own 10g.

 

Another good choice for a small tank, if you can find them, are ruby tetras (Axelrodia riesei). They only get about an inch long and look a lot like the smaller rasboras (e.g. chilI rasbora) with their slender bodies.