Tiny Colorful Schooling Fish

[Sorg67]

I want to stock a 10 gallon tank with a lot of tiny schooling fish. Preferably colorful.

The tank currently has pest snails, one adult Guppy and about 15 fry / juvies between 1 and 3 weeks old.

I would like to put as many tiny schooling fish as I can. Perhaps as many as 20.

Any suggestions?

Cardinals would look great, but are too big for my objective. Would it be possible to get very young / small Cardinals, keep them in this tank and then move them to a bigger tank when they get too big for this tank?

Preferably a fish that likes or at least tolerates PH 8.0.

 

[CoryBoi]

Once you have all the guppy fry out of there I would do 8-12 ember tetras and 8-12 kubautI Rasboras

 

[ojdgtjc]

ChilI rasboras or ember tetras

 

[Sorg67]

Great suggestions! Thanks.

Both of these seem to prefer PH below 7.0. Do you think my PH of 8.0 will be a problem?

 

[jkkgron2]

Try Orange hatchet danios, they’re pretty uncommon but look awesome and you could have 8 with 12 ember tetras or some nano Rasbora
edit: I have a ph of 8.2 and mine are thriving!

 

[Coradee]

I really wouldn’t recommend microdevario kubotaI for a 10 gallon tank.
They may be nano in size but in my experience of having them, with their activity they need a lot of space to swim, mine were in a 3 foot tank & used every inch.
My suggestion would be ember tetras or chillI rasboras, either of which would look lovely against a well planted background