Mandarin Fish and Amphipods

[dc]

There's lot's of interesting things you can do with a 10 gal. I have a pistol shrimp with a hi fin goby in one, and in my 12 I have just a pair of True Perculas. Both very interesting. I had a mantis tank, but he died. That was probably the most entertaining tank I had.

 

[Chad Vossen]

seaduck, look into the fairy wrasses or flasher wrasses. i recently found out about these guys and plan to get one or two for my new 65 gallon.

other nice fish are small clowns, royal grammas, and most damsels. (my royal gramma is constantly attacked by the blue damsel, damsel leaves the clownfish alone though.) firefish are good if you have a form of a lid.

clown gobys and neon gobys are neat. just make sure you dont have an overflow. i lost my neon goby to my overflow...

so many great fish. i had a mandarin in my 10 gallon but had to give him away to someone with a 180 gallon tank. but i can think of several fish that are much more colorful than mandarins and much easier to keep alive. (flasher wrasses being top of list)

 

[seaduck]

Firefish aye, i'ts been a long time since i've had one. Neon gobies are blue right? Royal grammas are beautiful. Not sure i've ever seen a flasher wrasse, I def. hafta check em out.......DAMsels...NOT...I'll never forget my little domino death DAMsel ...never again. I bought him to help cycle a tank many years ago. It cycled all right and then it was a never ending cycle of replacing dead fish. I had to destroy the tank to catch the lil ba$tard....oops my temper is up again....thx a lot

 

[Angel*Fish]

dc your 1st pic is exactly what i have all over my lr, Amphipods

Seaduck, sorry for the ID confusion - I guess one person's "they r fast as lightning" is not necessarily the same as another's - If you do see shrimp-looking-things in your tank scurrying about even faster than your amphipods, those are probably mysis