setting up 10 gallon aquarium - have questions
I’m setting up a 10 gallon aquarium. I previously had swordtails many years ago and wasn’t very successful.
Planning to put tetras and pygmy corydoras. Live in central Texas. Room temperature usually between 70 and 80.
Do I need a heater?
Do I actually need minimum of five pygmy corydoras?
If I’m thinking of some combination of neon, cardinal, black neon and glowlight tetras, and pygmy corydoras, I can have how many in a 10 gallon tank?
If I can have 12 fish in a 10 gallon tank and 5 of them must be pygmy corydoras, and the others will all be tetras, what is the minimum number of each kind of tetra that I can have?
Do I need a test kit for nitrite, nitrate, and ammonia or only for Ph?
What do I actually do if the ph is off?
How many live plants do I want to put in a 10 gallon tank? Both tetras and corydoras like cover. I ordered maybe a dozen plastic plants, none of which are much on cover.
Ordered a tetra whisper power filter. 20 Economy. http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2753026 It says it comes with a bio-bag filter cartridge, and the bigger models also include free samples of bio-foam and water conditioner. I ordered some water conditioner. Do I also need to order bio-foam?
Should I use a tank maturing agent?
How good an idea is it to run the tank for a week or two before I put in any fish?
Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX tiggernut24@yahoo.com
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