My fish story and 10g aquarium

[Worthless]

I am a 14 year old from Canada and I have loved fish ever since my parents bought a community fish tank. When we moved we had to give away our fish and I was devastated. A Fish that has really caught my eye is a Betta fish, I got my first one for my 8th birthday from my sister, A green Betta fish that I named "Chester" He lived for 5 years, he was a tough little bugger, he survived me going away for weeks on ends, He even survived when my cat decided to push his glass fish tank off my dresser. After having many Betta fish none like Chester and dieing quickly on me I decided to give up on fish for a while. Approximately 3 weeks ago I got hooked on fish again, I went out and bought a 10 gallon tank and fixed it all up for the future residents. At first I was going to try and Breed Betta fish but every pet store I went to discouraged it, I did not want to lose a bunch of baby fry either. So May 10th my father took me out get some fish for my aquarium. I picked 3 red platys (1 male, 2 female) and a Beautiful Betta fish! I was planning to buy some Tetra but my PH is too high right now. At the pet store I bought this Pirate skull Ornament and my Betta fish right away claimed it as his own. He will flare up and puff up at the platys when they go inside or go near his skull, he looks quite fantastic when he does this. Today after looking for an active fish keeper forum I stumbled across this one and did some reading before registering, Both my female platys are pregnant! One I noticed was pregnant right from the fish store and today I found a small black dot on my other female platys anal fin, This forum really helped me alot.

I have a questions for you:

What are some other "small" tank mates for my Betta fish and my Platy

Pictures of my Aquarium:
*COMING SOON*

[Kissyboots]

Welcome! Glad you got back into fishkeeping and found this place. It's awesome! Lots of helpful people here.

Are you familiar with cycling a tank? Sounds like you are but I just wanted to make sure.
And the 1 inch of fish per gallon of water rule (of thumb)?

You could probably squeeze in a small school of tetras or something. That's what I have in my 20g (listed below in my sig). Or some bottomfeeders like cories. Or maybe otos to eat your algae. Good luck!

Edit: If you're anywhere near Phoenix, AZ you could have some of my cories that I bred. Teehee.

[roark fishies]

Welcome to mft!

If you're gonna have platys that are breeding I really wouldn't add any more fish. You're gonna eventually be overrun with baby platys! However, if you decided to not keep any of the babies you could do some pygmy cories or maybe even something like 2-3 ghost or cherry shrimp. Whatever you get would have to be really small.

[butters]

ghost shrimp,otos,corys,neons,zebras,maybe a dwarf puffer,snail,cloud,and a couple of more i cant think of

[Kissyboots]

Originally Posted by butters

ghost shrimp,otos,corys,neons,zebras,maybe a dwarf puffer,snail,cloud,and a couple of more i cant think of

No. I have a dwarf puffer and I read they should be kept in a "species only" tank. I have one in a 5g with two otos. She nipped at them once but I've seen no other aggression, but you don't want to get one of those.

You say you have 3 mollies and a betta? Now that I think about it, you probably don't want schooling fish. Shrimp or cories are probably best. Check out the ghost shrimp. They're pretty cool.

[butters]

i have a DF in my community tank and its the least aggressive one but i guess it all depends on the fish

[roark fishies]

I wouldn't do the DP with a betta. Or any other fish for that matter. They can be quite aggressive fin nippers. Like kissy said, they are best left to a species only tank. There's always exceptions to every rule like in butters case but I wouldn't risk it.
Also, what about an african dwarf frog? They stay really small but you have to make sure they get their share of food as they are not aggressive eaters. If the other fish always to get to the food before them they could starve.

[butters]

yea i got lucky with my Dwarf puffer