What to do with 10 gallon tank

We are moving into a new apartment in the beginning of August. I am planning on getting a water trough to put together an indoor pond for my goldfish. I will be needing help with that when I get it, but I'll make a new thread for that.

He's currently in a ten gallon tank that I've had up and running for almost a year, he's been in the tank for over 6 months I think. The current residents are the goldfish (about 4 inches long) and 4 red wag platies. I'm running a Top Fin 10 on it. I originally had a incandescent light hood on it, but when we went through our storage unit to begin re-packing our stuff, I found a florescent light hood. (It looks like a whole new tank now) I have a java fern that is sprouting tons of baby plants. I count 6 (three of which have detached.)

I really don't want the red wags. They were kind of dumped on me when I didn't want them and I've never really enjoyed them. I want to put something in this tank that I'm going to enjoy. I'll be finding homes for them soon but I want to have a plan on what to put in the tank when I get it moved over to the new place in August.

So I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on species that would go well in a 10g. I know it is not a whole lot of space, but it is what I have to work with. Hubby won't agree to a larger tank until we own our own home. At least for right now. I kind of want something I could breed. (I have an extra 10g with filter that I could set up for raising fry.)

You could do some kind of fancy guppy or maybe some Endler's. Both do well and would breed fine for you in a 10g. You could try a group of small tetras but I have no experience with breeding those but I would think 10g would work.

Thanks for the suggestions. A species that likes a lot of plant cover would be best since I plan on getting into doing a lot of live plants. The java fern is all I have for now but I'll be doing research soon on what species of plants I'd like to keep in the tank.

Shell dweller, Some sort of shrimps , small planted tank.

Small planted tank with abunch of small tetras!I'm doing one right now and will be putting 40 cardinal tetras in there and thats it.Keep us posted on what you decide to do and pics!

Shell dweller? Cardinals are pretty. I'll have to look into those a bit more. With shrimp I'm kind of limited. The only shrimp I have access to is ghost shrimp and I've heard those like brackish conditions.

I'll be doing a test on the water in my tank (I haven't tested in a long time. :( I'm bad) to make sure it hasn't gone through another cycle. (I lost two red wags. One was very old and the other was one I purchased from work and it quickly began to go downhill after bringing it home)

I have a bunch of Red Cherry shrimp and James has a ton to choose from. Some of the best I have ever seen. We both ship so your choices are wide open

Shell Dweller is a very small Cichlid. Here are some links to some.

http://www.davesfish.com/images/Lamprologus%20ocellatus%20gold.jpg
http://www.davesfish.com/images/Lamprologus%20brevis%20Katabe.jpg
http://www.davesfish.com/images/Lamprologus%20speciosus.jpg

Mark sells shell dwellers over at Cichlid Solutions if you go that route as well.

How many can you put in a 10g? And what kind of set up would they need as far as substrate, hiding places, lighting, temp, pH?

red crystel shrimp with moss, or a iwaguni style planted tank with some harquin rasboras....