Could I/Should I add more fish or leave asis

New2Betas

I have a 20 gallon high cycled tank with a few live plants and tuns of fake plants to provides lots of hiding places and caves. I do plan to replace all the fake plants with live ones slowly over the next few weeks.

Right now I have 2 dwarf gouramis, 4 Golden Pristella Tetras, and 3 corys. Should I add a few more tetras and corys? If so how many? Thanks everyone!

philipboucharddavies

Hi! I would add 4 more tetras and 3 more corys to that tank!

Phil :)

JohnnyD44

agreed, all tetras like to be in shoals of 6.....same with the corries

New2Betas

Are ya'll sure thats not too many? 16 fish sound like a lot for a 20 gallon.

iamntbatman

Nope, that's not too many. You should be just fine. I would add them in two batches though so as not to overload your filter.

philipboucharddavies

That would be ok because tetras produce so little waste that you can keep quite a few of them in a tank

Phil :)

New2Betas

I added 2 more tetras and 2 more pepper corys. I think thats all I'm going to ass as anymore would be a really full tank since its a 20 tall not long. But I love having 6 tetras rather then the 4, looks nice!

philipboucharddavies

Very nice you should post some pictures!

Phil :)

New2Betas

I finally got around to take pictures, so here you have it! 2 red dwarf gouramis, 6 Gold Pristella Tetras, and 5 pepper corys.

(My big boys, such strange fish, they love to hang out in the little cups (candle holders) and prefer wafers to pellets)



(Whole tank)


(Another of the tank)

philipboucharddavies

very nice!

Phil :)