In a 5-1/2 gallon fish tank?

Question

I have a 5.5 gallon rectanglular fish tank with a filter light and everything. I want to stock it up so I need to know if it would be ok to have 4 pgymy cory cats (.75") and 4 white clouds. If I add them slow? Or maybe just 5 long finned white clouds and 3-5 ghost shrimp? Which will be best?

Answer 1

That's way tooo many. Remember" 1 inch of fish per gallon. In your case I was just say 5 inches of fish, so probably 2 or 3. You can add a bonus cory cat, since they just stay on the ground, but just 1.

Answer 2

Everything you listed should work fine together in this size tank.  Ghost shrimp are not counted as fish as they add very little to the bio-load and have minimal oxygen needs.  You can mix different kinds of shrimp as they all seem to get along with each other.  Look for cherry shrimp, bee shrimp, blueberry shrimp etc. and consider a few exotic snails like pearl or gold mystery snails or ruby red ramshorns.  You could also try a small coolie loach.  They are fun to watch, peaceful, colorful, hardy, cheap and different.  There are two kinds.  The giant coolie loach is larger than the other kind but still small enough for your tank.  The can jump out of the tank so if you get one, be sure to keep a cover on the tank at all times.

Answer 3

well you need at least 6 white cloud mountain minnows but in a 5 gallon 6 might be ok with some shrimp

WCMM thrive in cooler generally unheated water 18c cories like water atleast 24c but WCMM will survive at 24c just not as long

Answer 4

I would just get 5 panda cories and a ghost shrimp or two. If you really wanted some white clouds, get 3(PC) and 3(WC).

(just be sure to do water changes ;]

Hope i helped!!!