1inch to 1litre sounds a bit to me IMO. This IMO is the best method of giving you some kind of idea as to how many inches of fish you can keep. It comes out to more than 1inch per gallon, but I think that thats only necessary for messy fish.
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Hi, thanks now I can get the fish I wanted but tell me lisa what fish do you have and how big is your tank so I might be able to get an idea of more fish that I could have.

i think using 1cm to a litre would be better, roughly 2.5 cm to an inch and it's 1inch per U.S gallon. if you want tetra's i would go with 1 shoal of some sort but not neons as they are senstive so i would go with a shoal of 5 glow lights or similar and a few shrimp.

do u think shrimps take up the 1g thing

5 Guppies, 5 small tetras and 3 Corydoras would be a nice stock.

Tetras are small and dont produce much waste.

won'y the guppies over stock my tank by breeding

I have a new tank - a Fluval - and in the blurb on the info sheet it said:

For tropical fish remember 1cm of fish for every 2 litres.

So, for my tank at 63litres thats about 30cm of fish. Which is 10 fish of 3cm (for small fish).

I'm going for 4 glowlights and 4 purple emperor tetras and a few little shrimps to give bottom interest.

With the shrimps get some corys as they are small and clean up the bottom

and do you think its a good chance for a shrimp to still be healthy if i orded the shrimp??

Not if you buy all females.
Joanna69 Id personally ignore the fluval stocking advice and follow the advice on here which is from a huge number of experienced member. 1 inch per US gallon or 1cm per litre if youre feeling metric.

do theese little dwarf chained loaches like cucumber or it is a dwarf sucker loach?

so do thety like cucumber?

how can you clean sand???

1 inch per gallon isnt exactly experienced, sorry.

You need to concentrate on the fishes waste production and surface area, as well as filteration.

Guppies get at about 1 inch when not including tail. You could go with 5 males, 5 males is minimum in a group of only males as they will be agressive otherwise. Maybe you could give the females away unless you want to put up with fry.

Neon tetras are very low waste production fish. This is why most planted aquarists have them. They may not be hardy when you first get them because of the lfs movement stress, but once they settle in 5-6 is a good ammount since they like to school. no less than 5.

You could try any cories. I wouldnt bother with peppered, but you could try julii or bronze ones? They get to about 2.5"

In total you'll have about 17-18" of fish, which is fully stocked.

So, 5 neons, 5 small other small tetras or guppies. and a few cories

thnx how much litres would a 10g have?