Help With New Set Up

[Psychedelicbabe]

Hello I'm new here to the forums and I would like a bit of expert help on my new tropical set up I have a 60 litre tank that is all ready to go it's in the middle of being cycled now and I have about 2 weeks to go before I can add any fish safely and I was wondering what amount of fish I can house in my tank ... Here is a list of what I would like to put in the tank but I'm a bit unsure whether the tank will be overstocked or using the wrong mixture of fish ...!

2 x black Molly's
3 x neon tetra
3 x rummy nose tetra
6 x harlequin rasboras
6 x Corey's

Is this okay ? I'm open to suggestions too I'm in no rush at all so if anyone has a suggestion please feel free to comment thank you on advance

 

[the_lock_man]

First off, are you using bottled ammonia to cycle your tank?
 
A 60l is quite a small tank, and that's too many fish for it, I'm afraid. Mollies are really a bit big for a 60l anyway, and the tetras need to be in groups of 6, which would make your situation worse. Cories vary in size a lot, so having, say Peppered Cories would take up more of your stocking space than having Panda Cories.
 
Here's my suggestion
 
6 Panda Cories
6 Harlequin Rasbora
Either 6 Celestial Pearl Danios or 4 male Endlers or 6 Chilli Rasbora or Another 4 Harlequin Rasbora or 1 Dwarf Gourami.
 
The CPDs, Endlers and Chilli Rasbos are all very small species, I don't think having 6 neons or rummynoses would quite fit. Having a nice big shoal of the Harlequins would look fantastic.
 
If you wanted a bigger species of cories (say, bronze, trilineatus, peppered, etc.) would impact upon how many of other species you could have, pandas are the smallest non-dwarf cory that I know of.
 
Hope this helps.

 

[Psychedelicbabe]

Okay I don't want any gourami in my tank at all and I have changed the initial layout after doing some further research ... I can use the the 1cm per litre rule which gives me 60cm to play around with and I have come up with this set up what do you think??

4 x harlequin rasbora
7 x neon tetra
3 x starbei cory
2 x make flame tailed guppies
2 x bluefin nontho

I get these to 59cm ? Is this sounding about right or am I still overstocking ???

 

[FingersofFish]

I would say that's overstocked, I have never heard of 1cm per litre, 1inch per US gallon seems to be the standard, a 60L tank is about 15g which means 15 inch long fish.

4 rasboras would be 8inches and guppy would make that 12 inches. I don't know anything Corys or nonthos. But of the top of my head Iuthink neon tetra grow to 1.5-2 inches each which would make your total around 26 inches which is hugely overstocked already

 

[Psychedelicbabe]

I would say that's overstocked, I have never heard of 1cm per litre, 1inch per US gallon seems to be the standard, a 60L tank is about 15g which means 15 inch long fish.
4 rasboras would be 8inches and guppy would make that 12 inches. I don't know anything Corys or nonthos. But of the top of my head Iuthink neon tetra grow to 1.5-2 inches each which would make your total around 26 inches which is hugely overstocked already

it may be standard where you live but here in the uk it's 1cm of fish to 1 litre of water ...

 

[FingersofFish]

 

I would say that's overstocked, I have never heard of 1cm per litre, 1inch per US gallon seems to be the standard, a 60L tank is about 15g which means 15 inch long fish.
4 rasboras would be 8inches and guppy would make that 12 inches. I don't know anything Corys or nonthos. But of the top of my head Iuthink neon tetra grow to 1.5-2 inches each which would make your total around 26 inches which is hugely overstocked already

it may be standard where you live but here in the uk it's 1cm of fish to 1 litre of water ...
 
I live in the UK also, but having spent extensive time researching my first tank I have found the general consensus online to be 1inch per US gallon from experienced fish keepers. even working on a 1cm per inch rule, you'd be looking at 66cm for just the Rasbora, Guppy and Neons once fully grown.

 

[AshleyNZ]

1cm to 1 litre of water is NOT A RULE. Sorry if i'm sounding harsh. I've been that way before, had over 30 fish in my 65L. The "rule" everywhere is 1 inch of fish per GALLON (3.8L) and yet, this rule can be very inaccurate. 
In my 65L I now have 2 Honey gourami and 7 neon tetra. Trust me, you do  not want to overstock the tank. Maybe have one centrepiece fish (or two) and a small school of middle-swimming fish (Most fish i,e Neon Tetra like groups of 6+)
And even maybe some bottom dwellers  

 

[cambojnr]

For my 60l tank I had 7 bronze corys and 10 cardinals, and I would say that was nearly fully stocked, maybe get 7 corys of the same type that you like then 10 tetras and maybe some otos if you like them.

I would say that's overstocked, I have never heard of 1cm per litre, 1inch per US gallon seems to be the standard, a 60L tank is about 15g which means 15 inch long fish.
4 rasboras would be 8inches and guppy would make that 12 inches. I don't know anything Corys or nonthos. But of the top of my head Iuthink neon tetra grow to 1.5-2 inches each which would make your total around 26 inches which is hugely overstocked already

it may be standard where you live but here in the uk it's 1cm of fish to 1 litre of water ...

he lives in the UK same as you and 1cm per litre is just a made up rule by chain stores to get you to buy lots of fish from them. So do not use the 1cm per litre rule as it's a load of bull, but you will probably still use it you are determined to have a huge amount of fish in a tiny tank.

 

[fluttermoth]

Actually the 'rule' (and I agree that's is awful and should, on no account, be used to determine stocking levels) is supposed to be 1cm of fish to every 2l of water.
 
I think someone, somewhere along the line, has confused the '1" per gallon' with the '1cm per 2l'.
 
I would also point out that both those 'rules' apply only to slim bodied, tropical fish, of less than 3" adult size and that the eventual adult size is the figure you're supposed to use.
 
Whatever; stocking is a lot more subtle and has far more factors involved in it than 'rules' like that can take into account; I would like to remove them from the hobby altogether!