Just Learning, Have We Too Many Fish ?

[swimbladder]

ive been looking all over for this forum, now bookmarked

. we are new to fish keeping and were addicted, love it, weve only had our tank about 6 weeks - 2 months, (first time weve kept tropical fish), im sure were gonna make mistakes from time to time but fingers crossed all willl be ok, fish have been in for about 4-5 weeks now
 
9 neon
9 guppies (love guppies, so many pretty colours)
3 long fin serpae tetra
3 red eyed tetra
1 corydora catfish (second one died within 24 hrs

2 glass shrimps
1 stripey snail (looks like a humbug)
 
is this too many ?
 
i so did not realise that some fish sleep on the ground on their sides (guppys anyway, feel like i want to knit them little blankets)
 
thankyou
 
 

oh i missed the important bit, our tank is 160 litres

 

[fluttermoth]

I wouldn't say your overstocked, but you need to up the numbers in some of your shoals; the corydoras especially.
 
You would be fully stocked then, IMO.

 

[Sophie]

To elaborate on what fluttermoth said, 6+ is the recommended number for a decent shoal of shoaling fish, to help them feel more secure in their group.
The Tetra and Corydoras are shoaling fish, hence the need for 6+.
The Neons already have a nice number.

 

[toastie]

no such thing as to many fish , just not big enough tanks