20 Gallon Stocking

[Malachi Muthiah]

I have a fully cycled 20 gallon tank. It has a background of vallisneria and then a full carpet of dwarf hair grass. For fish, I was thinking of getting neon tetras, honey gouramis, amano shrimp, and/or otocinclus. Would it work to have 15 neon tetras, 2 honey gouramis, 4 amano shrimp and 4 otocinclus?

 

[HoldenOn]

I have a fully cycled 20 gallon tank. It has a background of vallisneria and then a full carpet of dwarf hair grass. For fish, I was thinking of getting neon tetras, honey gouramis, amano shrimp, and/or otocinclus. Would it work to have 15 neon tetras, 2 honey gouramis, 4 amano shrimp and 4 otocinclus?

What are your water parameters? Sounds about right if they fit the fish. I'd get 6 otos, and get them after about 2 months of the tank running with everything else in it. They are caught wild, and are often almost starved to death by the time they are bought. They need a lot of bio film to eat while they get used to eating algae wafers.

 

[vanalisa]

Personally, I think that's a lot.
I suggest getting the tetras established first and see how they settle in, and you can think about it while you wait. Then if they all thrive you can consider your next move.

 

[Malachi Muthiah]

Should I get 6 otocinclus and no Amano shrimp?

 

[HoldenOn]

Should I get 6 otocinclus and no Amano shrimp?

Perhaps. They'd compete and the shrimp would multiply like crazy. I've never kept shrimp though so I don't know how this would go down.

 

[Malachi Muthiah]

Amano shrimp are hard to breed. And I don’t think they’d compete for food.

 

[HoldenOn]

Amano shrimp are hard to breed. And I don’t think they’d compete for food.

Thats right. @Byron can break down your stocking.

 

[vanalisa]

Perhaps. They'd compete and the shrimp would multiply like crazy. I've never kept shrimp though so I don't know how this would go down.

Amano won't multiply, they need brackish water, although the female will get eggs.
Either way, I think start with one group.
My desires to plan and have things work out perfect have been subject to forces outside my control...but that's just my experience.

 

[Byron]

We need to know the source water parameters first, being the GH (general hardness) and pH primarily. Subject to the numbers, the fish mentioned in post #1 could work but I would not include otos yet, as others have explained.