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Here is our current tank setup:

48g: 12 Cardinal Tetras, 6 Glowlight Tetras, 5 African Lampeyes, 2 Platies, 1 Guppy, 4 Japonica Shrimp, 3 Cherry Shrimp, 2 Panda Corydoras, 1 Albino Bushy Pleco, and lots of plants.

16g: 5 Rummy Nose Tetras, 4 Hockey Sticks, 1 Mickey Mouse Platy, 3 Japonica Shrimp, 3 Cherry Shrimp, 1 3-striped Corydoras, 2 Otocynclus Corydoras, 1 Albino Bushy Pleco, and lots of plants.

6g: 10 5-week old baby platies and 1 Otocynclus Corydoras (plus plants).

2g: 11 baby platies (about 10 days old) and plants.

The larger babies are soon going to be ready to move into one of our larger 2 tanks. We would like to breed mkixed colors in the future as all are orange! We only had a single pair together and they have had 21 fry in the last 5 weeks or so!

I would like to add some more bottom feeders to our tanks. The Plecos we have are great. We'd like a couple more and / or more cories. Any suggestions as to which Plecos of Cories are best in our situation? Of course, we'll need to find good homes for all of our babies. 21 is a lot to add to our current setup.

Does anyone know about those Zebra Plecos? They look great but do they serve well in a community tank? Will they grow too big? Our Albino Plecos are only about 5cm right now. What cories are recommended as good additions to the tanks? Any suggestions about our tank setups? Thanks...

Butterfly

Your tanks sound great!! The only thing I see is that otocinclus are not a type of Coryodoras.
Zebra pleco are wonderful, stay small and cost an arm and a leg . If you are fortunate enough to be able to have one jump at the chance.
Your tanks are pretty close to stocked, if I added anything I would add a couple more Panda Corys in the first tank and a couple of three lined corys in the second tank.
Corys and otos like to have more of their kind, but the six gallon is at max. Hope That Helps
Carol
Carol

0morrokh

The Otocinclus and Corydoras need to be in groups of 3 or more. The single Oto will be very lonely. So please move the one in the 6g to the 16g so he won't be lonely.
Also, Platys need to be kept in trios (1 male and 2 female). Otherwise the male may chase the female to the point of death. With two girls to distract him, he won't be able to bug any one fish too much.
If there is room in the 16g, get a few more 3-striped Cories and Platys so they are not lonely. Or, if the Mickey Mouse Platy is a female, you could move her to the 48g, and that would also solve the problem of the one female being chased too much.
Those sound like awesome tanks!