20 Gallon Tank Advice on next fish friends

[DonBaldy]

Good day, all. I could use some guidance. Currently my 20 gallon high is stocked with 2 white/gold skirted tetras, 4 green corys, and 1 rubber lipped pleco. What can I add to have harmony and not be oveerstocked?

I could move the 4 male guppies and 3 albino corys from the 10 gallon or I should I go a completely different direction. Would the albinos and green corys mix well?

Eventually the 10 gallon will be come the quarantine/hospital tank. Within the next couple of months there will be a new 55 gallon (still deciding the direction for this one). The fish currently in the 20 will stay there as thier permenant home.

Thank for any suggestions.

 

[Fishladyforlife]

If it were me, I would add 5 or 6 more of the tetras. And maybe 1 or 2 more cories.

 

[DonBaldy]

If it were me, I would add 5 or 6 more of the tetras. And maybe 1 or 2 more cories.

Same white skirted or could I do some black skirted just for visual variety? I think I've read where they are essentially the same fish.

 

[Fishfur]

Same white skirted or could I do some black skirted just for visual variety? I think I've read where they are essentially the same fish.

Skirt tetras are all the same species regardless of colouring, including the Glo variants.

 

[DonBaldy]

Skirt tetras are all the same species regardless of colouring, including the Glo variants.

Oh good. Something i read on the internet was true.

 

[Noroomforshoe]

It is important to keep schooling fish in numbers of 6 minimum, more then minimum is even better. I would move all of the white skirts to the 55 gallon, as a short 20 gallon is not ideal for these active fish.

You can have more then one species of cory cats, But each species should have a minimum of 6 of its kind. Cories can get along nicely with other species of cories, but they never really learn each others "languadge/culture/needs. I encourage you to move the albino cories to the 55 gallon, and add a smaller corry to the smaller tank.

 

[DonBaldy]

It is important to keep schooling fish in numbers of 6 minimum, more then minimum is even better. I would move all of the white skirts to the 55 gallon, as a short 20 gallon is not ideal for these active fish.

You can have more then one species of cory cats, But each species should have a minimum of 6 of its kind. Cories can get along nicely with other species of cories, but they never really learn each others "languadge/culture/needs. I encourage you to move the albino cories to the 55 gallon, and add a smaller corry to the smaller tank.

Currently the plan for the 55, which is still in the cardboard in the garage, is to rehome my daughter's best friend's fish. She is moving out of the country in a couple of months and we will be taking her lone angel( still trying to figure out the specific one) 6 neon tetras, and 1 cory of unknown variety. Her fish are in a 55.

Would the skirted tetras do will with the angel?

 

[Noroomforshoe]

Skirt tetra have a reputation of being fin nippy, you will likely see that if you google it. But with many species, if you keep a larger then minimum number of them, in a large tank, they do fine. I recomend a minimum of 10 or 12 skirt tetra in the 55 gallon with the angel. You can mix any color of skirt tetra if you want variety, even glofish skirt tetra. The neons and cories can all live in the 55 once it is cycled.