Easy to care for, fast stockings for "smaller" tanks (5-29 gallons)-discussion thread

[msjinkzd]

The article can be found at the link below, please feel free to share your experiences in this thread.
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97203

[mannamae]

Thank you for this post. It was the guideline I used to figure out what to stock in my 10g tank.
I was wondering though, my boyfriend made me buy three each of the filter media and told me that I would need to change all but the sponge (i have an aquaclear 30) monthly for the first three months. After doing a lot of research before i bought my fish i found that he is doing a lot of things incorrectly (for ex. two red tiger oscars in a 50g tank w/ three catfish) and was wondering if he is correct.

[irishspy]

One suggested change for the 10g section is to include a small school of panda cories: 4-6 should be fine, depending on stocking and filtration.

[Winterose]

Hey i had a question about this tank stocking i based it off of one of the stocking listings for the 20 long does it work or no?

Here was what based it off of:

Stocking 2
1 angelfish- a cichlids from South America. Grows to be around 6 inches long, and generally peacful with other fish except when breeding. Will eat neons and other tiny fish.
8 larger tetras- cannot stress that enough. Neons will be eaten.
4 corydoras
1 snail

And here was my idea:

2 angel fish
4 pigmy Corys or 4 Otos
6 Platys
1 snail

Does this listing work or no, i figured it might work the same way, what do you think?