Can you help me stock new tank?

In my experiences I have found gouramies to be a very hardy fish so they would probably be a good fish to start with. Gouramies are territorial and chase each other all the time. I never see them biting or nipping though.

I've never kept white clouds so I am no help there but I can tell you that keeping snails alive is an extremely easy job. Shrimps are fairly easy to keep too. Other fish that I consider to be good started fish that don't cost much and are peaceful are zebra and leopard danios and platies. I think they are pretty good looking too and platies can be very colourful.
 
I don't really pay much attention to any of those rules, except for maybe the mass/volume ratio, which makes the most sense.

I don't like the surface area rule because the length of the fish isn't directly porportional to its oxygen demands. Similar to the inches/gallon rule, a 12" oscar has a higher oxygen demand than 12 1" guppies. Also, you can saturate the water with oxygen with plants or running a good air pump through a good airstone.

I used to consider this rule when I was planning my first tank, but realized, the bigger the tank gets, the less inches of fish it can hold.

For example, a 35 gallon aquarium has a footprint about 2.5 times lager than a 10 gallon aquarium, but holds 3.5 times the amount of water. A 4', 55 gallon aquarium has a footprint 3.8 times larger than a 10 gallon (20x10) but has 5.5 times the volume.

Just don't overstock :).

Graeme
 
loaches and any kind of snail are a no-no in my experience. i had some nice big apple snails, figured they were too big for the loaches. they teamed up and assaulted the snails, killing one of them while the other retreated into its shell completely, near-dead. i put that snail in another tank, and it made a nice recovery, but i learned my lesson.

if you want nice snails, avoid loaches. stick with cories. my father has a nice 29g setup with 10 cories, a bunch of zebra danios, and a couple of small angelfish. the cories look so much cooler swarming together across the tank's sandy bottom in a large school. makes me think of how much i would love to have a big 125g tank with like 20-30 of those puppies.
 
Well, if you want an example, being I'm setting up a 29g too (planted for the first time, at that). I'm going with

2 firemouth cichlids
7 tiger barbs
as-yet-undecided cleanup crew.

Mind you, that may be a little bit too aggressive for what you're looking for.
 
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