Yup.
And shrimp don't like poor water quality, so if you do end up overstocked (which I don't think will happen), they won't reproduce anyway.
RCS Bioload?
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Yup.
And shrimp don't like poor water quality, so if you do end up overstocked (which I don't think will happen), they won't reproduce anyway.
Your stocking is incompatible. Neons like softer water and RCS need harder water. Get rid of the gourami and you should do fine. You are better off with an invert only tank where you have your hard water and calcium added unless your water is naturally hard.
Huh, that's strange. Before, I asked people in this forum for stocking suggestions, and they recommended the setup I listed.
I thought calcium and hard water as a necessity only applied to snails...
how soft is your water? (btw, I'm keeping tetras in moderately hard water, and so does everyone else in this city--they're fine. We actually have a local cardinal tetra breeder. He uses tap, and I'm breeding neocaridina with the same water)
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I don't have the tank set up yet.
However, I'm going to bet that it's pretty soft. I'm going to be using a driftwood piece to leech tannins into the water.
Find out how soft your water is by testing or by going to your city's utilities site and digging around. If it's really, really soft you might have some problems with the shrimp, but I'm not sure. Some shrimp (crystal reds) like it softer, but they're expensive and it would be a real shame for the gourami to eat them! Maybe Tiger shrimp? If you can find out your parameters, ask MsJinkzd for her rec on shrimps to keep in those conditions.
It's funny, everyone says shrimp don't have much bioload but a 10g colony & another in a 40g long seem to poo a lot for their size. I'm always surprised how much I vac out but there's probably 50+ in both & fish in the 40.
Having a lot of poo doesn't necessarily mean they have a large bioload. I'm not saying that this is the case, but their poo could be mostly inert fiber, rather than ammonia or other things bad for the water. I agree that there's a lot of shrimp waste, but I'm not sure what its effect on the water is. Plus, it's really easy to do 50+% Water changes weekly in a 10g 
