Please help! 20 gallon fish tank?

[kim_luvs_fish.]

Hi i have posted this question already, but i really need some answers so heres my question. I am trying to decide how to stock my fish tank and i have come up with 2 stocking ideas using aqadvisor.com. The tank is a 20 gallon long tank with a cascade 600. anyway tell me which you like better:

1: 5 Serpae Tetras,
5 Neon Tetras,
4 Bronze Cories,
2 Dwarf Platys,
1 Bristlenose Pleco,
1 Kribensis.

2: 5 Serpea Tetras,
4 Tiger Barbs,
4 Bronze Cories,
2 Platys,
1 Bristlenose Pleco,
1 Kribensis.

The only difference beteen option to is that its tiger barbs instead of the neons. Please answer if you can!! All other suggestions are apreciated. Thanks!

 

[VioletEmber]

I'll tell you what I was told: the tiger barbs won't work in a 20, even a 20 long. I think they need more than four in a school and that many won't work in a 20. I had three in my 20 and was given this advice so I sadly rehomed them. What about a dwarf gourami? Don't know much about kribs and gouramis together though.

 

[James_in_MN]

IMO you'd be better off increasing the numbers in your schooling fish, and probably not try to have too many species in your 20g tank.

For example, my 20g has:

10 black neon tetras
6 five banded barbs
3 ottocinclus
1 male betta