55 Gal stocking question

[Hawklady]

Hi all, this is the set up I'm considering. I was told that I should keep my stock under 86% and am wondering if you think this will be manageable or if I'm over doing it. I read on a different thread here that aqadvisor can be overly conservative so hoping that I can get some advice.

 

[Hawklady]

For comprison this is coming in at 86% but it seems crazy, or wrong somehow that I can add the corry and the guppies and have it only jump 14% but when I add just the snails in when I started they alone came in at 15%.

Maybe there is something I'm not understanding about how this works...

 

[ZxC]

Them shrimps won't last a week with rainbows in the tank. Other than that, the stocking looks good. I would suggest only rainbows for the majority of the water column swimmers, instead of glass cats/guppies maybe dwarf neon rainbows??

Cory cats + snails for the bottom.

If you want shrimp, amano shrimp might be okay, bamboo shrimp should be okay. They just won't breed like cherry shrimp will.

 

[Hawklady]

Hey, thanks for the heads up on the shrimp, I'll leave them out for sure!

 

[rlederer]

It will work for a while but Banded Rainbowfish get six inches long, ultimately too big for this tank. I have a 95 gallon tank with a dozen Bosemani rainbows and it is crowded.

 

[Hawklady]

Thanks for letting me know that!

I also discovered through more research today that the glass cats don't like lively fish and
.. rainbows are lively as well. So, the rainbow fish AND the guppies had to go and now I'm looking at this set up which I *think* may actually work.