10g gourami tank help!!!!

[JordanB364]

I’m cycling a 10 gallon tank right now and I need advice on how to stock it. Itll be a heavily planted tank with a dwarf gourami as a centerpiece fish. I want to do Corydoras as a clean up crew but I don’t know how many I should get. I’m thinking 3 but I don’t think they’d be happy in small numbers. Would it be possible to do 5 with lots of plants?? Also is there any kind of algae eater I could include other than snails???

 

[AquaLife420]

Cory catfish do really well in groups they will hang out close to each other if they are the same species. I have 6 in a 10 gallon tank and tetras so 5 should work out fine(depending on what you mean by heavily planted) and they are super friendly fish. The only thing I dont like about them is that they are not very active. Mine don't move very much. They are great cleaners but I also feed mine shrimp pellets.

 

[JordanB364]

Cory catfish do really well in groups they will hang out close to each other if they are the same species. I have 6 in a 10 gallon tank and tetras so 5 should work out fine(depending on what you mean by heavily planted) and they are super friendly fish. The only thing I dont like about them is that they are not very active. Mine don't move very much. They are great cleaners but I also feed mine shrimp pellets.

Okay cool! By heavily planted I mean as many plants as I can comfortably put in there without crowding it, because I already have some rocks and decorations. I know I want to do some sort of carpet plant and some kind of floating plant. Probably some Java fern and some other plants that grow tall and fairly wide, maybe throw a moss ball in there just to be sure. I just want to make sure I can safely keep 5 corys with the gourami