Stocking options for 29 gallon?

[Neverseen2prettybestfriend]

I am already planning on putting a male plakat betta, kuhli loaches, and cherry shrimp to it. I'd like to add it will be heavily planted. It will be the first tank I've done were I actually did my research. I was looking at endlers but maybe the tank might be too small.

[FrozenFins]

endlers would be fine in a 29. I would do a schooling fish though like a cardinal or neon tetra

[Neverseen2prettybestfriend]

How many endlers would you say?

[Brandy]

Endlers? a 29g will hold lots, but start with a few and they will make more.

As a comparison, in my heavily planted 29g I have:

• shrimp (around 10)
• innumerable snails
• 3 otocinclus
• 3 khuli loaches
• 3 german blue rams
• 1 angelfish
• a school of about 19 rummynose tetras

My nitrates are always lower than I want them, and would drop to zero without fertilizer, but I do have to service my filter more often than I would like due to the snails chowing down on the driftwood in the tank and making a lot of mulm. Aggression is held to a minimum, because there are so many plants you can barely see more than the rummies and a third of the other fish at any one time. Anyone feeling picked on is hidden in 3 fish lengths, and it is mostly just the female rams sparring when they feel broody. The angel breaks it up now and then by chasing them away from each other. 

[Brandy]

Arguably, I am definitely at maximum capacity--I would not add a single thing. But it is my favorite tank.