5 gallon stocking

[bmarine]

Gotcha. Are there any other good fish that I could put in there?

[linuxrulesusa]

I have my paradise gouramis breeding in about 5g of water, but it's a 20 long divided, so the space is somewhat different.  I've tried multifasciatus (shelldweller cichlids) in a 5g before...didn't go the greatest as they never really thrived.  Cichlid fry work well for a while but I find myself quickly wanting to move them to a bigger tank for growout.  I think you could perhaps do a few of the dwarf cory cats (pygmaeus or habrosus or a few others), and/or some cool pencil fish or else ember tetras, green tetras, some of the micro Asian tetras are cool as well.  Small doesn't mean cheap though.

A good resource for some mini or micro fish is here: http://msjinkzd.com/  This lady specializes in such fish and often has various types for sale.

[bmarine]

Think i could do:

3 emerald dwarf rasbora
3 killifish or 3 celestial pearl danios
6 red cherry or blue velvet shrimp?

[linuxrulesusa]

Think i could do:

3 emerald dwarf rasbora
3 killifish or 3 celestial pearl danios
6 red cherry or blue velvet shrimp?

Should work.

I'd skip blue velvet as unless they come from a reputable place they will be very washed out blue.  Red Cherries are a lot easier to find with nice red color.  Even brighter are the fire reds, show up nicely on a dark substrate (ditto the fish you're looking at).

Before you get the CPDs or dwarf rasboras, confirm they are OK on some kind of dry food like new life spectrum or similar; otherwise, if they're freshly wild caught (I believe most are) they may be finicky about eating.  Shrimp will eat whatever - sometimes I feed mine, sometimes not - they eat microorganisms in the tank - but they love algae wafers.