Quote Originally Posted by 3muttsandaboston
I think I have decided on what I want. 2 cories, 4 zebra danios of the long finned type or some other small species of fish, and 2 Ghost shrimp How does this sound. None of these will eat each other and they will get along right? Is it too overcrowded? I think for my cycling fish I will get the danios and later add the ghost shrimp and cories is that a good idea? Or should I get the cories first? How many days before I get my cycling fish? I have read different answers on every website I visit. Thanks for all the help so far!
From this article on Zebra danios, I am sure they will be fine with each other:

http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/fi...l/aa060799.htm

Tankmates
Virtually any peaceful community fish is suitable as a tankmate for zebras. Because they naturally live in schools, it's wise to keep at least a half dozen of them together. They will readily school with other varieties of danios, and other similarly sized schooling fish such as the white cloud mountain minnow. I've had mixed schools of two dozen or more danios and white clouds, and they do very well.

I don't think that's overcrowded at all. Ten gallons is pretty big. When we got our tank, which was in June, we cycled for 3 days, but I would cycle for a week and I learned that the hard way. One of the fish died within hours after bringing it home(a neon tetra).

I also found this article on stocking a ten gallon tank:
http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/qa/f/faq0016.htm

Now speaking of tank it's time to go clean mine out. Gary isn't going to be happy, but anyway, I hope I helped you and whatever you decide I know you will make the right decision. Best of luck!