Stocking Suggestions 55 Litre Fish Tank

Hello Harvey 
You are a very handsome chap.

The green neons look great and they're definitely smaller than neons. Personally I'd start with a dozen and see how you go.

So! When I went to my local fish store to pick up some bloodworm I was shown some rams which, according to them, are happy in our local tap water. I was a bit sceptical but they've always been reliable in the past so I took them on their word at this. Came away with a little GBR female and an electric blue male. They're glued to each other which is sweet. Very pleased with the little boy since he's displaying very nice juvenile colours vs the bright cobalt you see in chain lfs stock. Harvey got aggressive pretty much immediately (expected) so I split the media in the aqua one filter with some safe start and just popped him right into his own 22l. All the levels are checking out so I'll just keep an eye on it; he seems happy and his usual active self.

The rams are settling in very well though they were very nervous yesterday, especially the boy who'd go dark pretty much immediately when I went near the tank. Now he's swimming to the front when he sees me begging for food; he's a bit roughed up and looks like he'd been bullied by the other rams he was with, but he's very active today. I've ordered a fluval U2 for my 55l since the filter in it was honestly just awful to open up for cleaning. I'm running both filters for a while until the U2 builds up what it needs. I'll be adding some fish with the rams at some point but right now I'm just seeing how they go since they're supposedly so ok with my local water. A little apprehensive about this though.

   Back again. The rams are still going strong and are clearly a mated pair. They're showing some really cool behaviour.

I currently have five chili rasbora in the tank with them (ended up with them sort of unintentionally) and a baby lemon longfin bristlenose which I'm growing out in there. What I'd like to know is how many chili's should I have that'd still allow me to try neons. The tanks been running for a couple of months now and if it's supporting rams I'd like to think neons would be possible. What numbers would I be looking at for the neons?

Also, at what point should I be moving the bristle into a bigger tank? It's only about 5cm right now not including tail.

Do you think it'd be worth running 10 rasbora, 8 neons, and 2 rams? The tank is heavily planted with a 110 litre rated filter.

I'll probably just move my bristle as soon as I have the larger tank. I got her mostly because she was small, a reasonable price, and I knew she'd currently fit. She's loving all the wood Alternatively could she live in there longer and the rasbora go into the larger tank in a bigger shoal? And then have 1 bristle, 2 rams, and 8 neons?

Sorry for all the questions. Would I be able to keep the bristle in there until size became her issue if i had embers and the little rasbora? The tank will actually be going right by my computer so I don't need bright flash fish for it to be interesting, I'm just fond of movement and interesting behaviour. My priority is the rams really; keeping them fit and healthy in my harder water is my overall goal so obviously everything in the tank needs to be good for everything in there haha.

Yeah but I can't see Chili rasbora on it

I have to substitute fish in the CC.

I have some chili rasboras. At least, that's what they were labelled as, but they are so small I think they are actually Boraras urophthalmoides, a very similar but smaller species. Shops sometimes sell the latter as sparrow rasboras.
I also have some of the slightly larger B. maculatus.
I don't have many of these fish, they are the last survivors of their shoals. There were in the 50 litre tank I had to close down so they are now in my 180 litre tank where I hardly ever see them as there is a lot of wood and plants in the bigger tank.

Some info on these 'microrasboras' here

I'm sure it's the Barati I have

Do you mean brigittae?

I would say they have less bioload than a cpd because the body is so much thinner. Maybe not half the bioload but I'd use 4 cpds for every 6 chili rasboras in the CC. (Cpds being smaller than neons)