How many red bellys for a small shoal?

[Ransom]

Whats a good number of reds to have in 1 tank? would 6 or 7 be a good number?

or should there ideally be more?

does it make any difference at all if there are more than less?
right now i have 3 rb's and i have asked the LFS to get me another 3 or 4 they are only under 1" right now also

 

[JoeDizzleMPLS]

anything over five looks really good in my opinion, it just really depends on the tank, if someone only has a 75 gallon tank, three or four is just fine.

 

[bumpylemon]

i have 5 in a 90 gallon... and they shoal

 

[Davey_8313]

I had six about that size in a 75 before. They'll weed out the little weak ones once they get a little bigger

 

[dad_jsp]

I have 11 in a 100g Long. I plain to remove 3-4 when they get bigger. They are currently 4-5" and they are always swimming together.

 

[razorback182]

i have four in a 75g. i'm not sure about the odd/even-number (to minimize loss)rule though.

 

[LBathory]

In my opinion the odd even thing is only really important if you only have two fish in a tank. You would want to get a third one to throw off agression, but I think after three, odd to even numbers don't matter anymore. At least in my expirience.