What are the best?

[CosmicStar]

Dylan secretly Teleported to your house with a magic measure tape, it's ok.
I would still stock it with neons.

Apparently so lol!

[CosmicStar]

Apparently so lol!

How come neons?

[PhillipOrigami]

There's only one species of each unless you count X. variatus a platy.
Edit: 500th post yipeeee!!!!

[PhillipOrigami]

Neons from what I have researched are active colorful small cool fish.

[MLBfan]

what I would do is:
A killifish pair [can grow from eggs for little money][livebearer trio could also work]
and a school of about 9 pygmy cories [small little 'cute' specie]

[TheVoldevader]

I think it would be nice if you got a male betta in there with some neons. Bettas look so nice in community tanks! As long as you get a peaceful male... and if you do it, introduce the other fish first. You could get some shrimp in there too. :)

Or a dwarf gourami and some neons/rasboras?

[CosmicStar]

Hmm indeed..I think I am leaning towards guppies more than platys..I'm still a little confused on if I choose a nonschooling species..i could just have 1 of many different nonschooling species?

[CosmicStar]

I think it would be nice if you got a male betta in there with some neons. Bettas look so nice in community tanks! As long as you get a peaceful male... and if you do it, introduce the other fish first. You could get some shrimp in there too. :)

Or a dwarf gourami and some neons/rasboras?

dwarf gouramis are nice but I thought they were a schooling species? I just dont want to overstock..

[PhillipOrigami]

Sort of, but I hear "one (livebearer) is an unhappy (livebearer)". They dont need schools, but more 3. I think. And they aren't different species.
What I'm getting at is you can have a few color varieties of one and another.

[TheVoldevader]

dwarf gouramis are nice but I thought they were a schooling species? I just dont want to overstock..

Nope, they aren't schooling fish :) neons and rasboras are though