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How many Slimes/Largos do you put in a corral and why do you prefer that amount? What is the reason why you don't do more/less?

I started this thread because googling the question often resulted in a very wide variation of answers.

Slime Amount
How many Slimes do you put in a corral? Less than 5 5-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 More than 50 It varies depending on slime type (please state why in a reply)

Largo Amount
How many Largos do you put in a corral? Less than 5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-30 More than 30 It varies depending on slime type (please state why in a reply)

When I started the game, I had just 15 pink slime in a corral and cash was pretty slow. I decided to find other types. I found rock slimes and I've put all that I could find in a corral. I did a few trips and I've reached 30 rock slimes. I managed to make a few upgrades to the corral from the amount of cash I get from their plorts pretty early on, so I felt like it was a good idea.

I got 30 rad slimes and they were pretty tame in their corral even without music upgrades, they barely even jump around, but when I got 30 boom slimes and put them in another corral, it felt like it was a bad idea because they launch each other upwards whenever they explode so I took a few rock and boom ones from their corrals and made about 16 largos and it seemed bad at first but once I got full upgrades on the corral (music), they were manageable, especially with toys, had no escapes.

After I've filled most of my plots with what ranch expansions I've had, I started largoing all my slimes and decided to get rid of several gardens just from lack of space. I finally went with only 12 largos per corral because a garden yields 15, minus 1 that I use to replant the crops to speed growth up. So that amount of largos per garden gives me 2 extra food to stash and more if they aren't hungry yet or if I've missed a feeding from exploring (which happens quite often).

I have no idea if 12 is a lot or few or average. Some claim they keep 12 or more while some just 6 or even less, so I can't imagine why there's a wide difference. It looks like it would be very inefficient to have few since there's too much food per farm and space for them in a corral, they would also make so little profit. I know booms can sometimes launch plorts out of the corral but that had never happened to me since I put their food garden beside them so there's a good space from the next corral.

TL;DR:

Are there are other practical reasons for having very few slimes/largos per corral, aside from escape/tarr paranoia? Food hoarding? 