Hey everyone! 40 gal aquarium...needs stocking!

[PK Tester]

Well thanks everyone for your replies!

I really do not know about plants yet. Today I think I'm going to buy a nice-sized piece of drift-wood from the pet store to add to the tank...and the tetras I plan to buy and that will be it for this week.

The plants are great, but my plants could never look like that one above! I really do not want to replace my gravel :-( . The gravel I got was kinda expensive and was really hard to find. I have, from the same company, a pretty small (normal gravel) gravel that is the same color.

As far as lighting goes, I'm a HS student and I really do not have much cash at all. So I highly doubt I can even afford the DIY lighting lol.

So maybe the fake plant way is how I should go. I'm going to need a lot of algea control but who knows. The tank, as of now, gets light from North, South, and East directions...so I mean...it is one HECK of a lot of light. The windows in the room are about 10-20 feet tall. It was probably a bad choice to place the tank in this room, but I thought that I was going to do real plants, and what could this natural light hurt?

Anyhow, I'm off to the petstore here in a few minutes. I plan to buy aroung 6-8 Tetras and removing the feeder guppies that are in there and letting the tetras get established.

I may buy some fake plants, it just depends.

Anyhow, thank you for all of the advice!

 

[afilter]

Start slow you have a lot of time.

Good Luck,

 

[rich311k]

Good luck with the tank. You can always add later.

 

[PK Tester]

Oh...I'm so disapointed!

I went to the 3 pet stores that we have in town. I was just after 8 tetras. Well all of the Seprae Tetras were sick. The first store, they had ich. The second store they had no fins at all. The second store also wanted $10.99 for 3 of them!

Now, I'm pretty delayed.

Here are my plans :

1 Large piece of drift wood.
Fake plants

2 Angel Fish
10 Seprae Tetras
3-4 Corys

That is about it...That may even be pushing the amount of fish I should have!

Here is my plan about going about this.

Currently I have the 6 feeder guppies in the tank. I plan to move them back to a 10 gal.

This week I plan to drive an hour to very good fish store and pick up 8 of the tetras. I will then add them to the tank

Then, the following week I plan to get the last 2 Tetras and the 3 corys.

Then maybe wait a week or two and add the two Angels.

The last tetras and the 3 corys may be pushing how fast I can do this, but...It is going to be really hard to do this, as the pet store is an hour away as it is!

Tell me what you think!