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African leaf fish. He was an impulse buy. He was marked semi aggressive. I have a semi aggressive tank, 15 tiger barbs(5 normal, 5 green, 5 green platinum) and some cories, and a red tail shark. I looked at the leaf, he didn't have frilly fins, I thought he'd be fine. I put him in, the tigers...

I'm still learning planted tanks. I have my 45 gallon(1.5-2 feet deep).I switched my substrate from pea gravel to eco complete and got T5 Lighting. I might have jumped a bit early getting the light, but between the two(I did both of those within a month), but my plants look the best they ever...

I have a 45 gallon, and had brown algae, so I got a rubber nose pleco, and he ignored it, so I tried holding algae wafers a day, and low and behold the algae disappeared over night.

Panda cries are nice as mine are half the size as my bronze(or emerald) cories and the schwartzi cories....Ive seen panda cories only get inch and a haf to 2 inches at most.

Oh good. I dont have any moss time things, but I have some ships they can hide in, that only the smallest cories can go into, and the bigger ones the pleco dwells in. I have a few moneywart and dwarf sagg(Id guess the shrimp claim it) and a java fern. The amazon sword I mentioned above is...

For what its worth, Hard water is good for mollies or platys....they tend to be peaceful if you want to mix some of those in.

My first tank was a 2.5 gallon from petsmart. I set it up that day, went back(same day) bought 4 tiger barbs and a cory catfish. It didnt go badly, I actually have all of those fish in a 45 gallon now. I had a dead tiger barb, but Ive added before and since(more tigers and cories among other...

I have 4 emerald cories(tho they might be bronze) I have 5 schwartzi cories, and 3 panda cories(1 didnt make the move) and sometimes, I have a giant catfish shoal, sometimes they split off, but they normally stay with themselves* pandas with pandas and etc). So Yeah, the one you have now would...

Alright, I have a 45 gallon, its tall and wide, not so deep front to back. I have tiger barbs, serpae tetras, some mollies, a rubber nose pleco, and a redfin black shark. Except for the tigers playing tag with themselves, and the RFshark chasing the tigers occasionally, its a very peaceful tank...

GBR? As far as eggs go, mine have never had any, or the tiger barbs got them

There is nothing wrong with tiger barbs, you just have to be aware of what you are dealing with and plan accordingly.

But mine like to sit in groups of like 9(there are always stragglers) in the back right corner of my tank(wen not scavenging) in the shade of some plastic plants. I call it the catfish grove.

4 emerald cories, 5 heraldshorschultzi cories, and 5 panda cories. I dont have 2 sets of pandas....

I have 4 emerald cories, 5 panda cories, and 5 panda cories. They all school together, makes for a very active tank bottom.

I started dropping in bottom feeder discs. They used to share algae wafers with the pleco, and flakes/bloodworms with the tiger barbs. My cories eat them like crack.