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Its great! I'd rather learn from someone who writes a novel first hand than he said she said...

It looks great! Let me know how your snails work out. I'm looking to get some of them to go with my angels and cori cats.

Your tank looks great! A huge inspiration to what I would like to do with my 55g. I love the black stones on the bottom.

Very good advice, I think I will stick with the angels. Thank you, I will update with some pictures when my tank is clean lol

This should be interesting! I will be buying them next week. I'm torn between angels or African Cichlids, they are both relatively easy maintenance in my opinion. I've tried to keep my aquarium as sustainable as possible.

I've been thinking about angels for a long time, I think 4 of them would work well. I wonder how long it would take for them to eat 40 fry lol

Well death is a part of life. I started off with 12 guppies in my tank and now I have at least 40 adults and 40 fry. To solve this growing problem I am going to take most of If not all of the adults I can catch to the LFS, its a semi heavy planted tank I doubt I can catch them all ... I want to...

Here is my large lava rock, I let my tank set up 48 hours... I had one weekend to move lol

Here is my reset 55g after a move.

Bettas I believe attack fishs fins so they can no longer swim. Same with the African cichlids, there very pretty but very aggressive.

Im going to say start with plants... If you can grow plants you can raise fish! Theres an added.level of difficulty with the lighting aspect... But timers and nice bulbs can grow anything! The plants in return will absorb the amonia from the fish. Ohh tank placement! Try to avoid direct...

I always believed the plants are one of the main supporters of bb... it needs an area to grow like the soil and rocks too. I have a large lava rock thats my main foundation.

Its a big undertaking! Luckily I have.a second established 30g tank. My fish will just be a lil cramped till the larger one is ready. I belive in as sustainable as possible, fish living off the plants, a natural balance. I think the bigger the tank the less problems with quality when its...

No harm taken, I was actually looking into turning sea water into power with fuel cells when i found a damsel in distress lol I just moved my well established 55g up 2 stories to my new apt today, had to break it fully down so a Buddy and I could carry it. Plants, sand, fish, rocks, equipment...

I added a few plants at a time and let them grow for a while ... and tested the water regularly. Started with a few guppies after about a week. Now I have a huge family of guppies and plants lol

Im pitching in my two cents like everyone else does on the internet. Im not an expert by any means ...

You will get out what you put in. Do your research and spend time testing and making changes you will definitely have a established, thriving aquarium by Christmas.

Plants help to keep the water balanced once its a established tank... But its a long process to do

Go ahead and wait a month if you can ... Ive never cycled a tank and never had a problem. Dont buy a tank and put fish in the same day is what im trying to say.

That's great, longer the better. It's good to have it established... How do you feel about plants? You have a green thumb?

Before getting fish set your aquarium up and running for if you can.... 48 hours and do a water test in the store of your water... So you dont kill them if you have something in your water. Clean water balanced water = happy low maintaince!

Most kits have HOB hang on back filters with a replaceable filter pad. The thing I cannot stress enough is to keep it simple in the beginning. a few fish at a time no more than a inch of fish per gallon at the most!

If you buy a full Kit from a big store or a little store there will be everything you need.

Make sure you have a working filter, light, and a nice sturdy stand. Next choose a substrate... Bottom rocks or sand. Than onto the plants and fishes!