Galligak
Aquarium Advice Addict
Welcome to my thread After a few adventures with some other tanks i.e.. losing and gaining tanks due to parents, breaking tanks, switching between sw and fw, I'm finally ready to put together my 55 gallon South American tank!
I have:
1 55 gallon tank
50lbs of play sand (couldn't find PFS anywhere looked at every home depot and lowes and other places like that and even tried finding pool stores, couldn't find it)
1 piece of driftwood
Lots of rocks
1 bag of silver marbles
1 300 watt heater
1 filter (meant for 70 gallon tanks)
1 hood
and a light thing, which I will be switching out the light for a better one because I want this tank planted!
I'm getting my stand either tonight or tomorrow. I need to clean out my sand and hook everything in. I'm going to use 2 things of used filter media and plenty of random decor to help cycle.
(yes I'm doing a fishless cycle even though I have 2 cycled tanks, I'm cautious like that)
For fish I want:
2 bolivian rams
1 angelfish
7 silver hatchetfish
8 peppered cories
10 of some type of tetra
Is this plenty/stocked or is there room for more?
Plants:
Guppy grass
Amazon sword
xmas moss~ yes I know this isn't from South America but I don't know of any mosses that reside from there.
Any ideas on south american plants?
Thanks for reading all of this! Oh and thanks if you leave any comments!
I have:
1 55 gallon tank
50lbs of play sand (couldn't find PFS anywhere looked at every home depot and lowes and other places like that and even tried finding pool stores, couldn't find it)
1 piece of driftwood
Lots of rocks
1 bag of silver marbles
1 300 watt heater
1 filter (meant for 70 gallon tanks)
1 hood
and a light thing, which I will be switching out the light for a better one because I want this tank planted!
I'm getting my stand either tonight or tomorrow. I need to clean out my sand and hook everything in. I'm going to use 2 things of used filter media and plenty of random decor to help cycle.
(yes I'm doing a fishless cycle even though I have 2 cycled tanks, I'm cautious like that)
For fish I want:
2 bolivian rams
1 angelfish
7 silver hatchetfish
8 peppered cories
10 of some type of tetra
Is this plenty/stocked or is there room for more?
Plants:
Guppy grass
Amazon sword
xmas moss~ yes I know this isn't from South America but I don't know of any mosses that reside from there.
Any ideas on south american plants?
Thanks for reading all of this! Oh and thanks if you leave any comments!