My tank in your hands

[Podank]

By suggestions on a cheap planted tank build and fish load out

 

[Snowfire]

What size is the tank?

 

[Andysol]

Agreed- Need to know size of tank. But plants are the best thing you could ever do to start an aquarium. I don't understand why everyone doesn't have at least java ferns- those live in any light or water condition.

 

[Podank]

20g glass tank. Got a 100w heater and a whisper 20 filter

 

[Andysol]

What type of light?

20 gallon has all sorts of options. There are so many small dwarf species that you can have tons of fish.

What are your thoughts- just a few pretty fish? Schooling fish? 20 gallons can Support some shoals that take less room.

 

[Podank]

Shoals would be cool. But preferably hardy fish.

 

[Andysol]

Shoals would be cool. But preferably hardy fish.

If it were my tank, I'd go with 4-6 fancy guppies up top, 8 danios in the middle, and 4-6 small cories on the bottom. Toss a couple amano shrimp in, a nerite snail or two (or Malaysian trumpet snails if you don't mind snails), plant that bad boy moderately with pool filter sand on top of garden soil, and call it a day. You aren't even out $50

 

[gabysapha]

Nano fish would make the tank look larger than it is. Ember tetras! Pygmy cories! And a school of small rainbowfish, like gertrudae.

 

[Podank]

Are rosy red minnows or other kinds of minnows good?