Thank you, Lil Monster. The tank has been a blast. The two most rewarding things I did so far is live plants and sand. Now I have a hard time even enjoying the looks of fake plants or gravel...
Originally I only intended to have one Pictus, but these two other guys were being homed by hippies that had them in a 50 gallon tank they did not clean, and stuffed this tank with a large 20" heli decoration that barely fit, so they had no swim room, no clean tank, nasty gravel, it was pretty crappy...
It took them all a while to chill in this tank and now they are a blast. Even my original is much more happy. I feed them flakes, pellets, and dry freeze goods and they go nuts for it all.. This last time I got flakes I ordered them from a special store online that sent the food in sheets, it had not been broken up yet, which allows me to pick off larger flakes and send them into the current and the catfish chase them all around..