Just started cycling my 30 gallon

[joemomma456]

I was just wanting some ideas on decor and fish

 

[joemomma456]

And its not cloudy i took that pic right when i got done setting it up

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[Brookster123]

Is your filter intake below the gravel?

 

[elephantnose]

Is that really a 30 gallon what are the dimensions?

 

[joemomma456]

Is your filter intake below the gravel?

Yeah it is to long to be above it but there is another intake part above the gravel

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[Brookster123]

You should really cut it down and get the pyramid piece a couple inches about gravel..

 

[Fresh2o]

You should really cut it down and get the pyramid piece a couple inches about gravel..

+1. Id remove the intake extension or cut it. Otherwise finer pieces of gravel or sand will enter the impeller and ruin it (or make it very noisy).

 

[joemomma456]

Ok

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[joemomma456]

But does anyone have decoration or fish suggestions

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[jglover]

Sure, set it up as a planted community tank, reminiscent of an Amazon biotrope. It won't be a true Amazonian river as the low light plants you'll need will come from all over.

Use some jave fern, anubias, and maybe an amazon sword. Add some stem plants on the background, anacharis is easy to grow and float some hornwort and Frogbit.

Use a shoal of cories and a bristle nosed pleco on the bottom and get a couple of shoals of tetras. Maybe add a Bolivian ram or two and you'd be done.

 

[jglover]

Oh yeah, a tangle of driftwood and some large river rocks as well, maybe some leaf litter on the substrate......now you're done!

 

[joemomma456]

To many bubbles or just leave it and i took the extension off

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[elephantnose]

Once there are more decor the bubbles will look better. I suggest a piece of drift wood some live plants. Like said before a school of Corys 6+ a RLP or a Bristle pleco and a school of some kin of tetras. Add two or three Bolivians. Here's a pick of mine my Bolivians are juveniles so they will still get more red.

 

[jglover]

Unless you want to goAsian, then its rasboras, loaches and gouramis! LOL

 

[elephantnose]

Unless you want to goAsian, then its rasboras, loaches and gouramis! LOL

What do you mean goAsian?

 

[jglover]

Rasboras, loaches and gouramis are Asian, so for an Asian theme biotrope you would use those fish. Cories tetras and ram are Amazonian or S American themed biotrope fish.

 

[elephantnose]

Rasboras, loaches and gouramis are Asian, so for an Asian theme biotrope you would use those fish. Cories tetras and ram are Amazonian or S American themed biotrope fish.

Oh okay makes sense.

 

[joemomma456]

Can i mix live and fake plants?

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[elephantnose]

Yes, you can.

 

[Brookster123]

You should try to get that intake cover on there somehow, a fish will get sucked right up there.. You can carefully cut the intake tube with a steak knife or small wood saw...