The plant that I have left in there right now is in horrible shape now after it got covered with brown algae that I have been battling in the tank lately. I think that the fish are helping to clean up some of the algae now and I'm hoping to find a native algae eater soon as well.
I collected a few new plants for the tank but they were pretty nasty so I dont think that I will be adding them. I'm going to look for some nice looking plants in other places later in the week.
I'm going to buy a minnow trap tomorrow and set that up on Wednesday or Thursday and just see what I'm able to catch in that since everything wants to stay out of reach of my dip net. I should be able to catch quite a few more fish using this and I will now only be adding some type of algae eater if I can find one and hopefully some colorful natives. I will post pictures of the fish I'm able to find before I put them back in the lake.