Ok, so I bought this tank a few weeks back on Craigslist. It came with some clown puke gravel, a driftwood cave thing, a piece of wild-collected driftwood, a tiny sword plant (looks just like my Argentine swords that were in the Hex5, so I think that's what they are) and an AquaTech 20-40 filter. The guy wanted me to take the SIX 3-4" goldfish that were in there, but I said no. lol Anyway, I tossed around stocking ideas for this tank a lot. I knew I wanted an upper-level centerpiece fish (went with a flame dwarf gourami), a small schooling fish (like harlequin rasboras or celestial pearl danios) and a bottom-level centerpiece fish (the tank's footprint is too small for cories). I was originally going to do scarlet badis as the bottom-level centerpiece fish, but I couldn't find any on AquaBid (well, I found some, but the price always got driven through the roof by the end of the auction) and I wasn't going to pay $10 per fish. Enter the GBR. My LFS started carrying them with some regularity, so I bought a pair for the 29gal and one for the 18gal. So, here is the tank is in all its glory. *BOUNCINGS *BOUNCINGS
Tank Specs:
18gal tall glass tank (20"x10"x20")
AquaTech 20-40 filter
Penn-Plax "The Guardian" 110W heater
2x CFL bulbs (one 19W and one 10W)
Substrate:
1" layer of Flourite
1/2" layer of black gravel
Decorations:
1x Greek temple ruins decoration
3x single Greek columns
1x double Greek columns
Plants:
4x Argentine swords
3x Dwarf Sagittarius
2x Frill
Stocking:
1x flame dwarf gourami
1x German blue ram
6x Von Rio tetras
3x otocinclus catfish
Before:
After (sans fish...need to fix a couple of things before I can add them):
Tank Specs:
18gal tall glass tank (20"x10"x20")
AquaTech 20-40 filter
Penn-Plax "The Guardian" 110W heater
2x CFL bulbs (one 19W and one 10W)
Substrate:
1" layer of Flourite
1/2" layer of black gravel
Decorations:
1x Greek temple ruins decoration
3x single Greek columns
1x double Greek columns
Plants:
4x Argentine swords
3x Dwarf Sagittarius
2x Frill
Stocking:
1x flame dwarf gourami
1x German blue ram
6x Von Rio tetras
3x otocinclus catfish
Before:
After (sans fish...need to fix a couple of things before I can add them):