Thank you. 7 pieces were used in this layout. I do think the 60P is a great tank as well ! It just leaves you more room to expand your stocking compared to a 45
I would skip Apistos, it's best to have sandy substrates and caves and stuff for them.
Have a look at Pseudomugil species they are amazing and are what I have in my 60P. Then maybe some Boraras, Sundadanio or Microdevario as another schooler. If you want a centrepiece fish maybe look at smaller Gouramis. Lampeyes would be good too as a schooler.
I like the hardscape! Watch how wet your substrate is, you don't want mould. At the front the water level is a bit too high and plants there will struggle because they aren't getting the CO2 from the air since they're submerged, you may also start to get fungus there. You want the substrate to be moist, but you shouldn't be able to have any water actually pooling above it. Also, E. parvula gets pretty tall so you may wanna throw it all in the back or it will crowd out the HC.
Thanks for the heads up. A far as fish goes I still have some time before I finally make the decision what to get. Who knows what my LFS might have then. I did remove some of the water that collected during my misting. HC seems to take a while to take root.
Swapped the external filter with a Tidal 55 filter which was on the big tank, so the big tank now has 2 external filter and this one just the HOB. I found that this worked better for me. Also flooded the tank on July 14th and ran the CO2 with 2-3BPS.
Update as of Today
The plant growth has been good. I did find a lot of hitchhiker snails that I assumed cam on the filter which was attached to the old aquarium. For now I will leave them as they help with the algae.
I use imgur. It works better than Photobucket specially when transferring from phone to imgur.
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