[NoodleAquatics]

Size: 20g long 30"×12"×12"
Stock:
8x corydoras eques
9 boraras urophthalmoides
8 ember tetras
Assassin snails

Plants:
Water lettuce
Vallisneria americana
Hydrocotyle leucocephala
Helenthium quadricostatus
Echinodorus yellow sun
Echinodorus red ozelot
Echinodorus bleheri
Sag grass

Filtration: DIY above tank sump using a planter box, holds heater as well.

Lighting: JC&P Full Spectrum 30"

Fertilizer: Thrive S x3 weekly
API root tabs for the echinodorus as needed for extra boost.

Upon first setup

Couple weeks after, the staurogyne repens in there didn't fare well, snails ate it.

I had asked here about adding a slope, which I had done but the cories flattened it by this point.

Further progress...

And where I am at today with this tank

The quadricostatus tissue culture is struggling to take off as its constantly dug up, but the rest of everything is doing well anyways.
My lettuce has done so well it has flowered indoors.

Thanks to the member here who suggested not planting hydrocotyle, best advice I've had with that plant and it grows fantastic tied to the driftwood.

 

[Discusluv]

Beautiful. Love the set-up of this tank.
C.eques is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful corydoras species offered for aquarium. I have 6 myself.

 

[JCnyc]

Great setup! I keep embers with exclamation-point rasboras too.

 

[NoodleAquatics]

Scored some plants today locally, got a heck ton more vals, so added those to the tank today

And the ever growing hydrocotyle leucocephala lol