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I have a 10-gallon with four pea puffers (still too young to have matured distinct sexes). My substrate is BDBS, and the light is a combination of whatever generic LEDs come with the Aqueon 10-gallon starter kit along with a lot of indirect sunlight. I currently have it crammed full of several aponogetons sprouted from bulbs, jungle val, a couple of amazon swords, and a dwarf tiger "lotus" that is quickly trying to take the tank over. There are a few struggling stems of rotala and mostly-melted elodea, and some Amazon frogbit and salvinia floating up top. (Plus some dwarf hairgrass that is getting kind of vigorous in the feeding area where it gets lots of ignored bloodworms at the substrate level because pea puffers are picky little princesses and will just watch a substandard worm float to the bottom of the tank and then look up at you like, you expect me to eat that?) Everything but the aforementioned stem plants has grown very very well, and I've had very little algae so far, the tank has been running in that position for four months and I just now need to scrape the glass in a few spots.
Anyway, I know that to keep these fish in this tank I need a whole lot of vertical plants breaking up the line of sight, and what I've got has worked very well for that so far, but most of it is also getting way too big for the tank and will need to be transferred out to my 55 gallon very soon.
What would you recommend for this purpose -- lots of vertical growth, no CO2, relatively low light, and fish that can barely budge a strand of Java fern, much less uproot a stem? Oh, and I also blew most of this month's aquarium budget on yo-yo loaches so price is kind of a consideration as well XD
Thanks in advance!
Anyway, I know that to keep these fish in this tank I need a whole lot of vertical plants breaking up the line of sight, and what I've got has worked very well for that so far, but most of it is also getting way too big for the tank and will need to be transferred out to my 55 gallon very soon.
What would you recommend for this purpose -- lots of vertical growth, no CO2, relatively low light, and fish that can barely budge a strand of Java fern, much less uproot a stem? Oh, and I also blew most of this month's aquarium budget on yo-yo loaches so price is kind of a consideration as well XD
Thanks in advance!
