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No way! It can be totally cheap. Only as expensive as you want it to be. If you grab some soil branches and grass seed, add water paludarium!

My tank idea is more invert based, I should add. I didn’t list any large aquatic plants because I don’t want my bugs climbing off their islands

I’m think about doing the same thing this summer! We should keep in touch for ideas. The tank I’m thinking about is my empty 55. Plants I’ve been looking at are air plants and believe it or not bean sprouts . So why those? Ok here’s my theory air plants are both beneficial and easy. They don’t...

Is the orange on him or under him, and is this the only pleco in the tank?

Cool ! Experiment time.

Nice! Yeah this is what’s on my 90. fish seem pretty calm with it. I don’t use the thunderstorm setting because... it’s weird. It hasdifferent intensity of white or blue light. And the fish seem to respond positively to the setting that allows the light to slowly fade on and off. Less startle...

My water is definitely hard btw. My central cichlids like it though

this is the light I have on that tank, yeah no real red that I know. It does have a fade setting which is nice so you can set it to imitate clouds and lighting changes. It’s strong enough to reach bottom but probably not full spectrum

That sounds promising

Any preferredfert treatments that stand out for you? as sand isn’t gonna offer much

I’m pretty sure that light is not made for plants, do you think it would work?

Yeah that’s fine, most barbs are only a step away from being bottom swimmers so if they wait for it to fall not a big deal. Some barbs like to eat vegetables so pick around plants might be nibbling the plants themselves

Ok so I should start by saying this is for a future project not my main tank now, though if I got it figured out who knows. I’m looking for tall plants ( for either a 55 or 90 gallon tank) that can do limited light and ideally a sand substrate. Current light is a Satelite LED, which is not...

Bristle nose plecos are pretty well known for doing well in wide ranges of water hardness. That’s one of their more positive traits

Frankly I don’t do it, but reverse osmosis and peat moss are the most popular methods. If you have safe rain water (test it) that may be an option

Yeah rams don’t like hard water, I’m telling you lol, google saulosi they’re super bright and you could probably do several. Electric blue acara could handle harder water then rams, they have some of that electric look of the rams. Meaner though

Africans not so great with loach. It really sounds like you want Africa here, so I’m gonna throw you an idea. Pseudo tropheus saulosi. It’s a 2 in 1 fish. The 2 sexes look like different species! there are some African cats in the synodontis group that can do well with them

I have K loaches myself and love them. They are small though if that’s an issue. synodontis does well with Africans . Plecos do great with central and South American cichlids much of the time. If you want a single cichlid with personality, firemouth does great in that tank and could be kept with...

The guy at the store is nuts. Lol you sound like me. Yeah there’s tons of fish that fill a Cory cats role,. I prefer small plecos and loaches myself of which there are a variety. Cory often do poorly with most cichlids imo.

Personally I would say no but if I could give a suggestion. There are hundreds of types of tetra with varying shapes sizes and aggression levels, so you’ll want to list a species

Hello and here’s a website tip: avoid ‘the Spruce’ their pet tips are embarrassingly bad.

Lol, bad water. That wouldn’t be the cause of a sharks aggression. If you need future help with matching fish feel free to ask. In a large tank sharks can have tank mates, but they tend towards either sturdy semi agr3ssive guys or quick schoolers.

Also that’s a pretty terrible combination in general. How big is the tank?

I personally don’t think any animal belongs in something that small, but that’s just me

Yeah you could try that just make sure there’s plenty of filtration to both sides. There’s no guarantee of which cave he will choose, but if necessary you can always move the eggs if they’re laid in a container. I’ve even successfully move the father and eggs to a temporary 10 gallons with bubblers.

Their burst can propel them several inches. I’d look around the tank

Is it a possibility that they can get out of the tank?

No. I believe they’re herbivores

UPDATE: I went to my pet smart today and they are not carrying bettas. They also have a large sign that warns people that fish bowls are bad and that goldfish need large tanks and should live a long time. I can’t pick on my local site at least.

My concern is that new fish folk will think that since the bettas are part of the glofish line, that they could be kept will all the others

Broken pots are an easy go to

You can also feed small amounts of fish food, yes small, to keep something slowly breaking down. Everyone does this differently

Ha you beat me to it lol, yeah having a vet tank is handy

Yeah I’ve had a lot of experience also, if they’re in a situation where they can’t even breed, I wouldn’t consider it thriving. Personal opinion I know. But a lot of tetras group breed. With schooling behavior scattering eggs and fertilizing them. most group animals, not just fish, act very...

They are excellent fathers! I had to watch out for other fish in the past. I had an aggressive barb that was trying to swipe eggs from an ornament and he was on the inside roof of the ornament, literally dropped down like a scene from alien and for lack of a better word , “threw”the barb out and...

Having bred tons, mine generally doesn’t fight unless it’s a different species too near the eggs. Having said that, If she is goofing up and trying to eat the eggs, he might.

Since I haven’t shown anything, I decided to pick the worst time for pictures, tank maintenance lol. Anyway this is the mostly Central American tank, with little loach immigrants until they get moved , not looking forward to trying to catch them again!