Upgrading to 20g - Substrate question

Upgrading to 20g - Substrate question / Cycling question

Greetings,

Currently I have 2 5g tanks with Danio's, Tetra's and Common Algae Eater. I recently purchased a new 20g tank to combine all 10 fish into and am thinking of going with sand for my substrate. However, I have not been able to find information whether or not my algae eater would be compatible with sand or not.


I have the sand narrowed down to pool filter sand and (malaysian black?) I believe was the other and want to make sure my fish would be compatible for this substrate.

4 Zebra Danio's, 2 Long-Fin Blue Danio's, 2 Red Tetra's (maybe they are neon) and 2 Algae eater's (although I may keep pass one of the Algae Eater along to my neighbor's community 100+ gallon tank.


Any information would be appreciated.


Thank you,
Chris

Yeh, it's a common Pleco. I know he'll grow fairly fast. I've had this particular one for about 4 months now and he's around 3.5". Thinking of going to snails later on perhaps. Haven't decided yet.


thank you for the info though. :thm:

Now for my cycling process. Of the fish I have, the danio's and tetra's, which would be consider the more hardy? I want to ensure I put the right fish into the tank first for cycling.


Although with my 5g's I rarely ever cycled, but having an bio-wheel and gravel already established helped in that I suppose. Never had a problem with any of the fish, I just want to make sure I do the larger tank correctly.