thanks guys, yeah, the multies are little champs, i did allot of work on preparing their tank, but idk, the little buggers could colonize a toilet bowl. I love 'em though, at first I thought the yellow lab would give them trouble...lol i couldn't have been more wrong.
ssuchem, I'm glad to hear the plants are working out, and no the 20L is gonna be at its final stocking once the beta relocates. Also, i do have mixed sand and gravel in both the tanks that house corys, 50b and 20l, I've found that just sand doesn't plant well, just gravel is bad for barbels and for roots, so mixed is where i wound up and I really like it, both for looks and maintenance, the corys have nice soft stuff to munch around in, and my plants roots get...unmanageable. I can't pull plants out of the 50b at this point (unless they're itty bitty) without uprooting the whole thing cause the substrate is just a mat. The amazon sword, and crypts reach all over.