more ideas for new setup + picture

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Shekoi

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i've being setting up my 35g tank for over a month now can see it how it looks so far at

http://img45.photobucket.com/albums/v138/shekoi/New Setup/?action=view&current=ifsh_002.jpg

i could do with some small grass like plants for at the front, around the wood and rocks. Because it's a tall tank i don't really want anything to short around 3-5in would be nice, anybody got some ideas of what would look good?

also the fish i have at the moment all seem to swim in the top layer of the tank, even the corys they love swimming in the stream from the filter. why?
I would like a group a fish that swim bottom to middle and are save with angels, because i have two small koi angelfish to go in once all other fish are in. German Ram?

fish at the moment 11 H. rasbora, 5 cory jullii and male and female honey gourami.
 
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Anybody got ideas?

Also on my filter i can adjust to outlet 360 degrees. where is it best facing. up to give lots surface movement and splashing?
or down less surface movement but the water in tank moves around more.
and do i put the pipe on to allow air to be drawed in or just have the recycled water pumping through no bubbles?

Cheers :D
 
<holds her tongue about a couple of non-aquatic plants in the picture>

I would suggest having as little surface agitation as possible. The plants in your tank like having CO2 in the water, and having a lot of surface agitation makes the dissolved CO2 levels in your tank drop. As far as fish goes... well, I'm a cichlid gal, so I can't really tell ya much about what would go well with plants. :)
 
the light green/white ones are houseplants. Just some of the many houseplants that pet stores try to pass as aquatic plants.

Over time they will suffocate and you'll just have a pile of mush were the plants once were. It happens over night really. At least it did with me :).
 
The ones in the back (still white and green but it looks like a different species) might be houseplants as well but I'm not 100% on those.

The rest of the plants are cambodia, vallisneria and java fern right? You don't have to worry about those as they are aquatic.


As for fish how about some Black tetras? thet may be black and silver but to me they are just so beautiful. 5 or six would look so cool swimming with the harlequin. They get to be about 2 inches in length.

blktetra.jpg


Aren't they gorgeous ?!?

:D
 
Non-aquatics being passed off as aquatics is a pet peeve of mine... I tend to rant, so I kept my mouth shut. Yes, that plant in the front with the pretty white varegated leaves is a corn plant, certainly not an aquatic, although it is sold as such. I'm sitting here looking at one in my hotel lobby... not in a tank. ;) Not sure what the other varegated plant is, but it isn't somethin I've ever seen listed as an aquatic either.

Like was said, it will die and turn to a pile of mush in your tank.
 
Originally posted by pinballqueen
[BI would suggest having as little surface agitation as possible. The plants in your tank like having CO2 in the water, and having a lot of surface agitation makes the dissolved CO2 levels in your tank drop. As far as fish goes... well, I'm a cichlid gal, so I can't really tell ya much about what would go well with plants. :) [/B]
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To be perfectly accurate, it makes CO2 levels approach atmospheric concentrations. But since we want higher than atm concs in our planted tanks, reduce surface agitation.

I'm with ya on the non-aquatic plant pet peeve! Those
%(*#@%$s rot my socks!
 
Well, I don't know anything about aquatic plants, so I'll skip that part and go to your question about rams. They can be kind of nippy, not in the sense of swimming around madly biting things, but just picking at stuff to see if they can eat it, I guess. So they might bother your angels. There could also be problems with the cories, as rams live near the bottom as well. The reason the fish are swimming in the current? I don't know what kind of filter you have, but they might not have a choice if it's too powerful. If they don't swim into it, they might just get pushed around by it. Or they might just do it for no reason at all.
 
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