My first 20 gallon tank

[bfloyd]

Here is my first attempt at creating a nice setup. Tank is a 20 gallon tall with 15 watt stock hood lighting, Top Fin 20 PF, and pool filter sand for substrate. I just set the tank up on 2/19/09 and plan on adding plants soon and starting the cycle process.

My potential future stock:
6 Cory Cats (panda, Juli, leopard, bandit, or schwartz not sure which group I want yet.)
1 Bristle Nose Pelco.
1 Male Beta or a group of 6 neon's

I want to plant with low light and easy to care for plants such as Anubias, Java Fern, and Java moss.

Please let me know about any suggestions you may have about how I could better my current setup, my potential stock and any planting ideas you may have. Also if anyone is selling/getting rid of any low light plants or plant packages that they think would fit well with my setup, please pm me.

 

[LeahK]

I like it a lot. Good start! I like the kind of sparse rock-garden look, but it'll look even better with plants, too.
What's the background? Is that a photo background, or is it built from actual rocks?

 

[7itanium]

Yeah.. is that background real???

I like the setup-- makes me wanna redo my 20H

 

[bfloyd]

The back ground is actually black Mexican beach pebbles that I glued to the back glass of the aquarium using silicone glue. Yeah, and I agree it will look much better with plants. I am thinking about planting some java ferns in the back and tying some anubias to the drift wood and maybe some anubias nana in the foreground. I also had the idea of maybe putting some java moss on the rock wall in the back.

 

[7itanium]

The back ground is actually black Mexican beach pebbles that I glued to the back glass of the aquarium using silicone glue. Yeah, and I agree it will look much better with plants. I am thinking about planting some java ferns in the back and tying some anubias to the drift wood and maybe some anubias nana in the foreground. I also had the idea of maybe putting some java moss on the rock wall in the back.

I love the rock wall... thought it was a photo for a sec tho lol

yeah I think it would look really nice if you attached some moss to the rocks on the back

 

[crazyryceman]

Your rock background looks amazing

 

[Rbishop]

A great start! I like the background!

 

[ChrisK]

Very nice

 

[snoopy65]

Nice looking tank! Love the background! Yeah, get some green going in there and it will be awesome looking.

 

[rzwn]

Superb background..i applaud your creativity and patience..