Stocking a 20 Gallon long? Please help!!

Wow your tank looks amazing! I will try to get more plants... i agree sometimes I waste so much money on plants that die off after a while but my java fern and hornwort have been with me since the beginning! :P
I will actually attempt making a moss carpet since I found an awesome pet store that has amazing aquatic plants and it's the first I have seen to actually sell moss!

Note To Self: Get a hiding spot for them xD I'll get some fake driftwood or something

OK so here is the list... Aqua Advisor says its fine if I get extra filtration which isn't hard to do so:

1 Dwarf Gourami
6 Panda Corys
2 Bolivian Rams
10 Ghost Shrimp
1 Apple Snail (might not get it but I've always loved them)

Thanks so much :)
 
I think it sounds like an awesome tank! You can use some media from your already established tanks to speed the cycle.
 
only thing i would change is look for red cherry shrimp instead of ghost, will help add more color to the tank and ive found ghost shrimp to be a little bit aggressive towards food and might take it away from the bolivians which are kinda slow eaters.
 
OOh, I added cherry shrimp but they said they might be eaten by the bolivians, :P

Thanks for the tip! I will add some old media soon :3

Great to hear about them working together I am so excited.
 
I would definitely buy some java ferns and java moss, you will get very nice growth out of those, and you can even resell extra java moss for a pretty decent profit.

You could also try sparkling or honey gourami's instead of a dwarf gourami, IMO honey gourami's are nice because they tend to be healthier than your standard Dwarf Gourami. (DG's are plagued by health problems IME.)

I would personally do a trio of honey gourami's, a small school of micro rasboras or small killies, and then 5-6 pygmy, habrosus or panda corys for the bottom.
 
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I would definitely buy some java ferns and java moss, you will get very nice growth out of those, and you can even resell extra java moss for a pretty decent profit.

You could also try sparkling or honey gourami's instead of a dwarf gourami, IMO honey gourami's are nice because they tend to be healthier than your standard Dwarf Gourami. (DG's are plagued by health problems IME.)

I would personally do a trio of honey gourami's, a small school of micro rasboras or small killies, and then 5-6 pygmy, habrosus or panda corys for the bottom.
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That sounds awesome too, but the problem is micro rasboras are really hard to find here..
Honey gouramis sound great, but I'm not sure if I will be able to find them either

What are some health problems dwarf gouramis get?
 
Dwarf gouramis, unfortunately, have a tendency to come with dwarf gourami disease...they'll do fine for a month or two, bloat up, have swimming problems, and die. They used to be really hardy fish back in the 70s, 80s, and even into the 90s. I haven't had one last more than 3 months since then...which is too bad. If you can find a LFS you trust who has healthy stock - go for it.

Honey gouramis are found in petsmarts these days (often in a top tank down by the guppies) and in quite a few small LFSs.

They work very well. Sunset honey dwarfs also appear from time to time. Sometimes they're just a color variant of honey gouramis, other times they're a color variant of Colisa labiosa which is another smaller gourami that would work in your tank. So if you see sunset honey gouramis...that would work, too.

A female beta or two would also work in there and can be colorful and high personality. Lots of anabantoid options!
 
I would definitely encourage you to get live plants, as they will take up ammonia and other waste products from your fish, and they can go in during cycling.

If you are going to get Bolivians for a tank that size, I would suggest you break up the sight lines, as they can be rather territorial with each other - even between members of a mating pair at certain times. Avoid two males, although they can be difficult to sex (the standard ways to sex them I have heard are not reliable IME.)

On the other hand, the Bolivians I have had are not at all aggressive or predatorial toward other species - including shrimp. And yes, they are slow eaters, because they tend to eat food off the substrate - hence the genus name 'Mikrogeophagus' - little earth-eater. Great fish though.
 
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