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Mosses, java ferns, bolbitis, anubias and bucephalandra (buce) are all great low light, easy plants that will grow on the wood. For tall substrate plants there are many options. PFS is inert and has no nutrients of course. You can use root tabs to compensate but I would avoid heavy root feeders like swords and crypts just to makes things easier. With this big tank it would be difficult to get the tabs down in the substrate, in the back of the tank, behind all that hardscape, no? Look for easy stem plants instead. Pennywort and wisteria are super easy, grow tall and/or busy as well plus I find them very pretty. :)
 
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Thanks! Really like the anubias and buce for the driftwood. Some of the rocks I grabbed from the creek have moss on them, hoping it survives in tank.
 
Kids really like how mollys follow your finger around. Will get a handful of those, fry extra food for pictus lol.
 
Oh, yes! Angels would love your tank, although with pictus & mollies any eggs or fry will be food, not a bad thing at all. Raising fry is a PITA IMO+E. You could also get a group of , say 5 or 6 angels & if a pair (or more) forms go with it. The breeding behaviors are very interesting...unless you think your kids will be traumatized by fish eating baby fish & eggs, I don't have children...circle of life & all that, lol.
 
Lol, I think the same way. Not too much into raising fry. I kept some in a cage for 6 months. They were fine when I released them during the day. Once the lights went out, they were all gone. Different diet for the fish. I like to feed them large mosquito larvae too. They love that! And it's free and easy to get. Think I'm still going to wait a week or two for the canisters to build a good colony up.
 
Picked up a bristle nose today. Next week, depending on water status, I want to get the angels. Was think 3, or should they always be in pairs?
 
Whoa whoa whoa, you're moving awfully fast there. I know you have years of experience with fish so you probably know about the nitrogen cycle right? I think the tanks only been running for like a week? Even if you were planning a "fish-in" cycle, BN and angels would not be good choices for that and adding them all within the first 2 weeks is really too fast. Have you tested the tank yet? Just adding those hardscape materials from the river is probably letting off some ammonia as the organic life dies off from the transition.
 
I won't add them if water quality is bad. Ammonia is 0, nitrite 0. Nitrates were lower then expected, between 5 and 10.

I had staged some filter media in my old aquarium that I had placed in my new aquarium for a couple days before adding fish. Then moved some substrate, driftwood, and filter from old aquarium to new one.

I will give it a few more weeks before adding more fish though. Again, only if water continues to stay good.
 
And no not much experience, I do understand the nitrogen cycle though. My experience is mostly from my last 55g the pictus came out off. But that tank was so established after the last 11 years, it was self maintaining.
 
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