This is the first tank that got me back into fishkeeping as an adult. It has been running for two and a half years with various plants coming and going. There must be like 8 swords in here that I’ve grown from one mother plant. The thing has produced at least 20 decently sized swords that you’d see at the store.
I really like this tank and I look at it all day since it’s next to my wfh desk. Super fun to trim and play with the plants. I like to propagate and juice plants in here to move to my other tanks. Right now I am farming pearlweed.
Equipment
- 2x Hygger 36 inch programmable lights
- CO2Art CO2 regulator (I wanted this to be a Dutch style tank but that never worked and the tank has been running fine with the CO2 so I haven’t turned it off.)
- Penn Plax Cascade 1000 canister
- Fluval M200 heater
Stocking
- 12 cherry barbs
- 12 Dwarf praecox rainbows
- Apistogramma macmasteri pair
- A few pygmy corydoras (I had ich earlier this year and unfortunately I don’t think many made it. I had 9.)
- L129 Colombian zebra pleco
- Two Amano shrimp
- Two Japanese trapdoor snails
- One pagoda snail
- One rabbit snail
Tank looks nice. Cherry barbs are great and in my opinion underrated.
I am a big cherry barb proponent. Super peaceful. Awesome interactions and differences between the males and females. I want to try gold barbs next since they look like little goldfish.