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In the next 2 weeks I am going to remove those 3 ugly rocks and replace them with the piece of driftwood that is currently soaking. Also I will be adding more plants.

So r/aquariums give me suggestions on fish. I want to densely plant it and overstock my tank.

Some info about my tank

• 20 gallon long

• Aquaclear 30 HOB and an Aquaclear 50 HOB

• 30% water change every 3-5 days

Current Stock

• 10 Tiger Barbs (they are ~1.5 inches)

• 4 Green Tiger Barbs

• 2 Nerite Snails (going to get 2 Nerite sometime this weekend)

I am thinking of adding ONE of the following

• A pair of German Blue Rams

• A pair of Bolivian Rams

• 5-6 Cherry Ba

I am relatively new to the hobby and there is plenty of fish I don't know. Sometimes I just want to know what the flair someone is using.

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Equipment

• 20 Gallon Long

• Caribsea Floramax substrate

• Aquaclear 30

• Cascade 100W heater

• 72W with 4 x 18W 6500K lights

• petco air pump

Fish

• 10 Tiger Barbs

• 4 Green Tiger Barbs

Plants

• Micro Sword

• Java Fern

• Anubias Nana

• Anacharis (Egeria Densa)

• Cryptocoryne Wendtii

• Cabomba Caroliniana

• Some fern not sure about the species (got from petco)

• Some sword plant (from petco also)

Cycled for ~2 weeks added plants went through a mini cycle and added fish 3 weeks since start. So far ammonia and nitrite 0 ppm and nitrate is 10-20 ppm. I have been doing water changes to keep the nitrate under 20 ppm.

Currently

I started a 20 gallon long tank little over 2 weeks ago. My fishless cycling is coming to an end my ammonia is 0.25 - 0.5 ppm, 0 ppm nitrate and 10-20 ppm nitrate. I have been adding about 3ml of 10% ammonia every day for the past ~2 weeks. Today is the last day I am adding ammonia and once it drops to 0 ppm I am getting fish.

Stocking Options:

• Tiger Barbs (7-8 mix of normal and green) / Gold Barbs (5-6). This is what I am more leaning toward.

• Gold Barbs / rummynose tetra / neon tetra

• Assortment of tetras. Mainly because I like the rummynose tetras a lot.

I understand that rummynose tetras and neon tetras like slightly acidic water. My tap pH is 7.4-7.8 and my aquarium is also

I have been wanting to start an aquarium for a while but haven't had the time or the capital to do so. Recently I graduated and started work and now I want to start an aquarium.

This is my purchase list so far. Am I missing anything?

• 20 gallon long aquarium
• filter
• lighting
• heater
• test kit
• substrate
• gravel vacuum
• I want some plants but not sure what. For now I want simple plants so no need for CO2 injection and what not.
• after fishless cycling going to add 12-16 tiger barbs (variety of tiger barbs, green tiger barbs and albino tiger barbs), maybe some zebra danios. I am going to rework the numbers when I am closer to buying my fish
• maybe some drift wood or stone

Ques