100 Gallon

[jb12288]

Hey guys, its been a while since my 100 gallon has been back up. Yesterday my father and I went out the a nice creek area and collected some nice river stones to put in the tank. I am currently working on the hardscape and will not fill it up with water until I am totally satisfied with it. I am wanting to keep a type of gymno's in the tank, I am thinking Gymnogeophagus n.sp. "Yi" or gymnogeophagus balzanii. I have a substrate of pool filter sand for the eartheaters I will keep. I have an eheim 2217 canister filter to use (brand new ). Well here is my hardscape for right now, but it is going to change as I have this image in my head I just cannot piece together:

What do you guys think I should change around?

 

[jb12288]

bump

 

[jb12288]

BUMP

 

[Raechal]

I like the rocks. I want to do something similar with my tank but haven't found any nice looking rocks yet.

I think it looks good like that.

Are you thinking about maybe adding some live plants?

The fish might try to tear them up, but what I am doing is laying rocks around the plants to they are hard to dig up.

 

[jb12288]

I am not going to do a planted tank this time. I had my heartboken (not really), my old filters messed up and shot some nasty filter gook out, flooded the floors, and killed my plants and fish. That was over a $1000 investment down the drain and I am not going to risk it again.

 

[Davo86]

Are you thinking about maybe adding some live plants?

Agreed, If it was me I'd line the two far corners with Java Fern, and have a few small anubis plants in the centre in amongst the rocks,
from experiecne with my own cichlids i have found that those two plant species are usually left alone

 

[Bert]

I can't wait until the snow melts and I can get more rocks