Community Idea

[saltynay]

2-3 rope fishes
1 dragon gobies
10 glass catfish
10 khuli loaches (apparently they can adapt is this true?)
Archerfish
Nerite and apple snails
Some type of crab or land animal possible?

What live plants could I have?

Was thinking a beach extending about 20cm from the left then a steep slope into the water pockmarked with caves, sand continuining across half of the tank until it changes to some large river stones and finaly a few big trunks of bogwood all crisscrossing with mangrove trees growing through to make a dense criss cross of protective tunnels. Above this will be a riparium type system of multi-layered planting areas to provide some plant coverage and shooting gallery for the archerfish.

 

[Jonathangerous]

Tjox's are too active (during the feeding process), IMO for the dragon gobies. I'd stick with some more robust, thick fish. No loaches. No rope fishes. No apples. In fact, probably no snails of any kind, as I have found archers to be curiously nippy--this goes for smaller crustaceans as well. Puffers would be good oddities to have in the aquarium, but inverts would be in trouble.

Really, the only viable plants are going to be mangroves, and maybe turtle grass/cal. I would, however, leave it unplanted due to difficulty of obtaining these particular organisms.