howdy i live in utah. i have a 29 gallon planted tank with three pieces of amazonian drift wood. i have all sorts of plants some cork screw val a bananna plant two red ones some micro sword java moss, duck weed, money wort, and some mondo grass that i really dont like. the fish i have are one rainbow shark, one rubber nosed pleco,5 dwarf cory's, 4 neon tetras,4 rosy barbs,4 zebra danios,2 rudolph shrimp , and one tiger shrimp. it's alot of bottom dwellers but they all are doing fine. I also have a ten gallon tank with two red clawed crabs in them. it has sand lava rock and some drift wood in it. it's about 3/4 filled with a submersible heater and the drift wood pokes out the top. i had a 20 gallon when i was a kid and have recently started getting into fish again.