New Tank...ideas, Blah Blah Blah

[Snooks1!]

Well, I went out and bought a 5 gal hex aquarium for Ziand. As you guessed...I want your opinions on gravel, plants, ect ect. This tank may be going in a spot where you can't really see it from the sides and such...So I may have to scape it so it's more viewable from the front...maybe not - if my friend will sell/give me a stand I found out at his house. ( It's almost perfectly fit for it..)

I would prefer to put black gravel or black sand in it if I can...But if some-one suggest something more interesting, odds are I'll go with that.

What will be in there for sure:

1x Black/yellow male Betta ' Ziand'
1x Black Apple snail
1x Piece of driftwood
Xx Cherry shrimp

 

[Esfa]

tie quite a bi of anubias nana to the bogwood, needs nothing special to grow. Would look good.

 

[lovemyfraggies]

That sounds cool. I would go with the black gravel.

 

[hollyp0p]

That sounds cool. I would go with the black gravel.

yea whatever you go with go with black!

 

[goin_all_out]

i have black geo gravel in mine. its quite a fine gravel. looks great too

 

[Snooks1!]

I might also be adding some corys... or maybe an Oto...Though I was thinking 2 albino [pygmy] corys, but I'm not sure how they'd take to the dark substrate. Maybe just panda corys instead, no?

 

[goin_all_out]

well i know if u are going to go cories then you have to go with sand. i had cories on gravel once and things didnt urn out so well

 

[Snooks1!]

well i know if u are going to go cories then you have to go with sand. i had cories on gravel once and things didnt urn out so well

Just an idea... I may or may not go with corys, and I may or may not go with sand...I have until thursday or so to decide. I may, if I don't get any decent suggestions, go with this black gravel with green specks my Really Not so LFS sells.

 

[goin_all_out]

i think cories are great, and cute for a fish ottos are great too, considering that they are great algea cleaners if you have some slow growing plants in a tank.

 

[Snooks1!]

i think cories are great, and cute for a fish ottos are great too, considering that they are great algea cleaners if you have some slow growing plants in a tank.

I already have an oto in my other 5 gal tank...I kind of wanted something different. And I'm more than likely going with black sand in the bottom...So corys would be fine in there...

 

[Snooks1!]

By chance, does anyone know what sort of corys the albino ones you see at shops are?

I'd like to get a few of those but, I don't really know quite how big they get. Any help?