My first experience with eggcrate

[kyryah]

I meant African Butterfly fish...



I guess I will have to go with something other than the tetras, that is fine.

Let me snap a couple more pics, I got a bit anxious and started putting the BG together before I scrubbed the tank, lol, so I will have to wait to GS it until tomorrow after I clean it. It was another Craigslist freebie

Kristina

[kyryah]

This is what I have so far, I still have to do the waterfall. The hose that is there is to run the water through. The filter will be hidden behind the corner section, no false bottom, and that is all I am telling for now! I want to post all at once, I am pretty proud of my ideas, lol.

Kristina

[beckdg]

anything i have except for the farlowella and the sae's should do great in there... there is also danios, white clouds, tetras... (lemon, cardinal, and neons are more likely to have neon tetra disease), many many small catfish... i will leave picking them out for you to do... you can also do a dwarf gourami, rams,... i can't think.... gotta look up those butterflies.... loaches, mollies, swordtails, small goldfish... there really is a lot... the hardness of your water will be the deciding factor on what lives, but too hard should really not be too much of an issue with all that wood, although if it is too hard it could still be... i would try to stick to under 3"... if it is a wide fish maybe under 2"

[kyryah]

I am second guessing the Butterflys. I am thinking they might be a bit too aggressive for me... But I want to do some more reading.

Kristina

[froggsong]

Ahhh, Kyryah... you've got good wood, care to share some with me??? ::waggles eyebrows::

Ok, seriously, I'll behave... It is nice wood though... Did you find it, or buy it?

[kyryah]

Found it, baby! Too dang poor to go buying what I can get for nada, lol!

Why d'ya think that I get all those free Craigslist tanks?

There is a city composting area one town over, that is where I found the biggest piece... I am going back for more once the weather warms up, I didn't have the saw with me the first time The other two I found in various other places.

Kristina

[beckdg]

yeah i found some nice wood myself recently... i'd share it with you guys but i'm an idiot... i was in the mountains for a baby shower and decided to go for a foraging hike in the back yard with the kids... ::i suspected i'd need a couple little helpers:: ... we gathered everything and waited out the night for the visit... don't you know we get home, unload the van... and then it hits me... i just lost a couple hundred dollars worth of wood cause i never loaded them up in the van... doh... oh well they should be delivered soon enough (hopefully)!

[beckdg]

omg... don't count out rasboras!

[kyryah]

I like those, they are adorable!

I was looking at kuhli loaches, too... Considered doing a brackish water tank, but I really want to add a frog or small lizard, and the only frog I can find that I would want is a pickerel frog.

Kristina

[beckdg]

ooohhh.... no loaches for a community tank... some say they were successful, but i doubt it!... i purposely got some that would be smaller and they decided to ravage my guppies to no end... ime, they are not friendly to little guys at all!... and they eat snails very well!!!!