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What type of plant should I get to attach to my driftwood and make it look like it has grown onto my driftwood? Also do you recommend an undergravel filter of not?
 
Java moss or black moss if you can find it will look good with the driftwood, vals or saggitera, are good tall framing plants, and caromba is a nice feathery filler with maybe pygy swords or small cryptocormes as fore ground plants, most rooted plants don't do as well over a ugf them as without one. I ugfs but leave one that is undersized for the tank so I have stips of gravel to each side as a planting area and I also plant the cryptos and such in small pots set into the gravel which offsets the ugfs current effect on rooted plants.
If you don't mind a tank with fish of mixed origins you could keep 2 corys, a pictis cat, a horsefaced loach or a banded spiney eel, a dwarf gourami, 3 congo tetras, and a pair of african butterflyfisn in a standard 29g which would give you an active tank with several body types and movement styles, while getting to keep some fair sized and not that common fish.
 
discus are nice in a planted tank, and so are oscars, mine like the planted tank
 
in my tank i got 7 tiger barb, 3 green moss tiger barbs, 4 angels, 1 pictus catfish, 2 kuhli loaches, 2 black windows, 2 crown loaches they are doin good they never attack each other and i love them :woot: :naughty:
 
I would def. go for some kind of Appistogramma

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or Badis badis bengalensis:

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or Microgeophagus:

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or Dicrossus maculatus:

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or maybe even a dwarf pike like Crenicichla notophthalmus:

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They would make it a bit more exciting to look at. Just one pair or a trio would work fine, if you make enough hiding places and not to many other bottom inhabitants.
 
That pike in the last picture is amazing! Is it the species you mentioned?
 
Tainted Glory said:
I'm a fan of discus in the planted tank, but there are a number of option. Among them are cardinals, rummynose, broken bar tetras, angels, ottos, small cories, harlequin rasboras, etc.

Tainted gave yaz a great list, but he left out Serpae tetras... ;) ...and diamond tetras! Aside from that...not to shabby....how about a few gourami....they are great! Or Festivum cichlids...they are really laid back cichlids and gorgeous!
 
Bugga...i can't find a picture of my fav. dwarf pike....there is a strain of Crenicichla regani TEFE that is just spectacular...but that dwarf is also very pimpin in deedy!
 
softturtle said:
That pike in the last picture is amazing! Is it the species you mentioned?

Yeah it is!!! It is nice right? Only gets 16 cm max!!!

This is Crenicichla regani, if I am right.

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It looks good, I would def. get a Crenicichla dwarf!
 
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