converting 55 gl to planted, stocking help.

[sd760]

ok just a standard 55 gallon, need help with cheap lighting options and substrate suggestions im familiar with flourite and would probably end up using that.

as far as stocking of fish i was thinking of maybe and bichir if possible. but thats just a side thought. i really want colorful active fish maybe some blue rams or somthing.

please help really only am familiar with oscars and other central and south american cichlids

 

[Deep Blue Sea]

zig zag eel

 

[sd760]

they live in the sand. thats legit. i might have been confused by the video... wouldnt that mess with the plants and root structure

 

[dannyboiiii]

rams r cool,
as long as ur tank is cycled and u have no extreme flucuations in ur water parameters( which u wont) then there pretty hardy.
theres alot of colorful gouramis out there,
angel fish u could do, also all these stay a decent size so if u really wanted to add a bichir i think ud b fine

 

[Deep Blue Sea]

they live in the sand. thats legit. i might have been confused by the video... wouldnt that mess with the plants and root structure

I had one in a 20g planted before and it didnt seem to do anything to the plants

 

[sd760]

awsome i thnk gouramis would be awsome. thanks

 

[sd760]

what else should i get for main. and cleaning and entertaining to watch

 

[dannyboiiii]

a nice pleco, or some hillstream loaches there neat 2

 

[sd760]

ok cool I really like bristlenose plecos or gold nuggets. what about a cory like fish or cool loaches what are hillstreams like?

 

[Deep Blue Sea]

you could go with scats and make the tank slightly brackish, they get a lil bit bigger but u could buy them small and eventually either get a bigger or trade them back to the pet store for more smaller ones when they got about 12". Personally they seem jsut like cooler datnoids