COOL!! beautiful painteds

i agree with the other peeps about just having bare bottom, alot easier when it comes to tank cleaning

i have some floating plastic plants for them to chill/hide in too maybe look at duckweed (you can put live ones, but tear apart live ones like nothing and your filter will be clog with leaves)
here are a few pictures of plastic plants if you want to use them. I forgot what they are called but the replicate some of the live ones
http://www.turtlesale.com/images/plastic_plants_aquatic_1.jpg