fishmamma;3196178; said:
Hmmmm.... Spathodus. Marlieri or erythrodon? Interesting fish, I'll have to look into them, but I was at my LFS today and they had n. brichardi there and I never realized how small they actually are. But, I'll take spathodus into consideration too, my only problem is the fact that they'd be sharing the bottom with multis so it might cause territorial issues. Also, the fish concentration would be focused on the bottom half of the tank, rather than the 12", which is why I was looking more for fish that swim in the open waters along with the rocky formations.
UPDATE:
Okay, well I finally broke down my dad to take me to the LFS today and I brought my hard earned $50 just in case (didn't plan on spending that much
). So I was looking around (btw, we stopped at a Petco which was much closer but that place disgusted me) and found the submersible filter that I was looking for, but lets just say it didn't quite fit the budget. So I went with a sponge filter that is supposed to be for a 20 gallon tank, rather than a 10 so that I can get that more surface area to work with. I went in looking for plain ammonia, but the guy working there said there was a faster way to start the nitrogen cycle and he recommended me like 4 ounces of this nasty redish brownish looking liquid (I forgot the name) that he said was plain live bacteria that would have my tank cycled in 3-4 days. So I took his offer since I'm on a tight schedule I found out (going fishing in mammoth 
) But he said I needed an ammonia source. He recommended that I get this huge as like 5 -5 1/2 inch koi (which in reality isn't that big compared to the baby arapaima they had) in order to get the most ammonia out. I also bought a nitrite or nitrate 
confused test kit. When I went to the cashier, it ended up bing $49.?? 
. What the hell, when did this stuff get so frken expensive? There goes the hard earned allowance money that I had to raise by spending less on cafeteria food at school the last month and a half 
. Anyways, I set it up and here's what it looks like. I took apart the bucket that I had set up to temporarily house my corydora and betta and put the betta in its own bowl since I thought it was too fragile and the koi looks like he's going insane whenever the lights goes on always smacking into the walls 
. BTW, the cup full of gravel is from the bucket that was running, so I figured it had some beneficial bacteria to offer (Anything to speed up the cycling process 
) Sorry for the lengthy anecdote, but I did alot today
. Tell me what you think and what I should improve on.
Mahbad.
