My planted tank (well was more planted before CAEs)

[tjfish]

Here are a couple pics of my tank. Water is a lil cloudy from a water change before the pic lol.
It is 20 gallons. Lighting is one normal t8 strip.
Filtration is a small emperor biowheel, and the second one was running before i planted it and just left it as my makeshift co2 diffuser and actually has no media in it lol.
Substrate is plain aquarium gravel covered with black sand.
It houses my 4" pictus cat (for now), my 4" spotted raphael, a 3-4" eclipse cat, a few female guppies (also temporary), a small pleco, and lastly, my long sought after Belonesox Belizanus
I had about 2-3x this many plants in there before i foolishly decided to put a couple small chinese algae eaters in there to get rid of some algae, now i cant catch them without tearing up the whole tank so soon i will be planting after i catch them.
Anyway all comments and suggestions welcome.
The last pic was taken when i first planted a few plants, the first and second pics are whats left now of the ones that grew and didnt get devoured by the CAEs.

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[Dr. C]

i cant help but feel half those plants look plastic, nice driftwood anyhow

 

[tjfish]

The one in the far right rear corner is indeed plastic, put there to provide cover for the Belonesox til the rest of the plants grow more. The rest are actually quite live lol
And thank you, i really like that particular piece of driftwood.

 

[SanWa]

Looks alright mate, the dark sand brings out the contours of the driftwood. Yeah your set-up should look better when the plastic plant has been discarded and the live plants settle in.

 

[tjfish]

Thanks. Im waiting on some java moss and a handfull of other plants from a guy that is changing his setup. should be within the next month or so, im holding out for that so i dont have to buy more plants lol

 

[Fat Homer]

Love the piece of driftwood... as for the tank, i think once it all grows in it should look pretty good...

 

[tjfish]

Thanks. Im actually planning on planting some more once i get the CAEs outta there.