Hello everyone, just thought I'd post my first freshwater Tank build. I was into reef tanks, but after a bad power outage and the loss of all my stock and fish; I've been out of the hobby for a while. This here's my 60 gallon 24x24 cube. I'm going to be adding Cichlids and corys only. Any advice on stocking would be greatly appreciated. Right now as you can see from the pics, I'm running a wet/dry sump, and a Eheim 2217 both packed with Seachem Matrix and Eheim strat Pro. I"m using a rio pump running at about 300-350gph in the sump, combined with the eheim at 200-250 gph. I'm running about 8-10 turnover in my tank. I may add a power head to move waste from the sand if necessary, but thought I'd wait and see. The river rock is all hand gathered from lake Michigan shoreline(It's great to live in Michigan). And the sand is just filter sand. The light just arrived this week, and I'm not to happy with it. It's a 24" marineland Single bright LED. The reviews on it said it was brighter than a single florescent, but it's not. I guess after being in saltwater using 1-2watt Leds, T5s, and Metal Halides not much else compares. Any ways back to stocking. I would like to add cichlids, I'm not to familiar with the different kinds other than american and African. Water parameters are no problem for me. I purposely chose cichlids do to there high ph and like of hard water. Very open to suggestions on species. Detailed stocking help would really be appreciated. Also if Cichlids are jumpers, I'll need to add some type of hood. What are some suggestions to use, tried eggcrate. Looks ugly on rimless. Thick Plexy maybe? I will be adding water here in a couple hours, just waiting on some pvc glue to dry. Thanks 













