This is the first tank that got me back into fishkeeping as an adult. It has been running for two and a half years with various plants coming and going. There must be like 8 swords in here that I've grown from one mother plant. The thing has produced at least 20 decently sized swords that you'd see at the store.

I really like this tank and I look at it all day since it's next to my wfh desk. Super fun to trim and play with the plants. I like to propagate and juice plants in here to move to my other tanks. Right now I am farming pearlweed.

Equipment

• 2x Hygger 36 inch programmable lights
• CO2Art CO2 regulator (I wanted this to be a Dutch style tank but that never worked and the tank has been running fine with the CO2 so I haven't turned it off.)
• Penn Plax Cascade 1000 canister
• Fluval M200 heater

Stocking

• 12 cherry barbs
• 12 Dwarf praecox rainbows
• Apistogramma macmasteri pair
• A few pygmy corydoras (I had ich earlier this year and unfortunately I don't think many made it. I had 9.)
• L129 Colombian zebra pleco
• Two Amano shrimp
• Two Japanese trapdoor snails
• One pagoda snail
• One rabbit snail

This colony is about 10 months old and started from a pair in a 10 gallon. The pair were really skittish in the 10 and did not breed very well even when coaxed with gobs of live baby brine. Got two spawns and only two fish survived from each.

I moved them to the 20 long after 4 months and they are much more prolific and the spawns are having better success. There is a spawn from the main pair about once every month and a half and about 10 fry survive (or are born) with just live baby brine and crushed flake being fed.

These fish exhibit super awesome behavior and are hardy. The whole colony survived my dumb ass creating a nitrate spike for around two weeks while the filter was clogged with duckweed and hardly flowing.