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Okay. Six days ago I got my first aquarium! It is 20g and I stocked it on the third day. That's what I had read but I know now that it was a mistake. Anyway, I have 6 Zebra Danios right now and I'm planning to add 2 Dwarf Gouramis. I will definitely have to put some more plants in before I do so. Here are some pictures:


Here's the tank as a whole. Really bare right now. This picture was taken right after the fish were added.


This is my filter pounding down on the surface of the water. I'll be doing a 20% water change tomorrow. Should I add some more water so it doesn't come down so hard?


This is the best picture I could get of the Danios. Those things are really fast!

I don't have pictures yet but I just bought a solid blue background. Any suggestions as to what I should add next would be greatly appreciated. I would like to have invertebrates but I'm not sure if I should add them right now. I read that you have to have some type of conditioning salt for the gouramis. Is that true? If it is, will the Danios be harmed by the salt?
Thanks for all the help,
Demented Yogurt

I wouldn't trust a lobster with little fish in that small a tank. Might get a fish while it's sleeping and some fish like to sleep on the bottom (like gouramis...at least mine do). The flakes should be fine as long as you don't add too much : ) your fish will go look at the bottom anyway for food. If you want bottom feeders there are lots of small loaches to pick from or cory cats.

That gourami does sound like a flame.

The puffers are really fun and cute. Too bad they make terrible room mates...bad for a community >_<

you dont need the drifting plants if you like it bright :3 just add other plants to the sides and back and maybe drift wood so if the fish need to hide they can. smile as long as it isnt so empty in there...they will be out in the open more otfen

but if you DO want floating plants they make really nice plastic ones

The plants are indeed not needed, it's just a personal favorite of mine. I tend to make my tanks quite dark. A bit too dark sometimes sweatdrop
Doesn't mean you'll have to do it too though. Aquascaping is like decorating a house, there's no right or wrong and everyone has their own style. That's half of the fun of seeing other people's tanks. razz

Oh, and Cories are semi schooling fish, so they like eachothers company. It's really fun to see how they interact with eachother too, they are quite the bussy bee type.

If you wan't floating wood, take cork. It's unsink able and cheap. It usually doesn't stain the water eighter.

get the albino ones if you like em :3 you will still see em heck they might look even whiter since fish can change color slightly...the darker the background they are on the darker they may turn

he doesnt sound too good D:
anything look odd on his body? how about his body shape? does he look like he has a sunken belly? do the other fish kind of pick on him?