chickadee

The tank is 29 gallons right? you cannot have that many fish in that size tank, sorry. One Bristlenose Cat needs 10 gallons so only plant on 2 at the most and you may get by with 8 Barbs.

Rose

Golden Fish

Thanks chickadee. I have not really researched the BNs yet. I won't be able to do any of this soon anyway (i'll change my mind a 100 times between now and then).

Omorrokh,
I have never messed with live plants. Wasn't to keen on starting out with them in a 10g with new Ottos. Atms talking me into it though. LOL. Maybe some Java Fern.

ATM,
yeah it sucks to clean algae off silk plants. I hate it.

atmmachine816

O changing the topic you don't need two bn's in a 29 gallon anyways, one keeps the algae control down, with two you would have to feed a lot of extra stuff like cucumbers.

Plants are really easy, if you get a few live ones like crypts and java fern and throw in some silk plants. I'v heard bleaching silk plants kills the algae or boiling them.