Check out my 90 gal live planted, thoughts?

[Chippah]

First off, hello! This is not the first tank I've had, but it's the first time really making a hobby out of it. I've enjoyed perusing this forum a bit for referencing so I thought I'd share what I have so far.

Tank:
90 gallon 48x24x18

Filter:
2 Emperor 350 HOBs

Light:
Finnex 24/7 Planted (1st gen)

Substrate:
Sand

Plants:
Anubias
El Nino Ferns plus a few babies I'm trying for the first time to get to take off.
Temple Compacta, a bunch. Seriously, I bought one pack from PS that had a couple few stalks in it. Already grew to the top, cut in half and replanted. Plus a couple babies that were in the shadows of it that I moved to good light.
I bought a 5 pack from DFT, but it didn't specify which 5 I got, so the rest are somewhat unknown to me. I'll post them eventually and maybe someone could help me.
Marimo Moss Balls 3 of them, they are awesome.

Stuff:
Pirate ship
Whiskey Barrel
Driftwood 4 pieces of spiderwood

Fish:
3 Dalmatian Mollies
2 Cobra Guppies
2 Tuxedo Guppies
2 Tequila Sunrise Guppies
2 Otos
2 JuulI Corys
2 Albino Corys
2 Peppered Corys
4 Neon Tetras

Food:
Flakes and zucchini, bottom feeder pellets coming from Amazon this week.

I just got into trying to make the plants more interesting than just one bunch of a single plant here and there. I think it's coming together well for not having any large rocks or anything to work with other than the small pieces of driftwood I'm using for the ferns.

There's also a heater in there of course, but I don't know the specs off hand.

Check it out, let me know what you think and where I can improve!

 

[Donthemon]

Looks great. I would add more neons . They need a bigger school like 10 or so.

 

[ProudPapa]

Welcome,

It's a nice tank, but since you asked, as Donthemon said the neons (and all other tetras) are shoaling fish and do better in groups. Six is often used as the minimum number but more is always better. The same is true for corys. I'd encourage you to pick your favorite variety, get 8 more of them, and rehome the other two varieties.

Please don't take this as criticism, because wanting a lot of different kinds of fish is common. I was the same way (and still struggle with it), but the fish will do better, and the tank will generally look better, with fewer varieties in larger groups.

 

[MacZ]

Honestly: More driftwood, more plants, some rocks, less ship, less barrel.

 

[ProudPapa]

Honestly: More driftwood, more plants, some rocks, less ship, less barrel.

I don't disagree, but I didn't go there. Everyone has different tastes.

 

[MissNoodle]

Looks great 90gal though, you could up each of those cory groups to 6 of each kind heck, could do 8 of each too... plus more neons too

 

[Chippah]

Looks great. I would add more neons . They need a bigger school like 10 or so.

Welcome,

It's a nice tank, but since you asked, as Donthemon said the neons (and all other tetras) are shoaling fish and do better in groups. Six is often used as the minimum number but more is always better. The same is true for corys. I'd encourage you to pick your favorite variety, get 8 more of them, and rehome the other two varieties.

Please don't take this as criticism, because wanting a lot of different kinds of fish is common. I was the same way (and still struggle with it), but the fish will do better, and the tank will generally look better, with fewer varieties in larger groups.

Looks great 90gal though, you could up each of those cory groups to 6 of each kind heck, could do 8 of each too... plus more neons too

No worries on you inputs, this is how we learn and get better!

As far as the numbers of tetras and corys, this is the result of partial research. I knew the neons like to school, I didn't realize a bigger school 10+ was preferred. I'll likely get more this weekend. Kind of the same deal with the corys except I didn't realize that this was not a group of 6 corys, it's 3 groups of 2 corys each. I'll up their counts in a few weeks after the new neons are happy.

Honestly: More driftwood, more plants, some rocks, less ship, less barrel.

I don't disagree, but I didn't go there. Everyone has different tastes.

My original plan was a large piece of driftwood for that left 2/3s of the tank, but price and prep kind of turned me off to it. I don't think I have anything big enough to boil such a large piece. I have been and will continue to look for more interesting pieces though to keep adding.

As far as more plants, my plan is to keep topping the current ones and replanting the tops like I did with the Temple Compacta. It's kind of hard to see in that pic, but the original bunch is directly under the heater. It's already grown to the surface and been cut and replanted to everything that's at the back and right side of the ship!

I hear you guys on the ship and whiskey, but if you knew me, it's kind of my personal stamp on the tank. As the tank gets fuller tho it may be the odd man out so to say, who knows!

Thanks for you input and kind words folks, I look forward to posting and learning more with you all!

 

[Derek2408]

Pretty cool looking tank. I’m usually not a fan of decorations , I’m more of a natural look person. But this looks cool. You def have plenty room for more of each fish in there. But , better to be under than overstocked.

 

[KDS]

I like it and agree with the others about the neons and corys. I am a natural tank guy where my wife likes the decorations. We compromise and some of our tanks have decorations. Decorations make great pleco caves anyway so if you like the decorations, go for it!

 

[Chippah]

Here's a quick fly by video so you can get a better idea of what's all in there