Hi all, complete newbie from Australia here, I have three tanks, but only one currently running.
It's a very basic four foot tank with flourite black, an inline co2 and basic LED light that came with the tank. I'm not even 100% sure what it's planted with as everything was in such poor condition when I got it a couple of days ago due to a BBA outbreak. I've culled a lot of the plants because it was a mess, and done an excel dip, scrubbed down the hardscape, changed out the gravel substrate and added another filter (partly to help with get things under control, partly to seed extra media to get my other tank started quicker). I think the plants in the tank are mainly amazon swords, and one or two very sad looking crypts (they were completely covered in BBA, I had to cull and prune most of it...hoping the random clean leaves left are able to resurrect). I have to do more research to be sure which is partly why I joined here.
The original fish inhabitants are one fairly largish featherfin, two bristlenoses and two yoyo loaches. I have added three more small yoyos as the two in the tank were tormenting each other and I know they do better in larger groups. This has settled some of the aggression, but I know this tank will eventually be too small for them, so I'm setting up my other tanks.
My other two tanks are a 5ftx1.5x1.5 tank I've had sitting empty for the past five years, and a project tank 7ftx3x3.5. I'm going to fill the 5ft today and leave it for a week as a leak test before setting it up properly with its fx5 filter, a co2 reactor I have on order and a full spectrum led plant light I've had in storage for a while. I'm planting that one out with mainly anubias, crypts, ludwigia and HC ground cover. It's going to house cories and clown loaches (grow out for them) with a few turquoise rainbows and guppies as dither fish.
Once these two are running smoothly (haha), I'm turning my attention to my huge project tank. This one I'm going to set up as a river biotope for my clown loaches when they get too big for the five footer, with shrimp living in the sump maybe and a lot of hardy plants well established hopefully before they get there. When the clowns move to the project tank, the yoyos will take over the five footer.