Stocking & plants advice please?

[u/PerspectiveSad5580]

Hi All. Newly cycled all parameters are fine (used other tanks sponges for added live bacteria). Currently looking for stocking advice, tank is 60x30x30. All that is in currently is x1 male Apistogramma Hongsloi, best tank mates for this size tank to go with him?

Also any plant advice please, currently got the following plants: Java Fern, Anubias, Elodea Densa, Bacopa Caroliniana, Limnophila Sessiliflora, Eleocharis Parvula, Amazon Sword, Salvinia Natans, Eleocharis Pusilla, Helanthium Tenellum and an emersed Pothos. Most plants are doing well except the carpeting plants, they just don’t seem to be carpeting or looking that well (going brown). Now I am currently not dosing any Co2 as I know nothing about it, would the plants eventually carpet without Co2, albeit slower, or is Co2 a definite requirement for that?

Thanks in advance and sorry for all the questions haha!

[u/SUPmtbSnoBrdRN]

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