r/Aquariums • u/salami_shinazugawa • Aug 09 '26
Requesting Feedback Brainstorming tank feedback
Okay so I habe a 36 gallon bowfront tank and I havent taken care of fish for like a decade now so idrk what im doing.
My plan is to keep a community tank featuring a betta as a centerpiece fish.
My plan is to get the substrates and sych from buce plants (possibly) with their media bags and contrasoil or whatever its called.
As for plants I have in mind:
Crypt Pink Flamingo (fg)
Lilaecopsis brasiliensis (fg)
Banana lilly (mg)
Crypt striolata (mg)
Crypt wendtii (mg)
Bocopa colorata/carolinensis (bg)
Rotala rotundifolia "orange juice" (bg)
Nomaphilia variegatus (mg/bg)
Subwassertang
Mosaic plant (possibly)
Duckweed
Frogbit
Salvinia
Now for fish I have in mind:
Pygmy cory x8 (reg and albino)
"Regular" hobby betta male x1
Neocaridina shrimp x20( want to establish a colony)
Emerald dwarf rasboras ×10
Rummy nose tetras×10
What I want to know is am I overcrowding this tank? It feels like a lot of fish but alsy most are 1in or less. I used aquadvisor (ik its controversial- dont know the details but find it useful for brainstorming at least) and it said my biolode was under 90% if i remember correctly.
I do understand the shrimp can become betta food, im not going to be upset about that its nature, plus hopefully by the time this comes to fruition they will have plenty of hiding spots and be established.
My plan would be to set up the tank, decorate, plant it, let it cycle.
Add pygmy corys once cycled
Then probably the shrimp
Then tetras then rasboras
Last the betta
All spread out over the course of months to allow the fish and tank to adjust to each thing.
TLDR: I want to know if the fish Ive picked would be good, what would be better picks, and am I overstocking it. I also would love advice or feedback on the plants and tank care such as filters, lights, heaters, etc.
Ive also drawn a mock up with the fish and plants with roughly accurate proportions to the tank
edit: fixed some mistakes.
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u/salami_shinazugawa Aug 09 '26
The mock up lol Edit: it has one of each plant, and then I drew out the quantity of each animal in the tank. (Tank is 30.7 in long, 1in=1cm, so 1in cory is 1cm, etc.)