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This is a movie of my 55 gallon freshwater aquarium. It is a community tank with a variety of semi aggressive and community fish. If you have any other questions, feel free to message me or leave your comments!

The water quality has a PH of around 6.7 and is hard. Water changes made about ever 3-4 weeks.

I have had alot of luck with breeding my Tigerbarbs (3rd generation), guppies, mollies and cories (2nd generation).
My cherry barbs also produce eggs weekly but they are always low in quantity and impossible to get out before the other fish eat them. Same with my tiger-barbs. My cories also will produce eggs on water changes.

No CO2 or liquid fertilizers are used for the plants, as I like to keep water quality free of chemicals. The amazonicus does have fertilizer sticks as they are heavy root feeders. I also think having a heavily stocked tanks provide abundant nutrition and C02.

Overall, I would say my tank is overstocked with fish but I run an extra filter and I have not lost a fish in a very long time. So seems balanced.

Fish in this aquarium:

Semi Aggressive species
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Tiger barbs (6)
Albino Barbs (6)
Red Tailed Shark (1)

Community friendly species Include:
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Bronze Cory (15+?)
Pepper Cory (4)
Spotted Cory (3)
Misc. Unknown Rescue Cory (2)
Cherry Barbs (6)
Opaline gourami (3)
Oto cats (6)
Common Pleco (1)
Platinum Molly (2 adult, Fry?)
Black Lyertail Molly (2 adult, Fry?)
Dalmation Molly (3 adult, fry?)
Feeder Guppy (3 adult, fry?)
Clown Pleco (2, not shown due to hiding)
Spotted Raphael Catfish (1, not shown due to hiding)

Other:
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A few varieties of misc snails like pond, trumpet...

Plants and Aquascape
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Long Stemmed Hornwort
Duckweed
Java Fern
Echinodorus amazonicus
Driftwood (Mopani and collected)
Landscape Rocks
Special Plant Substrate (laterite clay)
Sand Substrate (pool filter sand)

Equipment:
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55 Gallon Long Aquarium
All glass aquarium lids
2 x Hagen AquaClear 70 filters
2 x T5 Nova Extreme Lighting Strips with 10k daylight and plant growth bulbs
Light timer power strip for 12 hr period of day lighting
ViaAqua heater set to 78F

Feeding:
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Variety of Pellet / Flake/disc food from http://www.angelsplus.com/
Fish love their stuff!