Just a quick update on this, after I adopted the gang from
@Nan The gang were moved to their larger tank a few weeks ago, and introduced to Bertie (lemon bristlenose), gold stripe corys, lemon tetra, glass bloodfin tetra, amano shrimp & nerite snails.
Sorry
@Matt after all the time you spent helping me to aquascape various tanks, but with this one I've regressed to just having a very practical layout with lots of hiding places for Bertie, and very easy plants that will probably survive being rearranged by the BN & corys on a regular basis, and don't need much maintenance.
I still haven't finished planting the tank as work is very busy. The company I work for manufactures diagnostic test kits (including Covid tests) so you can imagine how busy the past 12 months have been, and we are still working hard.
I just thought I'd post a few pics so Nan could see some of her fish, and I'll post more as/when I get the tank fully planted.
Big Bertha seems happy to have managed to get an entire wafer, while some of the other corys practise their synchronised cucumber nibbling. The large piece of wood which was relocated with the adopted fish has become a firm favorite with Bertie, who has found a very comfortable end to settle on, while the albino and gold strip corys do laps of the tank together. The moss on the wood had a bit of a "quarantine haircut" recently, but it's all growing back now.
Unfortunately the lone neon tetra passed a while back, but the oto is still going strong. I need to increase my numbers of tetra, and when the tank matures I'll look at getting the oto some friends too.
I hope to find the time & energy to finish the tank & post pics over the next few weeks.