Greeting from TheShark
Ahoy,
I live in central Pennsylvania and have had my 120gallon freshwater tank for about 5 months. I use a Fluval FX5 filter and 2 Theo hydor heaters. Currently my digs host 2 blue gouramis (1 male, 1 fml) 1 gold gourami (fml), 10 small green tiger barbs, 2 cory juliis, and 1 rainbow shark.
I had more Corys but they didn't do so well in the beginning, even with frequent water changes. I'm hoping to add 2 more soon so they have more of a school but I want to be careful with them so I'm a little gun shy. Also, they only come out at night, very rarely during the day except to go from one hiding spot to another. All decor is fake but I think it looks pretty decent for a start. This pic attached is my first, I've moved things just a bit to hide the heaters better and I have a hollow hide-ey log in the middle back. I haven't had a fish in over 10yrs, since college when I had a betta.
So far I've been doing 50% water changes every 7-10days, usually 7. Hoping to add some more gouramis as well. The gold gourami and tiger barbs were just added over the last month.