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[quote=Anonymous]We had one for 10 years and it was great! The real work and expense is up front. If you have a budget in mind, double it. Once you get everything established, get your water ph stable and appropriate, etc etc, I’d say it’s 20-30 minutes of work every two weeks to maintain.

I agree with PP that a planted tank is the way to go if you can get it to take. But it’s tricky and often fails even though you did everything right. And if it does take off, you might find yourself needing to mow your aquatic lawn!

We had everything over the years. All the fish you could buy at a big box pet store, shrimp, an electric blue crayfish. Even a tiny turtle for a few years (not compatible with a planted tank or any fish less than half its own length— sliders are good hunters, and omnivorous and voracious) but she grew fast and was released.

Neons are beautiful and I totally see your vision. They’re difficult though. Guppies were my favorite. Hardy, pretty, varied. Same as PP, we supplied guppies to anyone who would take them off our hands. We’d choose which ones to keep and then track their genetics in the offspring. We also used the aquarium and a cheap plastic microscope for a ES science fair project.

Overall great experience for the kids — maybe bc I did most of the work! But they loved it and spent hours observing. And I loved it. It was my hobby. And like many hobbies I went through all the permutations and levels of difficulty and eventually passed the whole thing down to another family. No regrets! [/quote]

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