I've now added four small (they'll grow!) Clown Loaches, and six Red Phanton Tetras to the community tank.

Real characters are already beginning to show themselves in there!

nice m8, we get pics soon ?

D'ya know, I'd not even thought about pix of non-goldfish on this site! Yes, of course - in the next 10 mins or so hopefully!

Ok, so this is the whole tank....

This looks like a mirror image, but in fact it's both of my Kissing Gouramis next to each other!

And finally - these are 3 of the Red Phantoms, with a Clown Loach frolicking (do they frolick? This one sure does!)..

vvv nice m8, you might want to put something like a stocking covering the slits on the breeding trap, the gouramis will be able to suck the babies through the holes !

Kev

really nice! Lovely tropical tank,do you know how many
gallons it is.I think i may start my own community tank someday.
Great job!

Yeah, it's bang-on a 30g! Not the largest of community tanks I know, but once again, I've gone wildly over the top with filtration, and I already have plans for moving fish to other homes if they get too large for this one! Once I've moved house, there should be room for a 100g community tank - and that is where I STOP!

Plus, the rules are slightly different for tropicals, and they are nowhere near as dirty(not a nice word to describe it) as goldfish!

30g is a great size community tank, by my rules, you could have 30 inches of trop fish in there

My only tropical tank is 15 gallons,so you have a big enough
tropicals tank.
I wouldn't call goldfish dirty fish,but you can say they are
pretty messy fish.
If im not mistaken the rules for tropical fish is by inches?

Nice set -up by the way! I have always kept tropicals,and I love them ! There are just so many to choose from,and they're all so different looking!