deepdiver

hey, everybody. I have an extra 55 gallon that I was using as a grow-out. Now all the fish are in other tanks. I was going to go with an El Natural tank, but my girl is freaked out by fish so the tank need to stay in the fish room where there is no direct sunlight (or indirect for that matter). I just looking for some ideas. I'll tell you what I've come up with so far, and please input your own thoughts/ideas.

BOTTOM LAYER- mix of Schultz's aquatic/normal topsoil/sphagnum peat moss (2"or so)
TOP LAYER - playsand about 1" deep and maybe some already used Eco-complete for background

LIGHTS - 2 x 40 watt 6500k shoplights

FILTER - no filter. just one mini pump (80 gph max.) for water movement. I guess I could use the pump to make a small sump if I need filtration.

FAUNA - 30 or so Endlers 10 Cherry red shrimp and I might purchase some oto's.

PLANTS - I have water sprite, frogbit, ludwigia, java moss, java fern, amazon sword and egeria densa available. Most of my other plants are med.-high light species.

MAIN PURPOSE - of this tank is to be a grow-out for some corys when they spawn.

NO Co2 -


So, does this sound like a plausible idea?