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With a tank this big for little community fish, I need your help to make this the a very nice looking tank! Help me stock up some plants if you can! Thanks.

So far I have 2 altum angels,a pair of Golden Australe Killies,40 ghost shrimp, and 6 panda cory for start.

i went for mostly bosimian rainbows for my tank and a few angels and some oddball fish like ropefish, and four eyes

but a tank full of atum angels would be awsome, thats what i wanted to do but the cost of a atum is kinda pricy for the amount i want

Wait, are you asking for plant or fish species? If it's fish, then why'd you post in Planted Aquaria?

Well, as long as we're going with the fish, then I've got some suggestions. Get at least 15 panda cories. You'll be so glad you did. They're lots of fun, and even better in bigger groups. Then I'd get 25 harly rasboras/rummynose tetras/other good schooling fish. Four or Five bristlenose plecos, and 6 SAEs for any cleanup you need.

For plants, we'd need to know how much light you have.

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Hard to reccomend plants without knowing your lighting details.

Just general advice : with such a large tank reaching the substrate can be a bit tricky so avoid plants that need to be uprooted regularly. In other words keeps stem plants to a minimum. Yes you can trim them by cutting off the tops but eventually the bottom half becomes very ragged and needs to be replaced with the fresh tops. Doing a lot of this in a big tank can be a real pain.

Lots of swords, crypts, grasses, ferns and anubias. Provided they are planted in a location that they wont outgrow you shouldn't need to pull them up during their life time.

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I'd suggest Boosemani Rainbows/Neon Rainbows
Nigrans rainbows are good too
Harlie Rasboras, I have 6 in my 100 gal and they are very active
SAE's will probably be a good purchase against algae
Congo Tetras would look good
Panda Cories - although mine are easily spooked when they do come out they are very active
cardinal tetras add some colour
Dwarg Gouranamis
Hopefully these may have given you some ideas