I finally am going to upload some more photos of my setup (much better colors!), I still didn't manage to catch all the fish or snails, but you'll get the point! I'll get some more later when I'll have it cleaned up a little (annoying leaves floating around all the time...) and when my plant experiment will be complete.. planning to add some more plants and pebbles..

1. Full tank shot! See the lovely purple-like plant on the right?? I hope I could add some more of those soon
All fish are visible here by the way, the descriptions are found in my signature if you care to identify them c:

2. My girls, Berry, Marmalade and Samantha! I still didn't 100% figure out Sammy's gender yet so we'll see... xD

3. Snails, Otto von Bismarck in the background, and Franz Ferdinand in white I have three more apple snails, two brown ones called Lev Trotskij and Vladimir Lenin and another white one called Dwight D. Eisenhower. My fiance decided the theme for their names.

So, once I'll get some more acceptable pictures of the rest of the gang, I'll be updating the post For now this sort of describes my situation.

For the details: This is a 317 liter/83 gallon setup.

Plants and decorations:
Java Ferns, Anubias, Cryptocoryne and various chunks of driftwood and rocks.

Lighting and filtration:
Using Arcadia Tropical bulbs in the hood, Fluval 400 (or something) internal filter stuffed with sponge medium and an external Eheim 2217 filter. Air stone + pump for cute bubbles (my Pleco has his jaccuzi on it.)

Inhabitants:
5 Apple Snails
8 Goldfish (Fantails, Orandas, Pearl scale)
1 Sail fin Pleco (roughly 7 inches.)

(Got another batch of platy babies in the Platy tank! Figuring to upgrade that soon.)

Very nice.

That snail looks like he is racing to get somewhere. lol

Nice to see a Goldie tank with nicely arranged live plants!

Fizgig: Thank you! I always loved well-planted tanks, so I'll be looking for more suitable plants still to get more variety...

Goldie: Thank you so much!! I'll be getting another one of those purple ones next week if it'll still be untouched It was so full of dark green before so I'd love a little bit more color..

Nope. Plant fertilizer is generally useless unless you want to keep fragile plants, which is completely out of question when keeping goldfish anyway
The plants will feed off the nitrogen produced by goldfish, so that should be more than enough for them to stay pretty as long as you have enough lighting

beautiful tank Nossie, I like the low foreground plantings it gives it a bit more depth, and being an avid historian I also like the names your partner has picked... I assume the Franz Ferndinand is the Arch Duke of Austria assasinated in 1914 (touted as the incident that started WW1) and not the band  ... cheers

Okay Nossie need a bit of help on my history homework. First question: who was the first Egyptian Pharoah?
Just Joking lol.

ooo I like Akhenaton, he is the most interesting... cheeers

I honestly don't remember the exact measurements anymore... but if I remember right it should be about 1,50m or so?
I'm at my parents' house right now, but I could measure it when I get back home tonight

CORRECTION: I just measured it! It's 130cm long exactly

Thank you so much!!

Sadly, Horus and the Calico fantail passed away, both really suddenly since last time you were here :/
So I'm on the lookout for something like a calico, black or chocolate oranda, maybe a red cap if they'll have one

oh, i'm so sorry!  I'm sure it was nothing you did wrong.
but i agree with fantailer, you should get the chocolate oranda!

I wonder if you could get a black oranda!

That's a good idea. I'd be worried for the little one inch babies going in there! 

  I haven't had that happen to me with goldfish. When I used to breed guppies, it happened quite often until I had the space for a new tank to keep the fry in!

oh i know! lol! i feel so bad for the poor babies