just an fyi about live plants. They may have snails in them. These stupid things reproduce fast as hell and the next thing you know you can have a shit ton of them. That happened to us when my mom got some live plants. We had to buy a clown fish to eat the snails, plus we had to use chemicals to kill the rest. It still took awhile to kill them all. So if you do go with live plants i would suggest doing what we did this time around. We put the plants in a bucket of water for like a week and had the snail killing chemical in there to hopefully kill any snails on the plants before they were added to the tank.