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Elf
What they mean as cycleing is that you let the tank's filter run without any fish in it. If the tank is freshwater, then about a week is all you need, if salt go a month and get your rock bed going.
As for plants, well,they can be a giant pain in the ass and can cause your water to be all murky and nasty. You can get plastic plants that will last forever, create an attractive environment and not hurt your fish for a lot less than the live stuff. Just the water being in light with the temperature to keep the fish will cause alge to grow so a pleclostomist would be a valuable asset to your tank.
Then again there's what sort of fish you should get for your tank. You have community fish, semi-agressive and agressive. Commmunity fish can pretty much go together and get along with everything while your agressive fish . . .
Well,lets just say that if you turn off the light on a tank full of African Ciclids they'll kill each other in the night.
I'd recommend semi-agressive. The fish are hartier and you can still have some community fish in the tank as well without having an Aquatic Battle Royal. Not to mention most of your guraemis and larger tetras are semi-agressive and some of your prettier fish.
Good luck with your tank and yes, buy your fish at a true fish store and not Petco and so on and so forth.
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