Chuckmeister

I'd tie up some Java Fern around your wood (or smaller pieces and place them) and maybe some Anubias maybe behind the rocks to help add depth or dimension and also colour contrast to the tank. 

For me.. and only my opinion... in a 2 foot cube you are fairly limited. You have layers. An upper and lower. The upper is an issue, as upper can become lower in a small Tanganyikan tank. 

A 2 foot cube is a tiny tank. I had a 2ft cube years ago that was a multifasciatus  tank. The bottom was active but they were pretty aggressive even for a small fish. The top was inactive but I couldn't see an active tank mate in such a small environment. You could introduce other lamprologus species but you'd be inviting open warfare.

If I had a cube now I'd probably do one of 2 things (actually the 3rd thing is what I'd do)

First a Multi tank alone.

second  (if you had the height) would be a pair of Lamprologus ocellatus for the bottom and maybe a couple of Cyps or leptos, even though I think they deserve more space.

To me perfectly honest if I had a cube again...I'd plant it out and fit it out with some flashy neons etc

lights....I don't know why these things are so fickle..random quality and so expensive !!

For me Oxygen is the biggest issue in transporting fish. If you are traveling an hour then just bag them or bucket them and you'll have no issues. And Like Link says, a couple of drops of prime won't hurt.

I bought 4 makemyled lights, 3 full spectrum planted and a 10k along with light controllers, stands etc. Did 3 planted spectrum for my top tank  (which was planted)and the bottom tank which had Tanganyikan's  ended up with the 10k. His new stuff may be ok (dont know) but his older stuff is garbage. I got little customer support because it was a couple of years of use. I get it...it was outside 12 months of use (so I was told as well as being told that the drivers he was using at the time were faulty/unreliable). Would I blow quite a sizeable sum of money on these lights again...well no.

Its not often I feel I was ripped but this wasn't one product failure, but 4 all in short succession by MMLED. Each section of every light failed in the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJF0TO_Vvko

Listen, im not having a shot at you guys personally but this is so fail and lazy it beggers belief. Everything from a community takes effort. I recently got in touch with someone because I noticed that Dave (yew) had let his domain (and web site expire). I saw this as an opportunity to reclaim a name and old respect that should never have been lost. A chance of reclaiming an identity and refocusing back to a state focused forum (pretty exciting I thought). I even offered to buy sydneycichlid.com and 5 years of hosting on whoever the admin is at the times behalf. ACE was never going to become a central forum or hub for all states, even though people like myself in WA will happily call this forum home. It lost its direction. It was a mis-guided attempt at pushing a popular forum at the time past its natural boundaries. There is so much wrong atm that it needs to be gutted completely and have a fresh start. I mean I had a look at the admins. Half have been awol for years....the other quarter are listed as past mods and 2 or 3 regulars. There are useless sticky posts that are redundant. Rules and regulations dating back to lungy terrorizing the forums without realizing that the software is so much easier to admin now. Dont even get me started on that ACE logo...I cant even read it. Broken articles.

Anyway without getting into a rant, the same suggestion was offered up about facebook to me, basically suggesting that its too hard  (to compete)...so really I cant be bothered coming back here myself atm n(often). Whats the point when even the admin, mods etc think that facebook is the place to be.

I mean I'm even looking at my post page here and its allowing me to upload files of half a GIGABYTE... I mean Ged really should have retired his admin status to Link before he decided to abandon ship!!

Everyone has different experiences, some better than others...i've never personally got rid of these pests other than a tank shutdown and clean. I've done loaches etc and never had a good run with them but I do over feed (and even light feeding didn't rid the problem). I did have better control with food contro (to an extent)l. Most people cant eradicate these through a few loaches and a simple google search indicates the difficulty of this snail. My assumption from the OP is that he is running a sump, not a cannister even though both probably harbour the same problem (containing snails)

edit - might revisit this in the morning, correct my spelling and grammer...its a late night

If you have MTS then really you take the option of control vs nuking. You'll never get rid of them with any control method.

The easiest way to control them is by food control. If you start feeding smaller portions more often so your not getting food to the bottom feeding the snails.

Most people who get these just say embrace them lol. I'm a little more hard headed and prefer to nuke my tanks. I would be devastated if I got them in my 8 footer though because I would never get the fish out limiting my choices. I'm even careful introducing fish into my tanks. I dont put any water from the aquarium shop or breeder into my tanks though I dont go as far as quarantining them.

The only way I've had success getting rid of them is by starting over.

I was worried about snails making my planted tank but was pretty anal and soaked every plant in Potassium permanganate (been lucky so far and not seen one). You might be able to run a dose through your system for a few days but it might stain your silcone internally. Without fish in the tank of course. Doing this will nuke your system so you'll be looking at recycling your tank etc.

You could also try doing the same with h2o2 ( Hydrogen Peroxide) It is one of the most powerful oxidizers, stronger than chlorine, and potassium permanganate

I just want to note that I haven't tried either method though I would do h2o2 if I ever got any of these buggers again. Its a big undertaking getting rid of these guys.

There is also a commercial product. I think its called snail rid or something similar (never used it). I'd imagine you would still need to remove your fish and you have to expect a substantial ammonia spike as your snails die and decompose.

looks like a neat solution, well done

If the gap along the top is too big and releasing too much air, you could go to bunnings and get some of that self adhesive weather stripping (or similar). I use it internally for droughts.

Roll your door up and place it on your door...done.

Not sure about your door but my gaps are pretty small. If your gaps are bigger maybe try and find a similar solution somewhere like clark rubber.

I am assuming that your roller door is different to mine. The door runs down the back of the wall

In my case I would just stuff foam on the inside gap till its flush with the door.

My old garage conversion I made a complete false wall behind the roller door. Simply liquid nailed a length of 2 by 1 along the top and bottom (roof and floor) made a quick door frame. hinged the door and liquid nailed length of foam to make the wall.

You have to be a little careful with making them completely air tight in that you'll end up getting alot of moisture internally. They need to breath a little.

I've used expanded clay (aqua clay) in my sump for years its cheap and works well. Sometimes in can take a little for all the clay balls to sink but they get there eventually.

Mine is Cotten filter mat first. Just bought 20 meters this week actually off ebay. Then I use aquaclay (50 bucks roughly) then I have shredded plastic, bagged. Then More Cotton filter then into the return and back to my tank.

Ive just tried a template system for new topic starters and its ugly,would be hard to control as peoples posts are very different and any unfilled info just looks ugly if they dont tidy the unused parts of the template

There is a template system BUT it adds the template to EACH post, not just the topic starter.