Your plant looks like an amazon sword...they dont do good planted its why the leaves are dying just so you know if you want baby fish id get guppies they breed and tend not to eat their babies my tank is 20g long aswell i have a male betta and guppies in it the other tank has female bettas and swordtails, heres my tank the little specks in my tank are guppy fry@HappyClucker7, these are the best photos I could get from the top. The camera was having a hard time focusing through the glass. I don't see any pinecone scales though, you can kind of see in the photos, but all of her scales are flat.
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