what would you put in a 1000 gallon tank?

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

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wow that's cool

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

Aneesa's Muse :

I only have a little 29g Marine going right now ..just getting my feet wet with SW, actually. It has a lot of live rock, a puffer and a little mean damsel ..and surprisingly, two cleaner snails. (I can't risk any cleaner shrimp or hermit crabs cuz they aren't fast and they can't hide as well as the snails). I'd like to add one more fish, but I keep hearing mixed opinions on the fish that I like for the 3rd party (orchid dottyback or flame hawkfish)

Anyhooo... if I had a 1000g tank, I would absolutely fill it with Triggers or Box and Cow fish ...sooo cute! ...or one of the larger puffers and some other aggro fish.


My dream tank is a 100 - 200g reef with Mandarins and whatever else compatible with them. I love them!! (gotta keep working on the DH, though

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rooster.. when you find that $100 tree ..please send one to me!

mandarins are hard to keep but you are getting experience now

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

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I currently have all cichlids except for a pleco and I would rather keep my Oscar: http://liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=830+889+1090&pcatid=1090
but I really want to try SW

 

[seismic wonder2]

What ever you do DO NOT GET MORE THAT TWO LIONFISH!!!
If you do get lionfish, guess how big his mouth is-multiply that by 2.5- and do not buy any fish that will fit in his mouth.
I lost a lot of expencive fish that way.
Lions don't eat a little then poo a little, oh no, they save it up for three or four days then let it fly!
It will overpower any filters, turn tixic, the kill everything in the tank in a matter of hours.
I came home from work to a foul (pardon that) stench with everything belly up in the tank.

My recommendation for 100GL tank is to go shallow warm water reef (tahiti or hawaii)

 

[Swamp Roo]

Full plant tank system (AKA aquatic garden), substrate, HI lighting, CO2 injection etc. Maybe a single species school of discus, rainbow fish, cardinal tetra, or maybe some of the more unusual rasporas, something that really pops. Then add a few algae eating catfish that don't get big and eat plants. A relatively lite load of fish one way or another. You can feed your plant cuttings to the chickens!

Swamp

 

[Chickenaddict]

Hmmm if i had a 1000 gallon tank....I'd build it up with freshwater fish like bass,perch,walleye,northerns, and maybe a few muskies. Then i would wait for them to get big and go fishing! Right now we have 1- 55 gallon, 2- 30 gallon tanks. The 30 gallons hold tetras and fancy guppies who breed like fed wet gremlins after midnight and the bigger tank holds 3 spotted catfish, 2 firemouth cichlids and one big pleco. Used to have a HUGE jack dempsey cichlid but he turned agro and had to be rehomed to a 150 gallon tank one of my clients have. The jack dempsey was awesome, i got him when he was the size of a dime and trained him to jump up out of the tank and eat fish flakes out of my fingertips. He was in there by himself but felt a little lonely so i asked the guys at the fish store if i could get away with putting a few different cichlids in there with him and the man told me no way he would kill them..... He didn't he loved them but they didnt feel the same way and once he was rehomed they layed eggs immediately.

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

There is this neat website, called Monster Fish Keepers and they have tons of pictures of huge setups and very odd fish. I can't even begin to say what odd types of fish I would fill a 1000g tank with, but I have seen some very beautiful ones! I would probably get only a few that grow large and put some nice plants and lighting. I would also LOVE to have some rays. Some of them are just so interesting!

I think someone mentioned Arapaimas. That species grows to a very large size of 10 to 14 FEET! You may be able to fit just ONE in 1000g tank, but no more than that, and certainly no other species of fish. The most I've ever seen was about 8 in a large in ground swimming pool size pond outdoors. These fish are MASSIVE! Unfortunately a lot of people don't realize this and you end up with quite a few large fish who outgrew their tank in a matter of months.

Just something to think about if you actually ever do come across a 1000g tank. It would be pretty awesome to have one though, but I don't even want to thinka bout how much that would cost!

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

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yeah I'm a member of MFK

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

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oh I'm definately getting a lionfish

but it will be in a tank that is bigger than the minimum size requirement, I am getting a dwarf species, and he/she will probably be the only fish in there except for maybe a few small darting species that will (hopefully) be able to outswim him.

 

[walkswithdog]

For really large aquariums my favorite was a whole brackish water system. The fish are so different, if you do a shore, sand bank and mangroves you can do crabs. It's a lot of fun to dink with.

1000 is big enough to do some of the medium saltwater fish that I used to love - batfish can become almost pets, they're very interactive.

I used to maintain corporate and home aquariums a very long time ago. Some of those were big enough you had to dive to clean them. Then the batfish were a pain cuz they'd sneak up behind and goose you to play with you, grr. The man running the company at one time designed the giant aquaria for Sea World. Some of his set ups were just awesome.

I love aquariums though all I have now is a tiny planted betta tank.