View Full Version : got a new 150G tank
Fish Finder
09-07-2005, 11:36 PM
And idk what i should put in it. Give me your sugestion's. Im into the rare exotic kind of fish not the every day one's. The price dosn't bother me. If poss please give the name, the scintific name, and a pic if you can find. Also if you know where i can get one that would be great just in case it's something that the local wholesaler's don't carry. I got a lot of idea's but not to sure what i want to do. But im not realy a reef fan but maby it's time i give it a try if some one sugestes some nice reef fish. But im more of a FWLR person.
Miles
09-08-2005, 11:32 AM
Get an Octopus ;)
Fish Finder
09-08-2005, 12:36 PM
had one to boring for me
bluedempsey
09-08-2005, 2:05 PM
get a gem tang :drool:
one of a kind $$$$$$$
http://www.themarinecenter.com/zebrasomagemmatum1.htm
managuense-fury
09-08-2005, 4:27 PM
Chevron Tang
Unheated with a flounder, a lizard fish and a pile perch with a fake 1/4 section of pileing and a large white anemone on it, lots of water flow from two powerheads, coarse sand/fine gravel bottom, big filter. Everything will eat shrimp/fish chunks or even feeders.
I have wanted that mix for a while but never enough to start a new tank when I could or convert a fw one that was running. You could even add a red kelp crab, not likely to bother those fish but big enough that they don't rip it's legs off. I figure you know what local white anemones, flounders, and lizardfish (snicker) looklike but because local names vary here is what I know as pile perch and red kelp crabs.
Lizardfish are very cool i recommend those too.
Gr8KarmaSF
09-08-2005, 7:35 PM
How about a bearded worm goby (taenioides cirratus), myaka myaka, ribbon eel, or cyprinodon longidorsalis (which is now extinct in the wild)??? :)
Lizardfish are very cool i recommend those too.
You see fish finders avatar?
magic
09-09-2005, 12:07 AM
Thats a lizardfish?? Not the type i get by me, called California Lizardfish, but i think there are many types. One of my friends caught one once and it had a HUGE mouth for its size. like fish finders avatar :D
guppy
09-09-2005, 12:54 AM
His is an inshore lizard fish' your right about there being many types including deep water ones, Australia alone has at least 6. here are a couple types,
seighten
09-09-2005, 1:03 AM
my two cents... and, am sure almost no one will agree... get a smallmouth bass... (caught locally, is the easiest..!). feed it live crayfish and such and grow it out to be a stupendous specimen!!....
Fish Finder
09-09-2005, 1:32 AM
get a gem tang :drool:
one of a kind $$$$$$$
http://www.themarinecenter.com/zebrasomagemmatum1.htm
ive had them and that's one im thinking about or maby a black tang would be nice also.
Fish Finder
09-09-2005, 1:33 AM
Chevron Tang
to common for me and what most people don't realize that they are realy a cheap fish even thought there sold for over $100
Fish Finder
09-09-2005, 1:34 AM
Unheated with a flounder, a lizard fish and a pile perch with a fake 1/4 section of pileing and a large white anemone on it, lots of water flow from two powerheads, coarse sand/fine gravel bottom, big filter. Everything will eat shrimp/fish chunks or even feeders.
I have wanted that mix for a while but never enough to start a new tank when I could or convert a fw one that was running. You could even add a red kelp crab, not likely to bother those fish but big enough that they don't rip it's legs off. I figure you know what local white anemones, flounders, and lizardfish (snicker) looklike but because local names vary here is what I know as pile perch and red kelp crabs.
the red kelp crab sound's nice that's something i would of never thought of in a mill years
Fish Finder
09-09-2005, 1:34 AM
Lizardfish are very cool i recommend those too.
to aggressive for me. I catch them here where i live but i don't like them
Fish Finder
09-09-2005, 1:38 AM
How about a bearded worm goby (taenioides cirratus), myaka myaka, ribbon eel, or cyprinodon longidorsalis (which is now extinct in the wild)??? :)
nice sugestion's but im looking for something a little more collerfull and the ribbon eel is tought to get to live in sw tank's there more like one of those fish you have just to say u have one till it die's
Fish Finder
09-09-2005, 1:39 AM
please keep the sugestion's coming there puting all different idea's into my head
Miles
09-09-2005, 11:31 AM
What about pipe fish or sea dragons?
bluedempsey
09-09-2005, 2:43 PM
how about a 3 foot maxima clam
that would be quite an eve opener!
i've never seen that in someone's tank
Fish Finder
09-09-2005, 11:35 PM
What about pipe fish or sea dragons?
i already have pipe fish in my 20G extra high with seahorses so that's done already. As for the sea dragons there more of a cold watter spices so i don't want the hassle of keeping a cold watter tank.
Fish Finder
09-09-2005, 11:36 PM
so far i have descided on geting the kelp crab and black or gem tang's. Let's see what we can add around these. So keep the sugestion's coming.
Fish Finder
09-09-2005, 11:37 PM
how about a 3 foot maxima clam
that would be quite an eve opener!
i've never seen that in someone's tank
Ive seen a few monster's if i go reef why not. i know the tang;s won't bother them but idk about the kelp crab
Wolf Eel. Gnarly fish but would decimate the tangs and crabs...
bluedempsey
09-10-2005, 3:13 PM
Wolf Eel. Gnarly fish but would decimate the tangs and crabs...
to bland
i'd go with the black long nose tang
Fish Finder
09-10-2005, 8:57 PM
Wolf Eel. Gnarly fish but would decimate the tangs and crabs...
to every day for me and i rather have the tang's
Fish Finder
09-10-2005, 8:58 PM
to bland
i'd go with the black long nose tang
im leaning twords that or gem tang
magic
09-10-2005, 11:26 PM
Wolf eel is something u find everyday? wow ive never seen them for sale. i like them cause of their huge teeth. but they are dangerous to ppl. How bout midshipmen or cling fish?
Fish Finder
09-11-2005, 12:24 AM
Wolf eel is something u find everyday? wow ive never seen them for sale. i like them cause of their huge teeth. but they are dangerous to ppl. How bout midshipmen or cling fish?
i go deep sea fishing at least two to three time's a week that's how i see them so much. I was out today and caught two stargazer's, a ray, 4 pilot fish, and some baby amberjack's(that's all the odd ball's that i brought up). And man did the fluke taste good tonight.
ShadowVengance
09-11-2005, 10:13 AM
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/fish/images/leafy_sea_dragon_large.jpg
What about a leafy sea dragon? they look amazing, although they might be endangered.
is it legal to catch fish like that? Sounds awesome, your a lucky dude.
whoops, its already been suggested, My bad. ill leave the pic here for show ;)
Fish Finder - I've had plenty of needlefish near my dock if they spike your interest. Caught a lizard fish too, wish I had a salt setup. Anyway, if you want the needles, get a castnet and call me, you are welcome to come get them.
waylon
09-19-2005, 12:03 PM
I keep triggerfish in a 55 gallon tank.They get quite large.Some puffer fish will get huge too.
waylon
09-19-2005, 12:07 PM
I keep triggerfish in a 55 gallon tank.They grow up to a foot or two long.Some puffer fish get huge too.
How about something really odd like one of the larger cusk eels like Botula townsendi (up to 75cm.)