View Full Version : Recomend me a big guy!
landmineyouth
10-11-2005, 4:18 AM
have a 75 gallon (pictured in a different thread)... I originally planned on doing it as a female betta sanctuary... but seeing as how I added a blackghost knife fish into my tank and im pretty sure its injuring my bettas (I have all but 1 left), I want to get a fish that will grow reasonably large. I love to get them tiny and watch them grow to a full size pet.
Here's the fish I currently have in the tank.. i'd LIKE to keep them, but would RISK having them gobbled up by a growing fish...
4 Kuhli loaches (2 black, 2 striped)
2 bandit cory cats
1 pleco (5 inches and growing)
1 blackghost knife fish (6 inches)
1 female betta
1 headlight tetra
1 white cloud,
7 neons + 1 cardinal (adding 7 more neons soon to make a 15 fish grand total)
3 black neons
3 glowlight neons
I want to get something that I can find relatively small (4-6 inches) and have him grow up. The BGK will grow i'm aware, but seeing as how he's already big, nocturnal, and hides, I think he'd be ok in the tank with a bigger swimmer middle ground fish...
I wanted an Arowana, but I'm sure he'd gobble everything up.... and Oscar's are just ugly to me. Does anyone have any good recomendations? I like a fish with good personality, swims often, and will do ok with other smaller species. I've seen some GIANT 2ft+ gourami's that supposedly wont even touch feeder goldfish...but the gourami is also ugly as sin. I thought about angelfish, but they dont get much larger than 6"..... What is there I can get!
PS - FRESHWATER. duh
repair
10-11-2005, 4:35 AM
Well I like green terrors ... some earn their name but I've got several that are very calm.
frontosa_man
10-12-2005, 12:34 AM
really any large fish will eat anything it can fit in is mouth. there are a few that wont ,but to me they are ugly.
Try some of the loaches like Kessler's or horseface, they get around 7" long, then there are spaghetti eels and violet gobies, all of these are peaceful.
landmineyouth
10-13-2005, 3:35 AM
really any large fish will eat anything it can fit in is mouth. there are a few that wont ,but to me they are ugly.
WHICH few>?
g0tmc
10-13-2005, 10:38 PM
flowerhorn!
hardb0iled
10-13-2005, 10:38 PM
Anything that will grow to a decent size and have any personality will eat 90% of the fish in that tank very quickly! :grinno:
landmineyouth
10-18-2005, 2:09 AM
I ended up picking out an Archer. Will get to be about a foot if im lucky, and is peaceful for the most part. May eat a small neon, but thats the breaks!
frontosa_man
10-19-2005, 12:28 AM
WHICH few>?
pacu for one.lung fish, giant gouramis.
Monos swims alot and wont eat some of your fish. Although brackish, they can still survive in pure freshwater. Scats also swim alot, but 75 gallons would be a great puffer tank. Get a colony of suvattis, or murius, different colors. Or even just the dwarf puffers....
warren126
10-19-2005, 9:56 AM
any fish that is of size is going to snack on something smaller that just how it is are you can get some tinfoil barbs they get of size and I think they want snack on smaller fish
landmineyouth
10-21-2005, 3:06 AM
I love the archer so far and hes getting along w/ the BGK.... im gonna add a mono soon i believe... im lovin these brackish guys who tollerate freshwater
jelly
10-21-2005, 12:26 PM
What about Butterflyfish or elephant nose fish.
Monos also munch small fish.
Waldo
10-21-2005, 11:02 PM
In my opinion even if you found a big fish that was totally not agressive you are going to cause the other fish to stress out. Small fish don't care if it's carnivorous or not it's big and it could eat them. Stress is #1 cause of fish disease!!!!! you could get away with a BIG pleco or something, he might fight with your bottom feeders though.
Mughal
10-22-2005, 2:13 AM
Get a Serrasalmus Elongatus. You can get them at 1.5"-2" sometimes. It's the meanest fish I've ever kept. When fully grown at 12"-15" it'll be able to take on ANY other fish you throw in there. An elongatus would be VERY happy in that 75g
eL ChiNo LoCo
10-26-2005, 3:24 AM
Um I think you might start seeing your smaller fish disappear..
MDogg218
11-05-2005, 10:28 PM
You should get like two green terrors. T :naughty: hat would be good fishes because they are colorful and hot.
Get a Red Tail Catfish! :)
Now they are playing silly buggers, heheh,
Seriously, big fish eat little fish, Even silver dollars will munch much smaller fish.
krickett
11-10-2005, 4:52 PM
A needle-nose gar! I have one in with a ram's horn snail and two plecos. I'm pretty sure one would eat your tetras and maybe even your loaches, but I've raised mine from three inches long to six inches, and he just keeps growing. Awesome fish if you're looking for a fast grower!
FunkSkunk
11-17-2005, 3:13 PM
these guys are cool....
http://www.wharfaquatics.co.uk/images/flower_ray.jpg
FunkSkunk
11-17-2005, 3:13 PM
I always thought that putting a big ass Bass or some kind of redneck fish would be cool. O I know! how about an Alaskan Salmon!?!?!!!!
http://www.klutinacharters.com/images/klutinacharters-huge-alaska-king-salmon.jpg
too big? :naughty:
rweedon
11-17-2005, 3:37 PM
an archer will eat every small fish in your tank I would not be surprised if you end up with an archer (which is brackish by the way) and the black knife...
mfm1975
11-28-2005, 12:58 PM
i would suggest a tinfoil barb they have some pretty big guys at my local fish store they shouldnt harm anything