oddball ideas

[reptilerancher]

sorry I haven't been on in a while, thank you all for the responses.

Hendre I agree red belly piranha are a bad idea but thank you blackwolf911 for the idea.

I agree with you moe214 The dimensions aren't really good for fish that I really want but the tank was a 30 dollar pickup and I would go bigger but I'm in college and I have a friend watching my monsters while I'm gone for the school year.

If I could I would have my 150 gallon.

wolf fish are cool but I think they gat a bit big for the small tank
cichlids are too normal and thats just me being picky but great idea.

the reason I want aggressive is for both wow factor and they are more interesting to me then just a fish for the color

I was kinda thinking freshwater moray, a small pack of bucktooth tetra, or chaca chaca (not together of corse) but what might be your input on that?

 

[blackwolf911]

I had a school of the bucktooth tetra .. they are very active but not too impressive really ...the fresh water Moray is actually more of a brackish fish and they can be pretty agressive eaters .. that may be a good idea

 

[Hendre]

There is one true freshwater moray, be prepared to pay a bit for one. Chaca cats can be kept in groups

 

[moe214]

The true freshwater moray gets to big for your tank, the biggest specimen I heard of was 3'. And they get pretty active once comfortable. A chaca chaca would probably be fine, I have to look up on the max size again, it might've only been 4" or so. Buck tooth tetras are a good option. I always thought African butterfly fish were a nice little monster and you'd be able to keep something else with it. I had one probably 5" with the tail, but my bichirs got hungry when I went on vaca, when I came back it had chunks taking out of it lol.. Not to many small monsters you can keep in that tank with dimensions.

 

[reptilerancher]

Im fine with brackish and the Gymnothorax tile stay pretty small and are pretty cheep. the chaca chaca are cool but are about 70 bucks a pop and seem to do much better on a live diet.

I also just saw a brackish species that is kinda cool the batrachomoeus trispinosus it would get too big for the tank I have but a cool idea for a future 40b

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Get a 20 long tank and get a couple madtoms or get some albino clawed frogs

 

[xDestro]

Puffers?

 

[justarn]

I was thinking puffer, maybe a hairy puffer, gsp or figure of eight? Keep in mind gsp and foe need brackish/marine once grown.
Another option is nandus nandus leaf fish, predatory little guys or pikeheads. Blue lobsters...

 

[Hendre]

Puffers?

5 or 6 dwarf puffers in a planted tank would be a great

 

[Fat Homer]

Im fine with brackish and the Gymnothorax tile stay pretty small and are pretty cheep. the chaca chaca are cool but are about 70 bucks a pop and seem to do much better on a live diet.

I also just saw a brackish species that is kinda cool the batrachomoeus trispinosus it would get too big for the tank I have but a cool idea for a future 40b

The freshwater moray mentioned is actually G.Polyurandaon (which reaches 3'+)

Otheriwise what about smaller spiny eels such as Peacock eels or something???