What direction should I go? Help me decide please!

[zapantha]

Don't forget Fire Eels! They range across Africa too! BATF, Afrowana, Giant fire eel, few distichodus lusosso, aaaaand done! Personally I think a setup like that would look awesome. But I love wide bar silver dollars and would put in every tank I could so that always messes up my biotope plans lol. Maybe a at the right size a few large odoe pike could be introduced?


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[Adamson]

I think you should do some species you don't knowing about, always a lot more interesting in my opinion!


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[JayC74]

At least someone agrees with me lol.


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Yea, "old school" seemed to be getting crushed!!lol

 

[Aweshade9]

option 2 You could add some dolphin mormyrids. They look awesome and get around 4 feet.

this is norbert's dolphin.

 

[zapantha]

option 2 You could add some dolphin mormyrids. They look awesome and get around 4 feet.

this is norbert's dolphin.

Yeah but there isn't a lot of success with these, especially in a comm


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[Chicxulub]

Wow!

Thanks for all the input! Looks like going African is probably my best bet. I'm starting to form a plan in my head for things I like. I do like fire eels, I just didn't know that they were African. For some reason I always thought that they were South American. :/

I like the big mormyrids, but I think that I will probably avoid them for the same reason as I'd avoid emperor cichlids: I don't want anything to be a threat to Billy. I feel that the bottom dwellers are going to be safe and won't threaten billy, but I'm wanting to be very careful with fish that will actually be in the water column. Billy will be the only big fish swimming mid-level I think. I do have the ability to maintain the community while having various crown jewels in the tank as the main fish die of old age. This tank should keep me going for a long time.

I'm really liking some of the tilapia and Distichodus I'm seeing. I'm gonna have to do a lot more reading up on this, but things seem to be coming along better than I had hoped.

 

[Aweshade9]

option 2 You could add some dolphin mormyrids. They look awesome and get around 4 feet.

this is norbert's dolphin.

I meant 3 feet not four

Yeah but there isn't a lot of success with these, especially in a comm


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aw. what about Mormyrus rume rume. They get 3 feet and according to fish base they eat insect and larvae. Earthworms and bloodworms and pellets could easily replace those.

hear is a picture.

 

[Chicxulub]

^I like that guy, he looks like a ginormous elephant nose (which I am well aware is a mormyrid). I fully intend to acquire some mormyrids for this setup, just not the big, bad, predatory ones. Good find man!

 

[justarn]

good stuff, i'd steer away from distichodus sexfasciatus tho as they are pure evil, not sure on the other species of distichodus tho! defo a cheap target fish to keep the brevis busy tho imo.

 

[zapantha]

Wow!

Thanks for all the input! Looks like going African is probably my best bet. I'm starting to form a plan in my head for things I like. I do like fire eels, I just didn't know that they were African. For some reason I always thought that they were South American. :/

Same here but I checked seriouslyfish.com and it said they inhabit both Africa and Asia lol


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