180 Gallon what?

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duckdog

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Hello all, I am Nelson, I have been keeping and breeding various fish for years, my main fish has always been discus, I recently have been selling all my tanks, equipment, fish ect and because of you guys (lol) I am building a plywood 180, I have previous carpentry experience, anyways, I have been lurking here for a long time and I finally joined today, I am looking for feedback on what to keep in my tank, why am I asking this? I am looking to keep something different, the tank is 6x2x2 and I am not sure if I am going with a sump or large canister yet but, let me know what not so common fish you would keep in a 180 gallon?

As ideas are suggested, I hope I can edit the poll options and add on to them
 
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duckdog said:
Hello all, I am Nelson, I have been keeping and breeding various fish for years, my main fish has always been discus, I recently have been selling all my tanks, equipment, fish ect and because of you guys (lol) I am building a plywood 180, I have previous carpentry experience, anyways, I have been lurking here for a long time and I finally joined today, I am looking for feedback on what to keep in my tank, why am I asking this? I am looking to keep something different, the tank is 6x2x2 and I am not sure if I am going with a sump or large canister yet but, let me know what not so common fish you would keep in a 180 gallon?

As ideas are suggested, I hope I can edit the poll options and add on to them
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Welcome to MFK!
 
Welcome to MFK. I'm pretty new here myself. Great people on here.

Just curious, why are you building the 180 as opposed to buying one. I think you can probably find a used 180 (6x2x2) or 220 (6x2x2.5) used for about as cheap as what you can build a plywood tank for, maybe cheaper.

Also, I vote discus for the stocking, mainly because I just love their shape and color. I don't have any yet but plan on stocking some in my 220 when I get it up and running.

Where are you located?
 
Fish Tank Travis said:
Welcome to MFK. I'm pretty new here myself. Great people on here.

Just curious, why are you building the 180 as opposed to buying one. I think you can probably find a used 180 (6x2x2) or 220 (6x2x2.5) used for about as cheap as what you can build a plywood tank for, maybe cheaper.

Also, I vote discus for the stocking, mainly because I just love their shape and color. I don't have any yet but plan on stocking some in my 220 when I get it up and running.

Where are you located?
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Have fun with those water changes if you keep juvies.
 
Stephen Hiatt said:
Have fun with those water changes if you keep juvies.
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I'm lucky to have my system for water changes set up the way it is... I can do a %40 on my 210 in less than an hour. If I had to use buckets I'd sell the tank and keep the fish I like the most (Hard to do because I like them all).
 
Stephen Hiatt said:
Have fun with those water changes if you keep juvies.
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Lol, I will be keeping them in my 29 while they are juvies, so that I can do lots of big water changes. Once they're grown out to 5 or so inches, I will move them into the 220.

I plan on having two 55gal water change barrels so I can fill them with the hose and them preheat the water and age it. Then I will use some large pumps to pump water right out the window and then pump new water in at a ver quick pace. Ideally, I'm hoping to be able to do a 25% water change in 15 or so minutes, and a 50% water change in about 30 minutes. We will see though. Lol
 
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