75 gallon stocking ideas

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stellyj11

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Hey y'all! I'm throwing around some ideas in my head for how to stock my 75 gallon aquarium and over the last few months have been given some really good advice. Through some soul searching I've narrowed down my stocking list to this:
1- Tiger Oscar
1- Green Terror
1- Bichir Delhezi
1- Bichir Palmas Palmas

I will be using a sand substrate with rock features and large driftwood allowing many hiding places. I have a 2217 Eheim filter for now and when the fish are adults I plan on adding another 2217 for double filtration. I will be buying the fish as babies so they can grow up together if that will help. Also, I plan on purchasing the Tiger Oscar after the others have grown out a little bit because of how fast the Tiger Oscar grows. If y'all have any other ideas on how to make this work that would be amazing or if you think that its not gonna work please just let me know. I'm trying to get this right the first time so I don't end up breaking the bank trying to fix my mistakes.
 
Why the green terror in the plan?? I think i would maintain that tank as a species only setup IMHO.
 
The green terror will be very aggressive, it does better with more terrors. I would drop the terror and go with another oscar, I'm not a fan of oscars, so I would say go peacock bass or african spotted ctenopoma. An african butterfly fish would be awesome with the bichirs since they stay at the top the whole time and are related to arowanas

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The green terror will be very aggressive, it does better with more terrors. I would drop the terror and go with another oscar, I'm not a fan of oscars, so I would say go peacock bass or african spotted ctenopoma. An african butterfly fish would be awesome with the bichirs since they stay at the top the whole time and are related to arowanas

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Peacock bass in a 75gal? OP would have to upgrade to a much larger tank very soon.

A 75 gallon would be ok to house a good number of bichirs with good filtration.
 
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