Hey all!!!
So my wife and I signed the paperwork to build a house last weekend, meaning we'll be moving in May or June next year - giving me not very long to decide on fish (I'd like to buy and start growing them out very shortly). I'm planning on 120x30x24, I don't really want to go wider than that for ease of clean purposes, and I want to cut down on humidity and heating costs. I really like bichirs and I'm thinking about doing a biotope around them, but for the life of me I can't find any mid-sized african river fish. It seems to go from dwarf cichlids to the GATF.....any suggestions on ~10-18" fish? I'd ideally like a few mid sized cichlids, and then I'm also looking for an active schooling fish (like tinfoil barbs or silver dollars....but african biotope fitting).
I really like the biotope concept so I can match water chemistry and also have a legit feel to it, but my backup plan would be dats, tinfoil barbs, oscar, etc with the bichirs
So my wife and I signed the paperwork to build a house last weekend, meaning we'll be moving in May or June next year - giving me not very long to decide on fish (I'd like to buy and start growing them out very shortly). I'm planning on 120x30x24, I don't really want to go wider than that for ease of clean purposes, and I want to cut down on humidity and heating costs. I really like bichirs and I'm thinking about doing a biotope around them, but for the life of me I can't find any mid-sized african river fish. It seems to go from dwarf cichlids to the GATF.....any suggestions on ~10-18" fish? I'd ideally like a few mid sized cichlids, and then I'm also looking for an active schooling fish (like tinfoil barbs or silver dollars....but african biotope fitting).
I really like the biotope concept so I can match water chemistry and also have a legit feel to it, but my backup plan would be dats, tinfoil barbs, oscar, etc with the bichirs
