dude you want to talk about taking care of fishes and crap like providing proper husbandry for it. like the dude above me said he saw a few that's a couple feet long,and thats mother freaken awesome! hey guy he also said it's older than my dead grandpa classic truck. If you have any type of moral responsibility or cared that much for your pets in that time frame even if you had to collect cans or sell cardboard you could of put aside enough money to upgrade I would at least hope you would. And SECONDLY you are god damn right I am that type of guy. ima shove whatever I can in my little butt tank because I can... it's my tank, my money, my fish, matter fact I have to go feed my Arapaima and my white surgeon and maybe go do a water change because that 10g tank they are in is looking a little pea soup color.
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man guy I hate to always look like the a-hole but this ish really boils my blood n especially it's because of some dude online but man how are you going to waste all that time and finger muscle to tell me ANYTHING when you had a Giant Gourami, 4 Oscar, a Pack, and a Green terror all in a 120. Youre cramming 4 feet monsters or whatever size wiki or joe shmoe told you in a 4feet tank. yah information/internet was limited but so was common sense too apparently because you don't need to the internet to see that your fishes has outgrown the tank. but wait your telling me that your Pacu or gourami didn't hit 3-4feet????? JUST LIKE WHAT THE INTERNET TOLD YOU???? hmm....
Yeah I did. Bought them around 15 years ago at the size of 1-2 inches and wasn't told by the aquarium shop how large they would get. When they outgrew the tank I tried to return them, but nobody would take them back as there isn't a market for fish that size in my country.
So my options was murder of innocent fish or to release an invasive species into the local water bodies (not something I want to do).
More importantly I didn't add any new fish in the tank after the Oscar and Green Terror passed away and it was just a Pacu & gourami for half a decade.
And yes the Pacu did grow to 2 feet and Gourami was also a bloody monster at 15-16 inches.
I am now wiser from my mistakes and won't make those again as I now have access to data on fishes thanks to useful sites of aquarium fishes.
It is due to those very mistakes that I don't want other new fishkeepers to make the same mistake I did. But it seems that is hard to understand for someone like you, who wants to pretend that monster fish don't grow big if you keep them in a 10 gal.
Personally I've seen 3ft AUL. Not to mention their price.
Let me get this straight, OP has some comets right? I'd say get a bigger tank and run those in there. They're lots of fun
im also gonna throw in my lot of this one and vote no on the australian lung fish. massive fish=not good for beginners.
Update:
I went to my LFS and found a couple of fish that I really liked. Please tell me which of these fish would be able to fit into a 75-90 gallon tank and if any of them could be tank mates.
- Red Tailed Barracudas
- Flower Horn (preferably red flower horn)
- Black Ghost Knife Fish
- Frontosa Cichlid
-Green Terror
- Yellow King Tiger Pleco
- Green Spotted Pufferfish
I went to my LFS and found a couple of fish that I really liked. Please tell me which of these fish would be able to fit into a 75-90 gallon tank and if any of them could be tank mates.
- Red Tailed Barracudas
- Flower Horn (preferably red flower horn)
- Black Ghost Knife Fish
- Frontosa Cichlid
-Green Terror
- Yellow King Tiger Pleco
- Green Spotted Pufferfish
probably a solo flowerhorn in the tank depending on the type.
you could have a pair of green terrors with a couple tankmates, maybe your pleco.
bgk should probably have a larger tank. frontosa get pretty large as well so i wouldnt.
the rest im unsure of. i think the puffer needs brackish water and the barracuda would rewuire more room to bolt around like they tend to. all of these fish are on the upper end of the spectrum for your size tank though.
I'd personally go for either the flower horn by itself or a pair of green terrors. Blue acaras are similar to the terrors but more manageable and peaceful so you coul consider them too, they would give you more options for tank mates too.
