FINALLY!!!!! My new 125
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aclockworkorange;4685935; said:
Yup! Well, that's the plan right now. I had four in a 29g, up until last night when I came home to my BumbleBee swimming upside down, pale white in a corner!
The ammonia levels were going up with them getting bigger so that's what originally convinced the wife into letting me go bigger. (She bought me this for Xmas) But now that I'm down to just 3 small African Cichlids, they could stay in the 29g no problem, and I would be open to whatever I want to put in the 125! Although I have to admit the 29g was my first tank and I only got it about 6 months ago. All my life's experience and knowledge learning about how to keep fish alive, (all 5.5 months of it
), so far has been with Africans so I'm thinking I'll probably stick with them for a year or so. The room I'm putting this in is so large and un-used I could literaly put a 300g, a 240, and 2 more 125s in it and it still wouldn't look cluttered! 
But, thinking more realistically, I'll probably get a 240 or a 300 next year and go for some larger fish in it! At this point I'm kind of in a holding patern waiting on the quote for the wet/dry setup. Since I'm going for a setup for a 175g (I believe in over filtering!) it's going to be more expensive so I may have to wait a month or so before I get all the pieces for it. I originally was thinking of going with canister filters, but the price to move 125 gallons at 1600gph via canisters would end up costing more than going with a wet/dry sump underneath. and from my understanding, less headaches with the Wet/Dry setup once I get it together and running.
Congrats on the new tank. Searching CL for large tanks can be quite a challenge. In my area 125g is about the largest you see. So when I found a 210g with stand that had never been set up I jumped on it. 125g will offer you a lot of options so here is the big question: What are you going to raise? Continue with Africans or...
DMD123;4686342; said:
I'm not sure yet, but probably continue with Cichlids in this one, and next year get either another 125 or larger to go with a larger fish!
Now I'm waiting on the estimate on how much my Wet/Dry filter setup is going to run. If it's more than I have budgeted, I may have invisible fish for a while that swim in open air! It sure will be easier to do 'Air Changes' than the water ones!!!
