HELP!!! 125 long stocking ideas

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arowanaman85

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Recently got a 125 long for super cheap
Leaked
Resealed and drilled the tank have 4x 3/4" overflows and 1 return painted back and side the butts display filter tanks

Have around 100 gallons of sump, 50 gallon barrel with 17" 100 micron socks then into return acrylic 60 gallon sump with heaters and return pump going to manifold feeding 2x 25 cubes for a refuge display/planted with maybe some shrimp or tiny fish
Then a 20long for algae scrubber
Then the 125 gallon display
With any excess going directly back into the sump.

Now i have gone through some crazy ideas ranging from a going full salt fowlr yellow head moray tank, to growing out an electric eel (I know they get 8') to growing out a jardini to put in my main display 360 gallon. Gulper cat fish, Dovi, (single specimen tank) to keeping rainbow cichlids in a planted dirt tank....aba aba. Flowerhorn, kind of all over the map.


Ideas? If you had this setup what would u keep? Also going to have auto water changes on this

Currently tank only has about an inch of water in it still have some plumbing to do and adjustments to stand leveling etc, and waiting on socks to come in....

Are the tropical snakeheads illegal like the rainbow snakehead?( since they can't survive in Pennsylvania)
 
A large community of stuff like barbs, pictus cats and upper fish such as chalceus or silver dollars could work nicely.
 
A large community of stuff like barbs, pictus cats and upper fish such as chalceus or silver dollars could work nicely.
I got a sun cat instead of a pictus because it was cheaper. Maybe it will be the same for arowanaman85 if he decides to get one.
 
Pictus cats, the ones that like to group
 
thanks for all the great suggestions! leaning more towards a single specimen show piece tank, oddballs, unusual fish..overly aggressive, overly shy, fish you have to keep alone.
 
thanks for all the great suggestions! leaning more towards a single specimen show piece tank, oddballs, unusual fish..overly aggressive, overly shy, fish you have to keep alone.
Flowerhorn
 
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