How does this sound?

[Gourami Swami]

I need a little help stocking my tank

How is this for a 100 gallon standard aquarium?
-BGK
-Senegal Bichir
-fire eel
-severum
-small geophagus


How does this sound? if its not good what would you remove? I kind of want to keep the cichlids if that isnt a problem, because I already have them growing out to a point until they are big enough to not be eaten by the planned predators of this tank.

 

[RadleyMiller]

It sounds fine, but what is the filtration? Also, make sure you have some caves and rockwork for hiding places.

 

[Gourami Swami]

For filtration I was gonna eaither do an emperor 400 and an emperor 280, or if that isnt enough, I could do 2 400's

I was going to have a sand bottom, black background, lots of gnarly, "root-system-ish" driftwood, and some amazon sword plants. I figured the fish that liked to hide would be okay with all the driftwood.

I am glad the stocking sounds good!

 

[RadleyMiller]

You need more filtration. Maybe a Magnum on that tank as well.

 

[ZOO YORK 207]

No dice on the fire eel unless you plan to upgrade they get 2'+ look at gr8karmasf's fire eel that thing is crazy big.

 

[Newt]

Fire eels can get up to 48". They grow slowly, however.

I would say that a 100 gallon is fine for a fire eel. They are long skinny fish that aren't very active. They don't dart around the tank like danios so they don't need a whole lot of swimming room. As long as it has a place to hide out the eel should be fine for awhile.