How would you stock two connect 245 gallon tanks sitting side by side.

[dogofwar]

The fronts WILL eat the Cyps and shellies. Even in a 245g.

Paladrium sounds like a good idea until you get into maintaining it to living room standards. And telling your wife and her friends why it's "foggy" in there all the time.

Matt

Not big enough for a group of arowanas unfortunately. My last silver was 30 inches when I rehomed it to a 720. That took 24 months in a 240. Started with 3 but the other two were chased out within the first 6 months through glass tops.

I am thinking Tanganyikan community with schools of cyprichromis, group of blue type frontosa, and some misc shell dwellers and lamprologous types.

For planted tank I was thinking big pieces of driftwood with attached plants like anubias, java fern, java moss. Low light and low maintenance. Gonna hook in a paludarium if I go fresh, which is how I am leaning. Thinking small tetras, shrimps, hatchets, and dart frogs and an emerald tree boa as a showpiece. May set up another marine just for giggles. Got a great source for fish now so hard to pass up.

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[badassissimo]

I was curious about that. The tank at Cheddars near here has fake plants and Africans. Nothing special to it except a big pleco.

 

[coyotethug]

The fronts WILL eat the Cyps and shellies. Even in a 245g.

Paladrium sounds like a good idea until you get into maintaining it to living room standards. And telling your wife and her friends why it's "foggy" in there all the time.

Matt

I have kept fronts a lot and never had them eat anything. Had adult Burundi with everything from small mbuna and haps to brichardi groups and small peacock colonies. I figure if I start with small fronts and small tank mates then it will be a long time before the fronts can eat anything. May eventually end up with a frontosa only tank but it should be a good community for a while. If predation starts I will strip it out. Really want a good colony of moba or kapampa but wanting to go with a community as long as I can.

On paludarium I am thinking of using a terrarium with a front opening door and screened top. It should help with condensation. Had a lot of frog terrariums in the past and good air flow generally stops a lot of condensation issues. I will have to play with it some but I am up for the challenge.

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[Zcddrew]

I would go with an african tank on one side I really enjoy these and once the tank is established it is not a huge amount of work. For the second tank I would go with tiger oscars and Jewel cichlids. They work off the same ph (lower than africans) and actually make good tank mates. Just make sure you get the jewels first and by the oscars small so they can get used to each other before the oscars can eat them. They look very good together. I went with two oscars and two Jewels and got lucky with getting mated pairs.

 

[wednesday13]

Both marine or one of each...marine tanks are far eaier to maintain imo than keeping larger freshwater preds...not enough room for a bamboo in a 240 but some cat sharks will do fine.

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