Huge tanks with tiny fish

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I love this concept. Sure, a monster tank with a handful of monster fish is awesome. But, to me, maybe not as awesome as a huge tank with hundreds of small fish of various kinds occupying different tank zones and interacting on a large and complex scale. Classic example would be a large tanganyikan biotope (excluding frontosas/emperors/etc), but it could be done with any region. I'm talking 100+ gallons populated with fish no larger than a few inches, but the more drastic the ratio the better.

Does anyone on mfk do something like this? If so, I would love to see some pictures.
 
It can look cool. I set my parents up with a 300 gal loaded with cardinal tetras (150), red serpaes (100), and 40 kuhli loaches. The tank is moderately planted and has black gravel. It has a long bifurcated driftwood branch and amethyst crystals placed throughout the tank. Not my cup of tea but, Mom really likes it.
 
I done it in a 350g about 5 years ago and got bored of it after a year lol it looked amazing and was a real show piece but little fish just don't interact as much, its just a big, high maintenance ornament lol I must have bought almost every small community fish there is lol the biggest things in there was denisson barbs and pictus but as soon as I ran out of room to add fish it got boring quickly.


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I agree. With small fish its cool to see them swim front to back not just side to side like with big fish. If I had more space for tanks I'd definitely do fish less than 3" in a 6' tank with 2 huge schools of tetras.

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I have 2 planted tanks 1x 50G and 1x 60G full of small fish...

I know not quite the monster tanks you guys are talking about, but all the fish are less than 1" - 1.5" long...

Even considered converting my 200G over when all my monsters pass away many years later down the line...


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My wife wants to change her 300 1/2 cylinder into an endler's livebearer tank or fill it with galaxy tetras.

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I'm trying to steer her towards a pea puffer breeding colony.

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I think it's just a matter of taste and what makes fish keeping appealing to the individual, if you want something close to a price of nature then this sort of thing is great and you learn a lot watching then interact but for me I tend to like the personality of my big fish and just the look and impressiveness of how they have evolved to be perfect killing machines, it's a bit of a marmite situation lol


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