I need help

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topoftheline77

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I hate not being able to go out and get a new tank when I want a new fish. Right now all I have is my 35 gallon, and a 2.5 (dwarf puffer). In the 35 gallon I have 1 green sunfish (3"), 1 small mouth bass(3.5"), 1 largemouth bass (2"), 1 green terror (4"), 1 crenicichla sveni (5"), 1 black bullhead (5.5''), 1 clown pleco (3"), and 1 BN Pleco (4.5")... a lot of fish I know, it's like this because for a year now my parents have been telling me that I am able to get a 75 gallon. Now I don't know what to do. I would like to get rid of most of the fish I have and just start new but I don't know. I know I am going to get flamed for this but the large mouth is for my friends pond (like a koi pond) and the small mouth is either going to go to a LFS by that has a native pond or the Cabela's by me. Now I need any advice and all advice. I mean I like keeping fish but I can never seem to stop myself from impulse buys and then I get some fish and in a couple months I'm bored of them. Just help a struggling fellow fish keeper (probably more like a fish HAVER). I'm close to hanging up the net and quitting for a while.

Help me!
Mike
 
The only problem I see is overstocking. As long as you take care of them though...no problem. I dont see anything wrong with getting fish and trading them and what not. You have to work to find a fish that you truely love and want to keep for a long time. I know it took me years and now I have had my pickerel for close to a year and all my sunfish and goldfish I have had over a year and my bass would be close to 1.5 years if he didn't die a couple months ago....

Chad
 
The smallmouth was an impulse buy and like a day or two after buying him I snapped out of it and I realized that I messed up. What size tank would I need to keep him if I did keep him. And how long could I keep him in the 75?
 
i would get a few cichlids of 1 type, that way they might pair up and spawn, which is always entertaining. i'd go with the 75 gal as you can keep most south and central american cichlids in it. if not, what i do when i bored with the tank or fish in it is re-arrange the tank, change the background or change the lighting to a different spectrum(always makes the fish look different
 
Well I know I would love to keep a smallmouth bass. I love them they are awsome. I don't know a ton about them but I would bet that a 6'x2' would work for life. I thought you built a pond a while ago...?

Chad
 
Oh right and you could probably keep the smallmouth in the 75 for atleast a year.

Chad
 
is your GT a male or female??? why not get a mate for it. iv'e never had the other fish you had except the puffer. but mine was a green spotted,really cool fish. but like you....got bored.
 
Personally I don't like breeding my fish because it always causes problems like fighting and then you have a bunch of extra fish with which you have nothing to do. Also it makes the fish less personable...

Chad
 
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