If you had a 5000 gallon Aquarium...

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I know everybody says "LARGE FISH! LARGE FISH!" but I think it'd be really cool to get large amounts of decent sized (6 - 12" ) schooling fish...think about having enough space to house a school of tangs! that'd be crazy awesome. of coarse, a 5000 gallon salt would be difficult to maintain...if you'd go fresh water, I'd stick with the same principle...but try and go "different" than most...I love aro's but a african cichlid biotope with tons and tons of medium to large cichlids would be awe inspiring...large fish are really cool, but movement and motion appeal to me more these days...it's gotta have "FLOW" to it...how about putting 500 rainbow fish in it? That would be something....5000 gallons could easily house huge amounts of medium sized fish...think of the possibilities!
 
If i had this tho i'd definately pay to have it cleaned for me, no way am i maintaining that!!! unless it's big enough to self maintain...
 
If I had a 5000g tank, I would sell it and buy a nice 8x3 for cichla, rays and aro. The expense of a 5000g tank would be more than I want to pay.
 
...and just to assert my nerd, you could really observe the natural actions of some fish that are used to and instinctively form large schools!!!
 
RWaltman;4768910; said:
I know everybody says "LARGE FISH! LARGE FISH!" but I think it'd be really cool to get large amounts of decent sized (6 - 12" ) schooling fish...think about having enough space to house a school of tangs! that'd be crazy awesome. of coarse, a 5000 gallon salt would be difficult to maintain...if you'd go fresh water, I'd stick with the same principle...but try and go "different" than most...I love aro's but a african cichlid biotope with tons and tons of medium to large cichlids would be awe inspiring...large fish are really cool, but movement and motion appeal to me more these days...it's gotta have "FLOW" to it...how about putting 500 rainbow fish in it? That would be something....5000 gallons could easily house huge amounts of medium sized fish...think of the possibilities!
You could do that... or you could be like arapaimag and have the best of both worlds...

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top - silver and black aros
middle - large ca/sa cichlids
bottom - large ca/sa catfish and stingrays
 
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