im SO unhappy with my 125

[syddakyd]

no matter what i do, it sucks. lol. i have a big channel cat i scooped up which is there temporarily until i get his stock pond or whatever home depot has. i already got a pond filter.


now 125g's suck because they are the smallest of the big tanks...big enough to keep your average oscars more then happy, but not big enough to keep you happy.


1 size to small for florida gars, silver aro, hystrix ray...anything...


im either thinking of keeping my 2 female flowerhorns (who get along great) with a bunch of mbunas and rocks


or keeping my flowerhorns with a bunch of SA/CA cichlids of all sizes

or doing a school of about 10 piranha (redbelly)


or going salt and getting a dogface puffer and whatever else.


or going brackish with monos, archers, scats, figure 8's/green spotted puffers and mollies and a moray eel





ugh

 

[Heathd]

I just setup my 75 gallon and I am already wanting to go bigger. UGH

 

[syddakyd]

im not getting rid of it. it was a gift from my mom i am very grateful for. it was determined that i cant go any larger due to it being an old house (100+ years) so i went with this. my largest tank prior was a 55g so it seemed so much bigger.

 

[ccebr]

definately agree..smallest of the big tanks!
my 120 has a fh with a few other ca/sa's, plus a silver aro. all the cichlids are under 4" and the aro is pushing 7". i will def have to get rid of the aro in a year or 2, and the cichlids will probs kill eachother off for territory. Kinda sucks cos i love them all n a bigger tank would be perfect. I'l save up

 

[syddakyd]

sa/ca communities can work but they are not as easy to maintain as africans. you have to crowd them without cramming and over filter

 

[Crazyfish88]

I think this feeling goes with all fish tanks. I had my 450g for only a month and I wish I went bigger. Should of went for a 600g instead...

 

[12 Volt Man]

its never big enough. I went with the largest tank I could reasonably fit in my fishroom, which was a 150g (like a 125 but 6" taller) and I want more.

even though the tank looks massive, the 220 would have been the ultimate. however, by the time I add my AC110, it would have taken up too much floor space. almost a 6x3 area with the allowed space from the wall to accomidate the AC's, access to canister hoses etc etc.

even though I know I couldn't really go bigger, I still want bigger LOL

 

[GarNiac]

as for me, it really comes to how much space my fish needs and the number of them I'm planning to keep. I used to have a 125 tank before, and I thought it was not big enough, but soon as I kept more bichirs in it, I sold the tank and got the 200g. Still I felt it wasnt big enough, then I realize that a 200 g is just too good for my bichirs to be in there for live.

 

[mgk]

I get the feeling your kinda burning out on freshwater. I suggest you try the salt or brackish.

 

[LD50]

its never big enough. I went with the largest tank I could reasonably fit in my fishroom, which was a 150g (like a 125 but 6" taller) and I want more.

even though the tank looks massive, the 220 would have been the ultimate. however, by the time I add my AC110, it would have taken up too much floor space. almost a 6x3 area with the allowed space from the wall to accomidate the AC's, access to canister hoses etc etc.

even though I know I couldn't really go bigger, I still want bigger LOL

Go reef redy and use a 75g planted fuge instead of the AC110's. You save floor space, your display will look way cleaner without the HOB pick up tubes and your water quality will be way better than any HOB or canister (if you set it up right no NO3!!!).