I've had a tropical tank for some time now. But I've always wanted to have a big tank with big fish, preferably native types. Since I want to start off right, I was hoping to hear what folks thought the size tank I should start with and where I might get said native type fish in/around the DC Metro area. Thanks for any and all help in this.
Looking to Start a Native Tank in MD
- Thread starter Dan Pawlowski
- Start date
I'm going with a 245G 72"x30"x27" and this run through I'll be running mostly sunnies. I went with the 30" depth for the gills-16" and so I could keep a bowfin later on. it's still too small of a tank for most bass though.
if you were planning on the smaller species like longears and pumpkinseeds -12" you could do quite well with a 125, although since it uses the same floorspace I would get a 180G.
if you wanted to go with darters and shiner types a 90 would work good.
if you wanted to do the smaller sunnies -dollar northern longears, or orange spotted, a 55 would work, but a 90 would be better.
if you'd like a pygmy sunfish setup, you could keep several pairs in a 20L or several dozen pairs in a 245G...
as with any setup, get the biggest you can. if you want to keep smaller fish, just keep more.
my bluegill came from my dad's pond, my warmouths from aquabid, my longears that I have, and the longears and green sunnies that I will order when available are from zimmerman's fish, my snails and plants came from ebay, and my texas cichlid came from a LFS.
if you were planning on the smaller species like longears and pumpkinseeds -12" you could do quite well with a 125, although since it uses the same floorspace I would get a 180G.
if you wanted to go with darters and shiner types a 90 would work good.
if you wanted to do the smaller sunnies -dollar northern longears, or orange spotted, a 55 would work, but a 90 would be better.
if you'd like a pygmy sunfish setup, you could keep several pairs in a 20L or several dozen pairs in a 245G...
as with any setup, get the biggest you can. if you want to keep smaller fish, just keep more.
my bluegill came from my dad's pond, my warmouths from aquabid, my longears that I have, and the longears and green sunnies that I will order when available are from zimmerman's fish, my snails and plants came from ebay, and my texas cichlid came from a LFS.
i have a 125g with a large assortment of naitves, check out my thread for more details. Definitely go ahead and try some natives though, they are amazing amazing anf super fun!