Losing Passion for My Community Tank

[knobhill]

I have a 350g, and yesterday, I had to tear it all up to retrieve a carcus of a fish I had for at least 8 years--a beautiful female L14 Goldie Pleco. It really makes me rethink wanting to keep the tank going as it is.

Dimensions are:
80"x24"x42"
Here is the stock:
4x 8" bala sharks
4x 10" albino tinfoil barbs
3x5" roseline barbs
20ish 5-10" clown loaches
11" Black ghost knife
4x L47 pleco
6x eb acara
15" blue eyed pleco
1x L253, L14, L48, L75, L24, L001 plecos
A few L134, candy stripe, royal, watermelon, and other odds and ends plecos.

Anyways, I've had this setup going as it stands now for about 5 years, maybe longer.

I'm open to new ideas, suggestions, etc, about how to proceed.

At the moment, I'm not very excited about the setup and would move the blue eye pleco and possiblt the bgk to my 1100g, which I still enjoy tremendously.

Sorry to be a downer, but sometimes its cathartic to get it out!

 

[dan518]

Great size with loads of options, all depends on what you like

 

[Fat Homer]

Sounds like you are bored of small fish that hide??? Maybe switch up the stock???

I would have said turn it into another monster tank, but seems a bit silly when you got a true 1100G monster tank for that...

 

[SandNukka15]

When u say tear up the tank do u mean take out plants ?....bunch of decor?.....maybe try taking everything out except substrate and keep it open to fully view the fish....moght give u a diff aspect and view and u might change ur mind.

Imo your stock is perfect sizing for the tank since its only a 2 foot width... you seem to have the best stock for a tank that wide.

 

[Chockful O Phail]

Sounds like an awesome stock list to me, a few less plecos more barbs and sharks and a RTBS and it's perfect

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

I would take out all plecos, black ghost knife and add more barb species like filament barb, Geophagus species.

 

[convict360]

I'd stick with the community, I've went in favour of the lone monster every so often: and got bored quickly, the only individual monster I keep now is my Betta in his 5g

 

[dan518]

200+ shoal of neon tetra

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

200+ shoal of neon tetra

200+ pretty much show nothing in that tank size he will need 3000+ neon. I used to have 500+neon in 125G and its pretty much look empty LOL

 

[Warborg]

Carp, is this you?

Just kidding. With all those plecos you are bound to lose one. Don't let that get you down.

If you really are bored with it then yes, change it up if you really feel a change will help. At times I get bored with my fish but once I regain interest I still want the same fish.