need some ideas for a 75g tank

[MYoung]

i suck at searching so here it goes, ill be picking one up this weekend and setting it up. i need some ideas as to what to do with it as far as decor goes. im thinking along the lines of starting with black gravel and going from there. im not really wanting to do live plants.

oh and this tank is going to be for 2 banded leporinus and passably a hand full of cory cats (or any crap eater that the leporinus wont kill/eat)

so please post up some pics of yalls 75g tanks so i can get some ideas please.

 

[professa19]

ill get some pics up of my 55g which is similar to your 75g.

but yeah you can find most of the stuff to make a good looking tank. go to your local pet store and find some plastic plants you can use, the more the better

 

[COLDasICE]

I wouldn't recommend banded leporinus in a planted tank, they are known to eat plants. They are omnivores.

 

[bmthomps84]

If I had an empty tank with no fish I would DEF. build an artificial background for the tank. The possibilities are endless! You can do it for fairly cheap and you need almost no tools. Most are started with a styrofoam block carved and shaped roughly then heat is applied to provide texture. A few coats of cement and some accent painting and you are set. (Keep in mind this will delay the addition of your fish a couple weeks as the cement needs to cure) What is great is that you can create, ledges to add depth, caves for your fish, and you can even design it to hide your hardware. Check out the DIY forum there are a lot of good examples for inspiration. Good luck!

 

[MYoung]

I wouldn't recommend banded leporinus in a planted tank, they are known to eat plants. They are omnivores.

thats what i have read.... plus fake plants are cheaper and last longer

If I had an empty tank with no fish I would DEF. build an artificial background for the tank. The possibilities are endless! You can do it for fairly cheap and you need almost no tools. Most are started with a styrofoam block carved and shaped roughly then heat is applied to provide texture. A few coats of cement and some accent painting and you are set. (Keep in mind this will delay the addition of your fish a couple weeks as the cement needs to cure) What is great is that you can create, ledges to add depth, caves for your fish, and you can even design it to hide your hardware. Check out the DIY forum there are a lot of good examples for inspiration. Good luck!

i would love to do something like that but i dont have the materials to do it nor the talent, lol.

 

[wingate2581]

I believe banded leporinus like a good current, so I would suggest looking at setting up a river tank set-up and maybe adding more. They are known to be fin nippers and is said to be best kept in numbers.

 

[professa19]

OK...i rephrase my advice.... "Go out and buy some very extravagant, extortionate and inordinate driftwood and rocks they will look splendid in your freshwater aquarium"

 

[MYoung]

I believe banded leporinus like a good current, so I would suggest looking at setting up a river tank set-up and maybe adding more. They are known to be fin nippers and is said to be best kept in numbers.

well right now they are in a tank with 2 gouramies (1 red dwarf and 1 opaline) 4 guppies and 2 algae eaters. i had 2 cories in there but the leporinus killed both of them. im still looking into what im going to put in the 75 with them.....

im looking at getting some sort of bottom feeder to help keep the crap down (any suggestions?)

here are a few pics of them right now (they are still small and young but get alot bigger)

 

[meanbestorque]

I like to have contrast... if there are colorful fish, i like plain substrate. brings out the colors a lot more IMO

 

[wingate2581]

As far as fish to "keep the crap down", you wont find one. Any fish in the tank is going to help contribute to the bio load. Even if you did have a fish that ate poop, he'll just poop the poop back out! Regular tank maintenance is the only solution for that. Being that they are still small and have already killed 2 cories I would'nt put anything smaller than them that moves slowly in the tank.