Hello Everyone I just found this site today , it is awesome and I am already learning a lot just by reading previous posts. I got into this hobby less than a year ago when my husband casually mentioned having fish might be nice. I didn't realize he was thinking a goldfish bowl with one fish LOl I started out with a 55 gal tank planted with livebearers. I still have it and they are great but lately cichlids and other fish have interested me and I got a bad case of MTS . Currently I have a 55 gal community tank with livebearers etc, setting up a 55 gal mbuna tank, a 46 gal tank with a couple of large blood parrots in it and severl small tanks. A few months ago I fell in love with a fire eel I seen in a lfs and have tried to do as much research as possible on this fish. With the fire eel in mind I bought a 125 gal tank and have 2" pvc pipes running the length and width of the tank all interconnected under sand substrate, the pipes come up through the sand with about 6 different openings (elbow joints), and there are a lot of driftwood rocks etc on the surface for hiding places. Presently I have 2 medium sized blood parrots, 2 small angels, 2 small severums (which I might rehome) and a rope fish about 12" long in the tank. After reading so much conflicting information about fire eels I am wondering if this tank will be suitable for one (I haven't bought one yet), will I be over stocked?
New Here (long post) and Need advice
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greetings and a very big welcome to mfk you will love it here
well small fish get big, but I would think a 125g tank with the proper filtration and water change regime would very easily handle a fire eel as well as present stock
Personally I would rehome the parrots and keep the others if you are thinking of rehoming any
nice idea with the tunnels under the sand I would actually add another elbow so the entry is horizontal not vertical keep stuff from goin down the pipe, though one thing I might wonder is if something dies in the pipe and you dont find it
well small fish get big, but I would think a 125g tank with the proper filtration and water change regime would very easily handle a fire eel as well as present stock
Personally I would rehome the parrots and keep the others if you are thinking of rehoming any
nice idea with the tunnels under the sand I would actually add another elbow so the entry is horizontal not vertical keep stuff from goin down the pipe, though one thing I might wonder is if something dies in the pipe and you dont find it
Yeah I have wondered about a fish getting in the tubes and dying, but I guess I will figure that out if it happens. Thanks on the advice for the fire eel, now all I have to do is find one lol. The one that I wanted for so long at the pet store was sold the day before I got my new tank set up. No the blood parrots will never be rehomed, even if I had to get rid of every other fish I owned I wouldn't part with my parrots