Hi all just joined the site been reading post on it for a few weeks now. I used to be big into the hobby of raising and keeping aggressive freshwater fish I've had red belly piranhas, oscar, jack dempseys, arowana, live caught small mouth bass, catfish just to name a few. I've been out of the hobby about 10 years and just recently was donated a small 45 gallon aquarium and by setting it up it awakened the love that I forgot that I had for these fish as pets.
Which brings me here and asking all of your infinite wisdom and advice. Currently I have a baby red devil a small electric blue JD and 2 baby jags all in the 45. Now I'm aware I'm on borrowed time and only have a few months to get a larger home for these guys. I'm in the process this spring of building a bar around a large aquarium in my downstairs "man cave". I have the space and funds to go pretty large so I'm going to be in the range of 200-320 gallons.
My questions are 1. am I supplying enough room for my current fish the 2 jags and the RD to coexist without murdering one another? (I'll prolly leave the electric blue Dempsey in the 45 as his own once they get bigger). 2. If a tank that big would allow me to add any other fish on my wish list? Which includes any of the following but not all of course; a dovii, a black belt, or a umbee. Also what other fish like eels or oddballs if any could I maybe add into the setup because for that big of a tank and the back drop off my bar I not only want variety of some of my favorite fish but just a decent amount of fish without being overpopulated. The jag is my favorite so if you tell me nothing else will work out of the above scenarios I'd be content to have 2 full grown jags in there but for all that space I'd like to have some cool variety. I'm aware my dovii is probably a pipe dream based on the research I've done the past few weeks. Anyways thanks for any help our advice and I can't wait to share pics and updates in the coming months.
Which brings me here and asking all of your infinite wisdom and advice. Currently I have a baby red devil a small electric blue JD and 2 baby jags all in the 45. Now I'm aware I'm on borrowed time and only have a few months to get a larger home for these guys. I'm in the process this spring of building a bar around a large aquarium in my downstairs "man cave". I have the space and funds to go pretty large so I'm going to be in the range of 200-320 gallons.
My questions are 1. am I supplying enough room for my current fish the 2 jags and the RD to coexist without murdering one another? (I'll prolly leave the electric blue Dempsey in the 45 as his own once they get bigger). 2. If a tank that big would allow me to add any other fish on my wish list? Which includes any of the following but not all of course; a dovii, a black belt, or a umbee. Also what other fish like eels or oddballs if any could I maybe add into the setup because for that big of a tank and the back drop off my bar I not only want variety of some of my favorite fish but just a decent amount of fish without being overpopulated. The jag is my favorite so if you tell me nothing else will work out of the above scenarios I'd be content to have 2 full grown jags in there but for all that space I'd like to have some cool variety. I'm aware my dovii is probably a pipe dream based on the research I've done the past few weeks. Anyways thanks for any help our advice and I can't wait to share pics and updates in the coming months.
