stock tank suggestions !!

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hey guys i'm new here my name is jack :)

i have a 150*60*40 tank it's a about 100 US gallon

and its stock no decoration no water no fish ...

i'm not a very good and aquatic hobby i have been to it for only a year so i really doesn't know what fish is good for the size of my tank

so i need a suggestion for fish and decoration :)

thx :)
 
By stock tank, do you mean one of those rubbermaid ones?
I have those and find most wild type fish (I keep mostly cichlids) tend to disappear in the grayness.
You can sometimes see them if the angle of the sun is absolutely perfect outside, or if you experiment with lighting inside
The only really visible types are goldfish and koi, which have been bred over the centuries to be seen from above.
A 100 gal is much too small for any but young koi, so I would think goldfish are the best option if you actually want to "see" your fish.
I keep some cool water cichlids and goldfish together in a pond, because the cichlids are what I like, but in reality can't see 95% of the time , while the goldfish let me know fish are actually there.
Below is a 100 gal with cichlids


if you had goldfish, this is what you might see.
 
nah i mean by stock is a normal glass tank with nothing else but the glass ( empty )
is a glass tank with tank a normal tank

what i can put there ??!
 
You mean a fish tank?
My rule of thumb, is, in a 100 gal tank, you should be able to house any kind of fish that reaches an adult max size of 10".
Some may think that's conservative, but I think anything larger than that is cruel and unusual punishment.

My examples of the type fish that would fit are
New world cichlids
most of the genus Geophagus/Gymnogeophagus,
Astatheros
Cryptoheros/Archocentrus
Rocio
Thorichthys etc etc
Old world
Many Africans except the largest
some of the Madagascans like Paratilapia and some Paretroplus like kieneri, nourisatti or maculatus
beyond cichlids, I'm out of my element
 
what are you interested in?

colour?
personality?
odd looking?
many?
few?

etc...
knowing this will let more members chime in ideas
 
few numbers !! 1 fish or 2 but with good size that wiill make tank look great and full ... colour isn't problem even the personality !!

can i ass 2 oscars ?? or one 10" paroon shark ??
 
the paroon needs a much larger tank then what you have for it's adult size which it reaches very quickly, the oscars are probably okay and im sure others will chime in
 
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