Stocking ~200 gallon office corner tank

[barley pop]

Got any pictures barley?


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Nope just went back and looked in my photo buck and I don't have any of him. I have a bunch when it was set up with uaru (I miss them) and when it was frontosa which is what I had for the last three years until a couple weeks ago

 

[jaws7777]

So I finally get to fulfill my dream of having a large (tax-deductible) tank in my own dental office!

I have a couple companies working on quotes for different shapes, but it will def be a corner tank, 48"x 48" x 30". Just not sure if it will be curved (quarter cylinder), or triangular/pentagonal. Leaning towards non-curved even before I see the prices, since I'm a bit worried about distortion as well.

As far as stock, I am leaning towards geos with a few other cichlids, but open to suggestions. I def want at least one large fish, but I don't want to go the route of all aggressive cichlids.

These are the species I've narrowed it down to, but how would you stock it?

Large Cichlid:
Robertsoni
Synspilum
Oscar (prob not a good idea?)
Red Spotted Severum

Medium Cichlids:
EBJD
Blue Acara
Nicaraguense
Sajica

Geos:
Orange Head Tapajos
Maybe an Altifrons, Heckelli, or couple Winemilleri mixed in

Dithers:
No idea

Have you decided on anything yet ?

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[TheLorax]

Didn't expect this thread to get so popular, but like I think I posted earlier, I cleared up a wall so I'm going with a 7ft standard tank, 265 gallons.

I def want an Oscar and some red head geos, but with the long footprint, I can do other large cichlids too.

Bocourti, Severum, and Green Texas are my top picks at this time, but it will prob be another month or two until I can drop the money to get the tank. I think a moderate growing pike would be really cool, but maybe that's asking for trouble, haha.

Never heard much about argentea, I'll look them up!

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[jaws7777]

If your gonna go oscar then i would leave the argentea out

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[inth3shadows]

I agree, Argentea will most likely mess up anyone that looks too similar. Mine beat up and killed one or two fish before I noticed.

He's about 10" now

 

[TheLorax]

So I finally got my tank! It ended up being a 215. Here are some pics, I added a baby pair of sajica and wild blue acara so far. Going to do geos and one other large cichlid, probably bocourti.

 

[jaws7777]

Looks great....have you been able to track down bocourti ?

 

[Buphy]

Living the dream. Looks great!

 

[TheLorax]

Not yet, but I haven't searched that hard. I figure I can get the bocourti last since it will probably grow the fastest. Have to give the other fish a chance in case it's aggressive. How are they with plants? And will columbian/lemon tetras be safe? They don't seem to have huge mouths like oscars

 

[jaws7777]

Never had one but from what i understand tgey are aimilar to pearsei... my pearsei loves romain and such but leaves the java fer and annubias alone