Stocking a 150g
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Tank #1: Seems a shame to waste your "beast" of a tank on tiny fish.
Tank #3: You said paludarium is out.
Tank #2: Archers do best with a specialized setup of open air up top for crickets, but it's not a necessity.
With this tank, you could support some larger schooling (shoaling) fish. I used to have scats; the silver ones are beautiful and don't get too huge. My old green scat was great, ate out of my hand. My red scat looked great young, but they are boring brown as adults. They will get really big though, so don't get 6 babies now - they'll overrun your tank, and that 300 gallon is going to seem to be a big hassle.
Now i have 5 mono argentus which school non-stop in the middle level of the tank, and are very hardy. (I know a pro who uses them as a new-tank cycling fish for his cutomers' marine tanks.) A school of 3-4 colombian (bolivian, black-fin silver) sharks on the bottom level is great. I also have 1 jade (sleeper) goby. Another nice schooling fish is the green chromide. they're usually sold 1", but get big. A pair of orange chromides is another option.
With these guys, smaller gobies will most likely become food.
good luck!
Tank #3: You said paludarium is out.
Tank #2: Archers do best with a specialized setup of open air up top for crickets, but it's not a necessity.
With this tank, you could support some larger schooling (shoaling) fish. I used to have scats; the silver ones are beautiful and don't get too huge. My old green scat was great, ate out of my hand. My red scat looked great young, but they are boring brown as adults. They will get really big though, so don't get 6 babies now - they'll overrun your tank, and that 300 gallon is going to seem to be a big hassle.
Now i have 5 mono argentus which school non-stop in the middle level of the tank, and are very hardy. (I know a pro who uses them as a new-tank cycling fish for his cutomers' marine tanks.) A school of 3-4 colombian (bolivian, black-fin silver) sharks on the bottom level is great. I also have 1 jade (sleeper) goby. Another nice schooling fish is the green chromide. they're usually sold 1", but get big. A pair of orange chromides is another option.
With these guys, smaller gobies will most likely become food.
good luck!
also, if puffers are your thing, stick with them. pufferpunk is the resident expert. they might bully the monos, which can be skittish.
I meant the paladarium idea about the frogs. If I went with puffers, which species would I be able to get? F8s or GSPs only? I used to have a small 20g with a 2" puffer in there for about a month or two (holding for someone). I loved the little guy. I think I would really like to see a tank of puffers, come to think of it.
So, that brings me to a few other questions.
If I got puffers, what are some species found in the trade besides the two mentioned?
How many would I be able to put in the tank and still have them thrive (per species)?
I assume it would be a species tank if I got puffers, so no mixing of puffer species?
Thanks all!
Mark
So, that brings me to a few other questions.
If I got puffers, what are some species found in the trade besides the two mentioned?
How many would I be able to put in the tank and still have them thrive (per species)?
I assume it would be a species tank if I got puffers, so no mixing of puffer species?
Thanks all!
Mark
Check out this page for a great review of commonly available fish
http://homepage.mac.com/nmonks/Projects/brackishfaq.html
Guppies do fine up to full sea water if acclimated slowly.
If I were to do it again, I'd go low end brackish again, but go with dozens of small (<2-3") fish (or really peacefull), to fill up the tank and give a bigger sense of scale.
Chromides, certain rainbows, BBGs, etc. Big fish have been good to me too, though.
http://homepage.mac.com/nmonks/Projects/brackishfaq.html
Guppies do fine up to full sea water if acclimated slowly.
If I were to do it again, I'd go low end brackish again, but go with dozens of small (<2-3") fish (or really peacefull), to fill up the tank and give a bigger sense of scale.
Chromides, certain rainbows, BBGs, etc. Big fish have been good to me too, though.
Those would be my favorite choice of setup. Either a puffer tank, or a small fish community tank. The thing is, I cant seem to get together a compatible stocklist of either. If I were to do just guppies and mollies, I would just save the money and go freshwater. But I really like some of the other fish that come with brackish that wont go fresh, so here inlies the problem. The puffers are really intriguing to me, but cant seem to get too much information on them either..
Mark
Mark
Just pick the one or two types of fish that most attract you, decide if there is room for others, and fill the tank as they become available. Be selective. I've regreted many purchases of sub-quality specimens that I bought just because they were in front of me.
