Stocking A Large Tank With Small Fish?

[cm11599ps]

I'm sure there are many people, myself included, who have had too big a fish in too small a tank. That seems to be common practice actually.

Is there anyone that actually has a large tank and stocks it with a bunch of small fish? I would think it would be quite impresiive to see a 300+ gallon tank filled with a bunch of neons, mollies, etc....


At that point do you think it would be OK to throw in one or two larger fish like a pair of angels? Sure a smaller fish may be dinner now and then but when you have a huge school of them it's not a disaster.

Your thoughts?

 

[iloveoscars702]

it depends... i think a large "planted tank" with either Discus or Angels would look REALLY nice with a large school of tetras, etc... but a tank with just small fish would look ugly imo.

 

[knifegill]

Someone here did take a stock of around 3000 neons, I think, and put them into a huge tank. They died mysteriously, but I imagine the effect was intense. Picture a cloud of neons the size of a lawnmower suddenly changing directions with a flash of blue and red.

 

[importracer]

I'm sure there are many people, myself included, who have had too big a fish in too small a tank. That seems to be common practice actually.

Is there anyone that actually has a large tank and stocks it with a bunch of small fish? I would think it would be quite impresiive to see a 300+ gallon tank filled with a bunch of neons, mollies, etc....


At that point do you think it would be OK to throw in one or two larger fish like a pair of angels? Sure a smaller fish may be dinner now and then but when you have a huge school of them it's not a disaster.

Your thoughts?

What you are really aiming for here, sub-consciencely, is an easy communtiy biotope in a large tank standing out from the rest of the "monster predator" feeling you get from the rest....WHat size tank???Sure it is cool....I myself have once owned a 180...I stuffed it with Neon Tetras and Tiger Barbs...EVentually the fish became feeders when I dumped a shoal of Red Belly Piranha in it.....I'd say a 100g tank is the largest I would go for the small fish scene...Anything larger, you might of as well charge people to come in and see your tanks because it is a waist of space to have small fish swimming in a tank fit for a king and queeen..If you have the money, turn the monster communtiy tank into a plant paradise....Purchase a giant Co2 bottle and plant away....Beleive me though, the large tank will become the home to a predator within a month or 2.....Especially if you are regular on MFK......

 

[cm11599ps]

it depends... i think a large "planted tank" with either Discus or Angels would look REALLY nice with a large school of tetras, etc... but a tank with just small fish would look ugly imo.

Yeah, that's kind of what I'm thinking about.