Quit the hobby last year and sold my 225 gallon sadly but was necessary at the time. I still am not able to have a large tank again yet until I move which will be sometime this year. For the moment I want to get back into the hobby at a smaller level for the time being. Found a good deal on a 33 gallon (36 x 18 x 12) tank yesterday so I will be picking it up a bit later today. Setting it up and starting the cycle.
Before I go pick up my tank i plan on heading to town to check out some of the pet/fish stores that I used to visit quite often but now feels like forever since I've been there. See what each of the stores is stocking now and of what sizes etc.
I plan to use pool filter sand as my substrate and use rocks / driftwood/ plants as the decorations to give it a natural look. For filtration I will be running both an AquaClear 70 and an Aqua-tech filter (not sure the details, comes with the tank and was previously used to filter the whole tank but I will be adding an AC70 for high filtration.
Now that all of that is out of the way I need help coming up with a stocking list for a 33 gallon. All ideas are welcome and I'm using both filters to give me a higher turnover so that I may be able to overstock a little. I'm open to any type of community tank (silver dollars, tiger barbs .. etc) I'm also a fan of bichir's (the Cuiver senegal bichir's) that are available at my pet store. Had two of them in my 225 but they never got a chance to grow before I had to get rid of the tank. I realize they would be too large full grown for the 33 gallon but I'm not too worried about that as upgrading is a deffinate as the moving process happens.
Shoot me your ideas .. open to a tank of one kind of fish or many. If it is one species i'd like something somewhat active and spreads through the tank. If more then one species or a community tank I'd like tank mates to fill top, middle and lower sections of the tank ..
Thanks in advance guys, feels good to be back!
Before I go pick up my tank i plan on heading to town to check out some of the pet/fish stores that I used to visit quite often but now feels like forever since I've been there. See what each of the stores is stocking now and of what sizes etc.
I plan to use pool filter sand as my substrate and use rocks / driftwood/ plants as the decorations to give it a natural look. For filtration I will be running both an AquaClear 70 and an Aqua-tech filter (not sure the details, comes with the tank and was previously used to filter the whole tank but I will be adding an AC70 for high filtration.
Now that all of that is out of the way I need help coming up with a stocking list for a 33 gallon. All ideas are welcome and I'm using both filters to give me a higher turnover so that I may be able to overstock a little. I'm open to any type of community tank (silver dollars, tiger barbs .. etc) I'm also a fan of bichir's (the Cuiver senegal bichir's) that are available at my pet store. Had two of them in my 225 but they never got a chance to grow before I had to get rid of the tank. I realize they would be too large full grown for the 33 gallon but I'm not too worried about that as upgrading is a deffinate as the moving process happens.
Shoot me your ideas .. open to a tank of one kind of fish or many. If it is one species i'd like something somewhat active and spreads through the tank. If more then one species or a community tank I'd like tank mates to fill top, middle and lower sections of the tank ..
Thanks in advance guys, feels good to be back!
