Thinking of downgrading to go larger

[cichlid savage]

I really want to go with a Monster show tank for my Pbass. My Tems are almost big enough not to get eaten by my Monos ( about 3 more months at their current growth rate). So I am thinking a 400+ gal tank with a sand bottom, and very lil decor besides a few rocks and a cpl of pieces of driftwood would be great.

But I dont have the room for the tank with out breaking down some of my existing tanks, and I dont want to get rid of any of my other fish Most of my larger cichlids have bad attitudes and therefore must live alone so combining them into 1 of the larger tanks is out.

The obvious answer is get a bigger house but not the practical one. Or I could sell my couch, and put the tank there and just sit on the floor surrounded by fish (nirvana).

So do I sell off some fish and shut down a cpl of tanks for my dream tank? Or do I put the kids out of their room and transform it into an aquarium and charge admission for the jump in the electric bill?
Any ideas?

 

[Nic]

looks like you have to sacrafice.... i would shut everything down to have my dream tank even get rid of most of my fish that couldnt go into to it..

 

[cichlid savage]

Guess I'm just selfish. It's not really my dream tank (I'll never be able to move into the National Aquarium) But it is a realistic dream. I may have to move in a year, so maybe Ill have more room then.

 

[id10t]

Where do you live? If you own your own house, is building on an extra room/attachment possible and worth it? I'm enclosign a 10x12 porch soon, materials includign the weekends worth of beer for me and a few buddies plus food will be under $1000. And then I have my own office and a place to put a BIG tank... if you can do an addition (enclose garage, etc.) it would add value to the house (unless too fish dedicated like a built in monster tank) and give you your existing fishies and the new tank... maybe even one bigger than 400...