Wanting to start a monster tank

[essy]

I found this guy that wants to sell his 90gal for like $100, which I can afford (I live by myself so getting $1500+ for a big tank is hard.)

I've been wanting a 150+gal for a while, but I figure this could be a neat little "upgradable" monster tank (then when they move out.. maybe I could put my africans in here.)

I want to put a oscar (it's only like.. 3" right now at my LFS), a 2-3" Longnose Gar, and 1-2 3" Dempseys. I'll have a FX5/AC110 running on this, is this big enough for babies.. then when they get bigger to plop them in the 150+gal?

 

[Malawi-]

Should be fine.. Will need a bigger eventually.. If you plan to upgrade you could even get more than those 3 fish.

 

[essy]

Should be fine.. Will need a bigger eventually.. If you plan to upgrade you could even get more than those 3 fish.

I definitely plan on upgrading to a 150-200gal tank in the next 6-10 months.

More than those 3? What would you suggest? We have some neat eels at my work aswell (the LFS), some dempseys.

I was thinking like this if I could fit a few more.

1x 2-3" Oscar
1x 2" Gar
2x 3" Dempseys

Then I guess I could maybe throw a Red Texas Cichlid and one of our GT (not a true unfortunately)

So,

2x 1.5" RT Cichlids
1x GT (not true)

I thought I'd be overcrowding it, but they're all still small.

 

[djarmstrong]

Red Devil , Black Belt Cichlids are nice so are Jaguar's , you will deffently need to upgrade to a 300Gal + tank when the Oscar and Gars grow bigger .

What about another Oscar or two ?

 

[essy]

Bumping for any more opinions

 

[Malawi-]

If your going to upgrade for sure, you could throw in quite a few fish, that dont exceed 15'' in length.. lol.. Oscars, dempsey, GT, RT, Salvini, gar, many more! I dont specialize in CA and SA cichlids, but there are a handful you could pick up.

 

[essy]

Well, we have some Severums at my LFS.. but they're just a really bland white color. I'm just not a fan of them I guess.

I really like the gar we have, an oscar or two would be awesome. We have some Blue Acaras aswell, which are neat.

 

[Lupin]

Well, we have some Severums at my LFS.. but they're just a really bland white color. I'm just not a fan of them I guess.

How big are they? You'll be surprised how beautiful they can actually be once full grown. Here is my male gold severum grown from an inch...

 

[essy]

He's cute! The ones we have are like, 2.5" maybe? Still white with a very small tinge of yellow on their bellies.

 

[Malawi-]

I had a beauitful wild Red shoulder severum. there are several pretty species..