What would be your choice? **monster shopping**

[JDH Aquatics]

Ok.... You have a 5ft x 18" x 16" acrylic tank...

Pick a "Monster" you would have in this tank...
The idea is you'd most likely have it in here for life... "Monster" doesn't need to be size, but perhaps attitude.

I myself have a 2 flowerhorn, I would put either in there.. Otherwise make it a bichir tank...

I'm not really sure what other "monsters" could go in therre for life..

Piranha
Large school of exodon tetras
Oscar
Dovii. - Or will they get to big?
African Lungfish

What would you pick? What would be your monster for that tank?

 

[Backfromthedead]

ive never kept one, but i hear grammodes are like a mini dovii in looks and attitude. i would consider one for your tank.

 

[Gourami Swami]

Dovii would get too big. 18" width means you want fish that don't get larger than 12".
Still a ton of good options for that tank size. Plenty of cichlids I would like to keep. As far as non-cichlids go, I would like to try an erythrinus wolf fish. Or channa (snakeheads) but they are illegal in the states unfortunately.

 

[justarn]

Gulper cat, hemibagrus nemurus cat, black mask elongatus pirahna.... Leopard puffer. Sheeps head pacu.

 

[JDH Aquatics]

I'd also do a fahaka puffer.

 

[mattison187]

Amphilophus of some sort would be my choice

 

[Jexnell]

Female Festae as a wet pet, with a nice school of Roseline sharks and picture cats.

 

[Achilles1763]

Too small for a fahaka, which would be my first choice. Failing that nandopsis Haitianese worse than any Dovii but smaller

 

[krichardson]

I actually can't come up with anything to keep in there.

 

[knobhill]

1 ridiculously aggressive adult flowerhorn/red devil/texas etc. with the hope that a pleco, bichir or eel can live in there with enough hiding spaces.