What would you do with a 125?

[rvadog]

Have an opportunity to buy a full 125g setup, just need to fill with water and plug in the filter, for $250. It's a pretty darn good price and I'm thinking of pulling the trigger. But I have no idea what I would do with it. To give some idea of my current stock, I have a 55g community tank, a 180g Pearsei/silver dollar, senegal bicher tank, a shrimp tank, a guppy tank, and starting some 20g BN pleco tanks.

If I can figure out what I would put in it, I might go ahead and buy it. But if I can' see a use I'm not spending money even if it's a good deal.

 

[Deadeye]

I’d personally do piranhas, solo cichlid wet pet (or pair) - probably a sagittae, oscar, or chocolate - or a wolf fish of some sort.

 

[jjohnwm]

If you don't see a use for it, then buying it would make no sense...but I'd bet that you're the only person on here who couldn't see lots of uses for it...

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

Congratulations on the deal! I have 2 tanks that size, with a wide range of stocking in each, as listed in my signature (1st and 3rd sentences).
You may be interested in taking inspiration from them.

 

[jjohnwm]

Welcome abroad rvadog! I have 2 tanks that size, with a wide range of stocking in each, as listed in my signature (1st and 3rd sentences).
You may be interested in taking inspiration from them.

Welcome abroad? Or...aboard...?

Whichever...this member has been around for over a decade!

 

[Gunfleet]

FW puffer tank.
Lamprologus shell dwellers and a Tanganyika Eel as population control
Old school goldfish tank full of goofy looking goldfish...tell tell anuone I said it, but orandas can be pretty good looking.

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

Welcome abroad? Or...aboard...?

Whichever...this member has been around for over a decade!

Somehow read their title as 'Feeder Fish'.

 

[rvadog]

If you don't see a use for it, then buying it would make no sense...but I'd bet that you're the only person on here who couldn't see lots of uses for it...

Of course there's a use in buying it, to put some cool fish in!

I could do a discus and tetra tank.

 

[duanes]

I'm using a 125 gal tank, as a sump/planted refugium for my 180.

Your pearsei will soon get too big for the 180, when housed with other fish, so you may need the 125 to house the SDs.

 

[skjl47]

Hello; A few decades ago I had a 125. At the time I was still teaching and part of the things i would do was to induce zebra danios to spawn in my classes. The students could then use long glass tubing to remove the eggs and put them into a dished slide with a few drops of water. The students could view the eggs with a stereo scope of maybe 20x. We would do this each day. The dished slide allowed for putting the eggs back in to the aquarium. The fry were tiny for a while after hatching so could be viewed the same way. We could see how the fry developed. The fry were transparent for the most part so the organs could be seen. The heart could be seen pumping and the blood flowing. We always put the fry back into a tank after viewing.

Anyway we did this a few more times than normal one semester or had bigger numbers of fry. I would take the fry home after they got too big to study. I wound up with a lot of zebras. Maybe three hundred or more raised to good sized, but 200 anyway. I put them in a 125 . They made an impressive sight in a big school in that tank. Not suggesting you buy two or three hundred small fish unless you have throw away money. I raised mine from eggs.