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[pacu mom]

6/8/06

For a 150 gal tank, you are already overstocked. We moved our two pacu and two oscars into our 300 gal tank in March, and we are already talking about what we are going to do next. Our pacu are approaching 20 inches. They are so strong and powerful that I think it's possible we could come home to a broken tank and 300 gallons of water on our wood floor.

My first post was in response to this:

"I am getting a 150 gallon aquarium, and I would like to know a few things on how to set it up and suggestions as to what I may put in it. I already have a convict, 2 pacu, and an Oscar. I would like to know what else I can put in this monster tank. I was thinking an
Ornate Bichir,
Jack Dempsey,
Jaguar Cichlid,
Either a Green terror or Texas Cichlid,
and a Severum or a Midas Cichlid.
I would like other people's thoughts on this and/or suggestions to other fish I might want to keep in this tank.

Alright, what kind of filtration would I need for this tank? I was thinking a Fluval FX5 and two bio wheel (350?) hang on the back filters. I would like suggestions on this.

One other thing, I was thinking of putting sand and some large rocks and driftwood in there. Although I am open to suggestions, how would I aquire these or what I need for this tank? Thanks!! "









4 1/2 years later, we are still working on a big tank set up for our fish. We just started year 2 of our fish room build.

 

[CLDarnell]

I am impressed on how several of the first posts were trying to help someone out or very detailed questions!

Good stuff!

 

[Pharaoh]

Pseudodora niger

I have just returned to Monster Fish Keeping after a 6 month lull. My last Turushuki was 24' and 11 pounds when I moved him to a larger (200 gallon) tank. Unfortunately, he never ate after the move and died a few months later.http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/fo...lies/frown.gif
Two days ago I was at the Animal House in Corvallis. When the owner saw me I could tell he had something good. Long story short, I left with a 4" L-075 pleco AND a 6" Pseudodora niger!
The Animal House rules! They had at least a dozen varieties of monster cats (including a 2" electric cat!), arowanas, a Johani pike, an African Pike, an African lungfish, and hundreds more rare and unusual fish. I am not trying to advertise for the place (they do NOT sell online), but if you live within a hundred miles and like catfish, it is the best!



**Wow, that is strange to see... By the way, the 200 gallon tank I was referring to is a 4x4x2, so please don't flame me for jamming my monster cat in too small of a tank.**

Well, even in a 4x4x2 tank, a 24' fish won't fit.

 

[SumoNinja]

here's mine:

"(2) 7" Peackock bass 4 sale in So Cal

Anyone interested,

I have two good looking juvenile peacock bass at 7" for sale. Nice colors, nice girth and very healthy. Make me an offer! Pick up only,............. I'm in the Riverside area in So Cal. BUT am willing to drive within 15 mile radius to meet you half way. Just to put it out there, I'm looking for a 10 to 12" Tire Track Eel or 5" Australian Jardini. Will trade.

I know there are different types of peacock bass. Not sure exactly which ones I have but they have the 3 bars and they don't have the white dots all over them, they just have the 3 vertical bars and are getting black lateral specs. Questions? I can even email pictures.

Interested? Private Message Me"

 

[Oddball]

Wow. This was a few tanks ago on 5-10-2005:

New 'kid' on the block

Hi All,
Just recently found this site. I'm looking forward to learning new things and to help others out where I can. I've been in this hobby for about 40 years and I just get more insane... I mean into it as time goes on.

I have a few tanks up and running with, primarily, oddball fish. My house is 2100sq/ft and my fish building is over 7500sq/ft. The main focus of my fish room is producing aussie red-claw crays for the food market. I'm currently running 16,000 gals of growout bins and another 2,000 gals of hatching tanks. I have plans in the works to add 4 26ft x 5ft x 2ft raceways as purge tanks, softshell production tanks, and additional growout space. I'm also gearing up to raise marrons. These are larger crays at 18" and 2 1/2+lbs each. I also have a 20 tank experiment running on the possibility of mass producing Lake Malawi blue swimming crabs as an alternative to the heavily-regulated US blue crab.

My fish collections consists of: River and lake fahaka puffers, colony of large T. fluviatillis puffers, colony of T. palembagensis puffers, several mbu puffers, and assorted other puffers. RTC, RTC/TSN hybrid, large-mouth cat, black morph gator gar, 16 albino P. senegalus, several delhezis, ornates, bichir bichirs, endy, congicus, and I'm sure I'm missing a few, albino P aethiopicus, ATF, 15-16" Panaque nigrolineatus, unidentified dorid cat (looks like a raphael but, it's over a foot long), albino monopterus eel, wide-bar dats, silver dats, 3 different species of severum, malawi trout (Champsochromis), several tropheus species, haps, carpintes 'escondido', geophagus species, shell-dwellers, H. mooris, AST, FRTs, and a bunch of other critters with more being added as I set up new racks.

That's it for now. Hands 'r tired...talk amongst yourselves for a a while.

 

[Dan F]

Well, even in a 4x4x2 tank, a 24' fish won't fit.

Well, he was 24' and only 11 pounds, so he was quite slender.

 

[Mudslinger14]

My 7'' one ate a few fully grown tiger barbs in one night...Be careful

LOL. I was talking about a pictus cat.....

 

[Red Devil]

02-23-2006, 7:12 PM #1 Red Devil
Nice to meet you and welcome to MFK



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Looking for zebra pleco's

Anyone know where i can purchase these beautiful fish? I am in Ny.. are they still around? Thanks! i never did find any after i heard the price..lol

 

[Miguel]

Quote:

"I havepygocentrus cariba, piraya and natereri, and a serrasalmus spilopleura."

 

[Warborg]

Here's my first one:

It is a Hypostomus plecostomus

I have one just like yours.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=580