Hello!
I am picking up a 135 gallon tank(72"X19"X24) on saturday and thought it would be fun to start a tank build journal.
This new tank will replace my 65 gallon and my gf 36 gallon bowfront. So unfortunately my fish choices must be ok with her as well.
Now to start things off, what the heck do I do with this thing?? I have never had a tank even close to this big. Feels a little overwhelming having such a big space to play with.
I am thinking of doing a somewhat planted tank with low light plants as both our tanks right now have plants in them. I am not really a fan of all cichlid tanks so I'm thinking plants with some oddballs and a few active larger fish.
Filters will be FX5 and probably one or both of eheim 2213 and 2217 that are currently on my 65 gallon.
The current stock in both the tanks is:
1X gold severum - very aggressive to other cichlids fine with other fish that don't look like him. Loves to eat any plants unfortunately
1X banded leporinus - bought this guy 2 weeks ago on impulse. Sounds like it will be too aggressive for my liking and I will probably rehome it. Only about 1.5" right now.
1X red tail shark
1X black beard algae eater
5X black skirt tetras
1X kribensis
1X albino bn pleco
1X glass catfish
2X pearl gouramis
The only fish I know I want to keep are the severum, black beard algae eater, pleco and glass catfish. Maybe have some torpedo barbs, some sort of colourful plecos, some type of eel the fire eels looks really cool. I'm open to suggestions for stocking. My only concern is the severum can be aggressive to fish that look like him. He bullied a blue acara I had really badly.
Other than stocking does anyone have some good lighting suggestions for a tank this big. Looking for lighting good enough to grow low light plants, LED would be great, but I don't want to spend a fortune on it. And where can I find a lid for the tank? The tank comes with DIY lids, but I don't think they will stand up to my 15lbs cat.
Pictures to come on saturday!
I am picking up a 135 gallon tank(72"X19"X24) on saturday and thought it would be fun to start a tank build journal.
This new tank will replace my 65 gallon and my gf 36 gallon bowfront. So unfortunately my fish choices must be ok with her as well.
Now to start things off, what the heck do I do with this thing?? I have never had a tank even close to this big. Feels a little overwhelming having such a big space to play with.
I am thinking of doing a somewhat planted tank with low light plants as both our tanks right now have plants in them. I am not really a fan of all cichlid tanks so I'm thinking plants with some oddballs and a few active larger fish.
Filters will be FX5 and probably one or both of eheim 2213 and 2217 that are currently on my 65 gallon.
The current stock in both the tanks is:
1X gold severum - very aggressive to other cichlids fine with other fish that don't look like him. Loves to eat any plants unfortunately
1X banded leporinus - bought this guy 2 weeks ago on impulse. Sounds like it will be too aggressive for my liking and I will probably rehome it. Only about 1.5" right now.
1X red tail shark
1X black beard algae eater
5X black skirt tetras
1X kribensis
1X albino bn pleco
1X glass catfish
2X pearl gouramis
The only fish I know I want to keep are the severum, black beard algae eater, pleco and glass catfish. Maybe have some torpedo barbs, some sort of colourful plecos, some type of eel the fire eels looks really cool. I'm open to suggestions for stocking. My only concern is the severum can be aggressive to fish that look like him. He bullied a blue acara I had really badly.
Other than stocking does anyone have some good lighting suggestions for a tank this big. Looking for lighting good enough to grow low light plants, LED would be great, but I don't want to spend a fortune on it. And where can I find a lid for the tank? The tank comes with DIY lids, but I don't think they will stand up to my 15lbs cat.
Pictures to come on saturday!