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 Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:24 pm
i saw one for sale and im in love with it. it comes with 2 huge chemical filters.
i plan on getting this tank one day in my life, far, far into the future.
what kind of fish would be good in a 200gal?
and if you had a 200gal what would you do with it?
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:53 pm
xd ! Guppies!
and Discusses
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 7:19 pm
There are a lot of options with a tank that size. I'd go with piranhas, hands down. Since we're pretending here, I'll pretend they're legal in my state.
The best way to start planning for a tank that size, is when you move out, look for places with strong floors.
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:40 am
Piranhas are illegal where you live? I can't even immagine why, unless they also outlaw snakes and anything carnivorous.
Are only bunnies legal then?
I think I'd like to make a bio tank. Eighter a south american blackwater bio, or a indian/aisian bio. It will depend on the shape of the tank.
Though, a saltwater or brackwater tank could also be fun.
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Ammonia Spike Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:53 pm
imabadspeler xd ! Guppies! and Discusses Feeder goldfish!
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:03 pm
Seriously though, you have a ton of options...
Some ideas:
Schooling fish would look great in a tank that size. About 100 or so glowlight tetras or Rasbora hengeli swimming around a huge planted tank would be stunning!
You could also do a species tank with a larger, more aggressive fish that you wouldn't be able to keep in anything smaller. Maybe an arowana or something.
A 200gal brackish tank would be a unique and fun setup too. A group of archerfish, scats, monos, and chromides with the tank aquascaped with hanging driftwood "mangrove roots" would be really interesting. You could lower the water line a couple of inches so the archers would be able to do their spitting behaviour.
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Ammonia Spike Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:18 pm
australian arrowana prolly 1 of them, 2 oscars, 2 fire eels, and red devil (maybe considering how aggresive they can get)...
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 7:54 am
@Ammonia: I didn't even think of a arowana <333 Or a fresh water ray. I have fallen in love with the one at the aquarium in the flooded amazon tank because he's so cute and sweet when I feed him.
@Irrlich: They're illegal I believe because if they are set free they can thrive, though how a tropical species could ever survive a new england winter is something I can't quite grasp.
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:39 pm
@Vanilla eXee: Wow, that's amazing, and scary.
The ability to survive and thrive never stops amazing me.
Back home we often had extreem draughts causing even the largest water reserve to be completely dry for a few months every 2 or 3 years at least.
The local species are Tilapia and some sort of Poecilia, a mouthbreeder and livebreeder respectively. How those species survive to repopulate the resevoirs is beyond me.
There is one freshwater spring, but it's not connected to any of the 'rooi' (dry kanal that floods during the rain season) that connects the various resevoirs.
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:29 pm
=3 I was being sarcastic. I am fairly sure any piranhas would die here in the winter. It's just too cold for them.
That is interesting though, maybe they're like cardinal tetras. Most of them die off during the dry season but a small few do survive and those one give birth to so many babies they can completely repopulate every year. Nature is amazing.
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Ammonia Spike Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 9:28 pm
Vanilla eXee
@Ammonia: I didn't even think of a arowana <333 Or a fresh water ray. I have fallen in love with the one at the aquarium in the flooded amazon tank because he's so cute and sweet when I feed him.
@Irrlich: They're illegal I believe because if they are set free they can thrive, though how a tropical species could ever survive a new england winter is something I can't quite grasp.
Isn't that Flooded Amazon exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium?
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:46 am
Vanilla eXee
=3 I was being sarcastic. I am fairly sure any piranhas would die here in the winter. It's just too cold for them.
That is interesting though, maybe they're like cardinal tetras. Most of them die off during the dry season but a small few do survive and those one give birth to so many babies they can completely repopulate every year. Nature is amazing.
°headdesk° I fail at sarcasm, and I used to say it's my favorite form of humor T__T Ah, I'll defend myself by saying I've only seen snow and ice, and thus experienced winter, once in my life ;p Oooh, did not know that about cardinals, tough little critters. That system will only make the species stronger over time. come to think of it, I know quite a few people tried keeping tilapia in a pond, and if you let them do as they please within a year or two their population is so overgrown that they die due to lack of oxygen. :/
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:00 pm
@Ammonia: New England Aquarium
@Irrlich: Winters here are very much snowy and icy and coooold.
How big do tilapia get?
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