What is your dream tank?

[OliveFish05]

What is your DREAM tank?

Mine is a 220 gallon Parana River biotope. Well planted with
Amazon sword
Brazilian pennywort
Stargrass
Cabomba
Anacharis
Water hyacinth
(They all fit the biotope)
And stocked with
8 Geophagus sveni
36 bloodfin tetras
8 otos
28 peppered, or, if I can find them, tail spot Pygmy cories

I dont know why those numbers are so specific, but they sounded nice.

 

[Rocky998]

A huge tank (not sure of tank size) stocked with a huge shoal of discus and a few medium-larger sized catfish and possibly a nice school of something (not sure on what). The tank would resemble a river bed and id use some black and tan sand mixed together with a mix of large and small river stones. I would use huge pieces of driftwood along with other small pieces of driftwood and heavily plant the tank with very tall plants... I would also find a way to attach plants, rocks, and wood to 2 sides of the tank to make it look like I literally sliced a piece of a river out and put it in my tank. I'm still thinking of ways to improve my dream tank...

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I love these threads, and always enjoy reading everyone's visions.

Mine is a 300 gallon Wyoming Foothills biotope. Tons (literally) of rocks, lots of current, outrageously over-filtered with an automated water change system replacing about 30% of the water daily. Set up with a chiller to keep the water around 45-50F in the summer, diminishing to around 35-40 in the winter. Sandy bottom, hornwort or similar plants that can deal with the current, cold, and low nutrients.

Stocking: (I'll put some links in here because I have had a little too much fun looking up species for this dream tank)
6 Colorado cutthroat trout
15 Red shiners or redside shiners
20 Sand shiners
15 mountain suckers
5 Mottled sculpin
5-10 Crayfish
Whatever else looks interesting in the minnow trap
An ever-changing but abundant assortment of highly expandable inverts

It is only a dream tank because, even if I strike it rich somehow, I could never justify spending this kind of money on a fish tank.

 

[Circus]

I would like an 8 or 9 foot tank with some freshwater rays. They are really pretty.

 

[OliveFish05]

A huge tank (not sure of tank size) stocked with a huge shoal of discus and a few medium-larger sized catfish and possibly a nice school of something (not sure on what). The tank would resemble a river bed and id use some black and tan sand mixed together with a mix of large and small river stones. I would use huge pieces of driftwood along with other small pieces of driftwood and heavily plant the tank with very tall plants... I would also find a way to attach plants, rocks, and wood to 2 sides of the tank to make it look like I literally sliced a piece of a river out and put it in my tank. I'm still thinking of ways to improve my dream tank...

A discus tank has always been another dream of mine, only a close second to the parana River biotope!

 

[Crispii]

A large that will house altum angels long term

 

[Slaphppy7]

One that does it's own water changes.

 

[OliveFish05]

Ooh ooh I got a better one. A tank that grows along with your MTS

 

[WhistlingBadger]

So, Olive, do you have some connection with the Parana River? That's not one we hear of all that often.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Ooh ooh I got a better one. A tank that grows along with your MTS

Hm, that would mean it grows along with your multi-tank syndrome, or along with your population of Malaysian trumpet snails. Either one could be pretty handy.

 

[Rocky998]

A discus tank has always been another dream of mine, only a close second to the parana River biotope!

Pirannahas would be so cool to keep as well! I wonder if they are able to have tank mates... (I know their not monsters but... Those teeth.)

 

[Rocky998]

How about a tank that as soon as you put it together, it miraculously cycles

 

[Slaphppy7]

How about a tank that as soon as you put it together, it miraculously cycles

They ALL do, if you listen to the LFS employees....

 

[Rocky998]

They ALL do, if you listen to the LFS employees....

So I can add my fish now! Great! *calls my LPS up*

 

[OliveFish05]

So, Olive, do you have some connection with the Parana River? That's not one we hear of all that often.

No, haha. I just love the fish that come from there. The Geophagus, cories, and tetras from that area are just stunning.