Whats your dream tank??

[Guppylover]

I am thinking of a pair of Rams, a pair of Angels, maybe some Kribs. I would like to have some gouramis too. Maybe 2 pairs dwarf and some paradise fish.

Think that would work in a tank?

That sounds good! I'll find out that angelfish I was looking at a few days ago.

 

[BeccaBlain]

I'd love a tank with discus in it. They are so precious and adorable!

Becca

 

[Eel Boy]

That tank would be awesome, but it seems like it would be really hard to pull off

 

[CFC]

i'm no expert on angle fish, but never heard of any that only grow 11cm... did a fish store employee tell you this (if so, dont trust them!) or did you research this yourself with the scientific name of that fish???

I did reaserch on them myself. With the scientific name. Unless of cause they are lying

The only species of angelfish that does not exceed 11cm is the longnosed angel fish Pterophyllum dummerilii. However i think it is highly unlikely that you will be able to find any of these in the aquarium hobby and if you did they would be at very high prices.
If by some miracle you are able to find some of these rarely imported fish then you would need a RO unit to supply water for their aquarium as they do not tolerate water with a pH above 6 and hardness above 5GH.

 

[Fiddlesticks]

do you know the scientific name for them? if i google Rainbow Fish... a million of different things come up

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Thats because there are a million diff. kinds. Try a search for trop.fish indexes, and look there. I have boesemanni and parkinsoni's which are very cute and cool.

 

[Snowie]

Oh I dont know where to start.

A "realistic" dream tank at the moment is a large asian tank.

With a school of rainbows and lots of loaches. Loads of plants as well.

 

[kevin007]

I would want the tank to have like 20 cories (sterbai and ?) and then i want to have some ottos and some school of tetras/danios

 

[spanair]

I already have my dream fish, always wanted one. The moorish Idol

 

[NinjaSmurf]

Hehe, my dream tank would be a room where the walls would be nothing but one big tank. God only knows what I would put in it though..... oh the possibilities. Hmm, but for your tank, I don't know. I'm partial to cichlids and odd fish. And carnivores. So, big problem if you want a community tank. I like rams so they'd be cool. Used to have angels a long time ago, I remember they were neat. Or you could get one of those setups that you stick in the tank that makes it look like a rock wall so it could be half and half kinda tank with tree frogs or whatnot. I don't know the exact spefs. but they looked awesome at the store.

 

[leslie123]

Sounds llike some of you are interested in vivariums.

I had a 55 gallon with a waterfall & 5-gallon pool (planted, with a beta) and 3 dendrobates leucomella (black & yellow) dart frogs in the land part (and sometimes in the water part). It was AWESOME!

You might consider dart frogs. Dart frogs make terrific inhabitants - they're dinural (awake during the day so their singing doesn't keep you up all night), active, usually out in the open, and very interesting to watch. They eat bugs, too -mostly crickets and flightless fruit flies. And, yes, I'm referring to "poison dart frogs" - but if you feed them properly, they aren't poisonous. (The poison is metabolized from ants & termites they eat in the wild, so dont' feed 'em ants or termites.) A properly fed captive-bred dart frog (the only kind you should buy) is not poisonous - but I'm not recommendinding handling them or feeding them to your kids or pets. If you're interested in dart frogs, do your research before you buy them.

I'm the web designer for Vivarium Concepts (http/www.vivariumconcepts.com) --there are lots of photos there of vivarium setups, and you might look at this site for ideas. I'm going to set up an vivarium with imitators (thunbnail-size dart frogs) in the next month - I've waited almost 2 years for them, and I am really excited about them. It'll probably have a water feature, but not an actual pond with fish.

I've also had day geckos in a vivarium - also very interesting. If you go with a small enough reptile/amphibian, you can watch very "natural" behavior. The problem with the juvinile water dragons (which are fascinating) is that they grow up big.

Leslie

 

[moneywastedonfish]

yeah i minded two baby water dragons for about 8 months, kept them in a 60ish gal tank with a ten gal filled with water, no fish in the tank thou. Was a pretty simple setup nothing flash but it was cool to watch them demolish all varieties of insect and even the odd spider.
Cool to scare the girls with too. lol.

 

[Lorelei]

Discus! Those real bright yellow ones. I'd start with about 5 babies and when they paired off, keep two to breed. (but I've always liked doing the breeding thing- there's so much satisfaction in raising the fry)

 

[luxum]

Check out this excellent site for more info on rainbowfish. They are beautiful, but they are schoolers, so you'd have to make sure you get enough of them, and do not keep more than one species from the same genus in a tank because they will hybridize freely and the rainbowfish people will be all kinda mad at you.

Edit: and while i'd try keeping discus in a true "dream tank", i don't think a 35 gallon is sufficient for them.