3,500 gallon tank - what to put in?!

[ChrisCook]

Well folks, I've been offered a 3,500 gallon tank.
25 foot long, 5 foot wide and 5 foot deep. I'll probably be taking it and waiting until I have room before doing anything with it, but in the mean time I can only fantasise about what I'll be stocking it with!

If you had this tank, then what would you do with it?

Chris

 

[fish_r_great]

Wow that is a big tank. Arrowana, or Gars, or a lot of African Cichlids.

 

[wuvmybetta]

Frontosa.....all the way B)

 

[Siamese Fighter05]

A great white would look pretty decent in there...

 

[Paul_MTS]

arowanas's, rays, catfish, bichirs, few large cichlids. basically my current tank on a bigger scale!

 

[Fella]

Neon Tetras

 

[GSD]

you gotta have an oscar in there!!!

 

[Barracuda518]

Well folks, I've been offered a 3,500 gallon tank.
25 foot long, 5 foot wide and 5 foot deep. I'll probably be taking it and waiting until I have room before doing anything with it, but in the mean time I can only fantasise about what I'll be stocking it with!

If you had this tank, then what would you do with it?

Chris

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3500 gallons

Thats a lot of water

 

[GSD]

link didnt work sorry people!

 

[penguinpimp1990]

giant gourami

 

[fish_r_great]

Ask CFC hes an expert on bigger fish. Maybe Natives?

 

[rdd1952]

Unless I miss my calculations, 25x5x5 is actually 4675 gallons. Of course some of that will be displaced by substrate, decoration, etc. Of course, 1" of gravel will displace about 78 gallon of water.

That would be a great native tank with bass, bream, catfish, etc. Of course that goes back to the ethical question earlier this week about fishing and taking fish from their natural pond/river habitat and putting them in a tank. I'd have to build another building for that. Wouldn't fit in any room in my house other that the great room.

 

[Fish_Mike]

You should put in many, many shoals of schooling fish. At least 200 of each: cardinals, rummy nose tetras, black neons, hatchets, and add many discus and plecs and everything to clean your tank! Man what a cleaning job that must be

Or you could always listen to Fella and buy 3,500 neons

 

[Ethos]

Would the floor in the average house (with a basement) hold that much weight? I technically have a 3 level house (Basment, Main floor, 2nd Floor), and I'd put it on the main floor. Would it just fall through?

 

[fish_r_great]

What kind of filter, heating, and lighting are thinking of? Gravel by the truckload.