75 Gallon Tank.

[thelaw]

hi i went on this website www.Advert for another forum removed.com and i used it to help me try to stalk a 75 gallon but i wan every body's opinion on it i want to get a oscar a Trinidad Pleco and a west Africa bichir with two filters a MARINELAND Emperor 400 and aAqueon QuietFlow 55/75 all to gether making it 140 gallons worth a filtration i will have lots of plants a big piece of drift wood and some and some rocks here and there with gravel substrate it will have glaas canopy and a strip light so will this work?     

 

[sawickib]

Ive heard plants with bichirs and oscars get up rooted very easily, and the pleco will help with moving plants around. You have lots of bio load with the oscar and pleco, but you have lots of filtration so i suppose thats ok, what bichir were you thinking of getting? There is many species of bichir so you will need to expand on that. I would suggest these bichirs for the 75 gallon,
P. palmas palmas ('palmas' bichir)- 13"
(subspecies)P. palmas polli ('marbled bichir)- 14"
(subspecies) P. palmas buettikoferi ('buettikoferi' bichir)- 13"
P. delhezi ('armoured' or 'delhez's' bichir)- 14"
P. senegalus senegalus ('Senegal' or 'Cuiver's' bichir)- 12"
(possible subspecies)P. senegalus meridionalis- 12"+
There is, Also the possibility of a third member of the Polypterus senegalus
group that is found in the Nile River
P. retropinnis ('retropinnis' bichir)- 14"
P .mokelembembe
E. calabaricus ('Ropefish')- 15"-30" (Closer to 15''-20'' in captivity)Best kept two or more
I would also recommend at least 2 of bichirs because they all feel safer with another bichir with them

 

[thelaw]

Ive heard plants with bichirs and oscars get up rooted very easily, and the pleco will help with moving plants around. You have lots of bio load with the oscar and pleco, but you have lots of filtration so i suppose thats ok, what bichir were you thinking of getting? There is many species of bichir so you will need to expand on that. I would suggest these bichirs for the 75 gallon,
P. palmas palmas ('palmas' bichir)- 13"
(subspecies)P. palmas polli ('marbled bichir)- 14"
(subspecies) P. palmas buettikoferi ('buettikoferi' bichir)- 13"
P. delhezi ('armoured' or 'delhez's' bichir)- 14"
P. senegalus senegalus ('Senegal' or 'Cuiver's' bichir)- 12"
(possible subspecies)P. senegalus meridionalis- 12"+
There is, Also the possibility of a third member of the Polypterus senegalus
group that is found in the Nile River
P. retropinnis ('retropinnis' bichir)- 14"
P .mokelembembe
E. calabaricus ('Ropefish')- 15"-30" (Closer to 15''-20'' in captivity)Best kept two or more
I would also recommend at least 2 of bichirs because they all feel safer with another bichir with them

well i plan to get waited plastic plants and i plan to get a Cuvier Bichir for it 

 

[sawickib]

Aright make sure you get similar size fish for the oscar and bichir you dont want it getting eaten, id get about 3 bichirs.

 

[thelaw]

Aright make sure you get similar size fish for the oscar and bichir you dont want it getting eaten, id get about 3 bichirs.

well now i think i will just not get any bichir skip the trnidad pleco and a alligator pleco and a sun catfish will that work?

 

[sawickib]

Sun catfish get to large for your tank and are cold water fish. The alligator pleco is pretty much the same as the trinidad pleco, so yes that would still work. still a pleco still large bioload from it.

 

[thelaw]

Sun catfish get to large for your tank and are cold water fish. The alligator pleco is pretty much the same as the trinidad pleco, so yes that would still work. still a pleco still large bioload from it.

cool then i think thats what i will do but sadly it will not be set up for long long time