Experinced Keeper Tank Design

[Gankutsuou]

All right. after x mas I'll be getting a 30 long (3 foot long tank)

Basically, my 38 but not as tall.

So I've started planning.

so far, I've got....

3x porthole catfish
1x Albino senegal
1x Butis butis (they're fresh to marine fish, any arguements against?)
4x brochis splendens

How does this sound for the probable final stocking with the posibility of one fancy pleco or kribs something?

edit: got one of the three portholes today as a temporary figure in the 38....
cool guy he is.... so it's likely the final stocking of the 30 will include the portholes and the brochis. The elephant nose will stay in the 38, as I know the water is always good there, and the spiney eels COULD make a possible move, The albino senegal would be either alfred, or a new one... but the new one would be small and the butis butis could get him, so alfred, my big one, would probably stay in the 30 for a while.

 

[demonmagus]

aren't all those fish bottom dwellers? Is it a standard 30g with a footprint of 36 by 12? If so you may have a bit of a problem

 

[Fella]

I'm quite sure a butis butis would devour most of those fish. They grow large, and are ambush predators. not for communities I'm afraid. And if I kept one, I'd be inclined to keep it in brackish for sure.

 

[Gankutsuou]

Fella - I am sure brackish inclination would be true, but they ARE adaptive. And kept in fresh as of now, so they'd actually have to readapt to brackish from the LFS.

5" is common, 6" max.

that doesn't sound large enough to eat a 4.75 inch porthole/flagtail catfish, or a 3.5 inch brochis spenden, who do have rather massive bodies, and bichirs all the same are ambush predators.

are you sure on this fella?

 

[Fella]

I wouldn't risk it personally.
http/www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSum...eciesname=butis

Have a look there and see how you feel about keeping it in fresh.

 

[Gankutsuou]

don't see too much against it their. Hopefully these are from the lower freshwater parts instead of brackish, and they are being kept in fresh, but it does decline the appeal slightly.

any other people's opinions?

 

[demonmagus]

you could ask NMonks about that

 

[Gankutsuou]

I could do a pair of angels perhaps, so as to subtract from the bottomdwelling butis butis?