Fishkeeping Wishlist

[dzsigmond217]

Moving to Florida in a year so I have big plans for a great backyard habitat for the existing wildlife
which will include a large Koi pond I plan to set up.

A 55 gallon tank..an upgrade from my 29 gallon.

A tank dedicated to Puffer Fish.

A large Paludarium.

 

[smmetz]

I don't understand people's dream of a fish shed, maybe because it gets freezing here in winter so it's not even a possibility. However, if I had large tanks, I would want them in my living area to enjoy!

Right now, my dream tank is a 180G, but an 8ftx2ft tall x 18" wide. This way, I would feel safe with it on my floor, with 180G spread out over more floorboards. This tank would home my common pleco, who will soon outgrow my 55. Now sure what else I would put in it.

 

[blue acara]

I want so many different fish...4 500 gallon tanks would do. (for now at least)

tank1 50 Altum angels
tank2 50 Heckel discus
tank3 sw reef
tank 4 sw fish only

and a big house to put them in plz!

 

[KraKen]

I have some incredibly outrageous fish dreams, the first being a massive marine tank to house manta rays

I'd also like to set up a tank that's a self sustaining ecosystem. B)

I'd also like a dwarf puffer, otto and amano shrimp tank, to upgrade my current tank, an small oddball tank and a river tank for hillstream loaches.

It'd also be nice if some of the stores around hear sold nanofish

 

[MHunt]

Wow, some big dreams here. Like the one about the snail free tank, although i have found in time that with a stable tank that isn't overfed they reduce to a manageable level. Try and get some African trumpet snails in your tank, they seem to dominate the little pest snails, and aren't so active during the day so you tend not to notice hundreds all over your tank.

I think a general theme here is for either one big tank or lots of little tanks/fish room to house either large or more varied species.

I see the fish shed problem with the cold, I could easily heat the tank during the day with solar water heater, but i can't imagine it would be easy keeping it going during the very cold weather we've just had.

andy, I see what you mean about frogfish. Saw a brilliant black one in my best SW LFS, Cyber Aquatics, really fascinating fish.

 

[Colin_T]

a properly insulated fish room will hold heat just as well, if not better than the average house. This means a small heater will keep it warm and cozy and minimise the power bill. In Australia where we only need heating for 6 months of the year, we use 4 inch thick polystyrene sheets to insulate the fish rooms. In colder climates you can use any sort of insulation and just use more of it.

 

[FeroX]

A large-scale tank like CFC mentioned, at least 20x10x5? Not sure, something enormous, and set up a sweet Amazonian Biotope, with at least one small area (5x5x5) of the tank incredibly densely planted. Something like set up a bunch of visual barriers, a whole lot of pieces of bogwood, set up some rocks to make the area less keen on large fish to swim in it, and load it with plants, and have large schools of smaller fish in that end of the tank, hoping they'll stay there hahahaha . Then the rest of the tank would be fairly open for larger Amazonian fish. Something like that, idk, SOMETHING that would enable me to attempt to keep smaller schools of fish. Not neons/cardinals/rummys, more like 15 emperor tetras and 15 columbian tetras. Just in that small portion of the tank, hoping that the massive visual barriers and dense plantation would make them stay in there.

lol prolly wouldn't work at all, but I'd totally be willing to try. Other fish in the tank...not real sure yet, more on the bigger side, ranging from at LEAST 8-10" minimum up to w/e that tank could fit and wouldn't heavily predate on my little dudes. I'd have to do some major searching. Only fish I'd exclusively leave out would be large catfish and piranhas.

Then my 2nd tank would be just a 6x2x2 with like 50 exodon paradoxus.

 

[Snooks1!]

I'd love to have an aquarium big enough to house a green turtle .....

1,000,000+ gallons....I'd go swimming with him every day.

 

[loachman]

~200 gal saltwater with an anthias school and flasher wrasses.

 

[Azaezl]

In 'winning the largest lottery jackpot ever' dream terms I'd want a few dozen 10ftx4ftx2ft tanks for various fish, mainly species only tanks, or half and half, so I'd have for example 1 tank with a massive shoal of panda corys for the bottom and a massive shoal of threadfin rainbows for the rest of the tank. I'd definately have a few SW tanks,BW tanks, some oddball tanks, definatley have rays & arros, I'd basically want every fish possible and be able to accomadate them in at least 3 times the size tank that they need.

If we're talking insane never going to happen dream, then a massive public aquarium type building, including those walkthrough tunnels, I'd have FW,SW & BW

Realistically I want a puffer tank, wanna try my hand at cichlids, have polys again in the future, SW tank, BW tank and finally get my 2 4fters setup.

 

[shroob]

I don't understand people's dream of a fish shed, maybe because it gets freezing here in winter so it's not even a possibility. However, if I had large tanks, I would want them in my living area to enjoy!

Right now, my dream tank is a 180G, but an 8ftx2ft tall x 18" wide. This way, I would feel safe with it on my floor, with 180G spread out over more floorboards. This tank would home my common pleco, who will soon outgrow my 55. Now sure what else I would put in it.

My idea as well, I wouldn't like to go to a shed in the garden just to see my fish, I would rather be able to look at them when I'm sitting on a sofa or watching TV, just glance over and watch them for abit. Why I have my tanks in my bedroom or living room. Though I understand some people have huge tanks outside as its easier/better/cheaper for them, but I don't think I would do that. Each to their own I guess.

I know its possible in the UK to have tropical tanks outside, people just heat the shed and insulate it very well.

 

[dwarfgourami]

(If you have lots of breeding tanks set up, Shroob, they may not actually be that pretty to look at, and will make your living room look a bit like a warehouse.)


Fish on my wishlist include:

group of leopard frogs L134
d green phantoms
d"o blue phantoms
sturisoma aureum
corydoras aeneus orange streak
corydoras rabauti
corydoras melanotaenia
corydoras pygmaeus
corydoras adolphoi
ataeniobus toweri
phallichthys amates
phallichtys amates fairweatheri
limia melanogaster
some really nice sailfin mollies
montezuma swordtails
moustached danio
giant danio
danio khyatit

And of course the setups to keep and breed these.

 

[darkwolf29a]

Ultimately, I'll own the house that has a big enough space for plenty of tanks and ponds. I'd like to be able to have enough fish spawning, what ever the type, so that I can quit my job and start my second career... as a fish grower.

 

[jourdy288]

Sigh, this is hard. I think more in terms of community types. Perhaps an Amazon community, with plecos, with neons and discus.

 

[devon_charm]

I want a black ghost knife fish in my 5ft but he will eat every thing else

I would like a nice big tank for albino oscars, to be honest i could be here all day with my i wants