Nik00117
Fish Fanatic
Ok guys, I used to keep fish a few years ago and loved my Hobby. I can hosnetly say I kept fish for about 3 years and unlike my hamsters, guniene pigs, and so forth I never lost interset. I did truly enjoy it, like many of us do. So I know the basics of checking water levels like PH and so forth. However my last tankw as a community tank. I had a couple of guppies, cories, bala sharks, a beta, and a few tiger sharkz, and finally quite a few zebras. So now I want to deal with "bigger" fish.
I'm preparing to move into my new apartment and I would to get into fish and specifically cichlids because of their size. I want this tank to be a centerpiece of decor in my home. So it's gotta look nice which I can handle but what fish to put in is the question? I feel as if Cichlids are my answer for their a good size, I hear they have some nice colors and if you pickt he right ones fairly easy to keep.
Which is where my next point comes into play. I'm a car salesman and work 6 days a week 10-12 hour days. In fact some weeks I don't even take a week off so I can easily end up doing a 13-14 day week with 10-12 hour days. So I can't have anything high maintance.
Secondly i'm going to go with a larger tank anywhere from 250-350 liters used. Or about 65 gallons to about 92 gallons (i'm leanign towards 92
).
So my tanks etup as of now?
65-95~ gallons
Sand
Going to get a very good filteration system
Want it to be pretty (i'm spending a lot of $$$ here)
The fish I'd like?
variety of colors easy to maintain with low aggression also good size 5-8 inchs would be nice a fish.
I would also want a bottom feeder, i'm a fan of cories would those work int his tank?
Any advice would be great!
I'm preparing to move into my new apartment and I would to get into fish and specifically cichlids because of their size. I want this tank to be a centerpiece of decor in my home. So it's gotta look nice which I can handle but what fish to put in is the question? I feel as if Cichlids are my answer for their a good size, I hear they have some nice colors and if you pickt he right ones fairly easy to keep.
Which is where my next point comes into play. I'm a car salesman and work 6 days a week 10-12 hour days. In fact some weeks I don't even take a week off so I can easily end up doing a 13-14 day week with 10-12 hour days. So I can't have anything high maintance.
Secondly i'm going to go with a larger tank anywhere from 250-350 liters used. Or about 65 gallons to about 92 gallons (i'm leanign towards 92
). So my tanks etup as of now?
65-95~ gallons
Sand
Going to get a very good filteration system
Want it to be pretty (i'm spending a lot of $$$ here)
The fish I'd like?
variety of colors easy to maintain with low aggression also good size 5-8 inchs would be nice a fish.
I would also want a bottom feeder, i'm a fan of cories would those work int his tank?
Any advice would be great!
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