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[greenscooby]

Heres the ideal world, you come home and someone has bought you a new tropical tank with stand.

With it is a blank cheque , you can spend as much money on your tank as you want (NO houses, cars, boats clothes, shoes, you get the picture) ONLY items for your tank, you know the stuff, substrate, heater, filter, plants, ornaments and Fish.

Heres your new new tank

9 foot (274.5cm/ 108inches) x 3 foot (36 inches/ 91.5cm) x 3 foot(36inches/ 91.5 cm), approx,

Approx 2296 litres, 505 UK gallons, 606 US gallons.

What you gonna do with it (you are NOT allowed to sell it)?

Have fun filling it boys and girls,

Mark.

 

[Mikaila31]

I would turn it into a high tech planted tank. Pressurized co2, med-high lighting, and EI ferts, 1212 lbs of eco-complete.

Fish would be small and there would be lots. Rummynosed tetras, neons, threadfin rainbows, chili rasbora, true SAE's, a large group of panda garras, a couple different types of rainbows, lots of other large schools of similar sized tetras and rasboras, maybe a few larger plecos. I could easily get 400+ fish in there .

Plants: various crypts, H. polysperma, H. corybosa, star grass, water lilys, ect.....

Lots of bogwood and some of it would probably stick out of the water.....

 

[Dawson14]

A planted Angelfish paradise

 

[OldMan47]

The first thing I would do is divide it up so that I could use 50 to 100 gallon parts of it to breed and grow out my favorite fish. I have no use for a tank that big but would love that total volume in smaller tanks. Actually, I think that is close to my current volume total but there is always room for more fish and new challenges.

 

[Dawson14]

The first thing I would do is divide it up so that I could use 50 to 100 gallon parts of it to breed and grow out my favorite fish. I have no use for a tank that big but would love that total volume in smaller tanks. Actually, I think that is close to my current volume total but there is always room for more fish and new challenges.

Wow you are really close to me!!! 45 mins away. Do you breed fish for pet shops? I go to Sailfin Pet Shop in Champaign, IL all the time and the owner mentioned that a breeder in Decatur recently quit and gave him the orange angelfish that I bought. They were beautiful. I havnt seen Angelfish that size and perfect quality in a long, long time. I had to pick them up. What do you breed if you do?

 

[Amunet]

I'd get everything needed to have a healthy planted tank. Eco complete, pressurized CO2, etc etc.
HIRE someone to aquascape it for me since I totally suck at it lol
As for fish.... I think I'd pick out small peaceful fish. Have like a large shoal of neons, cories, also a variety of shrimp, boeseman(sp?) rainbows, etc etc. I'd probably end up getting maybe 4 german blue rams as well, or bolivian.. either or

I know not terribly exciting, but the image I have in my head looks great! rofl

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

I wish it was bigger, but I would do a lovely high tech planted set up. I would build the tank into the wall (if that's allowed ) And have 15-20 huge show Discus.


If not high tech I would do a lovely Discus biotope with a similar amount of Discus (wild caught though or wild strain), and possibly a teacup stingray.

 

[JenCliBee]

I would have said a huge marine with rays and sharks.... buts its neither deep or wide enough so i think a nice rocky feel with L200 and L128 plecs in. would look absolutley stunning

 

[backtotropical]

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[lyotim88]

i'm surprised no one's went for reef yet. I would have to go all out on it. I would get some nasty halides, a chiller, all electronic monitoring equipment, the whole bit. 600 gallons packed with corals...

 

[saz326]

i'm surprised no one's went for reef yet. I would have to go all out on it. I would get some nasty halides, a chiller, all electronic monitoring equipment, the whole bit. 600 gallons packed with corals...

Okay - the original outset cost may be covered - but have you got any idea how much that would cost to run!! Elec + water bills + time!!!!

Cor blimey - you'd be busy.


Id love to use the tank and blank cheque to get a huge sump sorted, divided into filtering sections and baby grow out tanks. Id then make a mangrove tank with some of the smaller growing catfish, big root systems and appropriate leaves and substrate.

Id fill the tank to halfway, and put tetra and a few larger fish in it. Id have stones and roots coming up over the water surface so that a few land needing species such as frogs and lizards could be kept in the same tank. Heat lamps, covers etc would then be bought with the remaining bit of cheque.

 

[jonnyf84]

i'd go for a no holds barred biotope, preferabbly a uk biotope, something different like river trout or perch.

 

[vinylman]

VERY well planted; 50 Cardinal Tetras, 50 Harlequin Rasbora a dozen Boesmani Rainbows, 20 mixed Corys and 30 Otos. That'd do me. Oh, and a lackey to do the water changes.

 

[BecciMac1987]

Defo paddling pool for my kids.

 

[DiscusKeeper403]

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Exactly what I was thinking when I posted my idea