Stocking Ideas...

timmystood · Nov 23, 2009

OK, so i'm not normally the sort of person who needs suggestions when it comes to stocking as my 'wish list' is about as long as my arm - so normally, when a tank frees up, I've choosen the stocking before you can say empty!

However, i'm stuck! I managed to get myself a 6 month old AquaOne Aquastyle 850 (165litres) for £20 - that's one bonus of working in an aquatics shop! It's in great condition and everything is working fine but i'm at an end about what to do with it.
I currently have: 1 Nano Planted Dwarf Puffer Tank, 1 Turtle Tank, 1 River-Rapid Sub-Tropical Community Tank, 1 Nano Reef Tank & 1 Fish-Only Marine Puffer Tank.

As you can probably tell i'm a huge Puffer fan but fancy something a little different. Ideally, due to it's size I would like a tropical tank (two marine's are enough!).

Incidentally the next tank on my 'wish-list' was to restart a Malawi Community but feel this tank (84 W x 58 H x 44 D cm) is a bit of the small side for Malawi's.

If you'd just grabbed this bargin.. what would you stock it with??

Thanks Guys! :good:

P.S. Due to my work I can attain most rare fish so don't worry about suggesting unusual stuff!

Wills · Nov 23, 2009

Id do a dwarf pike cichlid tank :good:

mattlee · Nov 23, 2009

how about a well planted tank with a big group of black neons and a group of gold striped corys, lots of bogwood and get it really dark and tanned...? i was going to do this but the corys spawned so never did get the neons.....

timmystood · Nov 23, 2009

mattlee said:
how about a well planted tank with a big group of black neons and a group of gold striped corys, lots of bogwood and get it really dark and tanned...? i was going to do this but the corys spawned so never did get the neons.....

It's a great idea but both my Nano Dwarf Puffer Tank and my Sub-Tropical River Reef tank are really well planted, with a full Co2 system so I'm not so sure about doing another planted community. It would look really nice though.