dream tank

[austinpetemo]

in my future (aka 10years) when i have my own place i really want an in the wall tank. like a BIG in the wall tank. like a couple thousand gallons. and i want to commit it to very large afc cichlids. i was thinking something like 8x6x4. id love to just talk stock and see what all i could do with it.

what id really love to stock in something like this would be

zaire blue frontosas
bethochromis tricoti
T. polli
cyprichromis (not sure which color morph)
and maybe a large julidochromis.

suggestions?

[rithunder916]

umm a tank that big, you be able to keep pretty much anything you want in there....



Mike

[montanafish gal]

I don't know about stocking a tank that big, but it sure would be cool. If I had the money and time to make and maintain something like that, I'd want a tank like that too. Something that would take up most of a wall. that would be so cool!

[austinpetemo]

Something that would take up most of a wall. that would be so cool!
thats my idea behind it. i want to keep it strictly tankanyikan.

[jpappy789]

Frontosas wild diet consists of cyprichromis...LOL

[austinpetemo]

really?

[jpappy789]

From http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/c_frontosa.php


Fish make up the majority of their diet, Cyprichromis species being their primary target. Cyps spend the day in large schools (numbering in tens of thousands) in the upper water column, but at dusk, they descend to the bottom where they hug the substratum. Fronts, still awake and alert, easily scoop the unsuspecting Cyps up by the mouthful. Because of the ease with which they are able to feast upon the Cyps, frontosa don't have to spend much energy chasing their food, a chase they would certainly lose to the agile Cyps during the day.

Might not be as amplified in the home aquarium but I have read about people mixing the two. The cyps "disappear" little by little.

[austinpetemo]

poop. i guess no fronts than. a tretocefalus (cant spell) colony would have to do.

[Pittbull]

Emperor Cichlid's beautiful giant would be sweet thats what i am adding to my 2000gal basement tank..

[chefjamesscott]

dude if you are doing an inwall several thousand gallon tank you need to think EMPEROR CICHLID the african equivalent to peacock bass.

[jpappy789]

LOL, imagine doing this in your tank :D

http://www.deeblestone.com/1mages/Filming-emperor-cichlid-mai.jpg

[Pittbull]

Man those are awesome fish..

[ibr3ak]

Seriously if I had a big tank like that, some emperors with bigger malawi haps, like bucco's (male lepturus is one sweet looking fish), champ. caeruleus, spilorhynchus, a. christyi (would be the smallest one :D how sweet is that), and more stuff along those lines.

[jpappy789]

ewwwwww...no malawis please! LOL

[austinpetemo]

nah. no malawis. there cool and all but i a tang theme. just imagine. a massive school of cyps with tropheus.......*drools*

[jpappy789]

The stocking alone is going to be a wallet buster...:eek:

[austinpetemo]

thats why you start with just a few and breed their brains out. i think it would be really cool if you use the tank to seperate 2 rooms of the house like a wall. but use a huge wall of thr in the middle of the tank to seperate so you cant see into the other room.

[67chevelle]

This guy is living your dream.Check out post #12.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=267288

[jpappy789]

:thud:

I think my heart skipped a beat...