30g single speciman/exotic

austinpetemo

austinpetemo

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im tired of this bare empty tank in my room. its a 30g and its screaming to have life in it. i was thinking a mormirid (i cant spell but you know what i mean) or possibly a knifefish as a loner, or possibly a school of exodons because they are beastly. what do you think, suggestions on something weird/cool?
 
I think an elephant nose may look nice in it, or a dolphin mormyrid, but the dolphin may outgrow the tank, a LFS has a large one in a 20 gallon and it seems incredibly cramped. Baby whales are cool, except for they stay under 5" and if you just put one in the tank would look very empty unless you have some other small fish with it. Remember mormyrids only eat live or frozen foods and are bottom dwellers so don't put any pig fish in the tank with them or else you will be spending a fortune on food.

African knifefish stay under 8" I believe. They look like a mix of a knifefish and a clown knife.

A school of glass catfish and maybe a few other peaceful fish could look cool too (especially xray tetras), except I never had luck with having calm looking glass cats.

You could put a single electric catfish in the tank, but it would outgrow the tank eventually and will need a 40br or a 55/75 gallon tank.

These are what I would want to put in a 30 gallon.
 
If you want to mess with brackish water and feeding live snails in quantity, a single figure 8 will make a great wet pet in your tank. I kept one in a 29 gallon tank for a couple of years until he broke a tooth plate and stopped eat. Hoover, as he was named, was my wife and son's all time favorite fish.

Or, lower the water 1/2 way and get 2-3 African Butterfly fish. Way cool, prefer crickets and frozen floating foods (although many will eat pellets). Much like a dwarf arowana.

Just 2 ideas.

Eric
 
To go off of Jayhawk's post, if you wanted to do brackish with a figure 8 puffer, you could also have a few bumblebee gobies and a couple mollies (not sailfins though) if it was a laid-back puffer (some don't like any tankmates at all, but some figure 8s will allow it). Link to profile.

Or you could do a miurus puffer (aka potato puffer). They are a freshwater lurker puffer that is actually piscivorous. Here's a link to a profile about them.

To go in a different direction, you could to African butterfly fish or South American leaf fish.
 
LOL, he said he wanted life in there. A miurus stays buried up to it's eyeballs in the sand, unless it's eating. Might as well have an empty tank, unless you really appreciate a fish like that.
 
could do a single green spotted puffer or a couple fig.8s... or exos, that would work.
you could also get a single mid-sized cichlid, like, a Tbar, festivum, blue acara, or port acara.
 
Exodons are too active and get too big to be comfortable in a tank as small as 36" x 12".
 
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