I have an 86 gallon aquarium that is presently empty, and I had for years kept fancy goldfish in this tank, with a very large wet/dry filter, and an aquaclear 500.
I found the wet/dry to be a bit of a pain, not because of any maintenance required, but rather, because I bought the wrong sort of siphon overflow, where there was more danger of the siphon being broken. Now I'm thinking of either buying a different sort of siphon overflow box, or just scrapping it altogether and getting another aquaclear 500, so that I'll have as much filtration as possible for this tank, since I believe that it allows me to the luxury of doing fewer water changes. With goldfish, and they being cold water fish, I was able to just run tap water directly in, with the chlorine remover just added to the tank. It seemed to work fine for many years, and greatly simplified the changing of 25% of the water on a tank of this size.
But now I'd sort of like to trying a different sort of a fish, and I was thinking of tropical fish, specifically either Angel fish, or Oscars. I don't know very much about either fish, except perhaps that I need to heat the water now.
My wet/dry filter was HUGE, so I'm sort of reluctant to get another aquaclear and just rely on the 2 of those, since I was used to pretty darn nice water quality even with some big dirty goldfish. But I'm open to suggestion.
My question here is mainly from keepers of Angel fish. What sorts of things will I need to do to keep these fish comfortable, and what would I need to do to breed these fish? Or, how many Oscars would I be able to keep in an 86 gallon tank. If the answer is just 2 or so, that would be fine, since I have no great desire to put a lot of biological stress on my tank.
That's about it for now. Right now, I need to get another glass top made, so I wont' be able to start until I get that finished, but in the next few weeks, I'd like to be able to make some decisions on where I should go from here with the hobby. :soda:
I found the wet/dry to be a bit of a pain, not because of any maintenance required, but rather, because I bought the wrong sort of siphon overflow, where there was more danger of the siphon being broken. Now I'm thinking of either buying a different sort of siphon overflow box, or just scrapping it altogether and getting another aquaclear 500, so that I'll have as much filtration as possible for this tank, since I believe that it allows me to the luxury of doing fewer water changes. With goldfish, and they being cold water fish, I was able to just run tap water directly in, with the chlorine remover just added to the tank. It seemed to work fine for many years, and greatly simplified the changing of 25% of the water on a tank of this size.
But now I'd sort of like to trying a different sort of a fish, and I was thinking of tropical fish, specifically either Angel fish, or Oscars. I don't know very much about either fish, except perhaps that I need to heat the water now.
My wet/dry filter was HUGE, so I'm sort of reluctant to get another aquaclear and just rely on the 2 of those, since I was used to pretty darn nice water quality even with some big dirty goldfish. But I'm open to suggestion.
My question here is mainly from keepers of Angel fish. What sorts of things will I need to do to keep these fish comfortable, and what would I need to do to breed these fish? Or, how many Oscars would I be able to keep in an 86 gallon tank. If the answer is just 2 or so, that would be fine, since I have no great desire to put a lot of biological stress on my tank.
That's about it for now. Right now, I need to get another glass top made, so I wont' be able to start until I get that finished, but in the next few weeks, I'd like to be able to make some decisions on where I should go from here with the hobby. :soda:
