My 1st HUGE tank

[Amante_di_Betta]

So I talked to my friend Avery, and his apartment is on the ground floor and has solid concrete floors. He's given me permission to use some of his space in his apartment for tanks, and even bought the first tank: a 150g tank.

Now, I need help with what to put in it. It's going to be heavily planted. Low to medium light plants, ecocomplete gravel substrate and driftwood. I would like to use this tank to aid in my shrimp breeding, so fish cant be too big. I wouldn't mind having a few schools of small schooling fish, or one LARGE group of schooling fish. But open to ideas, and shrimp may not going in there, because I'm going to be getting a 75g for his apartment as well.

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Sooooo who's got ideas!?

 

[rwilliams254]

You want to use a 150 gallon tank for shrimp breading? WOW... that'd be a crap load of shrimp.
How are you going to get them out?

 

[excuzzzeme]

You want to use a 150 gallon tank for shrimp breading? WOW... that'd be a crap load of shrimp.
How are you going to get them out?

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I think you need to go back and re-read what he posted! BTW- he's not going to bread shrimp, he is going to BREED some!

That's a mighty big tank to fill with community fish. I could figure out stocking for a 75 easier!

 

[Gypsy125]

Some of the small rainbows might work with a breeding colony of shrimp. My threadfins don't bother the shrimp at all, and with their tiny mouths I don't think they'd be a threat to even baby shrimp. Furcatas are a bit more feisty, but with lots of plant cover I don't think even those would be a problem.

 

[jpappy789]

+1 on bows.A bunch of hatchets would look cools as well.

 

[eraagne]

100 Rasbora kubotai 8D

 

[Chrisinator]

Congrats!

 

[Quinn1928]

Galaxy rasboras!!!!! or golden or sparkle -eyed white clouds.... bristlenose plecos... etc.

 

[Amante_di_Betta]

Trapping shrimp out of a tank is easy...home made shrimp traps..ya get em in one shot..I'd throw 10-20 in there to see if they explode...Im not going to STRICTLY use it for shrimp breeding...

No pleco as its going to be planted, and I dont want them uprooting the plants..it would be a PITA

 

[jpappy789]

Smaller plecos aren't too bad with plants so long as they are rooted well. Not sure I'd trust them with something like a more delicate, carpeting plant. I find the biggest PITA is that they like digging.