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Hi everyone.

I'll be getting a 100g bowfront tank soon.

Im looking for a bit of inspiration for stocking it.

Im considdering making it a discus tank with a few rams and corys

- or keeping a green terror in it if its possible

- or a yoyo loach tank with other asian community fish.

Aaaanyway, if you could throw a few suggestions my way I'd really apreciate it.

Oscar oscar oscar

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hehe no oscars for me thanks theresa.

....another cichlid comes to mind...

If I were to get a salvini, what could I keep with it?

If I had a 100g, I'd do a large colony of one species of Lake Victorian Cichlids. Most are on the small side but stunningly beautiful.

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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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If you're interested, take a look at these cookie cutter setups for some ideas.

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Very interesting link Theresa. I'll keep this for my future set up reference. Thanks.

100 gallons?

How's this for a setup ...

30 Panda Corys
30 Cardinals
30 Lemon Tetras
16 Otocinclus
3 pairs of apisotgramma panduro
16 Marble Hatchets

Furnish with gnarled, intricate bogwood, big Amazon Sword as centrepiece plant, grow Java Moss on the bogwood to give the fishes a spawning medium, and possibly have a curtain of Giant Vallineria along the back of the aquarium to provide that nice 'green wall' effect.

Should prove to be fun once it's up and running.


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

My buddy has a Salvani in a 55 with a Firemouth and a pleco. Everyone is getting along fine. Maybe with the Salvani you could add a Severum. If you wanted to stick with the Green Terror you might be able to keep it with a Red Devil and a Texas Cichlid. I think that would be a good combination. With such a large tank the possibilities are really endless. I'd love to have space for a tank that size.

JBE

My first thoughts go to:
Discus
hatchetfish(I prefer the marbled)
ottos
And a trio(or possibly two trios) of apistos.
(apisots could easily be replaced with cories.)

Do you have a preference for larger fish??


What type of water are you dealing with?

Option two that jumped into my head:
3 or four pearl gouramis
20-30 harlequin rasboras
8-10 celebes rainbows
8+ botia striata(one of the fish called zebra loach)
12+ ottos
pleco of your choice(pay attention if it needs wood in its diet)
a male and 3 female golden wonder killies.

You originally mentioned an Asian theme...snakeskin gouramis grow to a good size and are peaceful. Then you could add a group of yoyos, a big school of harlequins, and maybe a pair or two of cherry barbs for some different color.

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Wow! thanks for all the replies

Sorry all Ive got a bad case of excitedabouthavingabignewtank-itis. I seem to be changing my mind every half hour now in relation to what I'd like to keep.

a large school of cories would be fantastic....so would a discus or 2...

I have had rams in the past and they did not mix well with java moss. they tended to get stuck in it in the past and Im not too fond of java moss now for that reason.

My available water is at the 7 to 7.5 ph range. Cant tell you the hardness right now as I am at work and cant remember that.

Being in Australia it can be hard to get some of the apistos in the above posts. Apisto species are rare/expensive here. Last time I saw a cockatoo dwarf cichlid it wasnt even an inch long and they wanted 50 bucks for it. Hatchets can be hard to find too and the tank I am getting will need new lids so I'll h,1old off on them even though I'd like to keep some. I dont think I have ever seen a snakeskin gourami here to date. If I did I'd buy it and keep it in my other tank. It is a little understocked. its a 30gal, it has 1 bn, 1 pearl gourami, 1 RTBS and 1 Salmon red rainbow (that is too frisky for its own good ).

Anyhow, I am still enjoying all your posts and its good to see most of you are still into aquariums.

go african
7 yellow labs
5 damasoni
5 red by reds
3 meliochromis cyanohabdose (spelling most likely way off)
2 pictus cats
2 bushynose plecos
alot of weathered limestone rock and black crushed granite or black sand bottom with aqua glow and a 50-50 daylite atinic light setup would be nice as well
good colours lots of life

i would go with some large cichlids like texas cichlid and some breeding pairs of fire mouths everyones going to say that they will be killed buy i got same tank with 2 breeding pairs 1 pleco and 1 texas cichlid and the do fine no one has died except a few babys brfore i could get them. you will need to show the terrotiries with decorsso they dont start to kill eachother.

the salvini and the firemouths were a good idea,but i must say when my salvini was real small he was great,but now that he is getting a bit bigger he is getting a tad crankybut nothing major,and these guys once they colour up they are very nice looking fish....