tmfish said:Lemon Oscars.
These are super HOT fish right now and will continue to be and almost impossible to find in a LFS.
I picked up six of them a month ago and they are beautiful. google them.
You could breed dart frogs? If it's not apparent, I really want to see you all do one. It might just be the motivation I need.
how about dwarf puffers? not sure how common they are near you guys,but they're pretty uncommon here. plus you could have a lot.
how bout arowanas??? its not what I would do but i think there pretty cool. also not sure about there size tanks. I personally would do cichlids or discus or huge guppy tank
Apisto's sound great, I have only seen two at the LFS around my area in 10 years!! Seems like they can't get them and the LFS is never sure what kind or sex they can get.
+1 for apisto's, i've always wanted one but my LFS is a petsmart so...obviously i won't be seeing any any time soon :'(
Im still pulling for a blackwater community tank. Wild type bettas, some gouramis, other native asians and nice tea colored water. Sounds beautiful. Plus planted..... wowzers
Lemon Oscars.
These are super HOT fish right now and will continue to be and almost impossible to find in a LFS.
I picked up six of them a month ago and they are beautiful. google them.
If it were me...
I would definitely do a biotope. An Australian biotope with lots or rainbows some gobies and such from Australia, an Asian biotope blackwater as aquachem said, a SA biotope with discus and cory/hatchet/tetra schools all around, or a CA tank with some oscars and a pleco. JMO
We're lucky here. Apistos are fairly common within the club and surrounding areas. We have 5 or 6 types now in various stages of growout or breeding conditioning.
absolutangel04 said:I don't think this is really what you are going for, I am just saying if it was me, I would try pencilfish (plus something else of similar size). Some of the species of pencilfish are really uncommon in the home aquarium and difficult to find. But, that would probably be better for a smaller aquarium than for one this big. Another option would be Leopold's angel. Again though, could be done in a much smaller aquarium.
Truthfully, I would be all about the dart frogs.
Rare... hmmm.... Distichodus sexfasciatus?