75 gallon stocking

[awilson133]

Hey I've almost have completed my cycling and I really don't know what to stock it with..I really want kind of a odd ball tank? Any help is appreciated!

 

[Samzter]

Okay if I had that size tank I would go community. Now my stock list depends on how experienced you are. I will give you a options

Option 1:

3 angels ( see if you can get a pair then rehome the other one )
A school of lemon or glow light tetra . I would do ten per school
A school of cherry barb or rasbora. Pick one then make that a school of ten
Some platies or guppies
10 sterbai Cories
Maybe some shrimp or snails.

Option 2:

A pair of german blue rams
15 cardinal tetras
10 cherry barbs
Maybe some chocolate Gouramis
12 panda Cories
And snails

Option 3:
3 pearl Gouramis 1m 2f
20 neon tetras
Some guppies or platies
10 panda Cories
Shrimp

 

[awilson133]

I do like those options. I'm more into options 2. I just want at least something that's kinda weird or odd.

 

[Chiroptera]

If you're thinking oddball, a African Brown Knife is a must. Minimum 55g tank size for life, so it leaves you room for other bottom to mid swimming fish.

 

[awilson133]

Whoa that's a weird fish. How big do they get?

 

[Aquatic_Adam]

Oddball? Polypterus Delhezi is a no brainer.

 

[awilson133]

Oddball? Polypterus Delhezi is a no brainer.

Wow I've never seen a bichir like that. Im reading that they could eat smaller fish?

 

[Aquatic_Adam]

Wow I've never seen a bichir like that. Im reading that they could eat smaller fish?

yep. They are fairly nocturnal, and will prey on anything they can fit I their mouth whilst they sleep. I love my Bichirs though. Did you want more of a community oddball fish?

 

[abstract373]

Yes they can and will i have a senegal poly and an african brown knife in a 75 and get along great try some type of eel

 

[awilson133]

yep. They are fairly nocturnal, and will prey on anything they can fit I their mouth whilst they sleep. I love my Bichirs though. Did you want more of a community oddball fish?

Yeah sadly :/ I would love to have a arowana but I don't have the tank size one would require

 

[awilson133]

Yes they can and will i have a senegal poly and an african brown knife in a 75 and get along great try some type of eel

I have a peacock eel in another tank but I rarely see em.

 

[Aquatic_Adam]

Yeah sadly :/ I would love to have a arowana but I don't have the tank size one would require

Unfortunately no you don't

Plus I tried to have a Silver Arowana with a Senegal and Dekhezi Bichir in a 40 (looking back that was an awful choice), and my Bichirs ate my Arowana

 

[awilson133]

Unfortunately no you don't

Plus I tried to have a Silver Arowana with a Senegal and Dekhezi Bichir in a 40 (looking back that was an awful choice), and my Bichirs ate my Arowana

Goodness..what about ornate bichir

 

[Aquatic_Adam]

Goodness..what about ornate bichir

Gets too large for a 55g sadly. They are beautiful fish though.

 

[awilson133]

Gets too large for a 55g sadly. They are beautiful fish though.

This is for a 75g?? Lol

 

[Aquatic_Adam]

This is for a 75g?? Lol

Haha oooops. Ummm. It would be fine for the first year or so. They can get up to around 2 feet in aquaria so something more like an 180g would be best.

 

[awilson133]

Oh well nvm I guess

 

[vanimal]

Hatchet fish!

 

[vanimal]

Also a school of Upside Down Catfish! They literally swim upside down.

 

[awilson133]

Hatchet fish!

Those are pretty odd I think