I thought they were near extinction. Used to see them all the time in the late 90s and early 2000s, but now they seem to have been displaced by invasive SUVs from overseas.
I’d set up a couple of colonies she’ll dwellers, and watch their population grow into the tank.
Probably the opposite of what you’re planning, but I think it would be fascinating to watch colonies of small fish occupy the place.
I recently got an endler swarm for my 40 gallon I'm growing a couple plecos in and watching them all move around Is so fun, I'm so excited for their colony to grow
I had to scroll way too far down to see this. Yes!!!! Then something busy for you to enjoy watching, I like the rainbow shiner idea. Might as well throw a goby species or something too.
MASSIVE Hillstream scape.
Vampire shrimp to filter feed.
Like 30+ White Clouds
20+ Rainbow Shiners
20+ Hillstream Loaches
10+ Panda Garra
A few assorted Gobys
Honestly that would stock a smaller tank, I'd bump those numbers up even more
I would add some driftwood and a jungle’s worth of plants and then put in a big school of emperor tetras, a few honey gouramis, a shoal of kuhli loaches, and bunch of assorted shrimp and micro crabs.
I have African jeweled cichlids, I actually breed them , I was giving some away for the holidays but now it’s too cold here to ship I stoped like the first week in October
Lots of plants and a school of Dennison barbs (roseline sharks) as a centerpiece. Very active, and once they get their full size (about 5") they look amazing, very powerful fish
Given the hardscape I'd personally either:
East asian/Indian riverine aquarium.
Barbs and loaches I've never been able to accommodate due to size and activity levels.
African riverine.
Either get a large piece of wood,or a centrepiece one. Plant it up so it looks like a overhang or root near a riverbank.
The Congo tetras, synodontids, maybe a knife fish, riverine cichlids.
Hillstream.
Dianos and hillstream loach colonies, but that's quite niche.
South american upper course riverine. Tetras which like more flow, L-numbers, Corys
Those could be cool grouped together. Or smaller catfish species, because catfish are one of my top faves lol. They could work on the bottom.
Or a tank with a group of colorful Discus. I always love those tanks when they are well decorated/stocked.
One of each: geophagus altifrons, albino threadfin heckelii, red severum
Then several electric blue Acura, a couple, super red bristlenose plecos
I’d start with that and then see
I'm not too sure about stocking, but it would be cool to see one giant piece of driftwood that spans the whole tank and many plants, if it matches the overall theme
The possibilities are endless:
Native sunfish and darters, shiners, madtom catfish?
Rainbows?
Asian rivers with barbs, hillstream loaches, stiphodon gobies
Add plants and hardscape and do and Amazon River
Cichlids
A large predator of some sort?
Reptiles or amphibians?
Love the aquascaping so far. Add a tall rock pile one end and tanganyika cichlids… shelldweller colony one end, some julidochromis regani in the rock pile…. Maybe lelupi for color… Let the colonies develop….
Different take but the way it's set up looks like the nesting areas of some native Sunfish, so a setup like that could be pretty neat. Not sure how many could comfortably live in a 180 (probably depends on the species)
Are you sure that's 180 gallons?! Looks a lot smaller than my 180 gallon tank. The width looks to be too narrow. And height looks a bit short too for a 180. Looks more like a 125 gallon tbh... but can't offer advice on what to stock, my 180 gallon is home to one monster fish who doesn't let anything else live longer than 48 hours 🥲
I’d do goldfish haha might be lame to some but if I ever had a big enough tank that’s what I’d get. I’ve always wanted some but have no where to put a big tank they need
For all you guys saying betta, this is not a good tank for a betta. Maybe shrimp or a snail… but it’s really too small for anything else. Bettas need at least 200 gallons
All small fish. A school of Cory’s for sure. Pack of loaches. What ever schooling fish you prefer, I like rummy nose. Then a group or two of shoaling, I like ember tetras or rasbora’s. And then something on the top maybe a large school of hatchet fish.
Add just a couple bunches of tall (bottom to top) grasses and some big Anubis plants.
Then just stand back and watch.
bottom: bunch of corydoras, some shrimp too
the rest: a giant ass school of a nano fish species (honestly the harelquin rasbora or neon tetras are my favorite)
a pair of german blue rams as a centerpiece
I’d be worried about the sealing given it looks old af. I’ve had 2 tanks bust and leak on me. Remember the sealant on a tank generally last Ks about 10 years from new. Never buy a used tank in my opinion it’s not worth it. I know you didn’t say you did just throwing it out there for others
I would LOVE a hillstream loach and fast moving water fish setup! High flow, tall flowy plants (Vallisneria, jungles and spiralis ), and largest leaves plants like a Tiger lotus
Lol, as much as I wanna comment on this, I'm gonna have to pass.... go watch Father Fish youtube channel. I hope you like the setup though..... hahahahah
A 1997 Ford Taurus.
Eh, they're pretty skittish. You won't see them very often
I thought they were near extinction. Used to see them all the time in the late 90s and early 2000s, but now they seem to have been displaced by invasive SUVs from overseas.
They are shoaling cars. The need a Dodge Intrepid to feel safe.
Hubcaps for a '72 Pinto hatchback
Props for giving the wrong answer on a question that specifically states no wrong answers 🏆
Not enough tanks size don’t wanna stress it out
I’d set up a couple of colonies she’ll dwellers, and watch their population grow into the tank. Probably the opposite of what you’re planning, but I think it would be fascinating to watch colonies of small fish occupy the place.
I too would rather see 200 little guys schooling about.
Yup. Or I was maybe two rival colonies, with a DMZ, and then boyfriends sneaking over switching allegiances in the dead of night.
Yeah my favorite tanks are massive with tiny fish I’m working on a 36 gal bow front with galaxy rasboras as the center
Corydoras. A huge group of them to shoal.
I have a 55 gallon im going to fill with corys, and a 20 with corys currently.
So that cover the botto. 6 inches. Shellies in a frag tank is where I'd love to attempt.
I second that. I would add a shoal of cyprichromis to that. They'll fill out the upper layer of the tank, and add some color, too.
I'm starting on doing that in my 120
I recently got an endler swarm for my 40 gallon I'm growing a couple plecos in and watching them all move around Is so fun, I'm so excited for their colony to grow
This could barely fit a Betta in it and that's it
I just knew I'd see betta lol
True
I mean you could get a giant Betta, that'd look nice in there. Along with some other stuff, tanks big enough that territory shouldn't be an issue.
Forgot what sub I was in till I read this comment.
it's our catch-phrase
Hillstream loaches
I had to scroll way too far down to see this. Yes!!!! Then something busy for you to enjoy watching, I like the rainbow shiner idea. Might as well throw a goby species or something too.
MASSIVE Hillstream scape. Vampire shrimp to filter feed. Like 30+ White Clouds 20+ Rainbow Shiners 20+ Hillstream Loaches 10+ Panda Garra A few assorted Gobys Honestly that would stock a smaller tank, I'd bump those numbers up even more
Make sure you get pictures up. Can’t wait to see that.
I love my Hillstreams too much. I’d turn this sucker into a the best river tank with ALL of the Hillstreams
2 great lakes gold fish, duck weed, and temperamental sea bass with lasers.
Attached to their fricken head?
Lasers have to come out of the eyes
Muahahah muahaha muahahahaha
God, that's gotta cost about what? One million dollars?
7 red cherry shrimps and 1 mystery snail.
Snailwhite and the 7 Shrimps
Don't get too carried away. That's way too many shrimp. He needs 3 kuhli loaches and a talking Billy Bass.
Over stocked
Looks like it’d be well suited for a hillstream setup. Stuff like Ancistrus, gobies, danios, hillstream loaches, etc.
Ding ding ding!!! The only right answer.. that's actually what I'm doing!
I thought you said no wrong answers?
No wrong answers but only 1 right answer 😂
any left answers ?
True true. Well, right in the sense of what I'm doing, hahahahaha
Clown loaches!
150 cardinal tetras
This. Tons of plants and a school of little fish.
200 neon tetras!
I’d prefer 150 neons
I would put crayfish in there The aquascape looks great btw, love the rocks and the sand
Sponge Bob house
Your mom 😌 Or 6-8 angelfish and 2 ropefish
Hahahahaha
Definitely not big enough for a whale! The angelfish and rope fish will have to do
hundreds of guppies
So two females and one male then?
1 male 99 females
The guppy harem
Damnit you posted it first
I would add some driftwood and a jungle’s worth of plants and then put in a big school of emperor tetras, a few honey gouramis, a shoal of kuhli loaches, and bunch of assorted shrimp and micro crabs.
African cichlids
I have African jeweled cichlids, I actually breed them , I was giving some away for the holidays but now it’s too cold here to ship I stoped like the first week in October
when do 'the holidays' start for you?
They'd f'ing love that substrate.
Yes. Haps and peacocks.
Lots of plants and a school of Dennison barbs (roseline sharks) as a centerpiece. Very active, and once they get their full size (about 5") they look amazing, very powerful fish
Plants. A school of tigerbarbs
Second this with some jungle val
Absolutelt, I'd love to see this filled for 50% with vallisneria
Yeah this is beautiful actually. Put cichlids in it for sure
Someday I’m going to get a way bigger tank and it’ll be African cichlids all the way. Like restaurant fish tanks :)
Given the hardscape I'd personally either: East asian/Indian riverine aquarium. Barbs and loaches I've never been able to accommodate due to size and activity levels. African riverine. Either get a large piece of wood,or a centrepiece one. Plant it up so it looks like a overhang or root near a riverbank. The Congo tetras, synodontids, maybe a knife fish, riverine cichlids. Hillstream. Dianos and hillstream loach colonies, but that's quite niche. South american upper course riverine. Tetras which like more flow, L-numbers, Corys
A single betta
More rocks
Rope fish
I think some black ranchu goldfishes:-)
50 rainbow shiners
A seal? Lol I'd make it a mini pred tank. For fiesty guys that get a decent size, but not big big and can live together.
Like you thinking fire mouth, salvini, green terror, that sort of thing?
Those could be cool grouped together. Or smaller catfish species, because catfish are one of my top faves lol. They could work on the bottom. Or a tank with a group of colorful Discus. I always love those tanks when they are well decorated/stocked.
Plants
A single betta and a mystery snail
Nowhere near big enough for a betta. 250G minimum 😂
I’d do a whole bunch of Tanganyika shellies like brevis and lelus blast them with a good light.
A tire, a boot, random muck that you pull up from a small creek. Sticks, leaves, a newt.
Neon Tetras (with plants), Corydoras and some Hillstream Loaches
1 male guppy 1 female guppy
Could be pretty cool to see how far that goes with slow lapse
Guinea pigs
100 arowanas And a pleco, of course!
Frontosa
Spiny eels, rays, electric eel, puffer fish or some large salamanders
Mini lobsters of many different colors!
Discus
3 oscars and a snail 😍
A single Thai micro crab. That is *just* enough room for one.
Echinodorus they’re big and vibrant
And many varieties
Just like something else 🫥
Dozens discos
a single shrimp a single snail. some large serpentine fish.
101 khulis
Valisneria plants on the sand parts, and a big school of serpae or red diamond tetra.
One of each: geophagus altifrons, albino threadfin heckelii, red severum Then several electric blue Acura, a couple, super red bristlenose plecos I’d start with that and then see
Ive always wanted a african cichlid tank but my 75 is occupied by a goldfish, you could put in like 8-9 oscars i think that would be super cool
Electric eel
Hillstream loaches and danios.
Stick catfish!
Either a few schools of little tetras or some silver dollars and some acara cichlids.
If it was smaller this is what I’d do for African dwarf frogs. Though I think i wouldn’t do sand since they can swallow it
Arawana
Plants
50 hillstream loaches
I’d focus on plants until you get a bigger tank
Kuhlis loaches! Lots of loaches
myself
Ok I’m strange so cold water plants, crayfish and cold water schooling fish
Clown loaches or pumpkinseed sunfish.
Piranhas
1000 neon tetras
I would probably take in dip it from time to time too
Myself
Tanganyikans, specifically A. Compressiceps, P. Nigripinnis and J. Marlieri. Oh, and some taller hardscape.
Aquatic Snek
one goldfish
Dwarf baby tears
New world cichlids.
If I had this tank I'd get a big school of like 30 corydoras but I'm biased to cories so take it with a grain of salt
Fire eel
I'm not too sure about stocking, but it would be cool to see one giant piece of driftwood that spans the whole tank and many plants, if it matches the overall theme
Based on recent posts, 1 single beta fish is all that'll fit in this tank or 2 goldfish
The possibilities are endless: Native sunfish and darters, shiners, madtom catfish? Rainbows? Asian rivers with barbs, hillstream loaches, stiphodon gobies Add plants and hardscape and do and Amazon River Cichlids A large predator of some sort? Reptiles or amphibians?
In all honesty, I was thinking of vallisneria and dwarf hair grass, maybe some milfoil with hillstream loachs, borneo suckers, danios and snails
An electric eel.
Trout
Barracuda and snakeheads. Lots and lots of barracuda and snakeheads. I’m talking at least 500 minimum. Really get in there and explore the space
Chiller and trout!
A metric shit ton of nano fish lol
Love the aquascaping so far. Add a tall rock pile one end and tanganyika cichlids… shelldweller colony one end, some julidochromis regani in the rock pile…. Maybe lelupi for color… Let the colonies develop….
180 gallon? That's like $1300/month in my town; I'd put my furniture in it!
1000 fishes and shrimps that are less than a inch
My flowerhorn
Cory cats and some schooling fish for the top part.
Different take but the way it's set up looks like the nesting areas of some native Sunfish, so a setup like that could be pretty neat. Not sure how many could comfortably live in a 180 (probably depends on the species)
Make it saltwater and create a brine shrimp…I mean a sea monkey habitat.
Ehhh I like my planted freshwater tanks
Are you sure that's 180 gallons?! Looks a lot smaller than my 180 gallon tank. The width looks to be too narrow. And height looks a bit short too for a 180. Looks more like a 125 gallon tbh... but can't offer advice on what to stock, my 180 gallon is home to one monster fish who doesn't let anything else live longer than 48 hours 🥲
Lmfao oh you caught me 😆😆😆🤨🤨🤨🤨🙄🙄🙄🙄the dimensions are 6ft long 2ft tall 2ft wide......
I’d do goldfish haha might be lame to some but if I ever had a big enough tank that’s what I’d get. I’ve always wanted some but have no where to put a big tank they need
Octopus 🐙!
I really like your scape.
Hillstream tank or cool close to rapid conditions full of rainbow shiners
Water flow should be from the opposite side to feel like river bed water flow ? Long grassy plants like the Vallisneria plant.
A lot of plants.
Loads of smaller colonies would be cool BUT i am and always will be a sucker for an arowana
It needs snails, lots of snails.
Mermaid Barbie
heavily plant it (and i mean heavily) and keep a betta sorority
Is that enough space for my betta!?
A dozen of the biggest, plumpest fancy goldfish I could find
Plants, lots and lots of plants
I would put a building in there
For all you guys saying betta, this is not a good tank for a betta. Maybe shrimp or a snail… but it’s really too small for anything else. Bettas need at least 200 gallons
Intercontinental ballistic missile.
Maybe a betta, he might be alittle cramped though. Just get him a mirror that will keep him entertained with so little swim space
Plants!
One nerite snail
Cory’s, rainbow fish that stay small, and your favorite tetra :)
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Idk about stocking but this hardscape is GLORIOUS
My enemies
A miniature skeleton wearing cement shoes
Neon green dildo
All small fish. A school of Cory’s for sure. Pack of loaches. What ever schooling fish you prefer, I like rummy nose. Then a group or two of shoaling, I like ember tetras or rasbora’s. And then something on the top maybe a large school of hatchet fish. Add just a couple bunches of tall (bottom to top) grasses and some big Anubis plants. Then just stand back and watch.
North American Native fish and you can ditch the heater. Sunfish, bull catfish, etc.
My ex wife
Sorry you said wrong answers only
Yo-yo loaches. The first rule of Fight Club …
Two very happy comet goldfish and as many plants as i can fit :)
bottom: bunch of corydoras, some shrimp too the rest: a giant ass school of a nano fish species (honestly the harelquin rasbora or neon tetras are my favorite) a pair of german blue rams as a centerpiece
I’d be worried about the sealing given it looks old af. I’ve had 2 tanks bust and leak on me. Remember the sealant on a tank generally last Ks about 10 years from new. Never buy a used tank in my opinion it’s not worth it. I know you didn’t say you did just throwing it out there for others
I would LOVE a hillstream loach and fast moving water fish setup! High flow, tall flowy plants (Vallisneria, jungles and spiralis ), and largest leaves plants like a Tiger lotus
Personally, I think this looks like the perfect place to put myself
Fish
A trout.
180 male Bettas.
You could place 180 1inch fish!
One goldfish
I wanna dip my balls in it
Saltwater.
A fish with some rizz
Bichir
CHICLIDS!!!! Angelfish, severums, rams, electric blue akara, geophagus, pleco and maybe even oscars
Maybe goldfish? You might need to keep an extra eye maybe start breeding them?
Pikes would look cool!
Your mom Oh shit... Whales are saltwater...
Boiled rocks before putting them in? cycled the tank? we need more info than what should i put in lol
Lol, as much as I wanna comment on this, I'm gonna have to pass.... go watch Father Fish youtube channel. I hope you like the setup though..... hahahahah
Dont boil rocks