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This was my aim when I bought my house.

That is too cool.
-Shane

I could live with one tank if that was the one.

Mark

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Jealous Yes, If that was mine I would sleep next to it, forget the missis.

Sorry

I can't say I like his style of decoration. Yes, I would not mind the tank, but I'd start emptying it.

Still, if you like it, enjoy the pictures

a beautiful tank, I like it

however, my favorite non-catfish would also love it
so many green things to eat in there.......

and my second to favorite non-catfish would be found next to it in numbers, dried up.

great tank for Syno's, though. they'd love all the woodwork and plants to hide in


the one drawback these tanks have is that you can only keep very boring fishes in them.
tiny tetra's, tiny barbs, the occasional Angelfish; that's about it

any catfish bigger than an Otocinclus would muck it up.


it's almost exactly the newer better version of what we used to have here in the Netherland; the "Holland planted aquarium".
the 2.0 sort of.
for over 40 years Dutch fish keeping has been in the stranglehold of that philosophy;
if you were in a club or a tank contest, the only way to reach the upper levels was to make the tank like that

dissent was completely unacceptable and wouldn't be tolerated.
it's not a coincidence the Dutch trade has been allergic for anything catfishy for half a century, that was born out of the rock-hard conviction that "ALL catfish are disruptive and the dig up and destroy plants".

nonsense, but there you are.

very very very cool indeed. I like it. cheers jk

I was referring to the hardware set up rather than the internals.
Personally I wouldnt have plants in it at all.
Just the bogwood,
How about a list of what you would keep in there?

Mine is simple, I would have a good size shoal of Uaru and a couple of Megladoras.

I envy anyone who can afford and have the space for very large tanks.
If I could I would have a dozen tanks of 500 to 1000 gallons.
They would all be stocked with mainly different species and especially attractive varieties of wild Discus.
Getting pairs of wild Discus becomes easier when you keep them in very large tanks.
I am part of a subset of Discus hobbyists who specialize in keeping and breeding wild type Discus and I have absolutely no interest in the man made domestic forms of Discus. They have gone the way of the Goldfish and I barely recognize them as Discus.
I began breeding wild Discus in 1969 and they remain my favorites.
I would probably also stock one lightly planted large tank with Pterophyllum altum Angelfish.
It would be my dream display tank fish room.
Comfy furniture and it would have a small kitchen so I could also cook.
I would have to have a separate fish room which is more utilitarian for breeding my fishes.

I do like having one large planted South American fish tank containing mostly different Characins, a few Dwarf Cichlids and some different catfish.
I actually already changed my 125 gal to such a tank early last year.
I do not like to be dependent on CO2 so I take a lower tech approach than T. Amano. I use pretty heavy duty filtration systems and for individual large display tanks I build my own high volume wet/dry filter system and also run a Canister filter too.

Hi Larry, hows it going dude?

With the right decor, perfect for some large .

Possibly combined with a large group of some of the bigger eartheaters?

Or perhaps some large barbs?

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Mats

Yes that sounds good Mats.

Grate idea grokefish -I would have sand substrate then large rocks, huge branches of Sumatran Driftwood,and fill it with Parancistrus nudiventris.

grokefish wrote:Hi Larry, hows it going dude?

Hi Matt,
Doing pretty good. I am sending you and Rupert my new e-mail address. Lost your address so sending you a PM.

Yup, jealous
Imagine a giant shoal of glass cats in there. Mmmm.

Matt30 wrote:Grate idea grokefish -I would have sand substrate then large rocks, huge branches of Sumatran Driftwood,and fill it with Parancistrus nudiventris.

I rekon I am more likely to get a tank like that than parancistrus nudiventris in numbers I cant find them anywhere I can realistically get to

What that tank needs is 1000 .

Jools

Jools wrote:What that tank needs is 1000

Synodontis nigriventris

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Jools

That's more like it! but what about a few s. Contracta instead or perhaps even s.acanthoperca, then throw in a couple dozen of liauchenoglanis thomasi , mix with a number of tetracamphilius angustifrons, a smattering of chiloglanis productus and jobs a good un.

Alternatively ditch the decor and go for a pair of pardiglanis if the width is big enough....oh we can dream

corybreed wrote:I could live with one tank if that was the one.

Mark

I couldn't. I have about 9 tanks currently, about to purchase a 6ft. My three main ones live with me in my office at University. Student's are always taken aback when they see the tanks in here.

I do like the size of the tank, but I think I would change it slightly in terms of setup/planting, etc.

Wow nice tank. As stated though you could do so much more with the decor in there. Stocking it would be expensive but well worth it.must have a powerful heater and filter to run that too lol