also if you say you WILL upgrade the tank every 1-2 years then why don't just do a full upgrade now..... there must be a reason that you are not doing it now and waiting for later
Need help with choosing new tankmates
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I considered a yoyo but there is no spiraling in the designs the are clearly defined and uniform thick dark stripes over whitish pearl coloring.
The only picture I can find that looks close is on a German website.
They call it this:
Botia fasciata (Parabotiafasciata)
Ringlet Loach
However I can't find any information on them.
I have kids, they consistently more expensive than my hobby, in addition to that I am looking for a house at the moment because by december of this next year I will not renew my lease but move my family into a house.
I currently live on the 9th floor and this building has small elevators.
Might as well wait till we are in the house where I can have a custom tank built in the house rather than buying something I won't like and risking breaking it to get up to the floor I currently live on.
Though I think I will just order the glass when we get our house and build it there myself.
I found a guy here who sells sheets of 5cm thick bulletproof glass for cheap, the house I have my eye on has a long 18 meter long wall that runs from the kitchen all the way to the living room in a 6 bedroom house.
If I can broker a deal for it. My plan will be to build a tank that runs along that wall starting at 1 meter off the floor on a steel welded base that I will cover with wood or marble panels and then to the ceiling and about a meter deep. So the dimensions would be about 15m L x 1.5m H x 1m D
I honestly have no idea how much volume that will hold but it will probably be the only aquarium I will need for big fish.
the advise is to get the bigger/monster fishes only after you get your bigger tank set up....
many things may change over the years
many things may change over the years
thatd be about a 5000 gallon tank by my calculations. you could fit several fire eels in there!
Agreed. Don't buy a fish that can outgrow your current tank if you can't physically fit a larger tank in your current home, and you won't be moving for at least a year. Especially in a tall tank. Have fun researching in the meantime, and get the fire eel when you have a suitable home for it.
