nativelover Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 hi everyone i have 4foot tank that is now empty and am wanting some unusual fish in it what would you recomend ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruju Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Bichirs! Always number one for interesting IMO. Pantadon butterfly, ctenopomas, mystus catfish/sun catfish, smaller variety of eel, pleco variants, elephantnose. Plenty to choose from although you may be restricted by the volume of the tank to how much stocking you would like. Bichirs would be fine so long as it's not an ornate. Ctenopomas are perfect, pantadons are fine, mystus cats only get to 15-20cm, sun cats potentially get too big, the smaller eel types reach 20-30cm (not fire eel/tyre track), plecos are all ok except for maybe really large sailfins, elephantnose get to 30cm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirt Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Do we even have pantadon butterfly's in NZ? Archer fish are pretty cool too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Might need a little more info, 4' is pretty vague.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativelover Posted June 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 4 foot 2 foot tall and 1 foot wide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#!CrunchBang Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Do we even have pantadon butterfly's in NZ? Archer fish are pretty cool too HFF in albany has one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F15hguy Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 pantadons are cool fish, had a couple here for a while. they are good jumpers so need a tight lid. my choices would be Black ghost knife fish and an albino senegalus bichir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 If you were in asia, people would recommend a dolphin go in there.... anyway, i digress. id say, bichirs, elephant nose, discus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hali Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Pantadon.. Do it. Yup we have one 'Donny' and tight lid you need.. Donny the 1st only lasted 2 days in our other 'almost fully covered tank' Or if you don't have other fish yet.. THREE :nilly: FUN. Donny eats from my hand his mouth is deceivingly huge! Neat..We have knifey in the other 4 footer with Talking Catfish and Snowballs.. A big school of marble Hatchets would be badass.. I'd have them but got to be silver for the Cichlid free African tank.. What an exciting question.. Make it brackish? Figure 8 puffer maybs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 If you are asian, then an adult arowana should be ok in a 4 foot :sml1: (note: im asian so im immune to jibes about asians 8) ) :digH: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godly3vil Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: I guess someone had to say it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snookie Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 what about aripama and rtc ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim r Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 So who will train an Arowana to do a 3 point turn in a 4' tank? :slfg: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 If you are asian, then an adult arowana should be ok in a 4 foot :sml1: (note: im asian so im immune to jibes about asians 8) ) :digH: and have pink lights on the tank? :digH: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 a fire eel with a commune of breeding guppies to keep it well fed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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