Alright well, I've acquired a 110 recently that im gonna be setting up soon. I have a cascade 1000 for the filter. Im also planning on adding additional filtration to the cascade. I want to use black sand does anyone know what I can get it for cheapest? I'm planning on getting my jack dempsey a nice female, and putting my tiretrack eel and clown loaches in this tank. I dont know what the limit on what i can have in this tank is, and its not going to be the end all tank for these fish but for a while its going to be their home. I'm looking for what I can really put in this tank, or if i should just wait to get a larger tank to do a big aggressive tank.

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Thats alot of big fish for that tank.

Large fish need room to move around. What decor are you going to use? black sand, i think there is some sandblasting compound that is clean and inert(susankat might know) thats dirt cheap. Mangs get large amd are very aggressive, they need 120g per fish in adult 14-16" captive size. they will eat/kill anything smaller then it. I used to keep them quite a few years ago and lost alot of nice fish to those nasty buggers.

Yeah im rethinking the managuense, as theyre so aggressive. This isnt going to be the end all tank for most of these fish, I just got this tank for a really good price so its going to be their current tank. The only fish for sure that are going in it are the jack pair and my tiretrack eel, a few plecos and clown loach herd. Im trying to figure out what my options are really, not too experienced with CA and SA. Im interested in that sand youre talking about, as the sand im looking at is 18 dollars a bag and i'll need about 7-8 bags of it.

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Well, I bought my ornate bichir. 15 dollars for me (: hes bout 7 inches. Im looking for a super red severum male and a gold female about 5" or bigger.

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