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I really want a nano clown fish tank with some cool anemones. A jellyfish tank would be sweet too
Is Your Dream Tank Freshwater or Saltwater?
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My Dream tank is the saltwater tank with the sea horses at our local aquarium, or the sharks, the jellies....
But the realistic dream is a simple freshwater tank with lots of Nano fish, preferably cold water. Simple...
But the realistic dream is a simple freshwater tank with lots of Nano fish, preferably cold water. Simple...
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and what would you stock it with?
I'd currently go with the biggest aquarium possible that's acrylic and cylindrical. I'd stock it with a huge shoal of cardinal tetras,some yellow pigeon blood discus and blue, yellow and red shrimp. If I could have two aquariums, the other would be stocked with colourful cichlids. If I could have a third, I would stock koi. All three aquariums would be lit with RGB LED floodlights to enhance the fish colouration.
What would float your boat?
I'd currently go with the biggest aquarium possible that's acrylic and cylindrical. I'd stock it with a huge shoal of cardinal tetras,some yellow pigeon blood discus and blue, yellow and red shrimp. If I could have two aquariums, the other would be stocked with colourful cichlids. If I could have a third, I would stock koi. All three aquariums would be lit with RGB LED floodlights to enhance the fish colouration.
What would float your boat?
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Space and ease of water changes are more of my issue, but technically $$ could change that!
300gal Frontosa breeding colony with cuckoo catfish. Then dozens of 10-30gal black water setups for the very fancy wild betta and gourami species.
300gal Frontosa breeding colony with cuckoo catfish. Then dozens of 10-30gal black water setups for the very fancy wild betta and gourami species.
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My dream tank is a big enough tank to fit an arrowana, an oscar, and 500 neon tetras and 1 cardinal tetra in the mix, as well as a whole bunch of cories.
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Lol - I made a comment ages ago on this thread that my dream tank was a 50 gal lowboy frag tank biotope for a wild betta species. I'm now about to do that! Finally! I've got the tank, and we're moving in two weeks or so to our new house! Once there, I've already got a Betta unimaculata biotope all planned out! It's not perfectly biotope-y because I made a mistake on a river name while planning but XD I still love it and am super excited to get started!
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I'll definitely have to do one when the time comes! It'll be a process for sure! (And my first attempt at a dirted tank to boot!)
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Mine would be a planted 500 gallon with 100 pea puffers. Then I’d have an adorable yet intimidating army
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i want a porcupine puffer ina 500g with a epaulette shark and a tessalata eel. That, is my goal.
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I was wondering what everybody’s dream fish tank is. I’m sort of new to the hobby, I’ve been keeping platies/swords for a year. I only have one set up tank, though I have a goldfish bowl from when I was young, a fry grow-out tank (1.15 gallons), and my dads old 5 gallon.
I have lots of plans for future tanks I want to have. Here’s a list:
•3 or 4 male Betta 3-8 gallon tanks
•An albino/white fish only tank 60 gallons
• Cichlid tank 55 gallon
•Community aquarium 75 g
•Platy tank 30g
•Guppy tank 29g
•Livebearer community tank (mollies, guppies, platies, swords, and maybe a bottom feeder like corked or a pleco) 60g
•Cardinal tetra tank 15g
•Nano community 20g
•Shrimp tank 1g
•ADF and danio tank 20g
•Red tank (Red fish only) 40g
•Blue tank (Blue fish only) 40g
•Glofish tank 40g
•Glofish only tank(Everything in tank including tank manufactured by Glofish. The gravel,decor, plants will be fake, food, water conditioner, everything.)
•Holiday tanks (Tanks set up with holiday themed; red and green for Christmas, pastel for Easter, black and orange for Halloween, red,white, and blue for Fourth of July, pink, white, and purple for Valentine’s Day)
•Probably can’t get this but a 29g saltwater tank full of clownfish
My dream tank is a “color zap” tank. It’s a 80 gallon full of bright, colorful fish swimming around fast, with multiple schools. It would be the tank that you see the second you walk into the house, the tank that catches your eye, The fish will mainly be small, active fish like platies, tetras, swordtails, mollies, guppies, danios, white clouds, and maybe some bottom feeders like green cories. In the middle will be a big piece of driftwood covered in live plants with floating plants like duckweed on top. Multiple other small hiding spots like caves and logs are throughout the tank along with other live plants. A black or dark background is on the back to compliment the colors of the fish, along with sand that is great for plants and the cities in the tank.
Most of these tanks I know I can’t get, I just want them. I’ll probably start with a livebearing tank since that’s easy to breed and I can make money off of those and build from there. What’s your dream tank, setup, and all the other tanks you want?
I have lots of plans for future tanks I want to have. Here’s a list:
•3 or 4 male Betta 3-8 gallon tanks
•An albino/white fish only tank 60 gallons
• Cichlid tank 55 gallon
•Community aquarium 75 g
•Platy tank 30g
•Guppy tank 29g
•Livebearer community tank (mollies, guppies, platies, swords, and maybe a bottom feeder like corked or a pleco) 60g
•Cardinal tetra tank 15g
•Nano community 20g
•Shrimp tank 1g
•ADF and danio tank 20g
•Red tank (Red fish only) 40g
•Blue tank (Blue fish only) 40g
•Glofish tank 40g
•Glofish only tank(Everything in tank including tank manufactured by Glofish. The gravel,decor, plants will be fake, food, water conditioner, everything.)
•Holiday tanks (Tanks set up with holiday themed; red and green for Christmas, pastel for Easter, black and orange for Halloween, red,white, and blue for Fourth of July, pink, white, and purple for Valentine’s Day)
•Probably can’t get this but a 29g saltwater tank full of clownfish
My dream tank is a “color zap” tank. It’s a 80 gallon full of bright, colorful fish swimming around fast, with multiple schools. It would be the tank that you see the second you walk into the house, the tank that catches your eye, The fish will mainly be small, active fish like platies, tetras, swordtails, mollies, guppies, danios, white clouds, and maybe some bottom feeders like green cories. In the middle will be a big piece of driftwood covered in live plants with floating plants like duckweed on top. Multiple other small hiding spots like caves and logs are throughout the tank along with other live plants. A black or dark background is on the back to compliment the colors of the fish, along with sand that is great for plants and the cities in the tank.
Most of these tanks I know I can’t get, I just want them. I’ll probably start with a livebearing tank since that’s easy to breed and I can make money off of those and build from there. What’s your dream tank, setup, and all the other tanks you want?
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Is Your Dream Tank Freshwater or Saltwater?
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If you guys could go all out on a dream tank, what would your filter, lights, gallons, heater, stocking, etc.. all of it be?
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1000g saltwater with maybe a drop off so upper 400g and lower 600g. Nothing but corals and gobies...how many fans would that take? Lol
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I'm talking if you didn't have to worry about a fish's parameters, space requirements, aggression levels, or anything. You have infinite space and it requires no maintenance.
I'd love to have a large (like something you'd see in a public aquarium or zoo) southern-indiana themed tank, have lots of native fish, and maybe some smaller quarry stones as the hardscape?
Or from a more practical view, I'd love to be able to keep male fancy guppies in with mosquitofish without their fins getting nipped. Or really anything mosquitofish sized without them nipping. Some sort of betta "fraternity" tank would be cool as well, you could really have a dazzling array of fish in there
I'd love to have a large (like something you'd see in a public aquarium or zoo) southern-indiana themed tank, have lots of native fish, and maybe some smaller quarry stones as the hardscape?
Or from a more practical view, I'd love to be able to keep male fancy guppies in with mosquitofish without their fins getting nipped. Or really anything mosquitofish sized without them nipping. Some sort of betta "fraternity" tank would be cool as well, you could really have a dazzling array of fish in there
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If you could have your dream fish what would it be ? Or what's Santa bringing your favorite ( shh we all know we have a favorite ) fish !?! What about that dream aquarium / filter/ plant/ hardscape ? Happy holidays fishy friends ! ❄️❄️⛄
P.s. Santa I could use some chocolate neo shrimp, bolt shrimp, and a short tail ryukin goldfish! oh yeh my favorite ..well not sure he's my favorite but he's a butthead for sure my broadtail ryukin PO0f ...can you please bring him any plant to plant in my aquarium corner so he can smash into it and swim upside down . That's his favorite thing to do!! I'll be waiting!!!!
P.s. Santa I could use some chocolate neo shrimp, bolt shrimp, and a short tail ryukin goldfish! oh yeh my favorite ..well not sure he's my favorite but he's a butthead for sure my broadtail ryukin PO0f ...can you please bring him any plant to plant in my aquarium corner so he can smash into it and swim upside down . That's his favorite thing to do!! I'll be waiting!!!!
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Dream fish... I HAVE SO MANY... A whole bucket list... But if we are not going to be small with it... Santa can I have a freshwater stingray?... Back to small, if we are talking about something that can go in my current tanks... Santa it would be nice to get high quality bloody Mary shrimp to breed in an aquascape... Or plants and hard scape to aquascape all my tanks. But for real life I have suspicions that my family got me an API freshwater master test kit, which I told them I wanted the most out of the list I gave them. On the funny side I had aquarium rocks on my Christmas list and my mom said she wouldn't get me rocks for Christmas: dear mom, in the aquarium hobby near me two rocks cost 20-22$... I want rocks trust me haha
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So yeh it's like yr 2099 for a response here !! I'm so excited to finally be able to be back on here but anywhooo enough about me lol. I just had ordered a awsome copper Betta from Indonesia. I was looking at the galaxy's too though. I want ,I need ,I need one!! Did your Betta enjoy his new plant? Merry belated Xmas to you and your Betta
Haha figures you want "coal" aka rocks for Xmas and no one would give em to you! My family thinks I'm nuts when I get excited for rocks. They are exciting especially when you hold them in person after all the wait, just to get them in the tank, stand back and..ahhh...perfection!!! If you ever get a stingray lemme know..good choice btw . Api test kit they are a good/great gift . You always need one and I always seem to be outta one test and then realize I need another ...always..always..always. Merry belated Xmas from yr 3098! Oh yeh I've come back to 2023 and btw you have the nicest most Awsome stingray ,actually 3 and 79 api tests kits in your house made of purely seiryu stone!
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Wondering what your dream aquarium setups are. Fish, tank size, plants, substrate, parameters etc.
Mine would be a 50 gallon wild betta setup, based on the peat swamps of Southeast Asia. Very woody, tannin rich, soft water with a hygger 24/7 light. No filter.
Mine would be a 50 gallon wild betta setup, based on the peat swamps of Southeast Asia. Very woody, tannin rich, soft water with a hygger 24/7 light. No filter.
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500G acrylic full of wild Cyphotilapia, maybe even larger. Species only biotope with a 3d background & 3d rockwork. Fully sumped with auto water change setup. One day, right? 
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300g?
Heavily planted, large driftwood and rocks.
Acidic water (something I don't have)
Lots of botanicals along the sand.
Dimmer lighting.
Lots of S.American species. Mainly small fish, like less than a few fishes, in very large groups! Like at least 50 each of most of the species. I really want to see them interact in large groups and in a large space.
That's my dream! Also, I wouldn't own any other tanks. This would be it.
Heavily planted, large driftwood and rocks.
Acidic water (something I don't have)
Lots of botanicals along the sand.
Dimmer lighting.
Lots of S.American species. Mainly small fish, like less than a few fishes, in very large groups! Like at least 50 each of most of the species. I really want to see them interact in large groups and in a large space.
That's my dream! Also, I wouldn't own any other tanks. This would be it.
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Don’t know how many gallons but it would be the length of one and a half long walls in a very large room so it’ll be a long L shape.
It would have to be deep enough and strong enough to walk or float in for planting and other maintenance purposes.
It would house as many plants as possible and as many very large groups of micro & nano fish that would be ok in the conditions as possible.
It would have an identical companion tank on the other side of the room with some larger fish - maybe Angels or Discus and some larger schooling/shoaling species and be less densely planted - more wood and stone.
I would sit in the middle of the room in a swivelling comfy chair with my freshly brewed Kona or Yirgacheffe coffee and watch the fish while I savoured my brew.
Needless to say I’m sure but I think I’d have to win something like the Powerball lottery to build this and the house to put it in.
Oh and those would be accompanied by a stream sunk into the floor wandering through a few rooms to end in the conservatory pond.
In the rooms below the stream one would be able to watch the fish swimming in their stream from either side and on the main floor from above,
Planted islands here and there in the stream and a couple of attractive foot bridges over it for both humans and felines to cross or lurk upon as they choose.
The conservatory pond and stream would be set up so felines could fish if they wanted to try it and it would be stocked with culled fry I think - live cat TV at its finest.
I might have a population of the more colourful day geckos living in the conservatory, cage free. I’d have to hope they’re very good at avoiding cats - or have them only in a cat free zone. Probably have to be a cat free zone, right? I’d be upset if a cat ate a gecko.
Sigh. At least dreaming costs nothing but time.
It would have to be deep enough and strong enough to walk or float in for planting and other maintenance purposes.
It would house as many plants as possible and as many very large groups of micro & nano fish that would be ok in the conditions as possible.
It would have an identical companion tank on the other side of the room with some larger fish - maybe Angels or Discus and some larger schooling/shoaling species and be less densely planted - more wood and stone.
I would sit in the middle of the room in a swivelling comfy chair with my freshly brewed Kona or Yirgacheffe coffee and watch the fish while I savoured my brew.
Needless to say I’m sure but I think I’d have to win something like the Powerball lottery to build this and the house to put it in.
Oh and those would be accompanied by a stream sunk into the floor wandering through a few rooms to end in the conservatory pond.
In the rooms below the stream one would be able to watch the fish swimming in their stream from either side and on the main floor from above,
Planted islands here and there in the stream and a couple of attractive foot bridges over it for both humans and felines to cross or lurk upon as they choose.
The conservatory pond and stream would be set up so felines could fish if they wanted to try it and it would be stocked with culled fry I think - live cat TV at its finest.
I might have a population of the more colourful day geckos living in the conservatory, cage free. I’d have to hope they’re very good at avoiding cats - or have them only in a cat free zone. Probably have to be a cat free zone, right? I’d be upset if a cat ate a gecko.
Sigh. At least dreaming costs nothing but time.
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I would like to build out the whole wall my tanks are currently on, a cabinet with 6-8 doors across the bottom(big big sump and full water hose hook ups built in and nice black rubber foam runways to crawl around inside for service, and lights), tank glass starts at 36" high all the way across. Tank footprint about 12' across, 3' to the wall and 15" deep. The 3 walls that frame it would be built out and fully hardscaped as slow rocky, mossy, planted waterfalls up to the ceiling (and noisy too, on purpose), rock Islands and peninsulas throughout the tank portion with steep angles into the water. Through the viewing panel slightly tinted water, ~200 rummynose and ~200 contrasting diamond or rosey tetra with just a few pitch black rams swimming around looking scary in the shadows, a couple Cory gangs and any other catfish that stay under 9" that want to hang out in soft water and find their way to my house. Lots and lots of plants.
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I believe there was a similar thread maybe a couple of years ago, I remember describing my dream tank, which was basically a much bigger version of one I already had. After writing that I began seriously persuading my husband and son to make it and they did. So now I’m not sure what my next dream tank would be, I am reasonably happy with the ones I have, I do have lots more ideas for setups I would like to do if I had the time and money, but not one specific dream like I had before.
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I would love to have a 125 saltwater community tank with various clownfish morphs and tons of colorful corals attached to live rock, or a 200 gallon planted discus tank with platinum discus, sterbai corydoras, and a huge shoal (like 50+) green neons!
Salt Water for sure. I have a planted tank, I had shrimp tanks so In the future, a salt water will be my goal.
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I enjoy seeing saltwater tanks, but I don't want one. This may seem like a strange reason, but I don't like the lighting. I'm very sensitive to colors and lighting, and even though I enjoy them, I don't want it in my house. Also, I just can't imagine having a tank without lots and lots of green! Haha. So my dream is to have a massive south American community tank.
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Technically I'd have several masterpiece tanks if I was wealthy (and you better believe I would hire teams to come clean them and do equipment maintenance even though I would handle the rest of the care) but this one would be my ultimate and even without being wealthy I have seen certain highly dedicated, highly experienced aquarists actually manage to pull smaller scale versions of this off in their own homes when you normally see it at public aquariums so kudos to them for sure.
I did the best calculations I could based on research so it would be about a 54,000 gallon tank housing 14 fish where the highlight would be two leopard sharks which are manageable sized, harmless, graceful and just plain beautiful. They're my favorite shark species though the occasional small ones I've seen for sale online are insanely expensive. Additionally my tank would house equally manageable and harmless species you occasionally see for sale. There would be 2 blacktip reef sharks, 2 bonnethead sharks, 2 Atlantic sharpnose sharks, 2 northern wobbegongs and finally 2 cownose stingrays which have really cute faces, I've pet before in touch tanks and are quite gentle so long as you trim the barb every so often (I'd hire an expert to do that though haha).
So yeah. How about you guys? I'd love to tell you about what my other dream tanks including what my freshwater masterpiece would be but I can do that another time. We'd be here all day.
I did the best calculations I could based on research so it would be about a 54,000 gallon tank housing 14 fish where the highlight would be two leopard sharks which are manageable sized, harmless, graceful and just plain beautiful. They're my favorite shark species though the occasional small ones I've seen for sale online are insanely expensive. Additionally my tank would house equally manageable and harmless species you occasionally see for sale. There would be 2 blacktip reef sharks, 2 bonnethead sharks, 2 Atlantic sharpnose sharks, 2 northern wobbegongs and finally 2 cownose stingrays which have really cute faces, I've pet before in touch tanks and are quite gentle so long as you trim the barb every so often (I'd hire an expert to do that though haha).
So yeah. How about you guys? I'd love to tell you about what my other dream tanks including what my freshwater masterpiece would be but I can do that another time. We'd be here all day.
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