r/Aquariums Aug 17 '22

55000L aquarium epoxycoated and ready for water DIY/Build

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u/wubbalubbadubdub024 Aug 17 '22

Stock it with about zillion tetras

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u/breadknife004 Aug 17 '22

No joke though, imagine a huge school of about 2000 bucktooth tetra

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u/RoutSpout Aug 17 '22

Or 1 betta

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u/reversbathrub Aug 17 '22

Still too small for a beta

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u/PersonalNewestAcct Aug 17 '22

I know I'll get hate for this because everybody thinks you can't keep bettas together but you actually can if they're females. A tank this size could probably have 1.5 or 2 females comfortably.

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u/SavageSavX Aug 18 '22

One and a half fish 💀

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u/skucera Aug 18 '22

Well, you start with two, and the fish either get along… or they don’t.

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u/gwjames17 Aug 18 '22

Actually this guy’s right. I have a swimming pool in my backyard (about 1500 gallons) and there’s currently 1 female betta in there

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u/SaqqaraTheGuy Aug 18 '22

Still too small ☠️

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u/cashew_kat Aug 18 '22

Dude just hates animals

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u/Yello_Ismello Aug 18 '22

The 2 female betas I had that committed murder/ suicide would have to disagree 😅

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u/value_null Aug 18 '22 edited Aug 18 '22

Joking aside: you're supposed to keep at least 5.

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u/PersonalNewestAcct Aug 18 '22

By my calculations they should've kept it at 1.5

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u/Unltd8828 Aug 18 '22

Too small to thrive but can definitely survive.

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u/EuroPolice Aug 18 '22

I promised that little goldfish that I would get him the best once I made it.

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u/NemoHobbits Aug 17 '22

Adds one neon tetra from petco, entire stock dies of ick.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '22

That scenario happened to me but from petsmart. It killed two 14+" plecos I'd had for years.

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u/TheGameAce Aug 17 '22

Ick/Ich isn’t lethal, but it’s visual cousin Epistylis is. That said, it wouldn’t surprise me if the same scenario still happened with some other disease gotten from the store.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '22

When BRS gave away an absurd tank a few years ago, a tank that could grow any coral alive with the serious lighting they provided, I only want to win so that I would be on live video asking them if it could grow some mushrooms and leather maybe a few damsels.

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u/viperfan7 Aug 18 '22

And one betta

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u/uiouyug Aug 18 '22

Or just 1 goldfish

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u/HandoAlegra Aug 18 '22

After a while you could expect a few tetras to die a day. Imagine doing a weekly clean and having to scoop up like 20 dead tetras but the school still looking fine

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u/audigex Aug 18 '22

Yeah huge tanks with big fish are cool, but I’ve always thought they’re a wasted opportunity to have a huge tank with THOUSANDS of fish, which you really can’t experience otherwise

Big fish in a big tank are pretty much the same as little fish in a little tank, just from further away

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u/Aebous Aug 18 '22

Please everyone knows that's it's going to be millions of red cherry shrimp

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u/ParaStudent Aug 18 '22

That would honestly look amazing.

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u/VoilaVoilaWashington Aug 18 '22

My 1000g is stocked with a school of filament barbs, rainbowfish, 2 GIANT plecos and a turtle.

I keep replenishing the fish because my turtle likes fish.