What kind of big fish should i look at buying for my 100 gallon tank.?

Question

What fish sticks out to you as intresting and big for my new 100 gallon tank?

Answer 1

Consider cichlids, the tank can look almost as good as a marine tank without the expense.
http://www.cichlids.com/nc/tank-pictures.html

Answer 2

for a 100 gallon., an arowana wouldn't fit for long term. i have a few silver arowanas who will top out at 40 inches, and i have some aus or jardini arowanas and will top about 36 inches and will kill anything else added to the tank.

motoro rays are cool but i have found hard to keep unless you have large amouth of sand and very very clean water. Absoultly no nitrites or nitrates.

oscars are good, but very un hardy and messy.

If u like new world cichlids, and are looking for an aggressive fish that will try an attack anything that moves by the tank, a red devil or media cichlid. These cichlids need to be in a huge tank to develop into a cichlid with a hump on the head. These fishes will try and attack you as u walk by the tank. No other fishes should be added.

Answer 3

My impression is that you have gone no farther than a "dream"
about a 100 gallon tank. You haven't read up on it nor have you done any kind of investigation into the care and maintenance of owning a large fish tank.
How do I know? In your question you failed to specify if you've
decided on a Tropical (fresh water) tank or a Marine (salt water) tank.
And since you are looking for "big" fish I bet you also own a
"big" dog so that all your friends and neighbors can go "WOW!!"

Answer 4

Is it freshwater? Or salt? Plecos (algea eaters) are freaking ROCKIN' when they keep up to eight inches and more. They're like giant swimming aliens. Cichlids tend to get pretty ginormous, but they're not community fish. I would personally recommend albino oscars, as they're all white and get big, bright orange marble patterns and grow rather large. That's just me and for freshwater, though. *shrug* Do some research on google. There's some really good fish websites that'll help you determine the Fish For You.

Answer 5

You could try to get fish that well grow into a aquarium like that. Such as Clown Knife fish, Arrowana, Red Tail Catfish, Shovel Nose Catfish, certian Pleco and Oscars

Answer 6

Plecos are great, they grow big.

Red Tailed catfish are good, they grow huge.

Arowanas cool, but maybe a little expensive.

Ultimate huge freshwater is an arapaima gigas... think they grow to around 5 metres in the wild.


But what the hell, why not just get a big school of piranhas???

Answer 7

Get an Arowana, and a couple of stingrays, the Arowana might attack them so keep it very well fed.. they are awesome fish! Once I get out of my Apartment and into a house, im getting 2 100+ gallon tanks, one for the arowana and the other for Piranah!! check out this link...


http://www.aquariumfish.net/catalog_pages/wild/arowanas.htm

Answer 8

I have Striped Convicts in my 38 gallon tank, but you have a 100gallon tank? Where is it?Wow!! I would get some Oscars.

Answer 9

You should look at getting sailfin mollies, Plecos are great. Don't get Goldfish for a huge tank, it will take forever to clean. Good Luck! Fish are great!

Answer 10

by using feeding them a sturdy form of nutrition, they're going to grower right now all alone. I recommend a sturdy pellet nutrition as their staple weight relief plan. supplement with freeze-dried and frozen ingredients which incorporates tubifex worms, blood worms, pink meat heart. in case you'll stumble on stay worms to feed, try this, too. also, provide stay nutrition which incorporates feeder guppies and then feeder goldfish perchance some times a month.