So I just got a 250 gallon tank, it was used to raise salmon

>>2378094
Fill it with ice and beers

>>2378094
Raise salmon obviously.

Cool pets and delicious meat all in one. My uncle did that.

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FILL IT FULL OF DIRT AND PLANTS
THEN USE IT TO RAISE FIRE ANTS
250 GALLONS OF FIRE ANTS

quadruple check the seals so you don't destroy your house with it

>>2378148
Or don't put it in the house, a filled 250G is around 3000 pounds once you factor in a sturdy stand and the sump. You'd have to quadruple check the floor supports in addition to the seals.

>>2378162
>You'd have to quadruple check the floor supports
modern building codes require floors to support about 10 times that much.

On a side note I have a 1000 gallon tank (over 10,000lbs) on a wood-beam floor and it made the floor sag almost 1/4 inch. Floors are built to handle that sort of stuff. You could park trucks on them if you wanted to.

>>2378094
Get shrimps,whatever you do,also snails

>>2378191
What did you put in the 1000g? I can't even imagine a tank that size at home.

>>2378211
Think it might be big enough for a betta?

>>2378269
No,bettas need at least a ocean size tank

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>>2378269
>What did you put in the 1000g?
saltwater fish and rock.

>>2378297
I'd swim in it tbqh

>>2378094
Raise salmon for school kids.

>>2378305
It's a 6'X6' box, so not quite big enough to swim in. Just a bit bigger than my Jacuzzi bathtub.

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Put in nothing but horseshoe crabs. No water, nothing but pure, uncut crab

Bearded dragon

>>2378094
>gut tank
>give some reptile a really good home

>>2378094
What's the depth? Doesn't quite look 2' from the pic.

I would get the best of both worlds and make a paludarium (or close to it). 1-2 inches substrate, 8-10 inches of water, and several large pieces of wood/rock sticking out of the water covered in emersed plants and mosses. There are dozens of frogs, toads, salamanders, or newts that could be kept in that environment, not to mention hundreds of species of fish.

I'm a sucker for small animals in huge tanks though. With a tank that big, a reef is the obvious answer.

>>2378094
A few big Amazon swords and a big school of one of the wild-type swordtails. X. Montezuma or Mayae would look great.

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>>2378094
couple massive chunks of driftwood, plants galore, a gorillion shrimp, dwarf crayfish and several massive schools of cories and mid/high-zone schoolers, plus one or more yuge herbivorous centerpiece fish, like flagtail prochilodus

>>2378381
It's 24"-25"-96" aka 2 feet by 2 feet 1 inch by 8 feet. I was thinking of a frog for the center piece but have a full on ecosystem inside. My dream is to have an enclosed space that only needs light

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>>2378094
Bro, go with a Bobbit worm, super easy to care for, really cool to watch and they are super affectionate creatures. They love a good nuzzle on the head. If you let you hand just float above it it will come out of it burrow and give you hand a cuddle.

Bobbit worms are the best tank pet.

>>2378431
also hardy af

>>2378094
Fill it up with discus and FW stingrays

>>2378441
Not to mention they're really tank mate friendly. They act like cleaner wrasse, cleaning all the other fish and keeping them healthy. All aquatic tank fauna love them too, having a Bobbit worm is a sign of a healthy and happy aquarium. There is no reason not to get a Bobbit worm, literally none.

Make it a huge saltwater tank.
Add live rock, live sand, and coral
But, no fish.

Tell people you keep a ghost shark in it and, if they're lucky, they might catch a glimpse of it if they watch for long enough.

>>2378318
I'd sit in it like a jacuzzi tub then.

No jokes, I have this strange fantasy of swimming in an aquarium that contains tropical fish.

>>2378094
you could give it to me, if you want

>>2378094
Start a brittle star colony

>>2378094
Start a colony of goodeids or some other kind of vulnerable fish.

>>2378094
25 axlotls.

>>2378983
Brittle stars are tiny. Put a giant basket star in there.

>>2378094
>250 gallons
>not using it to make the worlds sickest vivarium complete with water features, caves, and various terrains
>>2378145
THIS CRAZY FUK IS THE ONLY PERSON YOU SHOULD HEAR.

>>2378431
>google bobbit worm
holy shit m8

>>2378094
Why did school kids specifically need to see salmon?
But to answer your question, you fill it with lizards.

>>2379375
We had a Salmon tank in science class, it was to watch the life stages they went through.

Mastacembelus ellipsifer

>>2378094
Right next to where you're going to keep the fish, make sure to grow some dill and whatever wood you would use to make lox.

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>>2378940
I've sat it in it when it's empty, but there's too much rock in it to sit in full. Plus you'd have to change out about 1000 gallons of saltwater after putting your nasty ass in there. A full water change on that tank costs about $400.

>>2378094
platinum kois
blacklight aquarium

it would be rad as fuck

>>2378094
a big fucking colony of mice.
when full, drop a rattlesnake in with them.
film & post here for profit.
you're welcome.

>>2378094
finally, a tank large enough for 3 goldfish

>>2378467
Don't they need round tanks?

>>2378094
Clean with white vinegar and water, make a stand that you'd trust to park your truck on for years, level the fuck out of it, make or buy sump and get other filters for what ever yiu go with, fill with purified water and go nuts! I'm a reef guy but a boat load of African Chiclids would look killer with some heavy actinic lights.

>>2378330
This

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>>2378094
>250 gal
HORSESHOE CRABS, you have the perfect sized tank for these adorable things

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>>2378467

I support this. FW stingrays are awesome and this is a great sized tank for them. Depends if they are legal in your state or not. See pic.

Saltwater is cool too but it is a lot more work. Stingrays would be fairly easy in comparison and would look like an amazing show piece.

Also it looks like it's acrylic? If it is, doing the high powered lights for coral will lead to massive amounts of algae on the acrylic and you will scratch the shit out of the glass. If you do fish only with freshwater, you shouldn't have much algae build up and much easier to clean.

If you got stingrays you could even breed them and sell the pups for a good price.

>>2380319
from what I've read FW stingrays are considerably more delicate than most SW fish.

Sharks and rays of any sort are top-tier difficult.

I'd put a redtail catfish in it or some kind of arowana

>>2378094
One male and 3 female guppies.

and then wait.

>>2378094
Mother of all rodent playgrounds.

https://youtu.be/-jr0U9_5ZRY

The biggest guppy tank ever.

mice utopia of 21st century

>>2378094
Make an aquarium terrarium hybrid. Keep frog on land and school of fish in water

Make a wall in the middle of it, put mice on the left and snakes on the right... Destroy the wall then, and have a lot of fun. You can clean it and repeat.

>>2381194
Live feeder mice for feeding to rats? lol

>>2378094
Fill it full of cardboard and roaches. Sell feeder roaches to pet stores.

>>2381194
>>2381460
It's always fun to see the rats that won't even bother with the mice. It looks like only a small few of the rats are even interested in the mice.

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Bump

Has o-p decided what he's going to do with it yet?

>>2381194
>>2381487
i had three nice big docile pet rats a few years ago, and i caught mouse by the tail in a conibear trap
as i walked past the rats' cage door (which i usually just left open) with the mouse in the trap to let it go outside, the three of them had their heads out trying to see what was going on
so without really thinking i held the mouse up to show them and they fucking grabbed it so fast, threw it onto the floor of their cage, cornered it, and ate it head first living not a trace
savage little fuckers

>>2383537
Honestly the guppie thing was funny,
I was thinking about catching a rattlesnake but I know my retarded ass will eventually get bit. And I'm thinking a half water half land with shrimp and mountain minnows with bugs on land and a big bullfrog or some type of frog(s) as the centerpiece(s)

>>2383732
do snakes. then make a business extracting rattlesnake venom

>>2384231
I had a friend that was going to do this.
Apparently there's like a lot of licensing and certification or something

I once had a big tank I put a bunch of toads in (Fowler's and American toads) and planted some live plants with some water and organic potting soil with gravel at the bottom. I would feed them crickets. The crickets started eating the plants and reproducing on their own. The frogs would shit out the crickets and fertilize the plants. I only ever had to pour water in there every once in a while. The crickets were loud, though. The frogs would get horny and fuck if I played bassy techno.

>>2380290
Not only are they adorable but their blood sells for thousands of dollars a litre

Go with the aquaculture route and raise tilapia and vegetables

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Dutch style aquarium is the only suitable answer

Put turtles in it.