Hello everyone! As y'all can see, I'm new here, and to add to that I'm overall relatively new in fishkeeping. I've kept fish on and off my whole life, but never anything more than goldfish. But over the past 6 months, I've set up 2 very successful freshwater community tanks, 20G and 10G, as well as a Betta tank, that also has one surprisingly happy Kuhli Loach (I say surprisingly because his 4 friends he used to have all passed away from a case of Ich that plagued the tank for a while, luckily this guy never got sick and my Betta recovered very well after medication. Also note that I didn't have quarantine tanks at the time). However, now that all of these aquariums are established and are running well, I'm looking to move on to my next tank. With me having 3 small tanks, and having a very large desk in my room, I wanted to get a bigger fish tank. I measured the desk's dimensions to see what it can fit comfortably, and a 75 fits with a few inches on all sides. After taking into consideration weight distribution, I made up my mind and will be getting a 75. At first, I wanted another community tank, looking at centering it around Mollies, but I changed my mind and now I'm looking to enter the realm of large fish. Obviously, I first went to Oscars as I know that they're very big, and don't need a very large tank in relation to their size compared to other, more active fish, and they're very personable and intelligent, making for a really fun fish to have and bond to. Now, personally, I'm not a fan of tanks with only one fish, so I thought of potential tank mates. I immediately went to Plecs because they get big too, and the Oscar wouldn't attack one that's big enough. Currently, I'm looking to get my hands on a Sunshine Plec, unless I happen to find any that are more enticing, or if having a tankmate at all is too much for the tank. However, I do plan on running very heavy filtration, with both an Aqueon QuietFlow 75, along with a Fluval FX6 and an upgrade kit for it available here:
https://filterpro.co.uk/fx6--fx5-external-filter-freshwater-upgrade-kit-148-p.asp. To quickly recap: I am getting a 75G, and plan on housing an Oscar and a Sunshine Plec, and I am running very powerful filtration; is the tank big enough to support the 2 fish happily?
Also, please give me any suggestions on other types of plec that would work as a good tankmate for an Oscar in a 75! I'd love to see all the different kinds of plecs there are
