Is this smart or good?

[Grumpy_Marine]

95 gallon tall freshwater fish tank with stand and hood, lights included, has been running for about 2-3 years now, loaded with fish, gravel, 3 filters including a canister filter, nice tank, needs a little cleaning but not much.

FISH:
3 large parrot fish
3 huge pleco's 10-13 inches
1 red snook about 5-6 inches
1 freshwater morey eel about 18-20 inches, gorgeous
1 red devil 4 inches
1 jack dempsy absolutely beautiful coloring 6 inches
1 peacock cichlid 3 inches
2 african cichlids 5 inches I think they are mated, but not sure
1 red tail shark 4-4.5 inches very rare to find them this big and healthy
1 HUGE red oscar about 10 inches
2 tiger oscars one is 10 inches the other is about 5 inches
1 very old albino oscar

This is on craigslist all for 250 dollars... but seems like it is uber full but not sure as i never had 95 gallons before. Would this sit well with you other fish enthusiasts? It is in carlsbad Ca if interested in it.

 

[Lotus]

It sounds extremely overstocked to me. Unless you have a store or a friend that would take the fish, I wouldn't do it.

 

[Grumpy_Marine]

thanks lotus thats what i thought reading the style and sizes of fish, thanks for the advice.

 

[Fuzz16]

WOW!
i wouldnt even put 2 oscars in that tank...and hes got 4 plus some other fish!

 

[CAPSLOCK]

Might be worth it if you could sell most (or all) of those monsters back to an LFS...

 

[Fuzz16]

ooo snook gets mroe than 16"...wow.
but capslock makes a good point....if you could buy the tank, sell the fish to the lfs or get credit for them it may be worth moving them...if your lucky maybe you could geta 100$ or so out of those fish
id say do it if you have no problem with giving fish to the lfs...at least the oscars are full grown so its less likely to be put in a small tank; then id get store credit for it. it would be a nice tank, the foot print just isnt that nice.

 

[Lotus]

Of course, it all depends on whether you can get a store to take them. Where I live, I'd be stuck with them, as the stores here don't want big fish.

 

[tom91970]

Great price but having to deal with transporting and finding new homes for the fish would be a pain.

 

[Cichlid-Man]

I'll echo everyone else. If you can get rid of the fish pretty easily, go for it the tank/stand/setup itself is a great deal.

The stock is just fight night at the MGM grand waiting to happen.

 

[rshxt9]

Personally, I'd love to see a picture of that tank...jsut to see what it looks like with all those fish in there.

 

[iamcowboy]

Sounds like a great deal to me. I have an LFS that would probably give $100 just for the Oscars and Plecs. They would buy all the others too.