I have a 7x2.5x2 260 gal tank and was wondering if it would be possibly to keep a single male hystrix with tank mates? It's running two 550gph cannisters, a 200gph cannister and a Fluval FX6? I'm asking because a few people have told me that I need a sump to keep rays due to their large bioload.. Tank mates would be a senegal bichir, an ornate bichir, fire eel, an oscar and a vieja synspilum.
Ray without sump
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Sounds big enough to me, especially with a male Hystrix as he'll stay smaller.
The more filtration the better, but this really could applied as good fish keeping practice to any fish in a tank. You've got a fair bit of filtration. What's you water change regime? That's extremely important
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The more filtration the better, but this really could applied as good fish keeping practice to any fish in a tank. You've got a fair bit of filtration. What's you water change regime? That's extremely important
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I have worked with less and had sucsess I'm too lazy these days to want to do all the work of canister I made a 80 gallon sump with all filters and plumbing under 200 us and clean up is every 2 weeks. So why not a sump they will make life easy?
Your fine. I have a 300 with 2 fx5 s, an eheim 2262 and a cfx500 and havenot had an issue with water quality. I also just recently put on a drip at 50 gpd, I was hesitant to do this at first but honestly it's super easy and can be done for 100 dollars or less
Just keep up on filter maintenance. Filter socks make it easy on a sump, removes the physical waste before it compromises water chemistry. I don't see many reasons to consider a sump vastly superior to a number of canisters beyond ease of access. Make sure whichever canister seems to receive the most of the bioload has enough mech and you can do it. Sumps just make the process easier and less demanding. Changing filter socks as opposed to emptying a canister washing mech and re-priming it is just a much more simplistic process.
I run it through a 3 stage filter from the filter guys but you could use a 10 dollar fin line filter from lowes.
Currently there are 2 pbass, 2 large dats, 1 Florida gar, 1 14" male ray and 5 pups from 4 to 9 inches.
The pups will be going into a 220 grow out soon though.
