Fish at local restaurant display pics

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

Check again at the eye of that catfish. Too much of a pigment in the eye to be an albino with no red going on. Dont you think? Just asking to confirm my doubt of it being an albino ARTC as I am not crazy about light forms of any kind of fish. Hence me thinking its still alot more $ than a mere albino the owner dropped in that tank. Regardless of what cat species it is.

Albino or not, WOLF2013 pointed out it was a South American red tail catfish. That brings the minimum tank size up to 8.1 meters.

 

[aroijuana]

In my opinion, this is an animal welfare issue. Those fish are going to need a tank a minimum of 6 meters long (if that albino catfish is an Asian red tail) or 7.8 meters (if it's a channel catfish), otherwise they will be stunted and cramped.

That said, those first few pictures with the pleco are excellent. Thank you for sharing.

I'm not shure where you came up with those numbers.. 21+ feet for a channel cat is a little excessive. These fish would do fine in something 10x5-12x6. None the less, beautiful tank.

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

I'm not shure where you came up with those numbers

Practical Fishkeeping's 6x the length rule. Because they get 1.3 meters long, 1.3x6=7.8.

And I agree, some things in the tank do look good. Such as that stage 3 pleco.

 

[Caveden]

Practical Fishkeeping's 6x the length rule. Because they get 1.3 meters long, 1.3x6=7.8.

And I agree, some things in the tank do look good. Such as that stage 3 pleco.

They would do fine as what aroijuana sayed, practical fishkeeping is over the top as Krismo962 stated before. 20ft is larger than probably anyone’s tank in this site LMAO. I’m larger than 1.2m and I don’t need that much space myself.

Damn that restaurant tank is overcrowded with expensive fish

 

[Krismo962]

If I lived near this restaurant I would be going there all the time lol?

 

[FINWIN]

Love that pleco. Don't love a glorified lobster tank.

 

[Rocksor]

You could run the calculations of minimum tank size vs liveable tank size against what a fish curator at a public aquarium thinks

Estimating the Need for Swimming Space for Aquarium Fishes

This article explores required aquarium sizes for marine fishes

www.reef2reef.com

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

I'm not saying Practical Fishkeeping is never over the top (they most certainly are with their recommendation of 12x the length for barbs, aquarium sharks, and fish with similar activity levels to those, for example) , but their 6x the length rule isn't something I have seen any reason to doubt. It is found to rightly be the minimum bound by those who use it (eg: keepers of adult clown loaches in a 183 cm tank).

PS: thebiggerthebetter has a 94500 liter tank. If I remember correctly one of its dimensions is about 12.2 m.

 

[cmsbthebest]

Oof. Nice fish, ugly tank, and terrible stocking levels.

 

[Krismo962]

I'm not saying Practical Fishkeeping is never over the top (they most certainly are with their recommendation of 12x the length for barbs, aquarium sharks, and fish with similar activity levels to those, for example) , but their 6x the length rule isn't something I have seen any reason to doubt. It is found to rightly be the minimum bound by those who use it (eg: keepers of adult clown loaches in a 183 cm tank).

PS: thebiggerthebetter has a 94500 liter tank. If I remember correctly one of its dimensions is about 12.2 m.

Are you from Europe?