300 gallon monster tank idea

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

U drive a tough bargain my man ??… its a feat in itself to keep anything alive for 10yrs even in optimal conditions. Things happen out of our control. Power outages, equipment failures, water supply changes etc. Using wild caught/world record maxium sizes as the “ultimate” reference for captive fish is just unrealistic. Those fish sizes would be 15-25yrs old at best…Even their wild counter parts will most likely never make it anywhere near those sizes in that time.

It's all a matter of providing consistent care. With consistency it can be done, for 27 years: https://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=48282

And, a larger tank would be smart to have should there be that consistent care (which there is no reason for there no to be), since the fish will grow.

 

[Krismo962]

At this point it has become a Anti-keepingfishinboxes forum.

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

Lol. More like Anti-keepingfishintanksthatdonotfitPFKandSF.

Along the same lines of NoClownsInACube.

 

[wednesday13]

It's all a matter of providing consistent care. With consistency it can be done, for 27 years: https://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=48282

And, a larger tank would be smart to have should there be that consistent care (which there is no reason for there no to be), since the fish will grow.

a 27yr old clown loach at 6” ?… not even half its attainable size. Must have been their “consistent care” plan and not reality ??…

 

[wednesday13]

At this point it has become a Anti-keepingfishinboxes forum.

Yet the people keeping fish in boxes have a problem with other people doing the same thing. Can’t make this stuff up ?

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

a 27yr old clown loach at 6” ?… not even half its attainable size. Must have been their “consistent care” plan and not reality ??…

That's a male clown loach - they stay much smaller than the 20-30 cm quoted size, which applies to females.
In that same tank is a 29 cm female. Look in redshark1's signature.

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

Yet the people keeping fish in boxes have a problem with other people doing the same thing. Can’t make this stuff up ?

The problem lies with those other people not having big enough tanks.

 

[jjohnwm]

Stock seems more than fine to me for many yrs with the autodrips and wide footprint… people need to realise these fish take a long time to reach 18” even let alone 2’…no bichir will ever outgrow that space…the afro will grow extremly slow and i have 8 yr old ck’s that are a mere 16”… knix the silver aro, maybe try a black instead it will stay smaller/grow slower.

Maybe, but...but...but...Seriously Fish says...

 

[aroijuana]

aaaaaaand.... here we go with more clown loach & pictus cat references on an arowana topic.

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

The point is that that tank is not big enough for all the proposed fish at full grown sizes, regardless of how long it may be good before they outgrow it. I don't see how clown loaches and pictus catfish affect that point?