Building My 50,000 Gallon Monster Mega Tank

[Fishman87]

And I thought my 90 gal. was pretty big. Nice job

 

[discus-dude]

OMG YOU ARE SO AWESOME !!!!!! I AM AMAZED !!!!!!!!

 

[arapaimag]

Well, to answer your first question... Any I can get my hands on! LOL I like to think of them in two groups... Hot water fish and cool water fish...

To answer your second question along with the first, the 1200 gallon tank is still running and has "hot water" SA cichlids in it;

Breeding oscars
9- Psittacum
7-amazonorum
spactabalis
breeding rotkiel severums
Trio of turquoise severums
4-Aquidens diadema
and soon to have;
6-Wild uaru
6-green terrors
12 geophagus altifrons
5-"red shoulder" severums (adults with atleast one pair)

The main focus of the tank will be the psittacum... That's the goal atleast...

As for the cold water species... They will be in the fish room! No heaters! Yay! Can't wait! I'm shooting for a lot of the gymnygeophagus species that are all the rage lately it seems... Just built two 180's for the fish room and will have many many other tanks available...

Here's a little video:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheeFishGuy?feature=mhum#p/u/5/f7BGNilVrbo

Nice collection and I liked your video..thanks.

Like the turtle..does he bother the fish?

Those baby oscars you bred look great.

The parrot cichlid is one of my favourites.

Jonathan best wishes and hope to see you again.

 

[TheFishGuy]

Elvis is the turtles name, we had two and kept the one that seemed to care less about the fish. The only one he bothers is the male oscar... And the male gives it right back to him! LOL

Thanks. You need to make back here to the Extravaganza... And wee need to make it up there one of these days!

 

[arapaimag]

What species is the turtle?

 

[arapaimag]

arapaimag,

What kind of fish is this? Thanks.

Sorry outside of an Auloncara (peacock) I really am unable to tell you. I have about 20 species in all. They also hybridize at random producing even more colour variations.

If any of you Malawi lovers can identify it for Nightstorm I would be grateful.

Most my african cichlid buddies can identify any fish and if they can not, they always tell me its a hybrid.

 

[arapaimag]

Here are few more of Rusty pictures in the big tank of the Wallago leerii. These guys have eaten fish as large as 33" long.

 

[TheFishGuy]

Pretty certain it's an apalonespinifera

 

[TheFishGuy]

apalone spinifera

 

[quovadis]

What species is the turtle?

HUH ''' The amazing thing about you is clearly not the fact that you have by far the most awesome setting, and a collection second to none ,but the way that you take time to answer every single question from the readers /even those that me as a,, so so,, fish keeper find to be senseless///What a great teacher you are, somehow you have made me see the world with a different set of eyes //Profound Respect // JHS