coral cat info required?
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I am having a custom pentagon corner tank being built with inside dimensions 4'X4'X32" tall. I plan on having housing one coral catshark, 2 tangs, and maybe a clownfish depending on the sharks disposition. The tank works out to be 220 gallons and acording to the shark and ray book that everyone is talking about the tank is double the minimum tank requirement for the shark. I would like to get more opinions about my tank inhabitants.
heya matt,
i've been tweaking my coral cat pond plans around lately, [6' by 4' by 4'] to maybe 9' by 4'/5' by 3', i'd like to keep a [hopefully] breeding pair/trio/ maybe a foursome?
how many cats dyou think i could have in the 644? [I probably wont fill it all the way to four feet deep, probably three and a half feet.]
4 feet wide versus 5 feet - how big of a difference would it make [apart from increasing system volume]?
just a little extra information:
i plan on plumbing the shark pond to either a 55gal or 120 gal, for more live rock, some macroalgae, coral, etc. skimmer, nothing less than one and a half times my system volume.
i've been tweaking my coral cat pond plans around lately, [6' by 4' by 4'] to maybe 9' by 4'/5' by 3', i'd like to keep a [hopefully] breeding pair/trio/ maybe a foursome?
how many cats dyou think i could have in the 644? [I probably wont fill it all the way to four feet deep, probably three and a half feet.]
4 feet wide versus 5 feet - how big of a difference would it make [apart from increasing system volume]?
just a little extra information:
i plan on plumbing the shark pond to either a 55gal or 120 gal, for more live rock, some macroalgae, coral, etc. skimmer, nothing less than one and a half times my system volume.
Well - an 8' long x 4' wide x 2.5' deep = about 600 gallons.
For coral cats - I would say you might be able to keep 3 in a tank of that size.
For coral cats - I would say you might be able to keep 3 in a tank of that size.
amoahkuc;1799553; said:
agreed, the tank is too small
you could have a 1''x1''x5280' (1 mile) tall tank and it'd be about 270 gallons, but it still can't house a shark... now that was a massive hyperbole, but i think it effectively portays that footprint is indeed more impportant that gallonage
I understand the footprint idea and my whole reasoning behind the corner tank is that the maximum length the shark would have to swim works out to be roughly 68" and the minimum length to turn around in is 48". Your suggested tank size was 6'X3' which would give you a max of 72" and a min of 36". I understand that there is about a 5 sqft difference between the two setups, but with what I gave you I don't see why 68" and 48" would be a problem for a 24" fish. This is probablly due to the lack of information out there in books and I am not trying to argue with anyone so please enlighten me.
Actually corner tanks can be worse than regular rectangular tanks. Because with a corner tank you usually have corner that is a 90 degree angle, and 2 corners that are about a 45 degree angle each. Instead of 4 corners that are all 90 degree angles.
Also for a corner tank the area is measured a bit differently depend on the exact shape of the corner tank. Basically either a triangle or 1/4 of a circle.
Also for a corner tank the area is measured a bit differently depend on the exact shape of the corner tank. Basically either a triangle or 1/4 of a circle.
The tank speced out has three 90 degree corners and two 135 degree corners. Its a standards pentagon corner tank. Basically it looks like if you took a square and istead of making it a perfect triangle you cut it past the line of symmetry to where you get a 10" window on both sides followed by the long face of the triangle. Also I have been searching through this site to see what other people are doing and I saw one guy with three brownbanded bamboo sharks in a 150 gallon and another guy with a port jackson shark in a tank that barley looked to measure 6ft. Again I am looking for guidance because I'm beeing told that you can keep one in 110 gallon tank. I still don't know if it is the space that is a problem or the water quaality that would be a problem, but if it is water quality I'm having an overflow boox setup with a 55 gallon sump and either an Orca 250 protien skimmer or some other brand XXX 4000 protien skimmer on it so water quality wont be an issue.
