That's a good point - although I think you could still go larger than a 400 gallon without having the maintenance of a 5,000 gallon. As far as cost, a new 400 gallon glass or acrylic would cost more than a 600 gallon plywood, I'm sure of it.
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Dream displays?
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No love for South American/Amazonian fish? I see how it is Mr. Hendre.... hehe just kidding, the African brown knife tank sounds SWWEEETTT.Dream display?
Hmm. First choice is definitely an African river tank! 4ft with lots of rocks, some wood and a lot of vallis uth good flow, stocking African glass catfish and small labeo catfish
Next would be something like a 6 x 2 x 2 tank, lots of wood, floating plants, anubias, crinums, and a bunch of African brown knives! Something like ctenopoma and African longfin tetras for tankmates.
This would be a shady tank with lots of interesting inhabitants
Lastly is a nice aquascape which is currently in progress
As for me, I would do a 2,000 gallon aquarium.
1,000 gallon Amazon Rainforest tank:
1 Silver Arowana
3-5 Motoro Stingrays
12 redhook silver dollars and 12 black bar silver dollars
a red belly pacu
Wild caught Angelfish
Chocolate cichlid
Uaru
Severum
Festivum
Geophagus
Santaperca
Flagtail Prochilodus
Leoporinus
Panaque (L190,L191, L300, L27)
L114, L600, L200 X 10, L128 X 6, Gibby plecos
Niger catfish
TSN and Lima shovelnose
1,000 gallon saltwater tank:
3 dogface puffer
1 stars and stripes puffer
1 French Guinea Puffer
1 niger trigger
1 humu piccaso trigger
panther grouper
lionfish shoal
rabbitfish (foxfaces, etc)
tangs
moorish idols
butterflyfish
I wish I can turn these into reality.
Totally with you on the paludarium.
I think I would do panther chameleons in the top half, and Malagasy cichlids in the water. Madagascar biotope. S. Pindu would probably be my choice of fish, my LFS has some large specimens in a planted tank and they are pretty damn cool. Maybe a large pollen as well.
I think I would do panther chameleons in the top half, and Malagasy cichlids in the water. Madagascar biotope. S. Pindu would probably be my choice of fish, my LFS has some large specimens in a planted tank and they are pretty damn cool. Maybe a large pollen as well.
AquaAlex,
Your Amazon tank would be amazing.
IMO South America has the best selection of tropical fish.
Your Amazon tank would be amazing.
IMO South America has the best selection of tropical fish.
My absolute dream "display" (that only i would see) is a 400ftx200ftx50ft greenhouse scaped to look like the amazon;
-small rivers/streams with apistos, tetras, hatchets, rays, etc.
-clay cliffs
-giant trees for primates, parrots, sloths
-a bunch of caimans
-and of course a **** ton of reptiles and amphibians.
Slightly more realistic display is a 40x10x8' tank/pond setup to look like lake Tanganyika with with a sloping bottom, boulders on one side, then a large patch of shells and the rest sand.
The dream display I could possibly afford is an 8x4x2' tank with a thick layer of dead leaves, bunch of branches, a pair of apistogramma and a small group of tetras up top.
-small rivers/streams with apistos, tetras, hatchets, rays, etc.
-clay cliffs
-giant trees for primates, parrots, sloths
-a bunch of caimans
-and of course a **** ton of reptiles and amphibians.
Slightly more realistic display is a 40x10x8' tank/pond setup to look like lake Tanganyika with with a sloping bottom, boulders on one side, then a large patch of shells and the rest sand.
The dream display I could possibly afford is an 8x4x2' tank with a thick layer of dead leaves, bunch of branches, a pair of apistogramma and a small group of tetras up top.
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My dream is a basement where I could build and demolish tanks as I felt like it. I love those wood and fiberglass tanks I see in public aquariums, and would want some, even if I could only keep daphnia and mosquito larvae in them.
I would love to build a giant aquaponic system and only eat things I grew in it. I would love to be able to have a six foot altum, checkerboard, cardinal tetra and farowella tank. I would love a goldfish or betta collection. A 75+ gallon tank with a Princess of Burundi colony is on the list. I would love to keep Fossochromis Rostratus, Champsochromis Caeruelous, and Red Empress in a properly sized tank with a 1m 4f ratio for each. I am crazy for flatfish - flounders, soles, hogchokers, turbot, halibuts.. Native marine is incredible. Horseshoe crabs, lumpsuckers, anemones, searobins, whelks, starfish...
Anyway, I don't have a real dream tank. My current absolute best would be a 4Hx2Wx12L Tanganiyaka, sand in the middle, rock piles on the ends and plants scattered all over. Stocking would be featherfins 4m 12f, Enantiopus Kilesa 'flasher' 4m 12f, Cyprochromis leptisoma 'jumbo blue flash' 20m, 130f, and Neolamprologus leleupi 8m, 15f, or something like that.
I would love to build a giant aquaponic system and only eat things I grew in it. I would love to be able to have a six foot altum, checkerboard, cardinal tetra and farowella tank. I would love a goldfish or betta collection. A 75+ gallon tank with a Princess of Burundi colony is on the list. I would love to keep Fossochromis Rostratus, Champsochromis Caeruelous, and Red Empress in a properly sized tank with a 1m 4f ratio for each. I am crazy for flatfish - flounders, soles, hogchokers, turbot, halibuts.. Native marine is incredible. Horseshoe crabs, lumpsuckers, anemones, searobins, whelks, starfish...
Anyway, I don't have a real dream tank. My current absolute best would be a 4Hx2Wx12L Tanganiyaka, sand in the middle, rock piles on the ends and plants scattered all over. Stocking would be featherfins 4m 12f, Enantiopus Kilesa 'flasher' 4m 12f, Cyprochromis leptisoma 'jumbo blue flash' 20m, 130f, and Neolamprologus leleupi 8m, 15f, or something like that.
You know they are scale eaters, and can destroy your other (rather slow and delicate) stock? Still, a dream's a dream
Mine would be a 16x16x4 so I could build it all myself(more pride in it that way)glass sides and concrete base with infloor heating/cooling.
Stingrays dats and arowanas
Stingrays dats and arowanas
