What is your realistic (as in it's physically possible to build without being a millionaire) dream tank? Mine would be a pond sort of like TLkmDN's, with similar stock but in a bit smaller pond. It would probably be an oblong shape, around 23,500 gallons - 50 foot long, 25 feet at the widest and 15 feet at the thinnest. 42 inches deep probably, maybe 48 at some spots to bring it to 24 or 25 thousand gallons.
Stock - For a few brutes, there would be at the very least one arapaima and one alligator gar. Could a pond this size even contain one of each of these plus others? By others, I mostly mean catfish - maybe seven (it's a lucky number) - RTC, TSN, hybrids, paroon shark, and niger cats would compose that. A few aros would be in there, especially a big jardini. Probably a black and 2 big silvers too, since aros seem to grow much larger in ponds than glass tanks. So we're up to 11 fish between an arapaima, a gator gar, some cats, and a few aros. 3 pacus would add to that list bringing it to 14 fish. Maybe a breeding pair of clown knives but that might be hard to accomplish - correct me if I'm wrong; either way, why not add 2 clown knives, they're awesome fish. 2 FRTs would be the final "fish"
Would something like that even work? Is that pond generously large? And what are your dream tanks?
Let's make a thread to help people get their dream tanks planned out and ready to be built!
Stock - For a few brutes, there would be at the very least one arapaima and one alligator gar. Could a pond this size even contain one of each of these plus others? By others, I mostly mean catfish - maybe seven (it's a lucky number) - RTC, TSN, hybrids, paroon shark, and niger cats would compose that. A few aros would be in there, especially a big jardini. Probably a black and 2 big silvers too, since aros seem to grow much larger in ponds than glass tanks. So we're up to 11 fish between an arapaima, a gator gar, some cats, and a few aros. 3 pacus would add to that list bringing it to 14 fish. Maybe a breeding pair of clown knives but that might be hard to accomplish - correct me if I'm wrong; either way, why not add 2 clown knives, they're awesome fish. 2 FRTs would be the final "fish"
Would something like that even work? Is that pond generously large? And what are your dream tanks?
Let's make a thread to help people get their dream tanks planned out and ready to be built!
I figure that's realistic with a larger house and decent income. I'm on a low income atm and have a 5' tank so with a decent income I should be able to 'double it' as such. 
