Looking to build a tank to hold local catch. Such as walleye crappies bass northern pike maybe a catfish. They won't all live together this is more of an observation tank. I also will want some kind of floating shelf so I can house some local turtles such as leather back, painted, and snapping turtle. I also plan on some small mud puppy that will call it home. How big should I build this tank and also what should I use for filtration and oxygen I'm new to large tanks and don't know terms or how to set stuff up. I would also like to keep this as low priced as possible. Thanks for any help or ideas offered.
FRESH WATER TANK HELP!
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For a few crapie, 1 pike, and a few walleys, 1 largemouth bass, 1 catfish that dosn't exeed 2 feet and a few turtles that you like you are looking at a minumum 8x3x2 with lots of filtration... Glass cages has some nice sized tanks, glasscages happens to have a 8x3x2, it is 370 gallons... For filtration I would do 3-5 fx5 canister filters... I would not do a lether back turtle beacause when i reaserched them it said they were very large sea turtles... This is a tank size recomendation based on reasearch and the fishes avrage size... Good luc and welcome to MFK...
Thank you for your help and the leatherback that I am speaking of is not the sea turtle type. I have heard of it called leatherback soft shell and long neck. I can find them below a dam in my home town in fresh water. Also is a tank of that size needed even for an observation tank? I will mainly be hand catching with nets and small containers little bass and northerns ect. which will never exceed 6-8 inches. And after a few months of observing and recording growth, eating, color pattern changes and habits I will be releasing these fish. Also I will not have all of them in the tank at the same time.
There is a product called turtle dock
I think it's made by exoterra, suckers on to side of tank and floats on waterline. Quite cheap I think and that's what we have for our turtle
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I think it's made by exoterra, suckers on to side of tank and floats on waterline. Quite cheap I think and that's what we have for our turtle
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Just keep in mind turtles eat fish lol
Ours has been raised with fish since 1" and will still eat anything he can catch
Plecs are the only thing he won't bite chunks out of
A shoal of danios last a while but the fish your describing will probably end up turtle food sooner or later
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Ours has been raised with fish since 1" and will still eat anything he can catch
Plecs are the only thing he won't bite chunks out of
A shoal of danios last a while but the fish your describing will probably end up turtle food sooner or later
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May want to check legality of keeping natives, I know here its HUGE fines n more trouble. Careful.
Releasing these fish and turtles back into a native waterway after they've been captive is a not a good idea. Don't do it.
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+1 a big gutted Walleye would make a huge mess.
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