gold arapima
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Agreed, we do a lot of custom tanks at work. "A few thousand" or "the cost of a used car" quoted previously won't get you an arapaima tank, unless you're planning on building a massive plywood framed shallow pond with some sort of plastic bin non-pressurized filter.
huh not really ,when you consider that a 12 /8/6 can house that beast for the long run, if that is the most that you can afford ,and never mind all the talks about them outgrowing your set up , in the stated dimensions they will max out at 5 to 6 ,again get my point the bigger the better , but if that is all you have and you are really craving arapaima it will work, w/no more than a single fish in the tank and mega filtration , 20,000 u s d the cost of building the tank, not including the other stuffs that make it habitable, its only cement metal and a piece of glass c/mon . ive seen them thriving in similar footprint and looking way better than than some in public aquaruim display ,again size of housing matters greatly ,but with common sense and knowledge you can own the beast, also shop around, what you pay to mr slickster to do your job can be halved for a decent good workman
huh not really ,when you consider that a 12 /8/6 can house that beast for the long run, if that is the most that you can afford ,and never mind all the talks about them outgrowing your set up , in the stated dimensions they will max out at 5 to 6 ,again get my point the bigger the better , but if that is all you have and you are really craving arapaima it will work, w/no more than a single fish in the tank and mega filtration , 20,000 u s d the cost of building the tank, not including the other stuffs that make it habitable, its only cement metal and a piece of glass c/mon . ive seen them thriving in similar footprint and looking way better than than some in public aquaruim display ,again size of housing matters greatly ,but with common sense and knowledge you can own the beast, also shop around, what you pay to mr slickster to do your job can be halved for a decent good workman
You just jumped from "a few thousand" for the complete set-up to 20 thousand for just the tank. You could easily spend another 5 grand on the filtration alone. Our largest size pond bead filters, rated for 150 kilos of fish, costs a couple thousand alone.
for the footprint that ive quoted a 6000gph puimp will do just fine, at a cost of 5 to 600$, bio balls are dirt cheap, the whole thing can be hooked on two rubbermaids 200g ,,no where near that blasted 150Gs mentioned earlier,again u have a choice play mr big shot,or get it done the most sensible way without compromising the fish welfare. often it is not what you pay,
but rather what its worth. By the way when you are talking 150thou, 20 thou, do look like just a few.
