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bluekrissyspikes

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hey all...i have recently moved my lung from his 50g into and 80g..but it is time to start upgrading again (ok so i want the 80g for my loaches)....i am going to need to save up for a long time(a year or so), so i'm trying to figure out exactly what size tank i should be planning for (and possibly building) my boyfriend just brought home a 3" small koi to add to the tank(lung is too lazy to hunt, likes his food to fall on his head...lol) so there's gonna need to be enough room for him and probably a freind for him....do you guys think that a 150g long style tank would be sufficient? or should i go bigger? ideally i'd like the tank to be like 10'x3'x3' or so, but that is really big....i'm not sure how many g that would be....but i'm pretty sure that would upset hubby....open to suggestions and opinions...
 
Don't worry about the Koi - he will get eaten before long, most likely. Afraid to say.
 
he is Protopterus Annectens...he is just closing in on about 18"....last i measured him was about a month and a half ago and he was 16.5", but he is growing fast...lol...when i got him he was 8" and lps said he will grow slow and take years to reach 2'...lol...they are silly.....anyways he can eat the koi if he really wants to , but we feed him twice a day, and he eats the koi's pellets too...so far he doesn't much like hunting, but the koi will eventually just be in the tank during winter and get a pond for summer..so bigger than 180g?
 
bluekrissyspikes;1037936; said:
he is Protopterus Annectens...he is just closing in on about 18"....last i measured him was about a month and a half ago and he was 16.5", but he is growing fast...lol...when i got him he was 8" and lps said he will grow slow and take years to reach 2'...lol...they are silly.....anyways he can eat the koi if he really wants to , but we feed him twice a day, and he eats the koi's pellets too...so far he doesn't much like hunting, but the koi will eventually just be in the tank during winter and get a pond for summer..so bigger than 180g?
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I know this sounds harsh, but don't ever buy a tank in correlation with a fish's growth speed, because a fish will eventually reach adulthood. So if it's 2 feet...I think actually 250g will be recquired, not sure. The width should be atleast twice as long as the lungfish.
If the koi don't get eaten, and they start getting big, they are going to eat everything and starve your lungfish.
 
My 2 foot annectens is happy as a clam in his 100g Rubbermaid stock tank. I can't imagine him ever needing anything larger...

The idea that a 4 foot WIDE tank is needed is ludicrous.

More than likely the lung will rip the belly out or otherwise maul the koi.
 
Nabbig2;1038060; said:
I know this sounds harsh, but don't ever buy a tank in correlation with a fish's growth speed, because a fish will eventually reach adulthood. So if it's 2 feet...I think actually 250g will be recquired, not sure. The width should be atleast twice as long as the lungfish.
If the koi don't get eaten, and they start getting big, they are going to eat everything and starve your lungfish.
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lungfish don't necessarily need a tank 2x as wide as their total length, since they are quite flexible, as long as the width is comparable to their actual length (and often times you can get away with a couple inches less if absolutely necessary) the lungfish will be fine.

a 24" annectens doesn't need a 3' wide tank. an 18" annectens would be fine in a standard 180g (assuming by itself, which it would be once it took out the koi) for several years--
--solomon
 
dogofwar, thank you so much...you have just saved me thousands of dollars...i think that was by far the best advice i've gotten from anyone in the hobby(besides don't feed your lungfish hotdogs...lol...oops, beginner)...i am ordering not one but two of these tanks right now, i am getting 225g ones though...they are less than $150 each so the koi and monster can each have their own indoor ponds... i can't beleive i had never heard of these before... and they come highly rated by fellow aquariasts all over the web...thanks to everyone else as well....
 
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