I'm new, been keeping fish all my life, finally keeping monsters

[matthewr262]

Those pacu are enormous !

Always love a giant monster enclosure

Good job

Yeah, Wanda is about 30" 40lbs. Eats a lot

 

[matthewr262]

The rock wall/filter cover is coming along. Few more cans of great stuff and i'll begin covering it with non-sanded grout.

 

[krichardson]

I can't wait to see this completed.

 

[Chub_by]

Me neither.. also good to see one of the rare times someone gets a new RTC and the Setup is already there.

 

[matthewr262]

Me neither.. also good to see one of the rare times someone gets a new RTC and the Setup is already there.

The pool came after actually. I have always had the intention of having arowanas but would never get a fish without the ability to keep it long term. When I seen the rtc at petco for adoption it was all the motivation to put up a pool.
The pool is temporary because so is my house, the wife and I are going to upgrade soon and that means a more permanent upgradrd house for the monsters. That also means I get to have my fish-room back. I used to have a 500sq ft room wall to wall with tanks.

 

[matthewr262]

My new baby arowana. I have him in the 92g discus tank now. Then he'll go down to the 125g uaru tank until I feel he's safe from the rtc to enter the pool. Then i'm gonna make the pool look like a ufc octagon. Zip tie pvc to the legs of the pool and wrap it with netting.

 

[Chub_by]

The pool came after actually. I have always had the intention of having arowanas but would never get a fish without the ability to keep it long term. When I seen the rtc at petco for adoption it was all the motivation to put up a pool.
The pool is temporary because so is my house, the wife and I are going to upgrade soon and that means a more permanent upgradrd house for the monsters. That also means I get to have my fish-room back. I used to have a 500sq ft room wall to wall with tanks.

Sounds awesome in any case! Gonna be a tough move though with those massive pacu

 

[matthewr262]

Update. Finally got my filter cover painted and the water fall going. Now I want to detail it out with textures, fake moss and orchids.

 

[Adamrhh]

sweet

 

[matthewr262]

So I adopted another rtc last week, bigger than the one I had. Good thing I found a new home for the largest pacu. The amount of food these fish consume is unreal.