Indoor Pond with Saltwater rays

[cownoseray]

Hello All,


Please share your experiences with saltwater fish in indoor pond ::

Filtration , your fish stock , cleaning etc.

Looking forward to get educated on this.

God Bless out pets .

Thanks

 

[Redtailedcat]

well for me it was an epic fail long story short sting ray and liner dont mix

 

[Muske]

A couple of LFS have SW ponds. Some are concrete block construction with epoxy liners, other EPDM. Filtration is unknown because it is out of sight, which makes it that much more nice, IMO.

One is a look down reef probably 10-12' x 4', MH pendants, full of various livestock including a breeding colony of Banjji Cardinals and monster leathers.

The other is a Nurse shark, figure 8 style pond. Filtration that is visible on that one, a huge upper/gravity return sump with mangroves and a ton of LR. Both have been running for years and seem to be healthy systems, but I have never really asked and tech. questions about them.

Another LFS has wood framed ponds with EPDM liners. Again, hidden filtration and equipment. One pond has smaller black tip sharks and a few small tarpon in about a 12x15x2.5' pond. The other pond is a small bat and Atlantic ray pond, very cool since in is pretty shallow and the rays are very curious. Filtration looks to be a sump of sorts with a very large return in the form of a waterfall about 16" wide and a foot drop from a large resivor placed in a corner of above tank.

 

[cownoseray]

Thanks for the reply folks.

are the LFS mentioned in Chicago area where I can visit them ??

Curious ..?

 

[Paul G]

I have some videos on youtube of the saltwater ray tank at london zoo, not the best help but you can get an idea of the sort of depth that works, flow rate etc.

Will upload them when I'm home from work.

 

[Johnnybravo60025]

A couple of LFS have SW ponds. Some are concrete block construction with epoxy liners, other EPDM. Filtration is unknown because it is out of sight, which makes it that much more nice, IMO.

One is a look down reef probably 10-12' x 4', MH pendants, full of various livestock including a breeding colony of Banjji Cardinals and monster leathers.

The other is a Nurse shark, figure 8 style pond. Filtration that is visible on that one, a huge upper/gravity return sump with mangroves and a ton of LR. Both have been running for years and seem to be healthy systems, but I have never really asked and tech. questions about them.

Another LFS has wood framed ponds with EPDM liners. Again, hidden filtration and equipment. One pond has smaller black tip sharks and a few small tarpon in about a 12x15x2.5' pond. The other pond is a small bat and Atlantic ray pond, very cool since in is pretty shallow and the rays are very curious. Filtration looks to be a sump of sorts with a very large return in the form of a waterfall about 16" wide and a foot drop from a large resivor placed in a corner of above tank.

What stores have those?

Old Orchard Aquarium by me (They're in Skokie, IL) has a SW pond with a Nurse Shark and some dither fish in it. They used to have a smoothound shark, but they sold it. The filtration from what I can see is just a tank above it that houses a grouper they can't get rid of. They also have a smaller pond that has large corals in it and then just regularly stocked fish, nothing exciting.

Living Sea Aquarium in Park Ridge, IL has two SW ponds. One used to have a huge puffer in it, but I don't know what happened to it. Then they had a Tarpon alone in the pond, but now there's a Bumblebee Grouper in there with it. The other pond has SW rays and Horseshoe crabs in it.