Indoor Stingray Lagoon for Restaurant
- Thread starter Nigel3589
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I like the idea of fresh water rays better also. While I've never kept fresh water rays myself I've kept saltwater rays, blue spot and Cortez. Not easy to keep for sure and at the time I had kept, bred, propagated quite a lot of salt water stuff. You'd be able to build a small "room" at one end of the pond to house the filtration with a waterfall to return to the pond. You could grow quite a few plants in the waterfall area that would look tropical and help remove ammonia and nitrates. Think monstera, small palms, pothos, and some ferns. The "room" could be covered in the fake rock. With salt water your filtration would be harder.
I'm not really interested in freshwater rays. The restaurant will have an ocean theme, so freshwater animals wouldn't really fit, even if we surround the thing with tropical plants.
For filtration, I'm considering a small pool filter canister with a pleated filter cartridge. Then a commercial grade bio filter and protein skimmer. I've been looking at the RK10-FS system from RK2 and I think it would work. The nice thing is, the space we're looking at has a basement beneath the main floor. So we could potentially put the filter room in the basement and run plumbing through the floor. It's a concrete, steel-reinforced floor, so I'm not worried about weight.
Unfortunately the project has been put on hold for a few months until loan interest rates come down and the economy looks a little more stable. So I may not have updates for quite awhile. I appreciate everyone's input so far though. I'll follow up in a few months (hopefully) and give updates as I go.
For filtration, I'm considering a small pool filter canister with a pleated filter cartridge. Then a commercial grade bio filter and protein skimmer. I've been looking at the RK10-FS system from RK2 and I think it would work. The nice thing is, the space we're looking at has a basement beneath the main floor. So we could potentially put the filter room in the basement and run plumbing through the floor. It's a concrete, steel-reinforced floor, so I'm not worried about weight.
Unfortunately the project has been put on hold for a few months until loan interest rates come down and the economy looks a little more stable. So I may not have updates for quite awhile. I appreciate everyone's input so far though. I'll follow up in a few months (hopefully) and give updates as I go.
