My Humble Collection and System

[tanglovers]

Well a few of you guys have been on me to post pics of rays I have bought from you guys so here goes.

The main display tank is a 520 gallon tank (96" x 42" x 30" - L x W x H), it has an external side overflow, has 40lbs of ceramic rings in one of the sumps and 2 bioreactors (about 8-10 gallons each - due to space restrictions had to do 2 instead of 1 larger). The tank is kept around 80 degrees and has an 80-90 gpd drip. It also has two 40w UV sterilizers.

I still have to finish the framing off / enclosing of the front of the tank. Will be doing that the next couple weeks.

Fish currently (as of today...as I made a couple additions out of QT and the male is back in there...):
1.2 Proven Marbled Motoros (JimR's old female, John C's old female, Brad/Todd/Alan's old male) 13-17"
0.1 Proven Marble x Motoro (casey's old female) 18"
0.1 Castexi - still has some growing to do before mature (WC) 12"

Pair of Uarus (10"), 9 silver dollars (5-8"), 1 black arowana (20"), 15 clown loaches (7-9"), 1 S. daemon cichlid (6"), 1 peacock bass (10") and a fly river turtle (10").

Onto the pics:

 

[tanglovers]

Here are some more shots from behind the tank - it is built into the closet of one of our bedrooms and viewable in another room, the room by the pool tank and bar. There are two sump sitting infront of each other, each measuring 72" x 18" x 18". The back one (not viewable in the pics) has a 50' roll of PEX and is hooked to our water heater with a recirculation pump to heat the tank. There is also 40lbs of ceramic rings in this tank in bags. The front sump is for pup growout / holding and has a baffle and the return pumps.

CB Male - unrelated to all of mine....about 6" curious to see what he turns out like, has a lot of spots!

CB Female - John C pup...about 9" and quite the looker! Always on the move, swimming in this pic...

 

[HULON]

Very nice Collection and set up!!!!

 

[tanglovers]

I am impatient and after reading and talking to a lot of marble fanatics I decided if I was going to buy adults I wanted them to show marble patterns at a large adult size so the search started. I was fortunte enough to get the ones I did. Most of this is due to Alan (db junkie) agreeing to sell me one of his very prized females and the male we all know so much about.

He is in the process of chasing around all three proven females in the tank right now....he just got put back in there last night. All he wants to do is breed

 

[flamenco-t]

I like the setup...

 

[KNH]

Very nice rays and set up. I have a male myself from the marble above when it was at Todd's. I also have a female pup from John C so our collections are a bit intertwined. Have they picked off any of those silver dollars yet?

 

[tanglovers]

They have not yet but I would not be surprised if they do grab them. They have only been in the tank for a little over a week.

 

[valderi123]

looking good!

 

[Joshmac8]

Beautiful collection and system!

 

[scott s]

Nice.