New 300 gallon tank.

[mattstevens1]

Going to be picking up a 300 gallon tank and stand with lighting fixtures within the next few weeks and had a few questions..
As you can tell I am pretty new to the forums and I have only kept a few arowanas and gars in a smaller tank.
So I have a bunch of questions that hopefully can get answered

My first question is... My LFS has a nice Gator gar, silver arowanas and one really nice Australian Jardini. I'd like to pick up the gator gar and jardini. But I really want a Red-tail catfish and possibly some tiger datnoids/ or some peacock bass. I've seen them do well with eachother but maybe someone has some other opinions i can take into consideration.

Second question, What type of filtration would be ideal for a 300 gallon? dimensions are 6 feet long. 3 feet wide. 2 feet tall. I work at a pet store myself and i was thinking of taking a 125 long making it into a custom sump and maybe sticking a few canisters under there as well

Third question.... Lighting fixture. what would be ideal for this set up. No live plants basically just fish only.

Last and final question. Substrate.. I would like use sand but I don't know if this would be ideal for the tank. I have a few really nice Driftwood peices that would go great so i'm not sure what to put in it.

thank you!

 

[rwellbaum]

Nice
ok your tank is too small for a rtc and/or a gator gar

filtration, 125 sump and canisters idea would be a good idea you can not have enough filtration

you can go to your local hardware store and pick up a light fixture for $20-$50 nothing special really needed

substrate, defiantly use sand, it looks the best and it is easy to clean, get white pool filter sand from your local pool supply store, or get some black diamond blasting sand from tractor supply store. i have sand in all of my tanks, i did a mixture of the sand around 25% black diamond & 75% WPFS.

 

[oscaroo]

Red tailed catfish get a little to big. For the sump I would do a 48x24x24 beacause it would be hard to fit a 72 or 60 inch aquarium under a 72x36x24.

 

[rwellbaum]

oh and welcome to MFK

 

[ecoli73]

6feet by 3 feet wide by 2 feet tall is not 300 gallons...it is 270 gallons.

Dats and Jars should be okay(although I think Jars would insist to be alone)...

Silvers are more suited for mixing...

Tank is too small for a red tail cat.