New Shark Pool

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Zebra, thank you, i appreciate it.

For everyone, on a scale from 1-10, 10 being way too ghetto, 1 being beautifully not ghetto at all.

How ghetto is my net/cover?
Should i ditch it? i like it for its functionality. Someone weigh in please.
 
I wouldn't buy anything buy dry goods from Live Aquaria... especially not sharks.
Leopards will get too big for this set up as well.

As for the captive breeding part with leopards, I do know of a few who have, but nobody who is selling legal pups at this point.

There are several good shark people to buy from if you can't find what you are looking for locally. I usually try to see the sharks in person prior to buying. See their health/condition. Last thing you want is an unhealthy shark that you have to dump an additional $1000 into just to get it healthy.


Haha, the top is fairly ghetto, but it works. I'd leave it until you find something better.
 
whats wrong with liveaquaria if you dont mind elaborating? Never heard anything bad about them before. But then again, i never really looked.
 
Even though the male leopard would out grow the set up, lets say at 5" of growth a year, a 12" leopard could stay in the set up for what, 5-6 years? And at that point, theres a huge market for adult leopards. Through my work, theres customers with 6,000 10,000 16,000 gallon tanks that have been waiting years literally for a leopard. It would sell in a heartbeat.
But enough daydreaming, its almost impossible.
 
To my knowledge, leopards MUST be 36"+ to be sold.

And I too want to know why to avoid Live Aquaria - that's the first negative comment I've heard about them.
 
hey, i should have asked this sooner, but better late then never. How often and how much should i change the water? For the first month or two without a protein skimmer i will do it as necessary, but after that ?
 
Are you still planning on running w/o a protein skimmer? Or buying/making one?
 
im most likely going to buy AquaC EV-1000 Protein Skimmer .
Or anything comparable price wise. It has to be an inline skimmer not an in-sump skimmer. There is no sump, so i have to be able to add it into the loop. But i definitely need one. I was just trying to be cheap hahah. But it is a necessity. On all of my tanks i use aggressive skimming. So i was just hoping that someone would say what i wanted to hear, that i wouldnt have to spend another thousand bucks haha.
 
Live Aquaria has a lot of wrong tank size and animal size info on their site if you poke around enough.
Also, I've not seen good live stock come from them. Just my experience with them, but most animals have come in with some type of infection or other issue. Because sharks are such a step up from the typical fish, I'd be worried about the condition of the animals being sold.


Water changes can be done 'as needed'. Base it on ammonia and nitrite. Nitrate doesn't matter as much in this type of set up. Run weekly tests on it once it's all cycled and running just to keep an eye on the process.
 
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