Starting prehistoric tank

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asiewm01

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I am trying to gather all resources available to research and build my own custom make 12 ft x 4 ft x 4 ft tank or 10 ft x 4 ft x 6 ft tank. I want to add plants and primitive fish such as

Arowana (prefer jardini, hope I get a docile and if it too aggressive, hopefully switch to silver arowana),
spotted gar (hopefully, a albino gar),
freshwater atlantic stingray or hysterix ray (ya, live in florida at the moment, so that is the only choice I have, hopefully I can move over to washington area),
Endicheri bichir,
maybe Australian Lungfish (I am getting micro-chipped lungfish from Australia, if the lungfish is capable of growing to the size of more than 3 ft, then I will drop the idea of getting a lungfish)
or Datnoid and Prochilodus if I am not getting a lungfish
 
drop the jardini, and drop the stingray.
the fact that you hope that your jardini is docile, its better to just give an silver a shot. personally i think stingray should be kept alone or maybe with fish like arowana, stingray are very active large bottom dwellers that can turn agressive or (accidentily) sting your other fish. i think its bad for your other bottom dwelling fish if you mix in a couple of stingray.

lungfish fits easily in that tank, they can grow very large but that takes a while and youre dimensions can house them perfectly.
personally i think you just get rid of the height, change it to 2,5 foot and give it more in width, that can only be positive for your fish.

datnoids are great tankmates, maybe you can add clown knife fish, rope fish or a catfish? your call.
 
albino gars are near impossible to get! lol
 
well i got a hystrix mixed in with several large endlis and a jardini in a 120....one big happy family!

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Jardini are arestricted species in FLA. Your only choice for arowana is silver, unless you move.
 
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