Stocking a 330+ gallon (pictures)

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Jack Dempsey
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Aug 19, 2013
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Hello everyone,

I´m taking delivery on a 100"x30"x26" tall glass aquarium on friday. This will be my growout tank for my 11,000 gallon pond.
My question was, how much stock can i have and which of these could live forever or at least most of its life in the tank since i get to apreciate the fish better in the tank. I already have an albino bichir, an albino nemerus catfish and a couple Snowflake moray eel (supposed to be freshwater but found out a couple weeks ago that they are brackish, still deciding what im going to do with them) in a 55 gallon. Some of the fish I would like to get are Platinum gar, black arowana, albino/leucistic arowana, motoro and leopoldi stingrays, peackock bass, oscars, knife fish, maybe a GATF? (ive heard some people saying its going to kill everything on you aquarium yet ive seen lots of videos of setups with ATF) achara, tigrinus, I would love to get some RTCs, TSNs, Hybrids, but mayble later down the road because I had one RTC (passed away after a hurricane hit Cancun a few years ago) in the pond that ended up eating half of its pond mates. Also Im open to sugestions since this is my first "monster" tank.
Pond stock is 1 clown knife fish, 2 albino pacus, 1 silver arowana, 1 albino nemurus catfish, 1 achara (havent seen him in a while but the pond has some shelter so Im thinking he only comes out at night, hopefully), 1 tropical gar, 1 dwarf caiman, 1 florida softshell turtle and about 8 red ear sliders.
Please see pictures attached, sorry for the bad quality, its not easy to see the fish in the pond. Hence the aquarium.

Here's the pond:

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Here are the Pacus

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Here's the nemurus catfish and somefish a friend gave me, dont know what they are
nemerus.jpg

Here's the silver arowana

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Not a fish but here's the dwarf caiman

dwarf caiman.jpeg
 
Forgot to add that I will be using black quartz sand (sold to me as that) has anyone had experience with it? Here's a picture, don't mind my dirty had lol

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Awesome pond!!!!
The new tank sounds awesome too, bigger than I have ever had.
I can’t offer advise but good luck and keep sharing!
 
Awesome pond!
How do you keep it warm
Guessing your closer to equator than me
 
Awesome pond!!!!
The new tank sounds awesome too, bigger than I have ever had.
I can’t offer advise but good luck and keep sharing!

Thank you! Will start a thread once I have it ready and cycled.

Awesome pond!
How do you keep it warm
Guessing your closer to equator than me

Thanks!!
Yes, I'm located in Cancun, Mexico. We have pretty hot winters here. 🥵
 
If I lived in a warmer climate I'd totally set up something like this, but unfortunately it gets onto the high 40s during my winters (southern California)
I think adding some giant groumi or a school of bass would be a nice addition
 
If I lived in a warmer climate I'd totally set up something like this, but unfortunately it gets onto the high 40s during my winters (southern California)
I think adding some giant groumi or a school of bass would be a nice addition

That´s very cold and heating a pond would be very expensive, that's a shame.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing about a school of bass. There's a guy in a nearby city that is selling baby monoculus, I´ll probably get 4-5 and grow them.
 
I knew a guy locally who built a 5k gallon pond and ran a jazzuzzi heater on it yo warm it, his set up of live stock was similar. But I can only imagine the gas/electric bill that comes with it
 
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