Thoughts on my stock list

[PJ1]

So I have 300 gallon and right now it’s got my
8” stingray
7” Arowana
I plan on adding 1 fire eel and 8 clown loaches

Anyone see any issues with this stock or perhaps something that would compliment better. I figure the loaches would be nice to clean up after the ray or any of the aro pellets that he misses and eventually sink.

 

[PJ1]

Also tank is sumped and is turning over about 2500 gallon/hr with a 30” return spray bar

 

[kno4te]

Stock sounds fine. Make sure sizes are appropriate but otherwise good.

 

[PJ1]

yea that’s what I’m dealing with now as far as loach size. Contacted a couple online places and my LFS said they might be able to get 4-5” ones

 

[kno4te]

The only thing to add is make sure ur tank has proper filtration since you have fish that’s grow fast and produce a lot of waste.

 

[PJ1]

kno4te so my sump is setup with the two overflows draining into two 7” filter socks. Then I have a prefilter for biomedia which I switch between plain, carbon, etc as needed. Then I have 2 8” cubes and 6 qts of MarinePure spheres for biomedia. Which according to them Is super overkill. Then it has a filter for the return pump just Incase. Then return line is all 1” hard plumbing and is rated at ~2500 GPH for the 4 ft of headspace

 

[Gourami Swami]

Filtration and stock both look fine to me. Full grown silver might be tight in a 300 depending on the dimensions. But certainly much better than most tanks they end up in. I think you will be good.

 

[justarn]

Agreed. Is it a silver tho... Some rays get huge too, what species? The compatability and filtration sound good.

 

[PJ1]

Yes it’s a silver and a motoro

 

[justarn]

Montoro can get 3ft disc size, silvers can get 3ft+ and huge too. I'm sure your aware and have a bigger tank in the planning tho?