Hi everybody, I'm new, so please excuse any faux pas I make in this first post, and PM me if I do so I can't make the same mistake again!
So I've always liked going to Seaworld and public aquariums. I especially liked the touch pools where I could touch the cownose rays and sharks, and if I could feed them, I would! My question here is: is this feasible in private aquariums? Not to the extent of a whole herd of cownoses and a shoal of bonnetheads, but maybe...3 bonnethead hammerheads, 3 cownose rays, and a male/female pair of bamboo sharks? How big of a tank/pond would this be? How much fish/shrimp would I need/day? I get the feeling I'd need to be a millionaire for this kind of project, but ya never know. I'm assuming I'd need an oval aquarium that's relatively shallow (less than 4 feet deep), and would probably need live rock and all sorts of life support, but what else? Ideally, it would be a pond with the above species, lunare wrasses, and goatfish on a sandbed with some sort of macroalgae in there like Caulerpa prolifera and soft coral like Xenia that would help absorb wastes as well. Would I even need circulation pumps since life support would be so big? Would the slime coat on these fish even get very damaged since their brethren in Seaworld and aquariums get so much more abuse? Sorry if I'm rambling, this idea seems more like a dream, but still...
Anyways, what are y'alls thoughts on this? Minimum aquarium size and dimensions? Am I missing out on anything else?
So I've always liked going to Seaworld and public aquariums. I especially liked the touch pools where I could touch the cownose rays and sharks, and if I could feed them, I would! My question here is: is this feasible in private aquariums? Not to the extent of a whole herd of cownoses and a shoal of bonnetheads, but maybe...3 bonnethead hammerheads, 3 cownose rays, and a male/female pair of bamboo sharks? How big of a tank/pond would this be? How much fish/shrimp would I need/day? I get the feeling I'd need to be a millionaire for this kind of project, but ya never know. I'm assuming I'd need an oval aquarium that's relatively shallow (less than 4 feet deep), and would probably need live rock and all sorts of life support, but what else? Ideally, it would be a pond with the above species, lunare wrasses, and goatfish on a sandbed with some sort of macroalgae in there like Caulerpa prolifera and soft coral like Xenia that would help absorb wastes as well. Would I even need circulation pumps since life support would be so big? Would the slime coat on these fish even get very damaged since their brethren in Seaworld and aquariums get so much more abuse? Sorry if I'm rambling, this idea seems more like a dream, but still...
Anyways, what are y'alls thoughts on this? Minimum aquarium size and dimensions? Am I missing out on anything else?