What kind of budget should I be looking at?
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Just looked it up, don't worry. I guess it did, a bit. Not how I tried to come across though, lol
For the 600, how does this list look:
-Black arowana
-7 silver dollars (red hook black bars)
-Clown knifefish (royal variant)
-2 datnoids (hopefully I'll get some big ones, if I can I'll settle for whatever ones I can get)
-3 peacock bass (trying to find big ones, I think I will to a combination of orino and azul)
-2 gars (probably spotted and tropical, but looking for cuban)
-Motoro stingray (probably normal, but will be royal marble if I can find one)
-6 bichirs (probably a combination of the bigger ones, including ornate, congo, endlicheri, nile, etc)
-Niger catifsh
-2 oscars
That'll be all
Filtration would be very heavy and weekly water changes as well.
-Black arowana
-7 silver dollars (red hook black bars)
-Clown knifefish (royal variant)
-2 datnoids (hopefully I'll get some big ones, if I can I'll settle for whatever ones I can get)
-3 peacock bass (trying to find big ones, I think I will to a combination of orino and azul)
-2 gars (probably spotted and tropical, but looking for cuban)
-Motoro stingray (probably normal, but will be royal marble if I can find one)
-6 bichirs (probably a combination of the bigger ones, including ornate, congo, endlicheri, nile, etc)
-Niger catifsh
-2 oscars
That'll be all
Filtration would be very heavy and weekly water changes as well.
how much water change, because oscars need 70gal+ per fish
knives are 50cm+
black aros 120cm +
moto rays are big and sensative
p bass i have heard get pretty big
niger cats easy 70cm
bichirs are not too big of an issue unless they are HUGE
cuban gars 100cm+ (200 max)
datnoids 60+ (and round)
dollars can also get fairly sizey
im no expert on big tanks, biggest being 70gal, but this seems to be pushing it a little far
knives are 50cm+
black aros 120cm +
moto rays are big and sensative
p bass i have heard get pretty big
niger cats easy 70cm
bichirs are not too big of an issue unless they are HUGE
cuban gars 100cm+ (200 max)
datnoids 60+ (and round)
dollars can also get fairly sizey
im no expert on big tanks, biggest being 70gal, but this seems to be pushing it a little far
Yeah, I know they're big fish, however they do have a 32 square foot tank that will for the most part be free of decor (maybe a small piece of driftwood and a few small plants). Water changes will probably be around 100 gallons per week, give or take. Like I said, very heavy.
That's a very weak amount of water to change in a week but you mentioned top off so perhaps after a drip it will be flush. For reference I attempt to change roughly 75 gallons of water every day on my lightly stocked 300.
100gal water change per week with that stocking is nothing. you should be lookjng at 100g per day
That stocking does seem pretty heavy to me. I think you need to downsize to less than half that and get rid of some of the larger ones.
What if I went with an all-Amazon biotope? What would a good list be for that? I'd keep the ray and aro and then throw in some cichlids and cichla. Then maybe a stock tank to keep those big polys in.
I have a meeting with him tomorrow - I might try and get lucky and show him VLDesign's 2,700 gallon
Doubt he wants 3000 gallons of water sitting in the school though... but who knows, maybe he's crazy like some of us!
I have a meeting with him tomorrow - I might try and get lucky and show him VLDesign's 2,700 gallon
Doubt he wants 3000 gallons of water sitting in the school though... but who knows, maybe he's crazy like some of us!
