Your DREAM 3000 Gallon Tank

[Fish_Savy :3]

I would cry if i had a 3000 gallon and wouldn't even know were to begin :'{

 

[fobrinkle]

Okay upon suggestion add new dimensions to tank...20'x8'x6'.

Now you're up over 7,000 gallons

 

[apriliarider15]

Kinda sounds like what I'm building in my basement 15l x 5w x 4h ply with a 12' x 40" low iron viewing pane. My filtration is 2 36" pressurized sand filters and if I can make it work 5200gph reeflo tiger shark driven reverse undergravel through 6" of Estes permacolor (black of course). Its going to have a large area in the back taken up by Crinum thaianum and a single large Echinodorus sp. somewhere in the middle. My stock list as of now is 8x Cichla orincensis, 2x Cichla kelberi, 3x Crenicichla sp. Xingu I, and 2x Brachyplatystoma tigrinum. I'm still looking for 5x Acestrorhynchus falcirostris, 5x Chalceus macrolepidotus, 3 - 5x Hydrolycus tatauaia, 2 - 3x Potamotrygon leopoldi sp. Black Diamond, and 2 - 3X Potamotrygon schroederi. I think thats it I may have missed a few things but thats my dream tank and it's slowly but surely becoming reality.

 

[Sarah88]

Kinda sounds like what I'm building in my basement 15l x 5w x 4h ply with a 12' x 40" low iron viewing pane. My filtration is 2 36" pressurized sand filters and if I can make it work 5200gph reeflo tiger shark driven reverse undergravel through 6" of Estes permacolor (black of course). Its going to have a large area in the back taken up by Crinum thaianum and a single large Echinodorus sp. somewhere in the middle. My stock list as of now is 8x Cichla orincensis, 2x Cichla kelberi, 3x Crenicichla sp. Xingu I, and 2x Brachyplatystoma tigrinum. I'm still looking for 5x Acestrorhynchus falcirostris, 5x Chalceus macrolepidotus, 3 - 5x Hydrolycus tatauaia, 2 - 3x Potamotrygon leopoldi sp. Black Diamond, and 2 - 3X Potamotrygon schroederi. I think thats it I may have missed a few things but thats my dream tank and it's slowly but surely becoming reality.

That sounds like a SWEET stocklist youv got planned there, i love the look of a nice school of pink-tailed chalceus swimming around the top and LEOS!!! i LOVE LEOSSS!!!!!

 

[chen]

sand substrates with xxxxl driftwood, lots of XB,SR Asian Arowana's, Black Diamond, Henlei's, Pearl Stingrays, Platinum RTC, Platinum Gars, Platinum Aros, Plat anything that Neo Has!

 

[ceeej31]

i would have 12'x8'x4'h for dimensions
water level only 3' deep
fine white sand as substrate with several large pieces of driftwood (some of which partially out of the water) and heavy plantings of java fern, java moss, anubias, and water lettuce
stocklist:
2-3x cichla orinocensis
2-3x cichla intermedia
6x heros severus 'atabapo'
6x uaru fernandezyepezi
10x geophagus dicrozoster
2x crenicichla marmota (pair)
2x hoplarchus psittacus
10x mylessoma duriventre
1x brachyplatystoma tigrinum
2x dracaena guianensis (pair)
the caiman lizards would be added later after the fish were allowed to grow too large for them to eat

 

[Ang]

shouldnt this be in the General aquaria section since we are listing pretty much any type of fish? (not trying to be a brat)

I would probably have SW sharks if I had a 20'x8'x6'

 

[Padiwan cichlidiot]

I would have a few tiger shovelnose, a school of large lima, a redtail cat, variuse smaller cat fish on the bottom. Higher up I would have a huge (100+) school of some kind of larger barb. Soulth American cichlids would fill the gaps. Maybe a few arowanas on top


Brown sand with rocks and roots jutting out in places, a treestump with creeping roots would be in the center. Some kind of really tough plants would also be nice.

 

[badazz07sti]

Big reef tank. One reef at each end, large open water area in middle.

OR

Huge tree roots, covered in moss, lots of floating plants, large boulders piled up. Many of my favourite big south and central american cichlids.

i would have to agree with your second choice. a tank like that would be a dream come true!

 

[stevenrox]

here it is my 3000 gallon would have this stock time 4 times!!!