10'x14' 2500 Gallon Plywood Stingray Pond

[Sickfish]

Freaking sick!!!!! Great build!!!!

 

[mzhantsche]

Incredably impressed. Gona do the same thing just higher walls.

 

[JohnG]

Will you be adding any other fish besides rays?

Will be adding several clown knifes, probably a ghost knife, a jardini arowana and maybe a silver arowana.

 

[Bulutan]

Wow... I mean WOW, beauty to be built,well finished..2 1/2 more weeks right. very nice......Bill

 

[JohnG]

Thanks, we did the second window Saturday, so it will be 3 weeks on March 12th. Going to be a long wait, as anyone who knows me will tell you I do not like waiting.

 

[tscharf]

Haha I know the waiting is killing me to see this tank finished so I can only imagine what its like for you

 

[CAaddict]

haha i think someone should do that, just make a huge tank and stock it with guppies theyve been breeding for a while, once you get say, 2000 or so in there, take one of your monster fish and throw it in there and watch the chaos begin

id like to see thiss. i think you mite have to try this for a month n then add your rays n aros after the guppies have multiplied to a million lol

 

[fishguy306]

Will be adding several clown knifes, probably a ghost knife, a jardini arowana and maybe a silver arowana.

Sounds like a great list. I'm sure you have heard it before, just keep an eye on that jardini, I have heard more than a few stories about them turning on tankmates, including rays, as they get bigger and older.

 

[JohnG]

The jardini has been somewhat territorial before, but never with the rays, will keep an eye on him though. He is only around 10-12" so I doubt he would mess with the rays, they are all bigger than him.

Started on the plumbing today, probably have another day or two worth of work left on it. Got our input bulkheads attached to there pumps and one of the pumps attached to the bead filter. Also connected all the output bulkheads to the PVC.

The reason you see 2 separate lines running to the outputs is 7 of the 10 are from the bead filter, the remaining 3 bulkheads are going to be the returns for the sponge filter.

The return bulkheads are 1", but our pipe is 2" from the bead and 1.5" from the sponge. For the 1.5" we found Ts that had 2 1.5" sides and 1 1" side, made it nice and easy. For the 2" we didnt have that option so we got adapters we put inside the 2" T that converted it down to a 1" pipe. You can sorta see it on some of the bulkhead pictures.

 

[jakepittbull]

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