18' x 9' x 3.5' catfish tank build in progress.....

[necrocanis]

Hey man u are truly gonna be a monsterfishkeepers legend when this is all set and done..... Good job Bro.... BTW u are right it is hard to find ID sharks that size and when there is one the owners do not want to let them go.... Mine is 6 inches about 6 months old any reccomendations on helping them grow faster...

Thanks Once again thanks for starting this thread

The one thing I've done to help mine start growing faster in the last couple of months is feeding them more often. I have to do tons of water changes, but it's worth it. I feed 2 to 3x per day, and water change at least once every 5 days or so.

Hmmmm, coming along nicely there, necro ^^ The frame is done!!

How about an update on your beasties in transit?

PS: oscar petting pond lol i got one given for free to me (albino) - very cute ....no one even 'sniffed' him out lol but with the beasties growing one never knows

I'll have to do an update on them later.

how many litres do you will use to paint it to make it water proof?

It will be about 10 gals of gel coat, not sure on the exact liters. Probably around 37 liters.

if you want interestin put 4000 Cons in there and wait a month then put the cats in. if there are hiding places then you may end up with an interesting balance where the cons would survive and breed possibly making a snack food base for the cats.

That would be awesome. I've heard that they breed like crazy, and grow fairly nice also. Unfortunately there's not going to be much of any place for them to hide. Trying to keep the maintenance down on this beast.

 

[aspear]

how do you post pictures of the sketchup model like that?

 

[greengiant]

yeah they do breed like crazy. I have 3 breeding pairs and about 500fry right now. GF doesnt want another growout tank for them so they are a little cramped right now. presently living in a 20G and a 30G. but will soon start thinning the numbers as they get fed to the bigger boys.

 

[Tom500]

That tank is gonna be amazing im so jealous, i want, i want.
Keep them pics coming cant wait to see it when its done.

 

[RedDevilDon2005]

i still wanna go swimming, lol

 

[SoCalDiscus]

how do you post pictures of the sketchup model like that?

I'm not sure how necrocanis does it, but I have used the following procedure:

Frame it up as you like it. What you see is what you get.

FILE --> EXPORT --> 2D GRAPHIC

At this point, you can click OPTIONS in the lower right corner. Here you can choose your resolution and image quality. I usually choose around 800 pixels wide for posting on MFK.

NAME it, and SAVE it.

Now you have an image that you can post like any other picture.

 

[lordofthejewsjr]

can you ask a person that works in a lfs to give you fish that hes going to throw away????????
well looks like i got a busy day tomorrow=)
how often do they throw away the poor fishies?

 

[necrocanis]

Very often people throw their fish in rivers, or try to pawn them off on lfs. I give all lfs around here(3 total) my number and tell them that if someone has a fish they don't want to give me a call.

That's the same procedure I use for sketchup 2d export.

 

[aspear]

dang necro im actually gonna have to read your name now lol

 

[necrocanis]

Yeah I caught my flash zebra(one eyed willie) yawning, and got a pic so I thought it'd be cool avatar, but it's kinda hard to see. I'll probably go back to the skeleton after a while though.