400 Gallon Recirculating Stock Tank Hybrid Striped Bass, Trout, Catfish Plus More

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Aquaculture Tyler

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(Sorry i didnt know what i should put the title as) Some of you guys might find it interesting so i figured i would share. The first image is the tank itself, the second image is one of the viewing windows, Third image is the air stone and return, The fourth is the intake, The fifth is the settling basin, The sixth is the valves to control flow, air, and bio, the final image is the bio media bin

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The tank started out with hybrid striped bass fingerlings and they were grown out to about 12-14 inches before we had a fish fry at the fish fry we had 73 of them along with some bluegill lol.
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After the hybrid striped bass were gone we had goldfish, koi, common carp, grass carp, channel catfish, pacu, silver dollars, tinfoil barbs, and bluegill. Heres a couple pictures of the channel catfish if anyone wants more pics of the other fish ill try to find them
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After those fish were given back we decided to do rainbow trout (Hofer strain rainbow trout i think). The rainbow trout started out in a three tank cold water mars system setup before they got moved to the stock tank.
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I had to switch the gravel out for sand because they were eating the gravel. They felt like hacky sacks lol.
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Moving them to the 400 gallon tank.
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The Chiller
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The chiller started to leak so it had to be shipped back to be replaced so these trout started to become feeder fish.
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Once the rainbows were gone a smallmouth bass, brycon dentex, Oscar, Bullhead catfish, tiger shovelnose catfish, and redtail catfish were moved into the tank
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We have another 400 gallon stock tank with Bluegill, Tilapia, and a Pacu
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Thanks for sharing this is awesome. How many of these stock tanks do you have?

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Very cool!

May I ask how much those stock tanks cost and where to get them?
 
wow great project....id love to have some trout for the store here
 
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