96 x 30 x 24 Tank and Arowana Species
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how fast can a python drain a 300g?
How is it different with using a tube, sucking air out and letting gravity handle the rest?
for bare bottom tanks.. would recommend this type of submersible pump
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quite popular in china now and easy to remove any waste on the floor by moving it around like a vacuum cleaner
That, and one is a carnivore, the other an omnivore, leaning towards herbivore.
A python for water changes on a 300 gallon might not be such an effective method - draining even 50%, and refilling, will consume an entire Saturday afternoon. Buy a submersible pump as suggested, lots are available to choose from here in Canada.
Let's try this again. For now, forget about a comm tank of any type, with an aro. You are not even remotely close to that level of fishkeeping. That was my point above.
Get the tank, learn how your tank works, understand the basics, focus on maintaining a heathy & robust bio-bacteria colony while you keep a school of interesting fish, such as SD's, as you seemed interested in them. THEN, later on down the road, when you have mastered that - then & only then consider stepping things up.
Either find some comm fish that will be easy, non aggressive, no drama species, that will work with your school of SD's, and you will in turn learn much more about how fish behaviours mesh (or not?) and even about individual personalities within species and how they can effect a community set up.
Or if by then you are 100% certain that you are ready for an Asian aro - sell off or give away the SD's, and get a young aro to work with. Now you will have drama, behaviour that you will not know exactly how to deal with, such possible problems with its diet (they can be picky eaters), jumping, drop eye, PLJ, etc-etc-etc. Focus on the aro 100%, forget about comm anything. I'm sure that you will be back here asking many questions regarding that single fish.
Yea.. you dont clean the substrate with the pump.. u change the water out with it... I use an 800 gph pump with half inch flexible tubing to change my water out... you just use gravel cleaner for spot cleaning waste and what not... gravel you need to get right in there with it because waste falls between the peices of gravel
This is a bit of a daft statement and one that will give the OP the wrong idea. It's all very well telling the OP that you wished you'd have started off a lot bigger and encouraging him to do exactly that, but you'd already had years of experience, which is the whole point of the hobby before moving onwards and upwards through tank sizes.
I could say I wished I'd have skipped my two 180's and gone straight to my 360. But when I got my first 180, if someone said nah, you need this big boy instead, i'd have shat myself. The two 180's give me that experience and confidence to take the next step up.
The OP knows diddly squat and his head must be spinning now he's actually ordered his big tank, against a lot of members advice, and setting his sights on an arowana is a major mistake.
My head is spinning pretty bad to be honest. A lot all at once. But just to be clear I hadn't been told not to go so big before I had ordered it. I had been told that going big was better in a lot of ways etc. It's not like I ignored what people have said.
As well, I am not thinking of starting with Arowana. I want to make that very clear as well. But I am wanting to learn more about them as I would like to have one sometime in the future.
Do you have a link to the pump and all I would need to get it up and running?
