Building My 50,000 Gallon Monster Mega Tank

[arapaimag]

could you post a thread with the final product... I cannot find a picture of what it is now with the fish in it. Too many pages to look through

This video was taken in early 2009.

Arapaimag's 52,000 gallon tank video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j6JAJeGRzI

 

[Ocean Railroader]

Would you plan to build a even bigger tank by itself or make the existing tanks even bigger?

 

[arapaimag]

No

I'm fine with the tanks the way they are

 

[TheFishGuy]

Quick Question. How old are your SA Redtail Cats.?

 

[angelfin]

That is AWESOME!!! That would be the most relaxing part of the house.. I couldn't amagine his electric bill though..

 

[angelfin]

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[Ocean Railroader]

I'm thinking about making my first giant fish tank a cinder block fish tank that would be ten feet wide and 14 feet long and old five feet of water but with room to rise the depth to seven feet. It would have a singel four by eight foot wide viewing window or a six foot high ten to 12 foot high viewing window as a first cinder block fish tank. When you build the monster tank does the cost of building it go down pur gallon when you build it bigger or does the cost pur gallon go up as the tank gets larger?

 

[arapaimag]

I'm thinking about making my first giant fish tank a cinder block fish tank that would be ten feet wide and 14 feet long and old five feet of water but with room to rise the depth to seven feet. It would have a singel four by eight foot wide viewing window or a six foot high ten to 12 foot high viewing window as a first cinder block fish tank. When you build the monster tank does the cost of building it go down pur gallon when you build it bigger or does the cost pur gallon go up as the tank gets larger?

The bigger you go the less it will probably cost you per gallon.

 

[arapaimag]

That is AWESOME!!! That would be the most relaxing part of the house.. I couldn't amagine his electric bill though..

Welcome to MFK

If you promise to pay the electric bill I will promise to send it to you (LOL).

 

[arapaimag]

Quick Question. How old are your SA Redtail Cats.?

I bought the 2 smaller ones at 1 1/2" to 2" in april of 2005 from The Tropical Fish Room in Brantford, Ontario (from Jerry Draper for $20 each). The smaller of the 2 is approx 36" and the larger is approx 40". They have not grown particularly fast.

The larger one was acquired in 2006 from Sheldon a customer of Jerry Draper's at approx 24" or so as a rescue favour. He has grown to between 42" and 45" (estimates of 3 friends who have been in the tank with him)

I once grew the biggest one I have ever grown from 2 1/2" in 1994 to 48" by 1999 and he maxed out at 54" (4 1/2 feet) in 2003 and weighed 90 lbs (40.9 kg) when he was measured after being killed by my Big Black Nasty (black shark). Morulius chrysophekadion.

That Phractocephalus hemioliopterus was purchased from Aquarium Services (Big Al's) on Dundas st in Mississauga, Ontario and was unusual in the habit of eating Plecos.

Interestingly my friend Jeff Mountjoy was over to my house today and caught the black shark out of his summer pond (19 feet by 8 feet) and placed him in his inside the house tank.