Building My 50,000 Gallon Monster Mega Tank

[NightStorm]

arapaimag,

Have you ever had any problems with ich or any other sickness breakout in your 15k or 52k tanks?

Also since you're a seasoned hobbyist let me ask you this, what's your favored method for quelling ich?

Thanks.

 

[NWatson]

Sorry for the bad spelling. I could not edit the post once I noticed how bad it was. You still got the point though. Yea my pair of Dovii will love the 8'x3' even though they still are small enough for the 180. What I meant where your Dovii the Nicaraguan or Costa Rican variant?

 

[tfan1392]

When keeping fish becomes more then just a hobby...

 

[mqktandy]

1million plus views!!! Most viewed aquarium on the net me thinks

 

[arapaimag]

arapaimag,

Have you ever had any problems with ich or any other sickness breakout in your 15k or 52k tanks?

Also since you're a seasoned hobbyist let me ask you this, what's your favored method for quelling ich?

Thanks.

Very lucky so far in that I have had no illness of any type in the 15,000.

In the big tank I have had just that mystery illness in 2004 that killed a number of fish over a 3 week period. So not bad considering the tanks been running 17 years.

I do get fish losing eyes from fighting mainly in the 15,000. (Three fish at present). The reason might be because many of my fish live so long.

Ich I don't get in my big tanks.

In my smaller tanks I do get it occasionally and either use an ich medication or raise the temperature to 90 degrees for a week which most often cures the fish.

 

[arapaimag]

Sorry for the bad spelling. I could not edit the post once I noticed how bad it was. You still got the point though. Yea my pair of Dovii will love the 8'x3' even though they still are small enough for the 180. What I meant where your Dovii the Nicaraguan or Costa Rican variant?

I am not sure since that are not a common fish in my area and they are the only two I have ever owned.

However they both speak or spoke Spanish if that helps...........

 

[arapaimag]

When keeping fish becomes more then just a hobby...

Welcome to MFK and yes some of us do belong in the asylum.

 

[arapaimag]

1million plus views!!! Most viewed aquarium on the net me thinks

Thanks to everyone who checked out this thread and the many other hobbyists on this site with their amazing tank threads also.

 

[arapaimag]

Another of James Martin's pictures.

This is a large barb.

Leptobarbus hoeveni I got at the Glass Zoo in Guelph Ontario in 1996 at 1 1/2" long for $1.95.

Raised it in a 180g (681 litres) till it was big enough to go in the 15,000g (56,781 litres).

Friends caught it in 2009 measured it at 26" (65 cm) and it spent the summer in a 19 1/2' by 8' pond.

Then I put it in the 52,000 (196,840 litre) tank where it resides today.

I do have a smaller one that has escaped the mouth of the Wallago leerii twice but will leave this mortal coil soon because it suffered severe injuries.

This fish is often sold as a cigar shark, pink tailed shark etc at a couple of inches. But will grow into a very large fish if given the space and the proper food.

 

[Csababá]

I wonder how you know the offender of the murders, since you have a lot of tanks. How much time do you spend a day watching them?