Building My 50,000 Gallon Monster Mega Tank

[arapaimag]

Wow I would just like to congratulate you on your amazing tanks.... Im new to the forum... I hail from Ireland and keep mainly CA Cichlids.... I have a fish house
and my idea of a big tank is 2 x 400 gal tnaks which I just purchased.... lol Guess that seems kinda small to you any chance of some pics of the cichlids?

regards,

Dave.

Welcome to MFK. You do have large tanks with 2 400's. Hopefully you will see some cichlids in the video that neoprodigy is assembling for me but although there are hundreds of cichlids in the tank I don't have any monster cichlids in the big tank and he will be focusing more on my pimas etc.

I find that cichlids 12 inches or bigger (there are exceptions) are hunted more so than the cichlids that are smaller and able to use the lava rock when warranted. I do have an exceptionally mean dovi that might make it mainly because it has put a hurting on a lot of fish that have grown big while they were younger.

I have a few pics of cichlids in my article inventory of fish in the 15K

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13742

including my large dovi that at one time measured 22 inches total length. He is getting old now and shrinking like the rest of us. He has had hole in the head a few times over the years but it goes away in a matter of days sometimes and stays away for months/years.

 

[oconnordaithi]

that is some fish!! It must be fantastic to observe these fish in such large surroundings.... It is a very rare sight to see an aquarium kept Dovii attaining such a large size! I am hopefully starting to build my new homew in the next 2 years and one of my project will be to have half the basement as an aquarium. I would imagine it will be in the region of 5,000 Gal. The retaining walls will serve as three sides of the tank with a floor to ceiling viewing area! I think I am looking forward to the tank more than the house......

 

[arapaimag]

that is some fish!! It must be fantastic to observe these fish in such large surroundings.... It is a very rare sight to see an aquarium kept Dovii attaining such a large size! I am hopefully starting to build my new homew in the next 2 years and one of my project will be to have half the basement as an aquarium. I would imagine it will be in the region of 5,000 Gal. The retaining walls will serve as three sides of the tank with a floor to ceiling viewing area! I think I am looking forward to the tank more than the house......

Your tank sounds very interesting. Please Keep us posted with pictures when you build it.

 

[scoop]

Great god, You are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bucko]

This is one of the threads that led me to this site, I'm impressed that it is still active and that arapaimag spends the time to answer everyones questions, 73 pages and over 337 thousand views its really quite the story.

 

[darthbravo]

You should so get a manatee for your tank! It would be the koolest thing ever!

 

[Haab]

wow

 

[Lan]

nice knifes!!! have any big pleco !!!

 

[arapaimag]

This is one of the threads that led me to this site, I'm impressed that it is still active and that arapaimag spends the time to answer everyones questions, 73 pages and over 337 thousand views its really quite the story.

Thanks for the kind words.

Here are a few new pics

 

[arapaimag]

nice knifes!!! have any big pleco !!!

There are a few plecos in the tank up to 18" long.

My redtail cats eat plecos so I never get any really big ones.

The knifes are in the 15k not this one. I do have some fair size pacu. The biggest one weighs over 40lbs.