Check my stock list! lol

[unseenone00]

So if anyone remembers me rambling on about me fixing my 72g bowfront and making a spooky tank for my 8" blackghost knifefish--- I decided to take a new route!

I bought a 75g, and will put a 49"x19" plywood on the 72g bowfront stand so the 75 will fit. (could not find a used stand, roughly $180 for new)

I will reseal the bow front and set it up with a spare 110g HOB filter at the pool near my house that i've been part of since i was 3 (swim team, worked as lifeguard) I will catch a horde of pumpkin seed sunfish from the river which is like 150yrds from the pool and set it up (river gravel, driftwood, plants)

AND NOW HERE IS THE NEW PLAN! :clap:

240 gallon blackwater amazon river basin biotope!!!

8'x2'x2'

80% sand from river beach
20% large gravel from river beach (sand & gravel match pretty darn close to amazon's)

4x clamp lamps with 38par LED bulbs

Lots of driftwood (recently found a GREAT hardwood driftwood 5' or 6' long

Amazon plants, swords, Vals, etc.. (doing more research on the amazon waterway)

And so far this is what I have come up with to stock

-Currently have-
8" BGK
5x 5" angels

-Ideas-
teacup stingray
silver arowana
5x geophagus
5x bristlenose plecos
10-15x more angelfish

If anyone has any thoughts on the stock, let me hear it!

 

[cryeth_the_raven]

Sounds awesome and with 240 gallons to work with you're golden. Post pics with updates.

 

[rgonzales]

Silver Aro will eat most of that stock that isnt bottom dwellers and outgrow a 240 and even the smaller species of rays could eat the plecos and potentially angelfish

 

[rgonzales]

Some severums would look good in there like rotkeils, also maybe a royal pleco

 

[spitz006]

Discus

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[livebearerfreak]

***-Currently have-
8" BGK
5x 5" angels

-Ideas-
teacup stingray
silver arowana
5x geophagus
5x bristlenose plecos
10-15x more angelfish***

i would take out the stingray and arrawna ( bad spelling ) and add 1 oscar 3 severums..

 

[unseenone00]

The arowana would be starting at a size around 7-8", and a teacup will start at about 4" diameter, and doesn't get bigger (or much bigger) then 14" and they would have a very hard time eating anything over 1.5" (they prefer live blackworms and ghost shrimp) and that is at full size

I'm not sure if I would want a royal pleco only because the largest of the plecos may decide to feed on the teacups mucus

Getting a big school of angels would be WAAAAAAAY cheaper then Discus, lol

Severums is a good idea. But how do they live socially? I know they tend to be more of semi-aggressive, but do they school? should I only do a few(2-3?) And which species of severum! lol

 

[unseenone00]

I personally hate oscars lol

Why get rid of the ray and arowana? This tank is 16 sq feet

I mean if the arrowana reaches 28"+ (It is not actually that common to get bigger then that in aquariums) I have a number of places around me to donate him to- 3 of which I can recall right now, National Zoo, D.C. aquarium (never actually been there, only recently heard it exists lol) and the baltimore aquarium (though I for some reason I can not recall their freshwater exibits...)

 

[livebearerfreak]

i would do 3 at most. ( 1 red shoulder or redhead * not as easily found * 1 green and 1 gold ), 1 oscar, 1 male convict, 1 salvini with the rest of your stock.. minus the stingray and awranna..

 

[rgonzales]

Silver aros do commonly reach lengths of over 28 inches in tanks, also teacup ray can mean a number of different species and i wouldnt put any in a tank under 30 inches wide for life.