Hi Everyone,
So I've been keeping fish over a decade now and really wanting to try something new. I've kept two mixed marine systems in the past and navigated back to freshwater as my day job is reef aquarium installation/maintenance. Currently I have an Asian arowana and two freshwater stingrays which are in a 5x3x2 foot aquarium. The plan was to upgrade their tank at the end of this year/early next year to a 8x3x2.5 foot aquarium holding around 1600 litres plus a sump, so around 1800 litres total (around 420 gallon display )
I am obsessed with the rays and after a trip to the aquarium two months ago I am really thinking about switching my upgrade from a freshwater monster fish tank to a marine predator/shark tank.
So the tank in question would be 8 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2.5ft tall with a large sump with sponges, rowa phos/carbon, 15kg of biomedia a chaeto and caulerpa refugium and a large area for mangroves. The tank will just be sand with some rock, probably around 50-70kg. I am also planning to run the display as a planted tank so ideally all the rocks would be covered in various macro algaes. I'm sure all CUC would be eaten? Like snails or hermits etc. My planned stocking would ideally be 6-8 fish.
3x sharks (Bamboo/cat/epaulette/horned etc)
1x stingray (cortex/ yellow Think blue spots seem to be very sensitive?)
2-3x groupers
However I wanted to come on here to run a few ideas through you guys to help me make the right informed descision. I love to do plenty of research and never impulse buy, hence my 3-6month plan ahead of time.
Can anyone recommend stocking ideas, which fish work best?
Maybe some suggestions I've missed? Any big no no's or sharks to avoid?
Any tips or videos/threads to read through? I think I've read through most of them now haha
Also lighting ideas? As I won't be keeping corals what's the best Kelvin rating and colour spectrum to see the fish colours best? And to also grow all the algae, Maybe a cool white?
Temp wise, I see many sharks doing well at cooler temps, around 22-24 degrees Celsius?
Any help or advice appreciated, or If you think this is a silly idea please feel free to put me off!
Many thanks,
Chris
So I've been keeping fish over a decade now and really wanting to try something new. I've kept two mixed marine systems in the past and navigated back to freshwater as my day job is reef aquarium installation/maintenance. Currently I have an Asian arowana and two freshwater stingrays which are in a 5x3x2 foot aquarium. The plan was to upgrade their tank at the end of this year/early next year to a 8x3x2.5 foot aquarium holding around 1600 litres plus a sump, so around 1800 litres total (around 420 gallon display )
I am obsessed with the rays and after a trip to the aquarium two months ago I am really thinking about switching my upgrade from a freshwater monster fish tank to a marine predator/shark tank.
So the tank in question would be 8 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2.5ft tall with a large sump with sponges, rowa phos/carbon, 15kg of biomedia a chaeto and caulerpa refugium and a large area for mangroves. The tank will just be sand with some rock, probably around 50-70kg. I am also planning to run the display as a planted tank so ideally all the rocks would be covered in various macro algaes. I'm sure all CUC would be eaten? Like snails or hermits etc. My planned stocking would ideally be 6-8 fish.
3x sharks (Bamboo/cat/epaulette/horned etc)
1x stingray (cortex/ yellow Think blue spots seem to be very sensitive?)
2-3x groupers
However I wanted to come on here to run a few ideas through you guys to help me make the right informed descision. I love to do plenty of research and never impulse buy, hence my 3-6month plan ahead of time.
Can anyone recommend stocking ideas, which fish work best?
Maybe some suggestions I've missed? Any big no no's or sharks to avoid?
Any tips or videos/threads to read through? I think I've read through most of them now haha
Also lighting ideas? As I won't be keeping corals what's the best Kelvin rating and colour spectrum to see the fish colours best? And to also grow all the algae, Maybe a cool white?
Temp wise, I see many sharks doing well at cooler temps, around 22-24 degrees Celsius?
Any help or advice appreciated, or If you think this is a silly idea please feel free to put me off!
Many thanks,
Chris