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Optimal dimensions for a monster tank.....3000 litres


henward

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Ok, 'planning' a monstrous tank.

3000 litres to 3500 max.

i want a width of 120cm front ot back.

do you think i should go longer or higher?

looking really more for the most cost effective in term sof glass thickness.

Or would plywood be best to use in this case?

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cost effectiveness, glass its gonna cost around 10k

plywood really is i think the way togo. dont need to build into a house, but plywood glass front with artificial rocks built on,

WHEN i build this it will be all out, so the rock background, a tree inside it

but plywood wont really be transportable.

glass can be but extremely heavy

acrylic is good as its light, but scratches easily.

glass, it can be carried by 10 mighty movers! i seen those beasts lift stuff!

to clean, yeah probably go into it, no other way, but you dont need to clean the sides - just the fron tglass, the way ill set it up is same as i do now, plenty of bottom dwellers so o need to gravel vac, fine substrate... just need to disturb sand occasionally.

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to be honest, this one is a long term project, i am thinking of moving overseas for a while, this is when i return after me and my partners OE.

but as in the past, planning is key, planning is atached to day dreaming and fantasising and this is how it starts:D thing is, its not IF but WHEN i build this lol

It is a hard one, arowana community tank is a tough challenge, i will have to consider it closer to the time.

but good to know what to do

if i do an aro comm, the stock of fish alone will be 10k plus.

plus tank and stuff, i project 25k total on the project.

weather i can spare that is one thing,

If not i am considering another 1200LItre and just getting one other arowana, a electric blue or blue base crossback.

but i would relaly like some sort of a arowana comm, as it is my dream set up

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lol kelly tarltons doesnt have the fish i lik to keep!!

yeah, a huge tank like that is expensive, but out of plywood, it will be extremely economical....

i guess i will have to see what my situation is.

stocking i am thinking of doing a private import of a bunch of arowanas from overseas, i would also try to get some albino clonw knives and albino tiger datnoid (borneo tiger) and random stuff like that.

i guess this is my holy grail im looking at here.

arowana comms are very common, there is 8 in there, for good luck no doubt lol in asia somewhere, but its a very nice tank!

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I know right!

love it!!

the tank looks nic,e simplistic.

m,an i wish we could get pignose turtles here!!

apparently they are very good tankmates for large arowanas as they are fully aquatic and peacefull!

snake necks apparently are also good in this regard - i seen snake neck with clown knives before and very docile.

i reckon a small snake neck grown with arowanas can be good.

but yeah, tooa mbitious perhaps? :D

i love that tank, simple, neat and nice fish.

THis is my idea of stocking - really, like i said, HOLY GRAIL of tanks

Proposed Stock

AROS:

2-3 silvers

2 green

2 black

1 rtg

1 Electric blue or blue base or gold base xb

1 vfsr (qian hu VIOLET FUSION SUPER RED)

1 vip (current one, brutus)

Other misc monsters:

1 to 2 clown knife (albino if possible

2x bgk if still there after i come back

1 to 2 datnoids

1x GG

1 cigar shark

Large Flagtail

Misc Small and bottom:

8 spotted mettynis

3 to 4 Silver dollars

40 to 50 Clown loaches (current stock if still there)

Large Plecos:

Blue phantom

Snowflake

Albino

Golden sun spot Cats

cactus

Sunshine pleco

Gold Nugget

Magnum Pleco

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