Looking to go big! Finally...

[Tihsho]

After doing a bit of shopping and surfing the net I have had the itch to setup a large tank. At first I was looking at large catfish (brachyplatystoma juruense [Zebra/Juruense Catfish] or brachyplatystoma tigrinum [Stripped Cat, not to mistaken for a tigrinis]) with some odd ball fish like some polypterus senegalus that I already had or a few stingrays (large matoros or a flower or two), but then it hit me. If i can find a fahaka and one of each of those species of catfish and or a ray I think I might be set. The thing is the catfish (each average of pushing 2 feet) might be seen as a meal for a fahaka or the ray might get a bit peaved with the fahaka and give him a pointy reckoning in the gut. Either way I would like to setup a large tank (about 300 gallons) with a few large species, just would like to know what people have kept with their fahaka's and or know of any.

[Phaedrus]

I think fahaka's are a little too random for me to want to put them with anything else.

I think pufferpunk had a story about a fahaka and a pleco getting along famously for a long time, and then one day they found half a pleco and a smiling fahaka.

Plus, even with 300 gallons you're gonna need some serious filtration and water changes to keep up with the waste from all those very large fish.

Personally, I'd just go for a nicely planted fahaka specimen tank with a large veggie filter.

[Jager]

hehe id go with a 300 gallon sw pufer tank.

preferrably semi reef with a big porc

but thats just me

[lisalisa]

Hehe of course you would J!

I can't imagine keeping anything with my Fahaka, ever.

[Tihsho]

Hehe, yeah thats a plan for my even larger tank once I get my own house. After doing a little searching on monsterfishkeepers.com I have been inspired to build atleast a 50k gallon tank and make it FOWLR tank with multiple species of sw puffs (oh believe me I will find a way of having a multi species sw puff tank.)

I say dream big, or not at all...

[Pyratt]

50k = 50,000 gallon??

[Jager]

that is correct.


there are several people i know that have 35,000 gallon tanks for sharks and such.

50k isnt that hard to do. a tad bigger than a olympic swimming pool

it aint cheap though

[Tihsho]

Yeah, I figure that when I have the space (and of course the funds) I would like to have a tank thats large and natural and one tank being fresh and another salt.