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They arnt common pleco... I got a few L14s but images are hard to take with them hidding in the driftwoods.

Nice pictures of fish, please hurry with the pool pictures, i can't sleep keep thinking what i'd do with a pool.

You decided on your full stock list yet?

are the pl*cos all commons?

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Dont have a pic of the pool yet, but I got pics of some the inhabitants, was able to get hold of a digicam today, but didnt end up going to my uncles. All of these fish are in quartine at my place. Just got the fish last night and they have already starting to munch on the cucumbers. Im very proud of these fellers and hope they will have a happy life in the pool.

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4 of the plecs at 12cm each and 2 knifes at 8cm. Also 3 other Plecos, but they are too small and they hide alots, so no pics provided there. But I do promise the pics of the tank is coming in very very soon.

You dont have to believe me that im doing the pool, because I dont believe im doing this too, but I am...

Mango

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"He would have to have a Class 2 category 1 reptile keepers licence. To qualify for this he has to have a Class 1 reptile keepers and have kept reptiles for atleast two years.

Why would someone need a reptile keeps licence to keep them as pets?
Second, my local pet store had a Fly River Turtle breeding pair for sale about 2 weeks ago for $150 dollars.
Apparently we have a local breeder. I didnt know they were worth much money....


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I 2nd that or 3rd or what ever it may be by now...........

55G Planted tank thread
19G Container Pond
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He would have to have a Class 2 category 1 reptile keepers licence. To qualify for this he has to have a Class 1 reptile keepers and have kept reptiles for atleast two years.
Pig nosed turtles are harder to find here than green pythons and are worth a few grand each.

Dayum, seriously? That's more than I thought.

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i dont know about you guys, but i agree with resle on the reef idea, that would be awesome. Another good idea...Pahrahna's anyone? the ideas are endless, but to me having a pool full of sharks would be sweet, you might want to look into some sort of cover or hood to keep out leaves, garbage and toxic rainwater of the sort...

Nick
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This is funny
I'm not picturing anything because despite several promises I've seen no pictures and for me its just too far fetched to be true

I'm still picturing guppies in a tank this big:%)and here I thought I had guppy fry everywhere:%)it is going to be insane...I really want to see this...give us pictures!!!

please

heidi

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

shekoi

Thats what I was thinking....... with the glass side viewing area... I was going more twords the half and half thing. After getting fish started in there could you immagine the breeding thats going to go on in a tank that size?? Baby fishes every where!!

55G Planted tank thread
19G Container Pond
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Where are these pictures??

We need to see this creation?

if it was my dream i would cut a corner of the tank off with glass and have a sitting area so can see the fish from side on, not just above.
then i would have 3 options.
1) koi - love them
2) rocky african lake setup,
3) amozon planted, bogwood etc, with discus, angels, cories, catfish?, tetras etc maybe some rams.

the dream of a shoal of 100 discus, me sitting in a lazy boy chair, cool beer in hand just watching.:%) we can just dream.

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"Yep please show us the pics because until you do ... I just kinda don't believe you "



You better make with the pics! People are starting to lose faith!

-Dennis

hey taksan, maybe yr right - has mangor taken us all for a ride?? are we all just living out our sicko fish fantasies thru his indoor pond paradise??

stay tuned for the answer!!!

Yep please show us the pics because until you do ... I just kinda don't believe you

Can we get some specs of the whole operation. such as filtration, heating, and possible stock list. Also some pics.

Yes..we would love to see some pics
This is everyones dream to have a swimingpool diverted to a big fishpool...what about some rays..those are cool
Hope everything goes well..good luck
Robby

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I know human beings and fish can co-exist peacefully.

But that sand is on more sand, and the sand is a few dozen meters thick.

Integra, in the wild the sand on say beaches and then into oceans. It is slanted there correct? Does the sand all dissapear down further? No, theres your answer

I vote that you should have potted plants.

Seriously Mango, I really wanna see this project...... Can I come around and gawk at it?

Youre living one of my dreams man.

I have a question, I'm sorry if its stupid but
Im a noob

How are you going to plant the pool?
Are you going to add gravel to the bottom only and just plant the bottom of the pool?
I dont know what the pool looks like so Im not sure if the sides are staright up/down or not.
What I'm asking is,
If the sides are slanted would the gravel not
slide etc...

OMG
I can't take this, I'm going cazy:%)


Even a picture of the empty pool would drive us all wild.
(make sure to geta decent camera, not a crappy one please)


Please take pictures of the steps, ya know,
like when you ad water, then plants, then some fish and then more and more and more ,Buwhahahhahahahah

Man, I just can not wait for the pics.

So many of us if not all of us have had dreams of owning a pull of fishes and swimming with them.

Guess I will have to put on my scuba gear and head south to see them

I like all those koi pics dude_dude.

The thing is if the pool is 1.5 metres deep, will you even see the cories.

The pool will look great once it gets fully planted.

Pics coming very soon!

Had a chat with calla the other morning, and I added a few Koi to help with the cycling, once the cycling is over, they will be going into a friend's koi pond Tropicals it is! Still trying to find someone to hook up the solar panels for the heating...so far i got like 40 or so 300watt jagers...from previous discus breeding.

I got a nice plant order in today, 20 red tiger lotus very expensive, but they are in the shallow steps growing up. Anyone got suggestions on co2? I guess the guppies will have to return to my 2ft, I would be adding a nice school of neon tetras, a few baby sailfins, thinking a male and 2fm zebra plecos for the breeding area, lots of diffrent types of corys, a few nice angels, and a whale..lol...just joking... Planting this thing will be heaps of fun Just wondering if it would be a good idea to have fine gravel for the base...since its going to have a huge surface to fill up...what should I do? I was thinking only pots with gravel or somesort of sediment and plant the plants and lillies directly in them, just like koi ponds. Im trying to keep the water as clear as possible so you can actually see the fish swimming. A new Aussie Aquarium Plant club is going to start soon, so obtaining plants should be very easy. Just worried about the gravel.

I am also trying to obtain a nice show piece driftwood for the middle of the pool, with some nice plants growing on them. Trying to make it look as natural as possible. I was also thing a few fw stingrays, but im scared they might eat my tiny fish.

I agree if it was me i'd Definatly go with koi LOTS of koi :%)

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go with koi. There are some many different colors and patterns that it would look nicer than a bunch of tetras. You could keep about 90 full size koi in there. You wouldn't have to worry about heating. Koi are also very personable.

I think you should have 20 archerfish in it.

Keep a large, insect infested bush overhanging the centre of the pool and then sit back and watch the fountain show!.

PS: If you need a hand with anything let me know.

If I had a 28K gallon pool/tank I'll add Heaps of Frontosa's

Hope to see pics soon, and best of luck with the setup.

my main concern is observing what's going on - i would absolutely be swimming with goggles (i'm dreaming of a south american biotope heaven - 1000's of cardinals and rummynoses....imagine swimming in with them!!!!!) but i think you may want to get surface fish too - hatchets? butterfly fish? (butterflies will help keep yr guppy population down, too) pencilfish? if not, then i think you need braver species which don't care about coming to the surface, i used to keep quite big outdoor ponds full of swordtails and platies when i lived in malaysia. they looked great from above. hehehe - i just imagined u with a snorkel and goggles just lying around the pool with yr head underwater...don't get dishpan ears!!! and wash out the gel first!!!

since ur going with tropical how bout discus or something....not much of anything that would work with cories atleast worth getting for a pool that size


you owe it to us to post a ton of pictures!!!

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we want some pictures not a belly itcher!!! lol srry that was stupid

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This will be soooooooooooooo coool! You have to get picz!:%):%) I would stock it with lots of corys and.............. A SAIL FIN PLECO!! OR 20 OF THEM!! ) What a dream...... And some angelfish or kissing gouramis!!!! How cool, that would be simply SPLENDED!!

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If I had that set up I would fill the thing with DoJo Loaches. About 10,000 of them and several African Butterfly Fish LOL.

I know Im sick..

FreeBlaze

You know what, just leave the guppies in there and let them do their stuff, add a few corries and I believe you will be well stocked really soonI might add a few more femalesbut really you should as was saidbe overstocked very very soon:%) heidi

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Havent really thought about the water change...hmm seems to be a lot of water. The room itself is already lid with metal Halides...if i wanted to turn it into a marine...I think it would cost alot of $$...I was thinking of placing pots with sand or gravel with some nice aquatic plants, lotus and some lillies. Then I can place " 1 " Guppy and we all can play "Wheres the guppy!"

I picked up the huge Rainbow Lifeguard UV sterilizer, its quite bright too, lucky its packet away in the filter room. With the inhabitants, I was thinking of getting 20 baby saratogas/arowanas. Once they grow up and I can try to breed them or something. Or I was thinking Dividing the pool into two and have one side for breeding as someone mentioned earlier, and the other side for display.

Would plants survive with the lighting? Im scared it might not be enough since the pool contains alot of gallons. Also how about the algae? I guess I need lots of plecos

i say make a small reef im the corner or middle and leave the rest open sand then get some small sharks like

leopards
or
wobbegongs(dont know much about sharks)
panther grouper
triggers
eels
tangs

or

mangrove swamp with an island of sand with mangroves and other plants


6 archerfish
8 anableps(4-eyed fish)
6 monos
6 scats
1-2 siamese tigers
4 bull sharks

both setups will benifit from the mhs

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D'ya want this moved to pond for more specifics on the logistics of WCs and filtration adaption?


I'd go with koi, because they were bred to be veiwed from above... Saratogas aren't going to look like much while you are standing over them, they are more designed for side on veiwing IMO.

Actually, I lie. I saw an awesome setup of pacu in a pond in the north animal park in the netherlands... that was AWESOME, as was the small pond of BCT.
So I might go for something very big and cichliddy.

You are missing the opportunity to keep a shark... enough of them get sold to 5' tank owners, you may as well put the word out and see what has outgrown its current tank, you might get a bargain and make a life happier saves it being tossed off a jetty somewhere. I'd rather nobody kept sharks, but a swimming pool is better than a tank...

OMG!

order a heap of blue swimmer crabs!


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If your planning on keeping a arowana in it. Just be sure to note that arowanas are very very good jumpers, so be careful

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I'd go for snakeheads in a pool. You can throw in whole chckens when they grow up to feed them and probably charge visitors to see you feed them.