I am not aware about this forum until ken pm'd me about it. Thanks for the invite Ken.
I must admit that I am not that active in fish forums anymore as I have moved on to my other hobby - high fidelity audio. I still have my one tank, the 1300 gallon in my basement. My wife wanted to keep the old 210 as a second setup - but I refused because I wanted to lighten my workload (hobby related) a little bit. We actually spent quite a bit of money to have the floor in our new home reinforced for the second tank - but no, no second setup for me for now.
I don't regret going all-out at all. The bigger tank made my arowanas much happier and healthier. It also made my life so much easier. I used to do 2 waterchanges per week on the community, now I only do one waterchange every other week. I still test my water parameters (ph, ammonia, nitrite & nitrate) once in a while, so far so good. I am very particular about ammonia - so far, it is kept at zero, even after two weeks of no waterchange. Ph now how been reduced to below 7.
The other concern I have with such a big tank is relative humidity - I used a dehumidifier during the summer to keep it below 50% - but I turned it off and put it away since the furnace started to run last fall. RH dropped to 20% during the colder months. Now that the weather is started to get warmer (in Edmonton anyways
), I know I should get busy and place the last piece of the puzzle - an air exchanger. The dehumifier does it's job, but it consumes way too much electricity (it consumes like a fridge) and hey - we want to go green. I am also starting to run the bathroom fan in the room (on timer) to help take the excess humidity out.
ok, here are the latest pictures that I have (same as the one posted at MFK)
for the folks that are too tired to click the link to MFK.
Enjoy
Dimfer's arowana community
6 XB, 4 SR, 1 RTG, 1 P Bass, 1 Green Male Sev, 2 Female BP, 1 Tigrinus & 1 pleco. Tank is 120" x 75" x 32" - 10 gauge 316L stainless steel/ 1.5" thick acrylic glass hybrid. Filter media is 4 cubic ft of Kaldness media and 10 sq. ft of matala. Two pumps running - 3600 gph + 2400 gph. Two 2500 watt heaters (220 volts)
A pleasure to be here & more power to Arowanaclub Canada
