Fish Room Zoo

I know this sounds silly but it is idea that could maybe become truth.so because my family will start building new house where will we live I wanted build fish room in basement where people can go in but they will need to pay money(not some extrawanganca but about half to about full dollar,so I can pay keeping tanks and maybe if I'm lucky get some cash) idea is to make cinder block stands and put on them aquariums of 10 gallons (there will be about 8-10 of them species only,and small data bout that fish(they would have maybe 2-3 fish not overstocked))where I will put small species like:guppies,platies,zebra danios,betta,shrimp,cpo crayfish,kuhlI loach ...next I will put 55 gallons so I can put angelfish,african chiclids...
And then on the end of the basement(it will probably be about 5-7 meters wide and long)I make shallow(50-70)cm pond that has about 1,500 gallons where I would keep koi ,rtc catfish ,jaguar chiclid or peacock bass and silver arowana (there will be special time when people can come and hand feed fish).
Now about budget
Very good isolation in basement and house heating so I don't need to use heathers
Second for filtering tanks using sponge filters with champion cx 0098 on every 2 tanks
Second is to put normal lights on aqauriums because fish don't need special lights(only plants will maybe be javamoss,anubias barterI or java fern)
For filtering pond I will use 3-4 bucket filter on some really strong pumps.
Now I want to see your thoughts
I need you to put suggestions on what species you think would be interesting to put here.
How would you cheaply pay food for fish.
How much times water from ponds needs to go through filter.how would you cut expenses etc.

Ps:I know this is a lot but it is idea even if I wanted to do this I would do it slowly beginning with 10 gallon tanks.

 

If I wanted to see those fish, I would go to my local petco. I don’t think it’ll be a good investment unless you get uncommon fish and maybe even breed them for profit.

I think the only cool fish would be the arowana or the fish in the 1,500 gallon.

 

First of all in my country they don't have petco,second thing is fish I will get they can't see anywhere except here

We only have poor grade fish like guppy and others(in my country aquariums aren't really big hobby)

 

This is a really cool idea!

However, I feel that would take a lot of effort, and as you said, some of the fish could be rare to get.

If you can maintain it, get the fish, and get the okay, go for it.




(and post pics lol)

 

First of all in my country they don't have petco,second thing is fish I will get they can't see anywhere except here

Oh, well I don’t where you’re from lol

I guess that would be a good idea.

 

This'd be cool, I would pay to see your little fish!!!

 

Of course it won't be finished automatically it needs time about 3 years and when I calculate for small aquariums I spend about 1-3 dollars each for everything only big pond I don't know how strong pump I need beacause it isn't really pumping that strong

And I don't want it to be hard on my parents wallet I will keep money until I can build everything step by step
But please answer on the questions I gave you about pump strenght and what fish to put in.

And if I try to do this I need knowledge of everyone of you
Ps:maybe I will do day to day update on it if I start doing it

 

I would definitely be reading that daily!

And I am happy to help with knowledge, if that's what you meant earlier.

 

Yes I meant and I'm real happy about it.

First we have 10 aquariums of 10 gallons ,4 aquariums of 55 gallons and 2 aquariums of 75 gallons.which fish to put in them.(I want your plans but every aquarium is species only)
I want if possible to look like this
10 gallon
1...
2...
....
55gallon
1...
2..
....
75 gallon
1...
2...

 

I personally would swap out some of the 10 gallon for a 55g/75g personally... or even some 20 gallon tanks to allow more options.

 

Ok but whan species would you put

 

Yes I meant and I'm real happy about it.

First we have 10 aquariums of 10 gallons ,4 aquariums of 55 gallons and 2 aquariums of 75 gallons.which fish to put in them.(I want your plans but every aquarium is species only)

Assuming that most fish species was available, here's what I would do.... I tried to keep species only whenever possible, but it is certainly far more entertaining to mix different species together... and have small info cards on each tank to distinguish the difference- like they do in zoos; a pic, scientific name, common name (if any... and where they are from if you like).

10 gallons
1. I would look into a nice species only tank of boraras sp. In fact, I would do a couple if you wish to separate them, like one being Boraras maculatus, b. brigittae and b. urophthalmoides.... so you could say 3 separate tanks
2. Clown kilies
3. Betta sp. (Like a single male or female betta splendens, or look into something like a pair of betta macrostoma for example...)
4. Ember tetra tank
5. Shell dweller cichlid tank
6. Endler livebearer tank (not to be confused with guppies!)
7. A pygmy cory tank (some do suggest keeping them in larger tanks however)
8. Shrimp tank (like cherry shrimp - and colour morphs - or crystal shrimp- and colour morphs.... or other type of shrimp)
9. ThaI micro crab tank
10. African dwarf frog

(Honorable mentions include snail tank - like mystery snails -; neon tetra tank, apisto breeding pair tank, guppy tank; sparkling gourami tank and potentially white cloud tank. Or even a marine tank and house some marine inverts and a goby or something similar...)

55gallon
1. Hill stream tank (like swellia, or whitewater aquarium like farowella catfish)
2. Tiger barbs (or any barb besides tinfoil for that matter)
3. Acara cichlids (or many of the SA cichlids)
4. Mbuna tank (like all male peacock)

(Honerable mentioms include all of above, large tetra school lile colombians, bleeding hearts or emperors; cories sp.; kuhlI loaches - or yoyo loaches; fancy goldfish, scissortail rasboras, bucktooth tetras, gouramis - like chocolate, samurai, licorice, pearl, moonlight gouramis - or rasboras... rainbowfish are another option, or do something brackish like mudskippers

75 gallon
1. Oscar
2. Discus/angel/uaru tank

(All above included, or something like a blood parrot tank, senegal bichirs, green terrors ect...)

 

Do you have to have any permits or licenses in your country to do this? We can’t do this type of thing in a residential area here.

 

What about this
10 gallon
1Cpo crayfish
2shrimp
3betta splendens
4 shell dweler chiclids
5apistogramas
6. Dwarf gourami
7 and 8(instead of separated 10gallons I will make one 20 gallon) axolotl
9white cloud mountain minnows
10 neon tetras
this aquariums are on 2 extra large sponge filters
55 gallon
1mbuna
2tiger barbs
3angelfish
4fancy goldfish
75 gallon
1Discus
2xenentodon cancila and senegal bichir tank)
500 gallon -1000 gallon pond
2 koi,1silver arowana,1iredescent shark,2oscars.

I said this is idea that I will investigate.

 

75g
2xenentodon cancila and senegal bichir tank

500 gallon -1000 gallon pond
2 koi,1silver arowana,1iredescent shark,2oscars.

Sounds great, except for these tbh.
- the E. cancila has the potentual to get up to 40cm long... so much to large for a 75 gallon IMO.
- 500-1000g is a little to small for all these fish. I would personally reccomend against the koi - many reccomend in excess of 1000g per koi - silver arowana has the potential to grow in excess of 4 feet, same as the shark - so would suggest against unless its a rather shallow/wide pond....

Maybe consider something like oscars and a large group of large tetras, or a sailfin pleco?

 

75 gallons are 150 cm long,50 wide and and 40 cm high for senegal and camcila .Is pond 5 meters by 2 meters and 50 cm deep enough for silver arowana,iredescent shark,pacu,oscars.