Monster fish

guys / gals,

Please take a look at this, it is crazy...

http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=221029

 

It's scary too see all those fish in one tank. Looks a bit crowded to me.
Are those freshwater rays? lol I thought you only get marine rays *_*

 

its freshwater rays...yip, its way over stocked...but the fish look healthy...

 

That tank is severely overstocked... and the owner should be drowned in that tank!

 

They sure do ^^,
That's so awesome... wonder if they're blacklisted in SA... probably are...

 

(Tank Info : 14'x5.5'x4'
Filter Info : 300gallon bio balls, with 6 submersible 1000GPH pumps and one external 8000GPH pump. Ultimate 10k or 20k ect...... with 24/7 new water dripping(

the filtration on this tank is HUGE and bigger than um almost all of us heres tanks !
almost all of the fish in there are tough to keep when big so this guy must be doing something right.awsome..
Im sure I remember reading that rays will not be on the proposed new blacklist.

 

Yip!

Freshwater rays are blacklisted here!! Shame really, as in the right sized monster tank like Henks, they would look awesome!!

Cheers
G!

 

not my cup of tea... reminds more of a prison than a recreated habitat

 

Ditto to KiazerG, it's way overcrowded

 

Cool fish, but I think that's abuse...

 

not all :blink1:

 

There's one or two species thats not on the black list

 

It looks overcrowded..but that tank is over EIGHT THOUSAND litres..so it has enough capacity to maintain healthy fish..jst not enough space for them to swim around properly

 

If the fish cannot swim a certain distance without bumping into another fish or glass of the tank... then it's overcrowded. No matter what type of filtration you have in there....It's cruel to keep fish like that!

 

Well, more than that actually... if you include all the freshwater whiprays of Asia, the 'oddball' South American freshwater ray, the landlocked North American 'freshwater' ray as well as the two African species, not to mention all the brackish/freshwater species... there are quite a few :blink1:

 

I have heard of importers getting rays. they sell them for around 2 grand. apparently a guy buys most of the large fish from this wholesaler. I wonder who he is

 

correct...

and only these four species of Potamotrygon (south american freshwater stingrays) are on the black list
Potamotrygon Hystrix Mottled Freshwater Stingray
Potamotrygon Laticeps Freshwater Stingray
Potamotrygon Motoro Ocellated Freshwater Stingray
Potamotrygon Reticulatus Reticulated Freshwater Stingray

there's many many more species of Potamotrygon. I cant comment on the Hymantura genera though, but there's lots there also...

 

I love the Peacock Bass,beautifull fish.If I'm not mistaken there's some Arapaima aswell.They grow to 2m plus in the wild and is endangerd.

 

love the aro's...wish i had the gold and the red 1.

 

Any chance you could get the legal ones in Dolphin? I assume they would be fairly costly?