My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?

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Great many thank you's, Kirk (@yellowcat)! You are way too kind. You need to find time and have a few mojitos with my wife and your perspective will be on a receiving end of a fair and dramatic correction :) In these 5 years I've also managed to kill scores of fish, literally hundreds, including losing 80%+ of my prized NY collection on the move from NY to FL. Sure, I've learned a lot but it was not without much, sometimes too much, pain. Oh, c'est la vie.
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Small update Oct 12, 2015.

A few pics of the koi pond house in progress. I know I've done a lot since the last update but looking at the pictures they appear to be of the "find 10 differences" kind.

Two photos of Pangasius larnaudii I got from Sam Lai (aka Fishonlinerus) a month ago. Grew from 2" skinny to 4"+ and robust. Indiscriminate, gluttonous eaters but pronouncedly more nervous than IDS. Go bezerk sometimes still after a month and swim with lightning speed all over their 240 gal in random directions and random body positioning - upright, up side down, on a side, vertically, splashing and jumping out of water and hitting (but surprisingly lightly and damage-free to themselves) bottom and walls.
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Viktor, this is a very impressive/massive project of yours! It's awesome to see that even though setbacks have happened you really haven't been discouraged much and kept pluggin away! Keep up the awesome updates!
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Thank you!

Small update Dec 3 2015. Still working on the koi pond house. Been getting delayed by weather, bait harvest, car problems, fish trips, etc.

A couple of videos of one 240 gal having 5 Silurus asotus, 4 tropical gar, 1 spotted gar, tigrinus catfish, woodcat, jello cat (never came out of the cave). They are quite nervous as they usually sit without any lights:


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Eel hug?

I had to shuffle fish yesterday and thought I'd see how a 4' Synbranchus marmoratus, aka SA marbled swamp eel (courtesy of Raymond Chan of Amazing fish), would be with a 14" ARTC (courtesy of Rouben "rmkblades") and an 8" Umbee. The cat tried hiding under the eel all day and sometimes it looked like the eel was hugging it :) Although it looked like the eel didn't care, this morning the cat had a bite mark (mostly just the slime removed) on its head. Nothing serious (yet?). Will keep a close eye.
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Those Silurus Asotus are real cool. Would love an update, such a great project all this
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Love your project! My husband and I have been following your progress and can't wait for it to open.
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Thank you all for your interest and support. Much appreciated.

Finally, I started looking into HD video cameras. Here is the product - 9 videos of all the tanks we have going here, 12 in total.

Tank 21, 4500 gal, shot inside the tank, Mar-Apr 2016, "peaceful" community and grow out, niger catfish 4x, marbled pim 2x, marbled sailfin pim 3x, iridescent sharks 4x, black ear shark, Phoenix barbs 3x, Tor khudree, Tor progenious, Tor malabaricus, Tor soro, 4-line pim 5x, sun catfish 9x, giraffe catfish 2x, bolt catfish 2x, albino Hemibagrus nemurus (?), red hooks 4x, silver dollars 2x, vittatus tigerfish 3x, peacock bass 6x, giant gourami 2x, red tail giant gourami 3x, siamese carp 2x, Catla catla, banded leporinus 2x, Pterodoras granulosus 3x, irwini catfish 6x, Murray cod 2x, flowerhorn, red midas, umbee cichlid, vieja cichlid 2x, vulture catfish 6x, aluminum catfish 3x, horse face catfish, bala shark 5x, tinfoil barb 4x, Indian pacific tarpon 2x, Synodontis 4x, koi 2x, Distichodus sexfasciatum 2x and lusosso 2x.


Same tank 21, shot from the outside


Tank 22, 4500 gal, shot inside the tank, Mar-Apr 2016, "aggressive" community, RTC 9x, Jau catfish 2x, silver arowana 3x, peacock bass, paroon shark 6x, pacu 7x, TSN 3x, TSNxRTC hybrid catfish, TSNxMarbled Pim hybrid catfish, Apurensis catfish


Same tank 22, shot from the outside


Tank 41, 240 gal, in and out, Mar-Apr 2016, Silurus asotus, tig catfish, West African lungfish, Chinese mandarin perch, true and false eels


Tank 42, 240 gal, in and out, Mar-Apr 2016, grow out: high fin Chinese loaches, lima shovelnose catfish, fire eel, yellowcheeks, flagtail prochilodus, bala sharks, brown bullheads - southern and northern, black lancer catfish


Tanks 43 and 44, 240 gal, in and out, Mar-Apr 2016, Wolf fish 4x, Barramundi, Wallago leerii, channel catfish, common pleco, Labeo sp., black shark 3x, Asian USD catfish


Tanks 61, 62, and 63, each 240 gal, in and out, Mar-Apr 2016, 2' African lungfish, Asian RTC, gulper catfish 3x, dorado catfish, firewood catfish


Tanks 64, 65, and 66, each 240 gal, in and out, Mar-Apr 2016, Apurensis catfish, pike cichlid, tropical gar, spotted gar, Brachyplatystoma platynemum aka slobbering catfish or 747 catfish, Brachyplatystoma capapretum, Pimas
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Awesome videos and pictures, Victor! Thanks for sharing.

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Catfish stock list: ~148

Niger catfish 4x (3’, 2’, 2’, 2’; only one male/skinny; vacuum cleaners)
Marbled pim 2x (skinny male and full-bodied female 2’ each)
Marbled sailfin pim 3x (2’ each, indecisive, can never figure out the pecking order)
Iridescent shark 4x (1.5’, 1.5’, 10”, 9”; just lost a 28” one)
Black ear shark (6”-7”; a freak; been pacing by the window for months now)
Four-line pim 5x (7”-9”; one’s likely tetramerus, 4 blochii but one’s spots are crisp)
Sun catfish 9x (7”-10”; gluttons)
Giraffe catfish 6x (8” and 8” occidentalis cf Bouche; 3” tanganicanus or tchadiensis or else; three 6” unknown yet, still with Joefish)
Bolt catfish 2x (6” each; characters)
Albino Hemibagrus nemurus (10”-12”, not sure of species after Dr. Ng’s revision; lulls you then turns sudden predator)
Pterodoras granulosus 3x (12”, 9”, 9”; gluttons)
Irwini catfish 6x (10”; crankypants; hunger striking for the 3rd month)
Vulture catfish 6x (~12”; characters)
Aluminum (Chrysichthys genus) catfish 3x (~1’ all, one’s prob. nigricaudus, badly mangled; two ornatus)
Horse face catfish (~8”)
Synodontis 4x (6” and 8” eupterus; 6” and 10” common hybrid)
RTC 9x (12”-30”)
Jau catfish 2x (~30” 8 year old female-alpha of the 4500 gal and male-alpha-wannabee)
Paroon shark 6x (18”-24”; from Gerber’s, Dayton OH; thanks JasonGoneFishing!)
TSN 3x (18”-28”; prob. 2 fasciatum, one reticulatum or vice versa)
TSNxRTC hybrid catfish (18”)
TSNxMarbled Pim hybrid catfish (25”)
Apurensis catfish 3x (12”, 8”, 8”; all from vastly different sources, was hoping to score a nigricaudus but all turn out the same)
Silurus asotus 5x (8”-11”; characters)
Tig catfish 6x (10”, just got five 3”, thanks Manny C.!)
Lima/elongatus shovelnose catfish 8x (5”-6”)
Brown bullhead 4x (4”-5”, 2 southern and 2 northern)
Black lancer catfish 3x (3”-4”)
Trachydoras paraguayensis 3x (2”; much cory-like)
Wallago leerii (18”)
Channel catfish (18”; finless variety, the one people keep with a dozen of 1’+ pacu)
Asian USD catfish (3”; bloodthirsty weasel, at 1.5” killed my three 6” harlequin lancer catfish)
Asian RTC (15”, thanks Rouben aka rmkblades! finicky even after many months)
Gulper catfish 3x (5”; characters)
Dorado catfish 2x (1.5”; just lost a 6”-er)
Firewood catfish (had 5 over two attempts, down to one; start off excellent, in weeks or months start spinning and die; something is not right with my water, I’m guessing a pathogen affecting brain / central nervous system they have no immunity to)
Brachyplatystoma platynemum (10”; slobbering catfish or 747 catfish; the finickiest fish I’ve come across so far, even with live feeders and badly sunken tummy it is choosy)
Brachyplatystoma vaillantii (7” from Wes, finicky; need to make sure of the ID)
False piraiba Brachyplatystoma capapretum (10”; after 100 freak outs its snout is bent now)
Piraiba (18”, still at Wes’)
Common pleco ~20x (10”-18”)
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Here is May 30, 2016 video update on the construction of the koi pond and its housing pavilion - a 45' long x 10' wide x 4.5' deep rubber-liner pond, approximately 2' in ground and 2.5' above ground, with a 45' x 2.5' acrylic window.

The pond volume would be 56 cubic meters or 56,000 liters or 15,000 US gallons.

The window is to be made of nine sheets of 9' x 43" x 3/4" acrylic sheets spliced front and back with 1/2" acrylic sheets. Dow 795 to be used for sealing acrylic to rubber liner.

This is to be the last exhibit (of the total 13) before we open to public at large with business hours.

Still need to pave the parking lot and walkways, get a Certificate of Occupancy, several licenses from Florida Wildlife Commission to display some conditional and prohibited fish species, and solve a few other, hopefully minor, issues.

Sorry about bad sound - it was a first try. Will try to improve the sound in the future.

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Victor, I never cease to be amazed by what you are achieving. Very nice. Best of luck to you on completion.

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It IS amazing! Love seeing the progress and look forward to seeing it for real one day :-BD
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Friends are always welcome. Appreciate your heartfelt support.

A small June 10 2016 update on the "peaceful" community / grow out 4500 gal, tank #21



Sorry about inconsistent quality. I'm still experimenting with cameras. This is SJCAM 5000X.
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Update Aug 30 2016

Five videos. SJCAM5000X.

-- Alleged Brachyplatystoma vaillantii ~8", from Wesley Wong of Rare Fish, Los Angeles, CA; wild caught by Wes' fisherman in Suriname; unsure of the species ID, might be something else; prefers cheap catfish farm pellets to silversides, etc.



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Giraffe catfish named Happy, donated by Kevin Podgorsky (aka beetlebug515 on MFK), San Diego, CA ~10"-11"; update for Kevin, Paige, and the kids; sold as occidentalis but time should clarify that, unless the genus is still in limbo... The tail fin is a bit tattered, IDK by who but no biggie. Never seen any other damage on Happy.



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Three mahseer - two Thai gold mahseer ~10"-12" and one blue mahseer N. stracheyi ~12"+, and two cigar barbs ~14" from Ivan (aka Aw3som3 on MFK), Los Angeles, CA; update for Ivan.



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Feeding Tank 21 ("peaceful community and grow out). Fish are taken aback a bit by too much light.



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Feeding Tank 22 (aggressive community):

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Update Sept 10, 2016

Two videos. SJCAM5000X.

Brachyplatystoma filamentosum, ~20", from Wesley Wong of Rare Fish, Los Angeles, CA; wild caught by Wes' fisherman in Suriname. Got it 3 months ago at ~16". Feeds well on large whole marine fish but is slow to take the feed, taking from 5 to 30 seconds; pump must not be off or it wouldn't take the feed. Not skittish in a stark contrast to the false piraiba B. capapretum. Has been alone in its 240 gal. Getting tight though...



Update on the 20K gal koi tank. The 45' window (five 9' acrylic sheets) is positioned. What remains is posts, liner, wet-dry filter, floor tiles, enclosure walls (shade cloth + tarp).

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I would never know, how much to feed such behemoth of fish :D

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Wow! Still can't wait to see it when it's all done! There are some really nice fish.

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Hope the storm wasn't too bad for you!
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Thank you all.

We've been spared from the hurricane.

Our four Cephalosilurus apurensis had a mighty good meal yesterday worth filming.

I had bought three from very different vendors and times hoping to maybe score a nigricaudus but alas they are all apurensis. It looks like we (almost) never get nigricaudus in the trade because it only inhabits coastal Suriname and there appears to be no or not much export from there.

The fourth one is a donation by a local MFK-er. It was advertised as fowleri - another Cephalosilurus we (almost) never get in the trade. We had doubts and sure enough it had grown into another apurensis.

They are about 12"-14" currently. 99% the gathering is peaceful, rarely do they decide to re-establish / re-enforce the hierarchy. But they always lay in one pile vast majority of the time despite plenty of space and furniture, which is kind of cute to see after all the bickering and crankiness...

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Got an African lungfish from John Gerber in Dayton, Ohio this March. Loves catfish pellets. I offer cut or whole fish but it mostly refuses. It's pretty laid back. Now about 2.5'.

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Our true ARTC Hemibagrus wyckioides, currently at 16", came in March 2016 at about 14". In former owner's hands it presented no problem at feeding, even took down some tank mate cichlids. In my hands, it's a totally different story. I've been struggling greatly to feed it. It refuses the meals ~ half the time and only eats one small bait fish, ~3", at a time and even that most usually occurs out of sight some time in the night. Ignores pellets. Many report they have grown theirs without problem. There is one or two that report similar problems as mine.

At present I've given up trying to understand what a possible cause is of this behavior of my specimen. It's got its own 240 gal presently.

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I bought 27 pictus a few months ago at about 2". A very cheerful and highly energetic gang, needless to say. They are roughly 3"-3.5" now living in one of the 240 gals. May be a bit nervous for the lack of better cover but eating very well and not hiding in available places anyway, except for one pictus, so I've not been compelled to add more cover.

IIRC from Gunpowder Aquatics, they have had the best priced pictus for a while now. I was told they mix together all arrivals at their site in South America, so this I assume must be a mix of both Peruvian and Colombian variety. The former has a better spot definition and grows a bit smaller than the latter.

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