Re: [GSAS-Member] Largest home aquarium (Susan Welenofsky)

[Betty <bpell402@gmail.com>]

A couple of topics from MonsterFishkeepers about that tank.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=207955
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48640

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Monica H <ninita@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have heard of  HUGE arowana aquarium near Edmonds.  I forget who I heard
> this from, but the way the described it was that it was like a swimming
> pool, and had a net around it with birds that the arowanas fed on.  I had no
> idea arapaimas were protected.  I thought we saw them everywhere in the
> Amazon, and believe we even ate them, but maybe my Portuguese was bad and it
> was a different species.
>
> > From: igotadose@hotmail.com
> > To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
> > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:49:59 +0000
> > Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Largest home aquarium (Susan Welenofsky)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hate to be the negative one but,
> >
> >
> >
> > 1) Arapaima are protected. How did this guy get his?
> >
> > 2) I've heard (not personally seen) of tanks of 10,000 or more even in
> the Seattle area. I'll ask around - someone from the 60's/70's had it. I've
> also seen articles about 10k+ marine tanks in Germany that weren't public
> aquaria. SOmeone named Klaus something I think (again, hearsay about a
> sealed basement filled with water - ouch!)
> >
> >
> >
> > Still, gotta like a big cichlid tank, though I think he has too many fish
> for the size of tank (yes, really, 10,000 may not be enough for all the
> ocellaris, oscars, pacus and stuff he had in it.)
> >
> >
> >
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