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A stingray in the cellar

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  1. kiang

    kiang Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Jack Heathcote in Nottingham UK, has built a 4'800 gallon aquarium in the basement of his house, believed to be the biggest home aquarium in the UK it is 13 feet square and 7 foot deep.
    In the tank are two chainsaw doradids, three 2ft long Pacus, some Pangasius, a Red tail hybrid catfish, two alligator gars, eight enormous stingrays and two Fly River turtles.

    Read more: Fish fan Jack Heathcote turns cellar into Britain's biggest home aquarium | Mail Online

    Aquarium-crazy Jack Heathcote turns cellar into a 4,800-gallon fish tank | The Sun |News

    Fish fan Jack Heathcote turns cellar into Britain's biggest home aquarium | Mail Online
     
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    Wow, very impressive. :) Isn't the species selection almost exactly the same as in London Zoo's Aquarium's biggest tank?
     
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    pff... the mistakes the press make
     
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    Looks very similar to the catfish etc tank at the Blue Planet Aquarium. I'm nowhere near a fish expert but I did wonder if the dimensions were a bit small for such large species.
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    the first comment under that video: "its just 10,000 gal, the biggest home aquarium is 52,000 gallons."
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    for those who know fish, check out this massive fire eel:
     
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    It really annoyed me when I saw this video, that this guy claimed to have the biggest private aquarium. He is a poster on the Monster Fish Keepers website and knew perfectly well of the larger tanks owned by the gentleman in Canada. Blatantly lying, and for no apparent purpose.
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    he's actually a moderator on monsterfishkeepers and, as you say, knows full well of larger tanks than his.
     
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    Sorry, I didn't know that. This is what I saw one day when browsing through some Google searches.
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    I don't think CGSwans was blaming you personally for the video UMAG :D

    here's a video of the tank:
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    quoting myself again to show up the link for everyone.

    There's some very nice stingrays in the tank, but personally I really hate this sort of tank. Monster Fishkeeper types always seem to enjoy looking at grossly overstocked tanks with almost or literally no tank furniture, often (as here) not even any substrate. It just looks ugly.
     
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    Do you know what those big fat, oval shaped fish are? I think there are around 3 of them.

    I have to agree, when I first saw it I though not even sand or rocks at the bottom. Surely if he had the money to build such a large tank then he would have the money to at least buy a few bags of sand and fill the bottom of the tank up. Or he could just go to the local park with a bucket and spade.....:D
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    at 0.17? Those are pacu, which are sort of like "vegetarian piranhas"
     
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    They seemed to be quite big pacu. I have never seen ones that size so I couldn't really recognise them.
     
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    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    pacu get huge, reportedly up to 1.5 metres in the wild, but usually 60 to 90 cm is a monster in the aquarium world. Google Images has some shots of very big pacu (probably none of 1.5m though!). Search for either "pacu" or "tambaqui"