Great advice so far, I got plenty of questions so keep it coming!
Pagani- you keep your tank at 86F seems a little high, any particular reason for keeping it this high?
As far as ray selection and tank footprint, I might have to settle for something a little smaller and wont be able to do 8ft, I know for sure I wont be looking into breeding or housing more than a trio/pair at max in a years time, and prob going with a hardier and easier to come by species for now. Dont plan on adding another massive fish such as an arrowana or anything. So it'll prob be the 1-2 stingrays in the tank only.
So a sump is a must as I can see, which shouldn't be to bad, I'm going to need some advice for a freshwater sump as I believe its going to differ quite a bit from the salt water side. I got a few spare pumps lying around and will be able to push at least 600gph through the returns, and for as far as flow through the tank I have a vortech mp40 and a few K2-K3 which I believe could get the job done. Understand the filter sock portion of the sump.. have it run wet/dry after that with a massive amount of bioballs? then to a return section which can house the pump and heaters. Anything i'm missing, as the sump is the main thing i'm struggling with not to familar with the whole wet/dry as bioballs are unholy in salwater lol
Skynoch you mentioned a drip system?
Also does anybody use R/O DI water on there systems? I have a current R/O system just wondering if it'd be any use for me still.
I'd love to buy a ray off a fellow member rather than a chain store, hopefully Scott still has some for sale when I got everything up and running.