7ftx6ftx2ft 625g what would you do?

I saw this tank when it was for sale. It was definitely tempting. Too tempting for you huh?
You gotta go all out on this one!!!! C'mon don't disappoint.:bounce1:

Daniel. :wildone:
 
Yes too tempting. I will go all out with fish because they excite me and make me passionate about this hobby. Corals on the other hand are a lot of work. Let's face it we aren't talking corals unless it's SPS and I don't enjoy the tinkering and constant testing. Angel,Butterfly, and Tang heaven it is.
 
Butterflyfish, angelfish, surgeon fish, anthias.

Make sure you have good qt protocols as it is going to be a challenge.
 
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tkeracer619 said:
Butterflyfish, angelfish, surgeon fish, anthias.

Make sure you have good qt protocols as it is going to be a challenge.
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This is the biggest hesitation/challenge without a doubt. I would start with TTM then observe fish for a total of 8 wks in two separate 40g breeders. I think that would work for all fish i wanted and could do multiples at a time too. Otherwise it takes me a year worth of constantly QTing fish to get my DT stocked:facepalm:
 
After my current battle with disease in a fully stocked tank is over I am going to take a different approach to QT.

I'm setting up a second tank to be a FO display / observation lounge at my work :D. It will be a 5' 100g that I already have.

I will still have my 40b QT at home and will be starting with the TTM then observation. They will then go into the FO tank at work which when stocked will get 30 days of CP. They can then live in that FO until I transfer them over to the large reef ~900g.

The office is excited about it :lol:

Sure it is going to take forever but when my last crash occurred my oldest fish was something like 14 years old. They have the time, I have the time.
 
tkeracer619 said:
After my current battle with disease in a fully stocked tank is over I am going to take a different approach to QT.

I'm setting up a second tank to be a FO display / observation lounge at my work :D. It will be a 5' 100g that I already have.

I will still have my 40b QT at home and will be starting with the TTM then observation. They will then go into the FO tank at work which when stocked will get 30 days of CP. They can then live in that FO until I transfer them over to the large reef ~900g.

The office is excited about it :lol:

Sure it is going to take forever but when my last crash occurred my oldest fish was something like 14 years old. They have the time, I have the time.
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I know the feeling. I took all of my fish out of my DT and setup 350g with of QT and treated my fish because of ich only to loose them all to secondary infections caused by exposing the fish to CP for longer than 30 days. Disease in the new tank ISNT a option so I will be doing something very similar to what your doing. Best to be proactive with disease and OCD IMO. Only takes one sick fish or better yet one ich cyst to start all the trouble again. Everyone tells me to put this tank in the middle of a room somewhere but until you measure it out and see it sitting there you don't grasp how big it actually is. This is a basement tank with a attached fish room on the back of it for QT, sumps, and other equipment plus water feed and drains. I have money to throw at this hobby but not the kind of money it would take to make this tank a real reef. I will take the money I would of spent on corals and buy fish instead. Fish interact with you, corals don't unless they are dying and your pulling them out to frag or throw away
 
A tank like that would definitely look good with a bunch of Anthias in it. Maybe a dozen each of lyre tails and purples? A pair of Angels, a pair of Tangs, a CBB and maybe a pair of Mandarins. I can picture it with lots of bottom crawlers as well; stars, urchins, hermits, snails etc. Then again, I think I'm more of a "lots of smaller fish" than "fewer large fish" kind of guy. As for a reef, you could add a few of the easier to keep corals and just see how they do and if they spread without any human interaction on your part, kind of like the CUC.


Either way, I'm very envious of your new tank. Have you thought of using it as a sort of an "in wall" tank? Possibly have half of it sticking out into the room and the back half in your fish room? You could build a faux stand and canopy for the exposed half and it would look like a very big tank & stand with a strangely large depth to it. Sort of an optical illusion, you could say.
 
Yes I planned on doing some of the tank if not half in the wall. That would look really cool when looking at the tank straight on. I will definetly have a bar for sitting on the front side for easy viewing and a place to eat and put drinks (especially during football season)
 
Reef tank!!! Then add those fish on top of that. If you set it up here, I'm stopping down to see that. Can't be too far from Columbus

Corey
 
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