I see people building reef tanks in the 300-1000 gallon range, often out of fiberglassed plywood. In other boards I have also seen plenty of FW folks who do the same. But I have yet to see FOWLR's this big. Anyone out there have one to show off? For the rest of us, how would you stock, say, a 8'x4'x3' tank?
Big FOWLR tanks
- Thread starter Opsanus
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Here are some pic's of my 500 gallon fish only tank, sorry pictures are not the best.
Stock list:
11"Sohal Tang
8 " Porcupine Puff
8" Lunar Wrasse
7" Harliquine Tusk
7" Clown Trigger
6" Humma Trigger
8" Niger Trigger
10" Maculosus Angelfish
30" Snowflake Eel
18" Reverse Goldentail Eel
A couple 3" Damsels and 1 1" Damsel
These pictures were taken about 6 months ago.
Stock list:
11"Sohal Tang
8 " Porcupine Puff
8" Lunar Wrasse
7" Harliquine Tusk
7" Clown Trigger
6" Humma Trigger
8" Niger Trigger
10" Maculosus Angelfish
30" Snowflake Eel
18" Reverse Goldentail Eel
A couple 3" Damsels and 1 1" Damsel
These pictures were taken about 6 months ago.
PuffersKick
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Your Tusk and Lunarre Wrasse don't fight? I really like Tusk's and wanted to get one, but have never considered it b/c I always thought it would fight with my Lunare Wrasse....
What order did you add your fish?
What order did you add your fish?
marrone
New member
Personnal I would rather go with 2-250gal tanks than 1-500gal tank. Because unlike a reef tank where you can mix different corals together without a problem, and even setup areas where the lighting isn't bright for lps and softies, one large tank limits the fish you can place in the tank. Even in large tank some fish will cause problems with other fish but by having 2 tanks you can seperate fish and in the long run actually have more fish. They is why I went with 2-260gal tanks instead of 1-500gal tank as some fish I have in one tank could never go with fish that I have in the another tank.
marrone
New member
It's usually safe to mix Hogs together with other wrasse and even keep more then 1 Hog together, just make sure there is a size difference. But it's usually not good to mix together 2 wrasses as they will fight to the death most of the time, specially 2 wrasse from the Thalassoma family.
marrone
New member
I have some shot and I really should take more but I'm lazy, and I even have the camera right next to the tank. I'll post some shot later tonight. It's hard to get good pictures as the fish are always moving around.
Here's a picture of my Napolian Wrasse, about 12", about 1 years or so ago. Very slow growing fish considering that it eats a lot of food and in the wild get very large.
Here's a picture of my Napolian Wrasse, about 12", about 1 years or so ago. Very slow growing fish considering that it eats a lot of food and in the wild get very large.
marrone
New member
I didn't get the tanks drill as I didn't wanted a sump under the tank. I'm running a eheim wet/dry on eat tank. The DME is in another tank but there is a 4' Zebra eel and a 3'+ Snowflake eel that you don't see.
You can't see a lot of the fish that I have in the tanks and because the picture is so far back, to get both tank in the same picture you lose scale of the size of the fish.
You can't see a lot of the fish that I have in the tanks and because the picture is so far back, to get both tank in the same picture you lose scale of the size of the fish.
SoonerFan732
New member
Marrone,
Your setup looks cool. What fish are you keeping in those tanks?
Your setup looks cool. What fish are you keeping in those tanks?
marrone
New member
My current fish list is:
Angels:
Asfer
Maculosus
Chrysurus
Passer
Triggers:
Clown(Just got rid of it)
Black Durgen
Eels:
Zebra
Snow Flake
Tangs:
Hippo
Blue Line
Desjardini Sailfin
Lieutenant
Dussumieir
Sohal
Naso
Fuji Foxface
Red Spotted Rabbitface
Scribble Rabbitfish
Misc:
Red Breasted Wrasse
Napoleon Wrasse
Digrammus Wrasse
Blue Spotted Grouper
Sargocentron Spiniferum Squirrel fish
Hugh Ugly Damsel
Angels:
Asfer
Maculosus
Chrysurus
Passer
Triggers:
Clown(Just got rid of it)
Black Durgen
Eels:
Zebra
Snow Flake
Tangs:
Hippo
Blue Line
Desjardini Sailfin
Lieutenant
Dussumieir
Sohal
Naso
Fuji Foxface
Red Spotted Rabbitface
Scribble Rabbitfish
Misc:
Red Breasted Wrasse
Napoleon Wrasse
Digrammus Wrasse
Blue Spotted Grouper
Sargocentron Spiniferum Squirrel fish
Hugh Ugly Damsel
marrone
New member
A couple of reason, first I had a # of very aggressive fish in the tank and some where going at my Nap. wrasse so I decided I need to take out some of the problems and the Clown was it. Also Clown triggers need really good water quailty, unlike some of the other triggers, and because of the amount of fish and the feeding that I do the nitrates would go up and the Clown trigger was effected by it quite abite.
I really nice to see the all these Fish tanks where there is some rock on the bottom and the rest of the tank is left fully open creating a lot of swimming room.
I really nice to see the all these Fish tanks where there is some rock on the bottom and the rest of the tank is left fully open creating a lot of swimming room.
