Well, just for fun, I thought I would create my build thread. The room is actually almost complete, and of course I can think of about 100 things I wish were different.
I figured I would walk through it with all of you and use this as an opportunity to hear all of your critiques.
Right now I am sort of have a thing for cardinal's, so most of my tanks have cardinals doing the 'busy' in them. I have 2 pairs of Bangaii, one pajama and one ruby. I am trying to get a pair of Oche's but not alot of luck yet getting them to live. I also would like to decide on a pair of clowns and a pair of dartfish. Thinking about helfrichi (yes I know I like impossible). The final tank will likely go to a pair of dotties, but again, undecided.
I started breeding Bangaii with my breeding tanks plumbed off of my main system, which was roughly 400g. I have downsized the main system as I have moved all of my breeding into the breeding...well tiny space...=) I got to the point where the fry tanks were starting to overload the main system's ability to keep up, so I started looking into doing a breeding setup.
For starters I can outline the things that I wanted.
1) Very small area to work with, roughly 200 sq ft. This is located in my basement. Woot...another basement breeder! =) I have another 200 or so sq feet I can work with in the adjacent room. And, well, if I can do more than dream grand dreams, another 1000 sq ft in the same room.
2) Wanted the capacity to care for 8 pairs and the fry.
3) Wanted to be able to control individual tanks to be linked/unlinked from the 'main' system. I am a fan of maintaining solid water parameters for fry. I know this is easier to accomplish with Bangaii than most fish, but I wanted to make this an essential part of my system.
4) Wanted the system to be able to do more than just service the brood stock, meaning be able to produce corals that favor dirty environments.
5) Energy efficient...at least as best we can be with a hobby that sucks the power out of my wall.
I will try to walk through the different parts of my setup as I have time. As I said, there are already tons of things I would like to be different...but hey that is half the fun.
So to start with is my Target thermal curtains. I didn't build walls, or try to make an air tight setup. I figured, I don't want it air tight, but I do want it to be able to retain heat. I didn't want expensive, and this was about the cheapest route I could go. So far it is proving to have the capacity to maintain about a 10 degree difference from the outside.
So far i have not had any humidity issues.
So this is picture #1. :mixed:
I figured I would walk through it with all of you and use this as an opportunity to hear all of your critiques.
Right now I am sort of have a thing for cardinal's, so most of my tanks have cardinals doing the 'busy' in them. I have 2 pairs of Bangaii, one pajama and one ruby. I am trying to get a pair of Oche's but not alot of luck yet getting them to live. I also would like to decide on a pair of clowns and a pair of dartfish. Thinking about helfrichi (yes I know I like impossible). The final tank will likely go to a pair of dotties, but again, undecided.
I started breeding Bangaii with my breeding tanks plumbed off of my main system, which was roughly 400g. I have downsized the main system as I have moved all of my breeding into the breeding...well tiny space...=) I got to the point where the fry tanks were starting to overload the main system's ability to keep up, so I started looking into doing a breeding setup.
For starters I can outline the things that I wanted.
1) Very small area to work with, roughly 200 sq ft. This is located in my basement. Woot...another basement breeder! =) I have another 200 or so sq feet I can work with in the adjacent room. And, well, if I can do more than dream grand dreams, another 1000 sq ft in the same room.
2) Wanted the capacity to care for 8 pairs and the fry.
3) Wanted to be able to control individual tanks to be linked/unlinked from the 'main' system. I am a fan of maintaining solid water parameters for fry. I know this is easier to accomplish with Bangaii than most fish, but I wanted to make this an essential part of my system.
4) Wanted the system to be able to do more than just service the brood stock, meaning be able to produce corals that favor dirty environments.
5) Energy efficient...at least as best we can be with a hobby that sucks the power out of my wall.
I will try to walk through the different parts of my setup as I have time. As I said, there are already tons of things I would like to be different...but hey that is half the fun.
So to start with is my Target thermal curtains. I didn't build walls, or try to make an air tight setup. I figured, I don't want it air tight, but I do want it to be able to retain heat. I didn't want expensive, and this was about the cheapest route I could go. So far it is proving to have the capacity to maintain about a 10 degree difference from the outside.
So far i have not had any humidity issues.
So this is picture #1. :mixed:
encore, i want more
