Help with decision for new tank

[markviiisvt4]

I'm thinkin about picking up this tank. Its a 155 with a built in wet dry in the back. I like the dimensions of the tank, but i just duno what i would use that compartment for. I've got a very nice sump set up in the basement making the wet dry wasted space and i'd really like to have the full 24 inches. I though maby just cut it out, but that ruins a tank that may have been useful to some one else. Comments and opinions please

 

[DiscoReefRover]

Use it as a fuge !!!!!!

 

[markviiisvt4]

I thought about that but i've already got a 55 gallon fuge.

 

[serpentman]

I would use it as a second fuge for pod production. Given its proxy to the main tank, it will be a literal pod farm.

 

[fambrough]

How about as a cryptic fuge? Although you might have to cover the top so even less light gets in.

 

[markviiisvt4]

cryptic fuge?

 

[fambrough]

Cryptic Fuge threads on RC:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1409843&highlight=cryptic+fuge

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1387466&highlight=cryptic+fuge

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1323434&highlight=cryptic+fuge

There are a few others. I am skeptical of the actual benefits (mostly due to some comments by greenbean), but it seems like it might be cool to do just for the fun of it.

 

[markviiisvt4]

interesting reading. I might try that weather i get the new tank or not. Wich i may not because it turns out from the front of the tank to the built in wet dry is only 15 inches, if i got the tank it would have to come out.

 

[SaltyWaters]

Use it to put your fish that miss behave!. Lol

 

[serpentman]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13156204#post13156204 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by markviiisvt4
interesting reading. I might try that weather i get the new tank or not. Wich i may not because it turns out from the front of the tank to the built in wet dry is only 15 inches, if i got the tank it would have to come out.

If its welded together, its probably not worth it if you have to that section out

 

[markviiisvt4]

I'd be trading my current 15o gallon high tank for it. whats the general opinion? think its a good deal or no.

 

[CleveYank]

I'd leave the tank the way it is.

I'd fill the wet dry area with live rock. Add a layer of sand.
Add a pair of breeding clowns from a specific part of the world and one nice chunk of rock with calerpa in the sand to grow around it. And have a matching anemone again from the region or part of the world that the clowns came from.

I'd plumb it inline with my current setup and have a nice representation of clown/anemone symbiotic relationship with a region of the world they hail from emphasis...or rather purity to have a close duplication of their occurrence in the wild.

 

[StanD]

I'd go for the pod farm / refugium with lost of live rock and some good macroalgae that you can't grow in the main tank. I like the red varieties.

Good luck

Stan