Large split tank idea sps/soft

[ndh78]

I have the room in a new house to build a peninsula style tank. I am thinking about having a wide tank separated somewhat by a reef wall and having sps on one side and soft/lps on the other. Has anybody done something like this? Any threads or pics would be helpful.

I am going to post this in a couple more forums I'm still thinking about pursuing the idea but would like to get some feed back.

Basically I am thinking about something at least 36 in wide and having a "reef wall" running down the center rising to the top of the water column to essentially separate one side from the other. One end would be short as to allow flow, fish etc to get around both sides but it would be enough of a division I think to have different species on each side. I know that water parameters or rather quality requirements are different but whatever I can grow softy wise in sps water would be fine with me and flow could be tailored to each side. I want to have both in one tank but I don't want to deal with direct interaction between sps and other types of coral.

Am I crazy!

 

[RadReefer]

I believe leathers and such can sense other species of coral just through sharing water, not separated by distance. They can release toxins accordingly. Anyways, I keep several large leathers in a 46 gal mixed tank with many SPS and everything looks fine.

 

[arturlopez]

I thought of doing the same but quit. I would rather build two different tanks with different water parameters, flow and etc

 

[Maivortex]

I think a Lps and sps tank would be better since u would not have the toxins from softies.