Species Only Tank Ideas...

[percula]

Ok, just wanted to make a list of ideas, Im bored.

Just name one (add to list!), give Ideas on how YOU would set it up and so on...

1. Seahorse
2. Seacuttles
3. Clownfish
4. Clam
5. SPS
6. ?

 

[DKKA]

I've always wanted to do an all Euphyllia sp. tank. I've read numerous times that you can mix the various species with no ill effects. There's something hypnotic about hammer/frogspawn/torch polyps swaying in a slight current. I picture a tank with just a few pieces of live rock, maybe a couple torches and frogspawns up in the rocks, and then cover the bottom with Hammer. (for that matter, maybe just an all E. Ancora tank)
Add a couple small Percula's to host in a field of Euphyllia and you're set.
Dan

 

[Anonymous]

Some day I'd love to have a seacuttle tank. Amazing animals. It'd have to have lots of different textures and colors in the tank to let them show off their camouflage prowess.

I'd probably still call them cuttlefish though, sorry Perc.

 

[percula]

Cool, glad someone actually responded to my post, thought it was buried!

Anyone else?

DKKA - heard before, you sound like you have more of a plan, sounds cool!

TG - Yeah, yeah, but hey, being able to tell people off about the name thing gives me a powertrip. But youre cool, so I wont bust ya again... but that was the sump. Hehe.

 

[bigtank]

I think an open brain tank would be cool. I would use maybe a 30 or 58 with a 96w smartlight. No angels because they would pick at them.

Welsophyllia, trachyphyllia, lobophyllia brains all on the substrate with only a little LR in the tank. A dwarf lion too.

 

[myreef]

Chris,
I think you should shove as many big angels in your 58 as possible. Maybe 20-30...oh wait you want a serious response. HEHE

I like DK's idea....the thought of a tank full of hammer corals and frogspawn of different color morphs would be cool. Maybe have a mated pair of clowns. Hmmmmm thinking thinking.....

 

[percula]

Hehe... funny.

Yeah, yeah, I know what I want for my tank, but liked new ideas for other tanks...

 

[Anonymous]

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[percula]

So you liked my thread too huh mathguy? - perc

 

[Anonymous]

tangirl, when you're ready to do a seacuttle tank, if you have any questions, let me know. Have worked with them. Incredible animals.
Hey Perc, very interesting topic. I have always wanted to do a cube monospecific staghorn Acropora sp. thickets system over a Jaubert sandbed, with no liverock other than what the specimen is mounted on, and with a quasi-symbiotic school of chromis or damsels all about the branches. Lit by 1000 watt bulbs with LCD cloud simulators and light movers, and a Borneman style surge device on one side, and an opposing reverse Carlson surge device. Also, an empty sump will provide means for opposing timed tidal Iwaki returns to oppose each other at the bottom of opposing tank sides...

 

[Anonymous]

Hair Algae only, of coarse I would want different varieties otherwise it would be quite boring

 

[monkeyboy]

I think an acropora specific tank in a larger 180+ tank once well established for a couple of years could house some of the more beautiful SPS polyp predators. A pair of light green long nose filefish would be stunning and could be kept indefinitely.

 

[2poor2reef]

That's an interesting idea monkeyboy. But I would have thought that you would need an even bigger tank than that to keep a pair of sps polyp feeders. Do you have any experience with feeding one of these fish? I would like to know exactly how much sps tissue they eat per day as adults.

 

[Carpentersreef]

I am trying to find info re a 180g seahorse tank. The book that I want is backordered, and the seahorse sites I have found don't help much. I've talked to a local "expert", and was told that 180 is too big. (not my LFS)

Needless to say, "SAY WHAT?" Isn't the ocean bigger than 180g???

The Vancouver Aquarium has a seahorse tank that is more or less 150g looks like it has a DSB and seagrass, maybe 40"deep total. Is there a more ideal setting for seahorses?

The more we can set up our systems for captive breeding, the better, I say!

Mitch

 

[Anonymous]

The only problem with a 180 is getting an adequate amount of food in the water with respect to how far the seahorses have to travel to consume an adequate amount for their nutrition (which is a lot, mind you, eating almost constantly).

 

[Carpentersreef]

O.K.,
So what if you put a refugium before the seahorse tank and have a lot of LR in the seahorse tank, and low tank water circulation, and what if you had unlimited resourses for making a 180g seahorse tank? (not saying that I have that) What would it look like?

Mitch

 

[chris_h]

What is a Borneman style surge device?

 

[Anonymous]

An idea re seahorses would be have a large tank, but sequester the horses to a small subsection using a wall of rock. then make the rest of the tank a refugium-style pod breeding ground...

[ September 02, 2001: Message edited by: Cheese Sandwich ]

 

[Anonymous]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Carpentersreef:
<STRONG>O.K.,
So what if you put a refugium before the seahorse tank and have a lot of LR in the seahorse tank, and low tank water circulation, and what if you had unlimited resourses for making a 180g seahorse tank? (not saying that I have that) What would it look like?</STRONG><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

It would probably look like a large seahorse display at a public aquarium, where, most often, whole small rooms are devoted to growing enough food, and much time is dedicated taking care that inherent excess food does not foul the system.

chris_h,
The Borneman surge device explanation can be found here: http://www.marshreef.org/images/borneman/borneman6.html

 

[Chucker]

Got a CPR MRT on my desk next to the PC whose sole inhabitant is a pistol shrimp. Might get him a goby in a month or two.