blue unicorn enclosure

[Tackett]

Hey guys, I'm going to get a blue unicorn tang when I get the cash to put together a proper enclosure for him. I know they need MASSIVE space so Im going to dedicate a entire section of the house I build for him, either that or I was also thinking something like building it into the wall and have it stretch through every room in the house.
Question number two. How in the hell do you do water changes with a tank of that size. A 10K gallon tank will involve changing 2k gallons of water weekly, thats rediculous. How does anyone with a tank close to this size do it?

 

[Oceans Ferevh]

Man if you can scrape together that kind of cash for a tank...I'm open for donations to the poor :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

You sure you need a tank quite that big? I saw atlantis aquarium recently that has a 20,000 gallon reef and they have a few hundred tangs in there.

At any rate, you wouldn't need to change that much water that frequently. If there was only one fish in there its waste would already be highly diluted, for starters.

 

[fishfanatic2]

10,000 gallons? Are you keeping sharks or tangs? I agree with Dan, but one fish would get a little lost in a tank that size, no?

 

[Tackett]

ok im a damn retard , dont know what I was thinking when I wrote that. 300 will probably do it. 60 gallons is much more feasable.

 

[JennM]

I have a half-grown Naso vlamingii in a 1000 gallon tank. He's got plenty of room. There are about 15 fish in the tank, including 4 tangs.

I'm sure that by the time he's fully grown he'll need to go but by then he'll be a good candidate for donation to a public aquarium.

Jenn

 

[Anonymous]

Jenn,

How big is the Naso vlamingii at this time?

 

[JennM]

He's about a foot long. I did have a pic someplace but I don't know where it is now...I'll look and see if I can find it. But it might be on my work computer.

He came out of a 60 hex in May. I couldn't believe he didn't have a curvature of the spine from swimming in circles.

Jenn

 

[Anonymous]

Jenn,

Thanks for the info...and don't worry about the pic.

My LFS has one about that length, too, and I was wondering if it was adult size, or still growing.

Big fishie!

 

[JennM]

Here's the thread where I posted his pic:
http://www.reefs.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.p ... light=tang

He has grown significantly since then, he's fat as a pig!

The P. hepatus in the pic has to be about 9" long too.

Jenn

 

[Anonymous]

Beautiful!!!

 

[JennM]

More pix of the tank on my website... click the link in my sig line, enter the site and there's a whole slide show about the "big tank".

Jenn

 

[Anonymous]

Awesome web site!

The tank had to come through the window, huh?

 

[JennM]

Yep, it was exactly 3/4" too large to go through the door... go figure. We bought it used from a client, he had that one and a 1200 gallon. I noticed I don't have a recent pic on the site... I think Scott took some the other day, will get him to update the site. It's been up since March, has about 15 fish.. 6 Monodactyus argentus, 1 P. Hepatus, 1 Zebrasoma xanthurum (Purple Tang), 1 large Volitan Lionfish, 1 female Xanthichthys auromarginatus (Blue Throat Triggerfish). All those came with the tank, along with a Arothron hispidus (which we lost in an unfortunate power head accident while repairing a leaking seam in the tank..) 1 Zebrasoma flavescens (Yellow Tang), Naso vlamingii, Cromileptes altivelis (Panter Grouper), Platax teira (Tiera Batfish) which came from tanks which they outgrew. I also threw in, much to my regret, a Balistapus undulatus (Undulated Trigger) that was tiny when it went in but it grows larger and more obnoxious every day. I did put in a Thalassoma lunare (Moon Wrasse) that I'd had for sale for over a year - he did well for about 3 weeks then mysteriously disappeared - I have a strong suspicion that the Panther Grouper got him ... the grouper is the only fish large enough to have consumed him without any "evidence". The only fish I've "bought" for the tank is a Lo upsi (Fiji Foxface) which does very well except the Undulated nips at his tail.

That makes 16 fish total... so far

Jenn