What's your aquarium flavor?

[Unarce]

Just curious what our members are into nowadays. Feel free do delve into it a bit more if you like. Especially if you've chosen 'Other'

 

[Anonymous]

I would have picked "other" except it's not on the poll choices 8O

I think a lot of folks are gradually beginning to move away from "fruit stand" tanks, cramming in as many species as possible. Me, with the new tank I intend to keep both softies and SPS - but only a handful of species, allowing them to each colonize large parts of the tank.

 

[Unarce]

I see that trend, too. Not that the fruit stand look is all that bad, but I'm seeing more tanks with creative and spacious rockwork. Keeping separate sections makes keeping a mixed reef a lot easier.

 

[Anonymous]

I vote mixed tank. Not many fish. Lots of coral, both LPS and SPS. I don't have any SPS yet.

 

[Anonymous]

salt and fish poo are the most predominant flavours!

 

[Anonymous]

My tank is dry. It is planned to be an SPS/LPS mix with one BTA. No softies, polyps of 'shrooms.

 

[SnowManSnow]

everytime you do a poll there is someone who has to complain about not having an "other" catagory haha

B

 

[Meloco14]

I vote mixed tank. Not many fish. Lots of coral, both LPS and SPS. I don't have any SPS yet.

:?:

 

[Anonymous]

Mixed reef with mostly soft and LPS corals. We keep a few fish as well. We had a tank with SPS corals totally wiped out by RTN a few years ago and I have not tried to keep them since.

 

[Anonymous]

Too many variations you didn't include, even if I was able to pick one, which I can't. Your poll to me sounds like asking what kind of pizza I like, cheese or cheese and olives?

My next two tanks when I own a house again will be a temperate marine tidepool system, then a 350 gallon freshwater (or maybe grouper) tank. 8)

So many choices, so little space, and DEFINITELY not enough money!
I'm done with huge reefs, friggen money pits.


Jim

 

[Unarce]

Jim - I don't I could have come up with a complete enough list for you

 

[Anonymous]

Try it anyway!!!
Don't forget - Reef with mostly fish, fish with mostly corals, Gourami's with tall plants, Gouramis with short plants and a few tall plants, SPS with 5 mushrooms and a Hawkfish, African mbuna species with lotsa big dead rock...

That should get you started.

 

[Anonymous]

Mine is mostly SPS, with a couple of LPS, a couple of chalice, a T. Gigas, a T. Derasa and 11 fish. Will be 12 fish as soon as I pick up my new Sohal from my LFS.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

I've always tended to do species only tanks with fish.
I've never like the mix and match reefs though in nanos I'll mix different species of corals.

Regards,
David Mohr

 

[Anonymous]

I have seen some hodge podge-style reef tanks that are simply stunning, and have also coveted a region specific biotope setup a friend has setup. Truthfully, I like just about all coral setups EXCEPT the old style wall setup. That's boooooring to me.

I don't care too much for FO tanks, unless it has some special touch like an all predator setup. Now I love to do a nice species tank like Ms. Ighs' new temporate seahorse setup, of course that's a horse of a different color.

 

[Anonymous]

Mine tastes mostly salty with a hint of calcium. I think it is a 2006 which is a pretty good year for salt. Little heady, but not overpowering.


I have a definite mixed reef. I am your steroetypical fruit stand reef guy. I have lots of corals in my 46 but I am mainly using it as a grow out tank for frags to seed a larger tank in a few months. I bought alot of frags for a couple of reasons. Mainly I liked them lol, but also I figured since it was my first real shot at long term sps, I tried to take into account a few losses for whatever reason. Then I only lost one. So now I have alot, but I am selling some this weekend at our meeting in atlanta to free up some space. 53 individual corals of 39 varieties in a 46 gallon BF might be a bit overboard lol. But I like them soooo much. I need a bigger tank.

 

[Anonymous]

Len's tank is a 20" radio controlled M1 A1 Abrahams Main battle tank model.......

My tank is a work in progress- only 8 moths old, but it started as a FOWLR (intended) and now has some LPS and 3 anenomes in it. I will probably go the fruitstand route as I intend building another predator and crayfish specific tank when my bank account recovers from this one....

 

[Anonymous]

Len's tank is a 20" radio controlled M1 A1 Abrahams Main battle tank model.......

I had not previously considered this, but now that it's been brought up, I have to wonder how much heat the remote controlled engine puts into the tank.

 

[Anonymous]

Consider also that detritus trap he is running in the tank tracks, wonder how he manages that, regular oil changes??? 8O 8O
Answers Len.... we want answers, the truth will out!

 

[Anonymous]

Sorry! Going a bit off-topic and hijacking the thread.... It wont happen again, promise! Only realised I was posting topside after submitting- Perhaps we should take the off- topic stuff down to the Sump- where it belongs... again, sorry