Your dream system :)

[Len]

Here's a fun thread: What's your "realistically possible" dream aquarium system? I guess it's a rather open-ended question, but let's keep the ideas within the realm of real possibilities (i.e. no future unworkable technologies, no football field sized aquariums unless you plan to be Bill Gates someday )

 

[Anonymous]

6.5 ft long x 30 in wide x 26 in tall in wall. Over flow to be an external box with internal wier connected by a couple of holes. Min tank intrusion and min water level drop. Perimeter braced or brick style. Not sure on the material of construction.

Lighting 3 ea 250 watt MH with 2 to 4 VHO 6 ft actinic or 4-8 3 ft actinic

To include 60 x 30 x 12 to 18 deep prop system

Large sump

Large needle/thread wheel skimmer ie deltec, euro reef etc

Dual pan world returns size TBD with penductors

propeller pumps for internal circulation (tunze, etc)

two q-tanks

Other nic-nacks as needed.

 

[Anonymous]

Mine is sitting in my fish room. What more could I want? 300G with a fish room is da bomb! :mrgreen:

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

One that is free and maintenance free

 

[Anonymous]

Mine is getting built right now. It's 200,000 gallons, about 20 feet deep, 60 feet long, will hold 4,000 fish, and has 120 2000W MHs above it. Pictures to come soon in a thread.

 

[Anonymous]

400 gallon starfire cube.

400w mh's with t5 support (MH's on movers)

Bubble King (since we are dreaming lol)

sequence pumps for return.

Ca reactor

chiller


rock work in the same style mine is now on a miniature scale lol. Nice sized reefs divided by a nice channel in the middle.


Prop tank on seperate system, quarintine tanks, sump, fuge, etc etc.

Vortechs in the tank

wave box.

assorted goodies.


Kind of like your tank isn't it Len?. Fictional and all. :lol:

 

[Len]

Someday, I'll have a 96x48x30 I've always wanted a controllable skylight to help keep electrical usage down. Along with a 8-12 VHO actinics, I'd want to limit it to 3, no more then 4 halides (will have to be spotlight effect, so I'll have some coral blommies/pillars). I definitely want a dedicated fish room (with its own drain and faucet) so I can tuck away all the automation equipment I want such as a semi-automatic water change system. I want a giant refugium too (well, at least 200 gallons ... one of those FDA food bins).

I'm a fish person more then a coral person, so the reason I want a large tank is because I can have many fish I'd fill it with two harems of two different fairy wrasse species, one harem of flasher wrasses, 4-5 different species tangs, two or three large angels, a pair of Genicanthus angels, a pair of Crosshatch triggers, a pair of butterflyfish (Chaetodon declevis, tinkers, mitratus, or flavacornatus), two schools of anthias, a pair of Pseudochromis, and who knows what else. Maybe that's a bit much .... we'll see

 

[Len]

Matt, you're cheating!

 

[stubbsz]

I want my current 100g and I want the corals to grow and retain their colour and although I need it to be tricky enough to keep me interested... I want it to react in a more predicable way.

I don't want established corals to die randomly while the rest of the tank thrives.

I want one that contains no aiptasia.

That'd do it.
-Adrian

 

[bleedingthought]

Probably a cube that was 5'x5'x2.5' with an external overflow, built in the wall with 2 viewable sides, good sized fuge, good sized fuge, separate prop tank, all with a fish room with sink, drain, very well ventilated/cooled, and countertops/cabinets to work on.

Everything but the tank I hope to accomplish in my next house. Of course, my "dream tank" itself always keeps changing.

 

[Anonymous]

I want a cube tank about 60 gallons, with just one 250W HQI pendant, two vortechs, a pair of orchid dottybacks, and only green slimer acropora for coral. (Oh yeah, and calcium reactor and skimmer attached to a sump behind the wall of the tank so you don't hear them of course)

Everytime the orchid db hovers in front of the green slimer, I think of how nice a small, simple tank would be that showcased those animals. Green and purple, green and purple.

I like my tanks small and simple, and my livestock hardy and colorful.

 

[Tole]

Love my 144 gal 1/2 round. Absolutely no plans to get a bigger or different tank

 

[Anonymous]

Love my 144 gal 1/2 round. Absolutely no plans to get a bigger or different tank

"Somebody who hasn't been in the hobby long enough" alert!!!



:welcome:

 

[Anonymous]

I would have to have a dream house to have a dream system. My home would not hold the system that I want. :?

 

[trido]

Mine will be a 450 Gallon in wall display tank. 96"x36"x30". I will get 3, 400W luninarcs and possibly use the two 250s I have as well. I am starting the framing on my Frag/workout room next week. In a few years I will likely conolidate all of my small tanks into this and turn the 120 into a FOWLR. I already have the wifes permission.

 

[Anonymous]

I'll play along, since it has to be an aquarium system:

One I can walk to, look at and observe that everything is beautiful and healthy, and then walk home and put on Bach's cello suites while I cook dinner in an otherwise clean and non-water damaged home.

 

[dadstank]

i would like....

to have an in wall 100 or so in the bedroom with one side to the bedroom, and one side to the bathroom. have it over flow into the 300 gallon 360 degree view tank in the "main gallery". which will then overflow into the main display tank in the first basement. which would then overflow into the gi-normous sump tank in the fish room in the "under-basement"... which of course would flow directly into the drain to make the 1000 gallon water changes very easy for the person hired to take care of all these tanks.........

if only i had such a vivid image of the job that would make me the money to do this, i would be much better off.....
8O

 

[trido]

i would like....

to have an in wall 100 or so in the bedroom with one side to the bedroom, and one side to the bathroom. have it over flow into the 300 gallon 360 degree view tank in the "main gallery". which will then overflow into the main display tank in the first basement. which would then overflow into the gi-normous sump tank in the fish room in the "under-basement"... which of course would flow directly into the drain to make the 1000 gallon water changes very easy

Now that my friend, is a very nice dream tank.

 

[Anonymous]

Len,

My dream system, and one that I fully intend to implement in a few years, is at this point not a marine system. My next reef, whenever it happens, will be a 30 gallon cube. Anyway, you know that huge planted tank you posted about in the freshwater forum? Imagine that with a group of Severums, some Uarus, some huge schools of tetras, a pair of wild Firemouths, etc, etc.

Depending on what fish I end up with, it may not be a fully planted tank, but a large Amazonian biotope tank nevertheless.

Dimensions are still up in the air, but it will most likely be 96x48x36.

Number two, just a 90 gallon tank with a large show specimen of the fish you see to your left.

Number 3, a very large (like the dimensions mentioned above) tank devoted to groupers. Far and away my favorite marine fish. The thought of doing water changes on a huge salt tank ( been there) doesn't turn me on though.

The mind bending cost of stocking a large reef system, accompanied by anxiety any time I leave town, the danger of power outages, power use, etc has put me off of large reefs for good. I'm not willing to spend the money to recover from a disaster. I need systems with a large resilience factor at this point.

I'll always be a marine aquarist, but I'm turning my primary focus back to my first love, the family Cichlidae.

Jim

 

[Anonymous]

Everytime the orchid db hovers in front of the green slimer, I think of how nice a small, simple tank would be that showcased those animals. Green and purple, green and purple.

I like my tanks small and simple, and my livestock hardy and colorful.

You've hit on something that I've tried, mostly unsuccessfully it seems, to drill into the head of more than one hobbiest. You should compose your tanks when aquascaping. Consider color schemes, and go with a theme. Go mostly warm colors with a splash of cool, or visa versa. Stocking fish and corals willy nilly with no regard for composition is never as effective.

People don't realize that cramming 20 maximas into a tank turns them into nondescript clutter. Accenting with one or two, then they become the gems that they truly are.

A tank like the one you mentioned would be beautiful.