Seems like I will need TWO tanks.....

piscivorous · 01/14/2006, 12:20 AM

The more I learn about this hobby and figuring out what can live with what, the more it is appearing as though I will need AT LEAST two tanks. An invert. tank and a fish tank. I seem to have a short list of interesting items that really can't live together. I love the soft corals, but I would also love to have a Majestic (Blue Girdled) Angelfish. I love the Feather Dusters and a key interest is also the giant clams (I've got to have at least two of them), but I also really like the Copperbanded Butterflyfish. I love the Percula clowns, but I also REALLY love the Volitans Lionfish. It is kind of looking like I'll have to setup my 55 gallon as my softie tank with clams, dusters, and the Perculas as the "main" fish, and down the road get a much larger tank for the other fish that require more room Volitans Lionfish, Majestic Angelfish, Hippo/Blue Tang etc. Of course even then, I'd probably be smarter either adding the Volitans in last, after everything else has grown significantly, or just simply having a tank for the Volitans by itself. Anyone else found themselves in this "landslide" effect??? I thought the 55 was a huge tank....now I can see myself going to something like a 180 down the road.

xcreonx · 01/14/2006, 12:28 AM

Oh yeah. I need about 25 tanks: A seahorse / seagrass biotope, an anemone tank, a tidal zone mangrove / upside-down jellyfish tank, an aggressive fish tank, a high-flow SPS tank, etc, etc, etc, etc, .... it's a disease, really....

clkwrk · 01/14/2006, 12:39 AM

Yeah be careful Next thing it wil be another and another . Everytime I say I am taking a tank down another goes up . As a matter of fact another tank just went up yesterday

Only 20g and conected to one of my other main systems but still another box o water and color.

01/14/2006, 12:20 AM	#1
piscivorous Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Groton, N.Y. Posts: 801	Seems like I will need TWO tanks..... The more I learn about this hobby and figuring out what can live with what, the more it is appearing as though I will need AT LEAST two tanks. An invert. tank and a fish tank. I seem to have a short list of interesting items that really can't live together. I love the soft corals, but I would also love to have a Majestic (Blue Girdled) Angelfish. I love the Feather Dusters and a key interest is also the giant clams (I've got to have at least two of them), but I also really like the Copperbanded Butterflyfish. I love the Percula clowns, but I also REALLY love the Volitans Lionfish. It is kind of looking like I'll have to setup my 55 gallon as my softie tank with clams, dusters, and the Perculas as the "main" fish, and down the road get a much larger tank for the other fish that require more room Volitans Lionfish, Majestic Angelfish, Hippo/Blue Tang etc. Of course even then, I'd probably be smarter either adding the Volitans in last, after everything else has grown significantly, or just simply having a tank for the Volitans by itself. Anyone else found themselves in this "landslide" effect??? I thought the 55 was a huge tank....now I can see myself going to something like a 180 down the road.

01/14/2006, 12:28 AM	#2
xcreonx Premium Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 1,362	Oh yeah. I need about 25 tanks: A seahorse / seagrass biotope, an anemone tank, a tidal zone mangrove / upside-down jellyfish tank, an aggressive fish tank, a high-flow SPS tank, etc, etc, etc, etc, .... it's a disease, really.... __________________ Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. -Mark Twain Current Tank Info: 90g shallow with H. Barbouri Seahorses

01/14/2006, 12:39 AM	#3
clkwrk Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Mesa ,Az Posts: 10,257	Yeah be careful Next thing it wil be another and another . Everytime I say I am taking a tank down another goes up . As a matter of fact another tank just went up yesterday Only 20g and conected to one of my other main systems but still another box o water and color. __________________ ------- Feel free to use my photos for ONLY informative sites, education or enjoyment.All I ask is to include my Reef Central User id and where you got the photo ( RC).