Dual 40g Breeder's

drock59 · 03/19/2012, 06:12 PM

Tried a search but came up empty.

I am curious if anyone has tried to set up two tanks, not necessarily 40 breeders, right next to each other. I could run a reef tank and an aggressive tank along side each other.

This is all I have found thus far:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...ight=dual+tank

Does anyone have experience with this or links to people who have tried it?

tkeracer619 · 03/19/2012, 06:32 PM

You can easily share the same sump and return pump / filtration.

Postal · 03/19/2012, 07:49 PM

My system has 3 tanks sharing a common sump / return.

drock59 · 03/19/2012, 08:06 PM

There we go! Thanks for sharing. Do you have each tank separated by type of inhabitants?

Postal · 03/19/2012, 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drock59

There we go! Thanks for sharing. Do you have each tank separated by type of inhabitants?

Yes, I went with different ideas but finally settled on the following:

Left 40 breeder - almost a planted tank with large amounts of macro and home to a pair of orange-spotted filefish, a pair of black leopard wrasses, a meleagris leopard, a SI WC percula with her anemone, and several rock-flower and maxi-mini anemones.

Center cube - home of a haddoni carpet anemone with a pair of GSM clowns.

Right 40 breeder - traditional reef tank with LPS and zoas / palys and more wrasses.

jluspo · 03/19/2012, 08:41 PM

TOTM last Nov 2011 was multi-tank - http://reefkeeping.com/joomla/index....k-of-the-month

I'm actually thinking of doing a multi-tank (same sump/filtration). I now have a 120 reef but would like to add a 40breeder for butterflys and dwarf angels or other species I could/would not add to my main tank.

drock59 · 03/19/2012, 08:46 PM

Sweet, thanks. That is a pretty cool setup.

drock59 · 03/20/2012, 07:50 PM

Anybody else have something similar?

03/19/2012, 06:12 PM	#1
drock59 Premium Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Corvallis, OR Posts: 3,802	Dual 40g Breeder's Tried a search but came up empty. I am curious if anyone has tried to set up two tanks, not necessarily 40 breeders, right next to each other. I could run a reef tank and an aggressive tank along side each other. This is all I have found thus far: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...ight=dual+tank Does anyone have experience with this or links to people who have tried it?

03/19/2012, 06:32 PM	#2
tkeracer619 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Westminster, CO Posts: 17,289	You can easily share the same sump and return pump / filtration. __________________ Hobby Experience: 9200ish gallons, 26 skimmers, and a handful of Kent Scrapers. Current Tank: Vortech Powered 600G SPS Tank w/ 100gal frag tank & 100g Sump. RK2-RK10 Skimmer. ReefAngel. Radium 20k.

03/19/2012, 07:49 PM	#3
Postal Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Wesley Chapel, FL Posts: 2,707	My system has 3 tanks sharing a common sump / return.

03/19/2012, 08:06 PM	#4
drock59 Premium Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Corvallis, OR Posts: 3,802	There we go! Thanks for sharing. Do you have each tank separated by type of inhabitants?

03/19/2012, 08:41 PM	#6
jluspo Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Sugar Land, TX Posts: 30	TOTM last Nov 2011 was multi-tank - http://reefkeeping.com/joomla/index....k-of-the-month I'm actually thinking of doing a multi-tank (same sump/filtration). I now have a 120 reef but would like to add a 40breeder for butterflys and dwarf angels or other species I could/would not add to my main tank.

03/19/2012, 08:46 PM	#7
drock59 Premium Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Corvallis, OR Posts: 3,802	Sweet, thanks. That is a pretty cool setup.

03/20/2012, 07:50 PM	#8
drock59 Premium Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Corvallis, OR Posts: 3,802	Anybody else have something similar?