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12-08-2004, 11:51 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 20
Posts: 3,450
  
|  Ideal Size Reef Aquarium
Well i am wanting to get a new tank for a second reef in my home so...  _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1 x 54w Fiji Purple T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w Super Actinic Blue T5 HO Flourescent
1 x 54w 14000K AquaBlue 75/25 T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
Hard Stuff:
100+ lb. Fiji Live Rock
65+ lb. Live sand
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12-08-2004, 11:53 AM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Clinton Twp, Michigan Age: 27
Posts: 479
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 | Re: Ideal Size Reef Aquarium
I wish I had done a cube.
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Save a fishes life! Do some reseach before you buy your next fish.
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12-08-2004, 02:18 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 20
Posts: 3,450
| Re: Ideal Size Reef Aquarium
u mean a 12 gal nano cube...i have one and wow its alot harder than my 55...mostly because it is less water and less constant...i might connect it with my larger one (when i get it) so it will be more stable | |
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12-08-2004, 02:21 PM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Clinton Twp, Michigan Age: 27
Posts: 479
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| Re: Ideal Size Reef Aquarium
No I mean a Cube tank. *Where it is just as wide as it is long. *like a 24"x24" foot print. *Very cool. *The pet smart over by me used to have a 150 gal cube. *The foot print was 48"x48". *I loved drooling over that tank.
Check out this tank in the thread Cube Tank | |
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12-08-2004, 02:34 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Tampa, FL,Florida
Posts: 330
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| Re: Ideal Size Reef Aquarium
what kind of house do you have? Your sig sais you already have 8 tanks, and 4 of them are really big, you live in a castle? 
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90 gal, 120 lbs sand, 90 pounds live rock (adding), 5 blue-green chromis&&&&10 gal, softies, one Ocellaris Clownfish, one clowngoby, one cbs and lots of rock && | |
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12-08-2004, 03:28 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 20
Posts: 3,450
| Re: Ideal Size Reef Aquarium
lol no the ones below the nano r at my school lol
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12-08-2004, 04:42 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Marina del Rey, California
Posts: 3,524
| Re: Ideal Size Reef Aquarium
300 is a minimum in my book. 26,000 gallons even better, eh? _________ Just tryin to recreate God's perfection in a glass bowl. 20 Gallon Reef W/Live Rock, mated pair of Maroon Clowns, Softies, 110 watts PC 10,000k lighting, and skimmer.  | |
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12-08-2004, 05:29 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
Posts: 2,947
| Re: Ideal Size Reef Aquarium
I agree! LOL! Were it not for the limitations of space, and money, would we not all reach for the sky??? How big is too big? I don't know! _________  I Love My Sig By John Hawkins!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date Started 9/04 58 gallon Oceanic Tank, 20 gal DIY sump/fuge w/ Kent Marine Auto top-off, Air Water Ice RO/DI, 10,000 K 175 W MH, 2 VHO 03's 96W each, AquaC EV 120 Skimmer
80 lbs LR, DSB in FUGE, 1 - 2 " LS in tank
Black Brittle Star, Chevron Tang, Crocea Clam, red & green Lobophyllia, Frogspawn, Porites Frag, Caulastrea Frag, Green Ricordia, Asst. Zoas, hermits, astreas, stomatellas, fighting conch  | |
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12-08-2004, 07:39 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Quezon City,
Posts: 335
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| Re: Ideal Size Reef Aquarium
Boracay House reef tank was 50,000 gallons, covers the whole floor beneath a living room and around 24 400 watt MH lamps.
Not as big as public aquariums but then this was intended only as a home tank!
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I retired the reef for now. Maybe a nano or a softies tank in the future when I have both time and money. 60 gallon FOWLR in the meantime. My echidna nebulosa are still going strong! | |
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12-08-2004, 08:40 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 853
Karma: 122
| Re: Ideal Size Reef Aquarium
Right now I have 3 tanks going if you include the hospital tank. I am selling two after christmas and getting a 125. Thats just about right for a livingroom tank. My little 30 gallon is easier to care for and seems more healthy than my 60 gallon....go figure and it has a crushed aragonite gravel type substrate while my 60 has 5 inch DSB.
Jay
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60 Gal Acrylic, 30 Gal Acrylic, 55 Gal Glass.
Remora skimmers, 440 Watts VHO URI's. Mag canister for carbon. 90 Pounds liverock, 100 pounds live sand DSB, Flame Angel, Coral Beauty, Clown Percula, Royal Gramma, Domino Damsel. Pulsing Xenia, Devils Hand Leather, Frogspawns, Torches, Hammers, Fox Corals, Gorgonias, Various Zoanuthus, Favietes, Toxic Green Star Polyps. Candy Cane corals, Purple Indica. | |
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