a hill
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Scenario: Anemone heaven.
Challenge: How do you build the tank for optimal health of anemone with minimal active maintenance?
Budget: Something reasonable.
Species: Chose your anemone, only one type allowed.
In submitting please explain your reasoning for each aspect of the tank.
If you think fish are crucial, include them. If sand is, what type and why? Should macro algae be there with a collection of scallops; you tell us how you decided this.
More other stuff, lets avoid saying 99999999 gallons and silliness like this. Reasonable budget should be considered under $5,000 but more likely under $2,000 is likely realistic for people. Maybe go for the smallest size tank that will not restrict from the goal. This does not mean nano, however 500 gallon is probably excessive and wasteful, initially.
So how would you do it? Which would you chose? How will you filter it, does it need an Apex controller?
I'm proposing this scenario to the community because I think it could be a fun brainstorming activity. I plan to set up a tank for this purpose sometime in July and have started planning mine. It seems there is a fair amount of flexibility but I could not find too many good threads focused on a tank from the group up without "limits" constraining design. Harem tanks and such are similar to this, but always seem to favor the fish in the design over the anemone. This influences the tank's design and aesthetic to a large degree. I'm hoping to avoid that, and if clowns are allowed in, they need to be considered a guest, not the focus. Same with anything else associated with the tank.
So, How would you set up a tank for the luckies anemone alive? How will you chose what anemone that is to be (hypothetically)
-Andrew
Challenge: How do you build the tank for optimal health of anemone with minimal active maintenance?
Goal: Showcase one organism specifically and have it flourish without restraint.Budget: Something reasonable.
Species: Chose your anemone, only one type allowed.
In submitting please explain your reasoning for each aspect of the tank.
- tank size
- anemone type
- tank contents: sand rock macro whatever
- companion fish
- light
- filtration including media
- How to minimize needed maintenance and personal interaction.
- etc
If you think fish are crucial, include them. If sand is, what type and why? Should macro algae be there with a collection of scallops; you tell us how you decided this.
More other stuff, lets avoid saying 99999999 gallons and silliness like this. Reasonable budget should be considered under $5,000 but more likely under $2,000 is likely realistic for people. Maybe go for the smallest size tank that will not restrict from the goal. This does not mean nano, however 500 gallon is probably excessive and wasteful, initially.
So how would you do it? Which would you chose? How will you filter it, does it need an Apex controller?
I'm proposing this scenario to the community because I think it could be a fun brainstorming activity. I plan to set up a tank for this purpose sometime in July and have started planning mine. It seems there is a fair amount of flexibility but I could not find too many good threads focused on a tank from the group up without "limits" constraining design. Harem tanks and such are similar to this, but always seem to favor the fish in the design over the anemone. This influences the tank's design and aesthetic to a large degree. I'm hoping to avoid that, and if clowns are allowed in, they need to be considered a guest, not the focus. Same with anything else associated with the tank.
So, How would you set up a tank for the luckies anemone alive? How will you chose what anemone that is to be (hypothetically)
-Andrew
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