I love Tangs, so bigger for me. Currently at 6' but wanting to go to 8' next home... That said I regret it when I have to clean the glass lol
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OMG I feel the pain. I'm currently hating my 350 gallon. More stable my bleep. I still love my smaller tanks.I have had all manner of tanks from a 3g Pico up to a 300g. While I love a well stocked big tank, There was about $40k invested in the 300 and it still was not fully stocked. It also felt like I was CONSTANTLY working on/in the tank to keep it clean/maintained. I never really had time to just enjoy the tank. I had a similar experience with my 180. My most enjoyable systems were my 3g pico and my 40b, but I will likely upgrade to a 75g. A 4' 120 is about as big as I will go in the future.
Oh yes the biggest tank you can afford and/or does not causes a divorce. ;BucktoothI started my trip to insanity with a 29 BioCube that I loved. Then I lost my mind (perhaps licking toads is a bad idea) and followed some bad advise (for me) and bought the "BIGGEST TANK YOU CAN AFFORD". I have a lovely 350 gallon tank taking up a huge amount of space in my living room. I've been fighting this thing since day one. I've changed so much, so many times and I can never get it dialed in. I've killed more frags than most people would ever buy. Different lights, re designs on the sump, skimmers, reactors, on and on. Watched every video on YouTube. I still go from cayano bacteria that covers everything to rock covered in algae and back again. I've given up on ever having a nice reef tank. I'm sticking to fish only and live rock. Though I do have a very large bubble tip that seems happy, and a Bubble coral that's easily the size of 2 grapefruits side by side. I have cleaner shrimp, hermits, snails (sometime a few some time hundreds) urchins, a brittle star That all do fine but always cayano or algae. All told I'm in 30k and wish I'd never gone this big. Perhaps I should give up and raise the for mentioned Psychedelic toads. (for medicinal use only not for resale) If you want big do a 180. Much easier to maintain or remove later.
Good point thats what is overlooked! could you imaging the work that goes into a 1200gallon tank on the daily, no thank you sea world!I have zero preference as long as it’s saltwater. My smallest is my daughters 10 gallon and biggest is my 210 have had a 29 bio cube and a 54 corner. They all had things I liked and disliked. Top off on small tanks is a pain without ato. Cleaning a large tank tanks more time. I feel if I went much bigger than 210 I would lose motivation to clean as often as I should.
Mixed reef? Yes you canSmall.
One of my friends had a big tank made and he was very excited so I went to visit. I'm not sure if it was glass or acrylic but the sides were so thick that looking through it made me dizzy. To see anything that wasn't distorted you had to look perpendicularly into the tank; looking at an angle was just horrible. I much prefer the thinner glass on smaller tanks.
I also find maintenance of small tanks easier; little and often suits me better than spending a whole day trying to clean it.
I'm living away from home for a couple of years so I can't go mad at the moment, but when I do eventually go home I'm considering getting 3 Nano (10-20 gallon) tanks; one for softies, one for LPS and one for SPS. There is no way I could do that with bigger tanks.