That’s awesome! Will be a beautiful tank!!! We have the emperor, Majestic and Niger in our fo also. I lov the angels. Can’t wait to see your tank when it’s done!!
That’s an awesome tank!! Makes my 300g, 8’ look so small. We only have 14 fish.. how many fish in this tank???Her are a few shots of my 650 FO!
Congratulations on a very nice set up!
I don't know the number of fish....but it really depends on the sizes more so than the numbers. In most of the photos I waited for many to congregate for the pic so it may appear more crowded than it actually was. The photos were taken shortly after the tank was stocked. Many of those angels (Queen, Majestic, Imperator, Blue Face, Blue Ring), triggers (Clown, Blue-face, Huma) and tangs (Lipstick, Hippo, Sailfin, Vlamingi) grew quite a bit....and still there was essentially no aggression. You can't see it in the photos, but the rockwork was not up against the back of the tank so the fish could swim back there and throughout much of the rockwork. I would give anything to have that Totoka live rock again!!
so nice!
What a beautiful tank!!’ Thanks for sharing!I don't know the number of fish....but it really depends on the sizes more so than the numbers. In most of the photos I waited for many to congregate for the pic so it may appear more crowded than it actually was. The photos were taken shortly after the tank was stocked. Many of those angels (Queen, Majestic, Imperator, Blue Face, Blue Ring), triggers (Clown, Blue-face, Huma) and tangs (Lipstick, Hippo, Sailfin, Vlamingi) grew quite a bit....and still there was essentially no aggression. You can't see it in the photos, but the rockwork was not up against the back of the tank so the fish could swim back there and throughout much of the rockwork. I would give anything to have that Totoka live rock again!!
600 lbs rock; fiberglass tank with rounded back corners, 44" deep x 3' wide x about 6.5'L. When the tank was set up in 1994, I just had four 6' VHO T12's. I later added four 400W halides in large Lumen Brite reflectors when I got more serious with SPS.
A 25 yr old hippo and tomato clown were amongst all the fish I lost because of Sandy. Without a doubt, my most devastating aquarium calamity!! (I could list a bunch more too over my 50+ years of aquarium-keeping!)
Here's one more pic showing a Harlequin tusk:
What’s the tank dimension ?For those in the hobby for a long time (like my 50+ years), we knew fish-only for the first many years. Then, when we learned how to keep corals, we stopped collecting all the "non-reef safe" fish. I went many years without those fish until Hurricane Sandy wiped out my 500 gal reef tank (mostly SPS). That tank sat empty for a year until I got over the shock and figured out how to clean it. But, anticipating the sale of my house in a few years, I restocked it with all those "reef un-safe" fish that I hadn't had in years! Wow, was that nice to have those fish again! I then realized how much I missed them! BUT... all those fish in a barren tank just made me think of a dead reef, much like I feel when I go diving now. I'm now back to my SPS. Here are some photos of my former 500 gal fish-only tank:
I know somebody will ask why I didn't have a generator....so I will mention that in 29 yrs, I never lost power more than an hour. I lived on a main street, across from a Rescue Squad, so my street was always first to get power restored. But with Sandy, I was out for 3 days. I did have 2 gasoline generators but couldn't get them running. (They were old and I foolishly didn't take good care of them). After Sandy, I bought a natural gas generator...(then moved 2 yrs later!).
