Time to expand: Do you have plans to add another aquarium in 2024?

[Peace River]

Time to expand: Do you have plans to add another aquarium in 2024?

As you make plans for the upcoming year, is there another tank in your future? As you look forward to 2024, have you thought about adding an aquarium? Maybe a nano tank, a frag tank, a macro algae tank, or some other type of aquarium? You may be wanting to explore a new type of tank or a new type of livestock or you may be wanting to have a separate grow out tank for corals or fish - getting another tank gives you the space to move into other areas of the hobby. Whether you currently have a single tank or already have many tanks, please let us know about your plans to add another aquarium in 2024?

Photo by @Ancient Mariner; Reef of the Month May 2023


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[Reefer Matt]

Depending on the economy, I may get another tank. I have five at the moment. Time will tell.

 

[JayM]

I won’t be adding a tank, but I will be upsizing the one I’ve got.

 

[SPS2020]

Two tanks are enough for me. In fact, I'd like to scale back to just the 100g.

 

[crazyfishmom]

Will be adding two frag tanks (80 gallons each), bringing my 115 gallon system back up, and trying a 2 gallon nano… if my husband doesn’t decide to divorce me over the number of tanks we have (currently 210 gallon SPS/LPS, 24 gallon AIO softy tank primarily zoas, 40 g and 55 g quarantine fish tanks, and 75 g fresh water). But this is likely a year long project because the 80 gallon tanks are in pretty rough shape so they’ll need major TLC before I can use them.

 

[Tray21]

Currently working on setting up my new tank. Started getting it put together in the middle of December just had to wait for things to come in. If all goes according to plan the tank will be wet on the 15th.

 

[JZ199]

I will be adding a Nano Tank (Evo 13.5), I would eventually like to replace my Flex with a bigger tank and have that and my nano but without getting ahead of myself I will be focusing on the nano for this year and go from there!

 

[Oiseaufeu]

I can’t have more than 2 since there’s still renovations and the lack of space.

 

[Cichlid Dad]

NO!!!!! I'm going to add a frag tank and get rid of 4 tanks

 

[Dburr1014]

I won’t be adding a tank, but I will be upsizing the one I’ve got.

Me too!
Maybe a small frag tank to tie in but one tank is enough for me.

 

[tzabor10]

Will be adding two frag tanks (80 gallons each), bringing my 115 gallon system back up, and trying a 2 gallon nano… if my husband doesn’t decide to divorce me over the number of tanks we have (currently 210 gallon SPS/LPS, 24 gallon AIO softy tank primarily zoas, 40 g and 55 g quarantine fish tanks, and 75 g fresh water). But this is likely a year long project because the 80 gallon tanks are in pretty rough shape so they’ll need major TLC before I can use them.

It is easier to add tanks when the current ones are looking good.

 

[rhitee93]

I'm going to put one in my mother's living room. She'll do daily maintenance but will be reliant on me to do the heavy stuff once a week.

This will ensure I actually stop by and visit her as often as I should

 

[tzabor10]

Upgrading my 40 breeder to a 75 drilled with a stand. Just called the electrician today. Getting 3 dedicated GCFI breakers for each of 3 plugs. Ordering the overflow this weekend. Looking at Tampa Bay Saltwater for live rock. Considering a clam pre-Refugium. It would sit on a look down stand beside the tank and stand. Heard about it from BRS when clam mania was at Reefapalooza. Can’t wait for the NY show this Summer.

 

[tzabor10]

I'm going to put one in my mother's living room. She'll do daily maintenance but will be reliant on me to do the heavy stuff once a week.

This will ensure I actually stop by and visit her as often as I should

An excellent plan

 

[rhitee93]

An excellent plan

Thanks, I hope so. She's in her 70's and I don't stop by often enough these days.

If I may, what are you using for a stand with your 40 breeder? That's about the size I'm thinking of, but want to set it up with a sump and I'm having a hard time finding a stand.

 

[tzabor10]

Thanks, I hope so. She's in her 70's and I don't stop by often enough these days.

If I may, what are you using for a stand with your 40 breeder? That's about the size I'm thinking of, but want to set it up with a sump and I'm having a hard time finding a stand.

I can ask the LFS that had it in their store.

 

[AtlantiCat]

Yep! Setting up the lovely 40 Nuvo Mini that Santa brought and...I...just...happened...to pick up a small 4 Gallon cube to go with that nice Reef Breeders Pico light that I won.

"You see, honey, it's a quarantine tank. I gotta have one if I'm putting fish in the 40 Gallon...."

Just waiting on Tampa Bay Saltwater!

(And I had to take down 2 small freshwater tanks in compensation, but hey, a tank for a tank, right? )

 

[crazyfishmom]

It is easier to add tanks when the current ones are looking good.

After really struggling with my 115g system for a few months and losing several fish to an ich outbreak (a vendor sent me a fish in water that contained iodine; I should've known that something was off but they claimed the fish had been quarantined) I decided to throw caution to the wind and ordered a 210 gallon tank and turned a 60 gallon breeder into a sump. I am really happy I didn't give up on the hobby because I genuinely love it but I was very very tempted to. My coral are pretty happy and my SPS are starting to color up and I am seeing growth tips on others. Have learned a lot of lessons in patience and humility. I am a molecular biologist by trade, geneticist by training and I made a lot of assumptions to start with. Once I stopped making assumptions and broke everything down to chemistry and biological diversity things started looking up for me. I still freak out every now and then about silly things but my tank has been stable and fish and coral seem happy. At the very least I've learned that there are many answers to any given problem in reefing and it is okay to fail as long as you keep trying and have patience.

 

[drolmaeye]

I have almost everything together to set up a 30"x20"x12" frag tank. Hoping it's wet within 4-8 weeks. Not sure there will be any more after that?

 

[shakacuz]

i may add a new tank, but as a replacement to the one i have now.