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I've been kicking around the idea of a floating reef aquascape. Use the bottom 18-24 inches for open swimming space with a coral reef above. One maybe two pillars of sorts to suspend the reef itself
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That tank is definitely set up for sea horses it is ideal for keeping and breeding them. They love the heightSo long story short, i acquired a rather oddball tank for free. Here it is:
Its a 36"x24"x48" 170 gallon. Yes thats right 4 ft tall. Set up for an in-wall or maybe some kind of enclosed island setup cause the 24" end are painted black. Im not really sure. Coast to coast external overflow with 3 holes for 1" bulkheads on one end and two 1" return holes on the other. 1" acrylic all around. Really a bizarre tank imo.
Ive no doubt it could be an awesome tank. How would you scape? How could i set up effective lighting for such a deep tank? What would you stock?
I'm going to drop what I consider to be the best solution so far (as well as a back up that is equal). You've got an awesome unique tank, you need an equally awesome interior. You've ruled out freshwater and cephalopods (while amazing, are just ridiculous to keep), so let it be brackish. Get yourself some dwarf indian mudskippers. With the room you have you could do a waterfall trickling down the rocks and logs past plants, then a small shore held up by a covered PVC structure. Past that you have a deep tank with some roots dangling from the shore, maybe some mollies or guppies (both can be brackish) or figure 8 puffers (they can be messy though). Watching them dive down and surface will be awesome for you. I had one for a year before he decided to crawl out into the carpet, easily one of the coolest fish I've had and super easy to take care of. With that type of room you could have a whole school (somehow I think herd is the more appropriate word).
Another solution would be to a reef with tons of PVC poles covered in faux rock going across the tank, you could house some awesome inverts and small fish, maybe have a mass of blennies/gobies, it'd be cool to see how they claimed territory in that type of environment.
This is no doubt destined to be a seahorse or Jellyfish system. You can take advantage of tall growing macro-algae, gorgonians and sea whips. A few ideas here :
For some time now, I've thought it would be neat to connect up a tall, narrow-depth tank to my DT. I could use the tall tank partly as a refugium while having it be aesthetically beautiful. I thought I would put a nice variety of beautiful, swaying macroalgae in it which could be a source for copepods for the DT as well as acting as nutrient exporters to keep down nitrates and phosphates in the DT. I thought I might also put a couple or few anemones in it without worry of them moving around and stinging valuable corals....and again, they would provide more of that beautiful movement along with the macroalgae. And I considered putting in some other cool mobile inverts such as a bunch of Pom-Pom crabs, groups of a couple of species of glass shrimp, a group of sexy shrimp, maybe a decorator snail if I could still find one, etc.......things that wouldn't be so easily noticed/visible in my DT or that might get eaten in my DT. I also thought about possibly adding some fish that wouldn't do well in my DT with my other aggressive-eating fish: mandarins or red ruby scooter blennies or flame prawn gobies. That's what I would do with a tank like that......
I've been kicking around the idea of a floating reef aquascape. Use the bottom 18-24 inches for open swimming space with a coral reef above. One maybe two pillars of sorts to suspend the reef itself