I guess I need to think of my next tank build for when my naso grows up... I will do whatever it takes to keep her happy. Right now she has a lot of space and rocks and caves t hide in. These days she is visiting with the cleaner shrimp and begging for nori. I will always try to keep her happy.

She will be just fine in your tank. You don't need a bigger tank for your Naso. She will most likely not grow to 16" in your tank but thats fine. They seem to max out around 12-14" in aquariums unless they were caught much bigger already.

Well I have a few fish that will grow bigger and need to take them into consideration. I am keeping Griffie since I just don't have the heart to let him go and he is being stellar these days. I really love all my fish and can't bear to part with any of them. My angels do pick things but I have moved them out of reach and do my best to accommodate everyone. So far s good, and I really want to keep things happy and peaceful.

Griff is fine in that tank too for life ;)

Shhhh... it's a great excuse to go even bigger in the future, maybe three to four years. My hubby wanted two tanks on the same water supply but in an L shape. One side for non reef safe fish and the other for my reef. They would be built together as one but be divided in the corner of the L in a way you would not notice. We would tile saw the rocks flat and lay them back together on the dividing piece of glass so it would like one piece. It's in the thought stage but if my fish get too big, it will maybe become a reality...:wink:

I like your husbands idea, I figure I will run a double tank system on my next system in order to have fish that can not be kept in a reef as well as a reef system. Right now my Scribble nips at my corals but the corals are still doing well, so no real issues. Yet when the Scribble grows larger I may have some probs, and hence the need for another tank.

I designed a system for a friend that is three tanks plumbed together. I just designed the look though. Its all in a 24' false wall. There are two 180G tanks on either side of a 8' 400G tank. The two sides are reefs with metal halide lighting and the middle is a shark/predator tank with some MH lights on the edges that fade a bit to PC's. So you get the look of two reefs with open sand between for sharks and rays. Very little to no LR in the middle tank. He is using a 300G sump and 300G refugium too. He is going to aquascape it with two drop offs in the 180's. The shark tank will hopefully be kind of dim and deep water looking.

There should be a build thread on RC soon. He lives in Florida.

The wall does have 2" between each tank though, so they are not butted right up against each other but the end result should look like one big tank. I mean you will most likely be able to tell its three but thats fine.

I will look for my drawings and designs later.

Pictures please!!! That is awesome although I feel sharks should be in the ocean, but most fish should be as well. I wish I had that kind of money to do a build like that. Mine pretty much broke the bank, but it is winter so I don't do anything else.

I don't know...small sharks fine IMO. He already has 2 Bamboo Sharks and a ray in a 300G and will be adding another Bamboo or two I think to the new tank.

Im never too concerned about tank size as long as its within reason. Its starts to get ridiculous. Its still a tank regardless of size. Fish are not going to act like they would in the ocean in your tank unless its massive...like maybe 10 000 G.

I still wouldn't keep tangs in 4' myself (don't think its wrong either) and do feel my 200G is maybe a little small for a Naso but not small enough that it would ever stop me from keeping one.

I just have drawings I did of the system. He may have pics of the actual tanks in his garage. I think the big tank actually ended up being bigger than 400G but I don't know--haven't talked to him in...wow, about 6 months :)

I'm a bit partial to Nasos... I suppose some people like their angels and tangs... but I got hooked on Nasos.

Everyone knows what I have:
N. literatus (female)
N. elegans (male)
N. vlamingi
N. unicornis

OK...so is elegans different from literatus? I don't know, but the female is black and the male is blonde. (I didn't intend to add the female. She was a mistake that we thought was unicornis. It is so difficult to tell them apart when they are juv.) So that is four potentially enormous Nasos in my 400 gallon system.

They get along with every other fish, with one exception. None of them really like the female literatus. It's not a huge problem, but whenever they get stirred up you can bet that the she is in the middle of it. Unintentially, I might be conducting an experiment on keeping a pair "Nasos", even though one is black and one is blonde.

As for size....I'm not sure my tank is large enough for them in the longer term. The vlamingi grows so fast that I'm currently thinking he outgrows me in less than 2 years. The others grow much more slowly. I suspect that grow speed correlates to achieved maximum size as well.

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