Howdy's New Fish Layout

howdy20012002 · #1 11-10-2009, 02:31 AM

Just thought I would give an idea of what I will be setting up in my new house....it has been a long freaking time coming...
In my living room, 1 x 130 gallon sps dominant, 1 x 130 gallon LPS and a FOWLR 180 gallon - - total for 440 gallons plus 75 gallon frag tank below and sump. all piped together.

In my office, 1 x 180 reef, 3 x 40 gallon smaller tanks for various things and 2 x 65 gallon tall seahorse tanks

In my fish room:
2 x 90 gallon coral quarantin system
1 x 90 gallon and 3 x 30 gallon tanks for fish quarantine at hyposalinity
10 - 20 gallon breeder tanks for bengais and clowns
3 x 4 foot x 1 foot by 1 foot deep coral propagations tanks. (think about 40 gallons each)

I plan on plumbing the breeders tanks and the coral propagation tanks together with the tanks in my office so it will be a much larger sytem. approx - 700 gallons with sump.

i have decided that I am just going to focus on growing corals and trying to breed a few species of fish.

let me know what you think..
would you combine the office and the fish room systems as planned or would you go separate?
i have enough of skimmers and everything to do 2 separate systemsm, I just think it will be more stable the bigger the system.

fishoholic · #2 11-10-2009, 03:18 AM

I think you need to add at least 3 more large tanks

Sounds good, the bonus of having the tanks all plumbed together is that it's easier to do water top offs and water changes on one system instead of two. The downside is that if something goes wrong with one tank if effects all the other tanks connected to it. I also thought my system would be more stable with it being all connected together, but so far that's not the case.