Ideas needed....

[Jaws]

Maybe an invert tank with a few smaller fish. There's a lot of crazy looking inverts out there that are always on the move and are cool to watch.

[justinl]

How about an eel? But not just any eel, but a white ribbon eel, aka ghost eel. If you go for a ribbon eel just don't get the black or blue ones because they suck in aquariums. I can let you know where to get one if you're interested. Check out grimreefers.com in the "if only i had some jelly" thread in the eels section.

btw don't put jellies in there. You need a specialised circular tank called a kreisel to properly keep jellies. If you feellike it, you could do that too!

[Diana]

Thanks for the suggestions, keep them coming!


Anthony, the jawfish idea is neat since we've been eyeing one for quite some time for our other tanks. Coupled with a upper-to-mid-water schooling fish that would make for a neat tank for sure.

We definately want to do something different than our other tanks, so I'm not too keen on putting corals in there, and we've already got a non-photosyntheic tank in the works (the deepwater tank).

Octopus require a completely sealed tank, so it would not work in this 110 gallon. But yes we'd love to eventually build an octopus tank. Same with the jellyfish, they require special filtration and system setup, like the kreisel. I've built small-scale ones for the seahorse babies but not something in such a large tank!


Keep the ideas coming! We are bound and determined to get a feasable idea for this tank.


-Diana

[krisalexander]

How about a Brackish tank? I have seen some pretty sweet Brackish Fish around, some puffers and so forth..

Or how about a Ray? (I think your tank could be a little small) but putting out ideas..

I think a schooling tank..like Bangaii's, anthias's, or something of the sort.


Kris

[justinl]

Is your mind set on saltwater or are you willing to do fresh/brackish? Because another idea could be a strictly amphibian tank with water (duh) and a sandy beach. You could put in frogs, turtles, salamanders, snakes. Make it all pretty with tropical flowers and ferns.

or if all else fails, empty it all out, flip it upside down and use it as your new coffee table

[andresont]

How about cold salt water? you could just pick up staff from local beach in N. Van?
Anemonies, sea stars, barnicles, small crabs, filetr feeding corals (yes i have seen very pretty staff down there), small fish would be ok too.

[Der_Iron_Chef]

A starfish / harlequin shrimp tank!

[Murminator]

Maybe keep the rock low no more than half way a low light/ low flow softy tank with a school of bangaii just hanging in midwater and a school of chromis' cruising the rocks and topwater for a splash of color