Naso Tangs

[my2rotties]

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.

Originally Posted by GreenSpottedPuffer

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.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by my2rotties

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

[untamed]

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.

Too many words...not enough pictures.

[my2rotties]

WOW!!! That is so impressive to look at. I would spend all day staring at your tank, it is amazing!!! Beautiful fish, just beautiful!!!