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| 4ft reef |
   
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25 | 23.58% |
| 4ft fowlr |
  
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14 | 13.21% |
| 4ft community |
  
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12 | 11.32% |
| 6ft reef |
  
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20 | 18.87% |
| 6ft fowlr |
  
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7 | 6.60% |
| 6ft community |
  
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2 | 1.89% |
| 4ft community and smaller special interest tank (nano) |
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8 | 7.55% |
| 6ft community and smaller special interest tank (nano) |
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2 | 1.89% |
| one saltwater, one freshwater (please specify below) |
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8 | 7.55% |
| other (please specify below) |
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8 | 7.55% |
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#2
11-09-2010, 07:56 PM
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Gee that's a tough one. I'll presume you have the ongoing budget to cover any of the options you laid out so, if Ignore cost..
-The best educational experience would be the one that best duplicates the ocean so I'd say reef. If we say reef then I would say 4' simply because it's more manageable. -From a practical perspective, a reef tank is hard enough to care for when you're around regularly but when you're not near the tank for days on end (long weekends, summer holidays) so I'd wonder if ANY tank is really practical but I suppose a FOWLR would be a compromise of sorts. Still risky IMO.
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11-09-2010, 08:22 PM
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Tank for high school I say predator tank, things that kill and eat other things would be fun... just like school.
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11-09-2010, 08:31 PM
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I hate to say it, but I would think a classroom tank would be a major distraction for the students. I know I wouldn't be paying a whole lot of attention in class if there was a fish tank in the room, fresh or salt water.
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11-09-2010, 08:39 PM
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I hate to say it, but I would think a classroom tank would be a major distraction for the students. I know I wouldn't be paying a whole lot of attention in class if there was a fish tank in the room, fresh or salt water.
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11-09-2010, 08:43 PM
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11-10-2010, 01:20 PM
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I wqould go with a 6 foot FOWLR for one reason. Teenagers can be destructive people... So with a six foot tank, you have the water volume to handle most minor vandalism (dumping stuff in tank) and FOWLR because that way if a teenager gets angery over something and decides to dump 30% HCl into tank your not killing off an entire reef but just fish, still a loss if just fish die but at least its only half of a loss.
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