Ideas needed....

[Diana]

Raf and I need some help deciding what to do with our 110 gallon "Tall" tank. Its running basically empty now... just with sand and saltwater. The tank used to house our Pinnate batfish which we unfortuneately lost during the move. :(

Now we dont know what to do with the tank. We have been toying with the idea of a cuttlefish tank but we know how extremely difficult they are to get in canada, and they dont have a very long lifespan. Another idea was a lionfish tank again (we used to have a 55 gallon lionfish tank).

We want something unique and challenging... and something that is a little different from the norm.

Here's a list of our current tanks:

220 gallon FOWLR - puffers, triggers, tangs, wrasses, angels.
90 gallon Reef tank
46 bowfront Seahorse Tank
30 gallon Gorgoian/Deep water tank w/ angler. *in the works*


Any and all ideas welcome!
-Diana + Raf

[Moogled]

What about a 110 gallon coral tank?

Fill that up with corals for propagation and use it to pretty up your other tanks as you see fit.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

But its a deep tank, which makes it less than ideal for frag propagation.

How about add more sand & crushed coral & then have a school of yellow headed jawfish. You could watch their social behaviour in such a large tank.

[Moogled]

That is true.

A 30" tall tank would not be optimal for coral growth unless she plans on using halides.

In this case, try an octopus. (!!!11!!1!) If not, you can always disassemble the tank for more Monopoly playing space.

[kwirky]

what about non-photosynthetic corals? Those are often tough, and you could make caves and arches out of the rockwork. Non-photosynthetics are absolutely beautiful too :)

[Rippin]

Jellyfish. That would rock!

[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! :biggrin:

[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 :biggrin:

[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!

[AndyL]

Planted upgrade to the seahorse tank :D

[Bartman]

Another vote for local cold water tank. Do you dive?

[justinl]

hey yeah cold is a good one! Ive always wanted a tank with two cold local species : grunt sculpins because they're the cutest thigns ever and pacific spiny lumpsuckers because they're the most ridiculous looking things ever... the larvae look like commas, the adults look like golf balls.

[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 :mrgreen: