LynusAnn
11/14/2003, 08:19 PM
I'm hoping maybe I can get some suggestions from everyone relating to their experiences here. I'm definitely brand new to the reef world, and just here learning as much as I can.
So here goes...my father and I are both planning on getting into reefkeeping currently w/ larger scale tanks. He's kept SW tanks before when I was really young, but hasn't for years, and really wants to get back into it, so I'm looking (for starters) for some tanks to firstly fill the area he wants to cover. When my dad built our house not too long ago, from my understanding he reinforced the floor in part of the house to specially hold tanks. It's a 17 ft. wall which he wants to completely cover either an aquarium, or aquarium(s). He wants approx. 2 feet of viewing area from top to bottom and wants the tanks to be approx 1-1.5 ft. wide. I'm looking at buying a tank(s) but would it be better to have one large tank custom built? or would it be better to have 3-4 seperate tanks along the wall? If anyone has an idea on how many gallons total that would be a big help to know also. I'm looking at this being my christmas gift to my father so that it at least gets him going on setting everything up. And being that my parents still both live in Idaho, if anyone has any suggestions for where/who to buy the tanks from would be great, since I've lived out of the state for a while at college in IN.
Also, what equiptment (ie. filtration/airation/skimmers/etc) has everyone had the best experience with. I know there's a lot of good stuff out there, but I'd really like to here what pro's and con's people have run into with their stuff.
Any other input that anyone can give or experiences that people can relate to for me would be great seeing as how I've learned that you can never know enough w/ my FW tanks, i'm positive the same goes for SW. :D
Thanks,
Lindsey
So here goes...my father and I are both planning on getting into reefkeeping currently w/ larger scale tanks. He's kept SW tanks before when I was really young, but hasn't for years, and really wants to get back into it, so I'm looking (for starters) for some tanks to firstly fill the area he wants to cover. When my dad built our house not too long ago, from my understanding he reinforced the floor in part of the house to specially hold tanks. It's a 17 ft. wall which he wants to completely cover either an aquarium, or aquarium(s). He wants approx. 2 feet of viewing area from top to bottom and wants the tanks to be approx 1-1.5 ft. wide. I'm looking at buying a tank(s) but would it be better to have one large tank custom built? or would it be better to have 3-4 seperate tanks along the wall? If anyone has an idea on how many gallons total that would be a big help to know also. I'm looking at this being my christmas gift to my father so that it at least gets him going on setting everything up. And being that my parents still both live in Idaho, if anyone has any suggestions for where/who to buy the tanks from would be great, since I've lived out of the state for a while at college in IN.
Also, what equiptment (ie. filtration/airation/skimmers/etc) has everyone had the best experience with. I know there's a lot of good stuff out there, but I'd really like to here what pro's and con's people have run into with their stuff.
Any other input that anyone can give or experiences that people can relate to for me would be great seeing as how I've learned that you can never know enough w/ my FW tanks, i'm positive the same goes for SW. :D
Thanks,
Lindsey