Purchase of a 2000-2500 gallon tank

[gregg21]

I am looking to purchase an in wall tank between 2000 and 2500 gallons for my basement. I am looking for some advice as to dimesions for certain types of fish. I will have about 2100 lbs of live rock in there as well. In my current tank, I have the following fish:
Red Sea Sailfin tang
Niger trigger
Humu Humu Trigger
Imperator Angel
Blue Throat Trigger
These guys would all be going in to the bigger tank. I tend to prefer Tangs, Angels, and Triggers, but am open to suggestions. I am looking for the maximum amount of fish that I could have in there as well as suggestions for dimensions of the tank.
Thanks,
Greg

 

[silkks11]

20ftX5X3=2300 gallons roughly, or 20X6X3 gives you 2600 roughly. Either way since you do not want to do a shark I'd say you could place a sh*t load of fish in that size tank. Schools of tangs, large angels, triggers, puffers, eels, lions, the possibilities are endless. And personally if you tossed a 2-3 foot leopard in there you wouldn't have any problems. The angels and triggers like to pick at the sharks cartiledge of bottom dwelling sharks, that has been my observation. So a roaming shark would be fine IMO. what type of tank are you buying? acrylic I hope. Where did you get that much live rock?

 

[kris]

Well I guess now we know who won the lottery
Good Luck with that huge tank!!
And here I was excited about my 170, which I thought was sooo big (yes, after 1yr I decided I wish it was even bigger, but even I would stop around 300g!)
Again, good luck

 

[irenicus]

First must I say, WOW. That's a lot of tank. The possibilities are endless with that size. The biggest I could ever imagine myself having is a 300-400 gallon. Keep us updated!

 

[justchillin]

how long is the wall your putting it in???

 

[nerdy]

Good luck with this one rich guy LOL!!
PLEASE post a pic of it when it is done. I would love to see a tank that size in someone house!

 

[conogre]

Congrats and let us know how it turns out....I almost built one that size in my basement before moving to Florida 25 years ago (no basements!LOL!)
I was simply going to build a 2nd wall out od cement with large glass viewing ports, then paint the inside with epoxy swimming pool paint (I figured the floor drain would help with water changes if a good cover was affixed!)

 

[jim27]

Originally posted by silkks11
The angels and triggers like to pick at the sharks cartiledge of bottom dwelling sharks, that has been my observation. So a roaming shark would be fine IMO.
Actually those types of fish like to pick at ALL sharks, moving or not(obviously there are exeptions though).

 

[grouperhead]

Jim, long time no see. Glad to see you back. How's everything going? Take care. Bo

 

[chef jaysen]

Greg is there limits to how many fish you can put in the ocean?!?
I envy you dillema.........good luck

 

[jim27]

Originally posted by Grouperhead
Jim, long time no see. Glad to see you back. How's everything going? Take care. Bo
Everythings fine. The tanks(18 gallon nano and the 180) are doing well and everything I even had my bta split in my nano a little while ago. I took a break from the boards for a while for no reason really. I haven't been on the comp that much lately though but its good to be back.

 

[drkegel]

Just a bit of advice - make sure you can ventilate the room properly, or you could run into some serious moisture problems with all the evaporation from a tank that large.
I'd look into some sort of an air exchanger to continually keep the humidity low. Depending on the climate you live in, you may need to go with some sort of A/C unit to accomplish this - ie a make-up air unit.
Good luck!

 

[clownfish1452]

You are going to have to get alot of fish. They are going to get lost in there.
Best of Luck
Sarah

 

[toddpolish]

Greg must be a rap star.

 

[xxvietxjustinxx]

I say get mass tangs(yellow or purple), maybe like 1531341324151412424151324, then a few 13455134124 chromises. Now that would be a cool site =X
just messing
I say a school of tangs, which looks good to me, a few large angels, of crouse after ur tank matures and stuff, just wait until that 1 guy with the 2600 gallon tank. G-d, i forgot his name, sorry _______....

 

[foxface402]

they was a guy built a tank in the basement like 2500 gal for sharks. it was dec i believe when he posted it he even had a website of him building it he said he would give anyone the plans to build one. He was a engineer 1 shark cost him a $1000

 

[scubaii]

Just came back from my LFS here in Daytona Beach and he ha his main display tank empty and said that it was for sale. Don't have the specs but it is very large. The store is Coral Reef Express in Daytona Beach.

 

[saltwaternewbie]

how much does that cost and where would you get the water to fill that. that i a lot of r/o distillers
let me know when you strt this i would like to see lots of pics from start to finish....

 

[killafins]

greg, I am jealous. You are stepping on my dream. But do you know what might be cheaper? Building a swimming poola nd making it a reef aquarium and inviting me over to swim in it!

 

[tigerlover]

Killafins, thats exactly what I'm trying to do with my pool, parents won't let me though, salt's to expensive.