xsdbs, it's 12'x8'x5'. I could do a divider, but I have no interest in doing so. I'm also not interested in doing saltwater. Freshwater fish have much more interesting personalities. It's hardly miniature either. The festae male is 16" already.
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nolapete,
I hope that my reply did not sound insulting, in was just in fun. I know this is a BIG tank and there could be a divider, however as mentioned the statements were only in humor ( though perhaps dry humor ).
I'm sorry I guess you didn't understand what I was talking about. What I meant was to have like a freshwater refugium. Maybe setup a 55gal. as a low light planted tank with some Anacharis in it. http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=768+780&pcatid=780Matt, I plan to have some sort of algae scrubber to remove nitrates. I'll probably run a line outside and use a natural sunlight one. Still considering that thought. Plants will be out of the question because of my stocking choices (constant digging) and I can't afford to provide enough light, ferts, CO2 for a tank that big.
Now were on the same track! I'm not sure the ratio either. But whatever you can afford or setup, should help a little. Corse it all depends on what in Economics called is the Oppotunity Cost. Should you spend a day and money fixing up this refuge it if not really going to help, or spend that day and money building your large tank. Basically you have to decide because I do not know all your full details on your build project.Oh, I see what you're talking about. That's an interesting idea. I wonder what the ratio is on refugium size to tank size for freshwater. If it's 10%, it would be out of the question because of space constraints.