Maybe all large tanks shouldn't be marine by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #5 Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 01:56:10 PM EST
But all marine tanks should be large. I had a 30 gal marine and it was almost too small.

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Not that myth either. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #6 Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 02:07:43 PM EST
There's entire communities built up around the idea of marine tanks from less than half a gallon to thirty gallons. Granted, you have to bust your ass every damn day to make that work, and have fresh water compensation, and test every possible parameter daily, but it's possible.

I personally probably wouldn't do a marine system that totalled less than fifty gallons including sump, but that's because I'm a lazy SOB.

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Wow. Lunatics on patrol by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #7 Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 02:10:19 PM EST
A 30 gal marine in the Utah desert required daily maintenance. I don't want to think of the maintenance required for a 10 gal marine tank.

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Those people are pretty nuts. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #8 Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 02:13:44 PM EST
Some of them spend over three hundred dollars on controllers for fresh water compensation to automagically keep salinity levels within the propper parameters on tanks less than ten gallons. I personally can't imagine investing that much in the entire aquarium setup if it's less than thirty.

But, hey, I'm sure most of them wouldn't spend three hundred bucks on an electric pickup for a violin either.

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We are, each of us, lunatics, in our own way. by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #9 Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 02:28:21 PM EST
Especially around this place.

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tw00 dat! by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #10 Fri Mar 28, 2008 at 02:35:08 PM EST
We each find our own ways to make it apparent.

I just wish I had a few less ways, if you know what I mean.

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