SPS Tanks

amay121 · Sep 30, 2009

Anyone out there that actually just spaced out his corals in the 6" to 12" range? Was wondering what a tank with only select corals would look like, rather than a tank filled to the brim with frags or mini colonies.

Pics please.

gilmour01 · Sep 30, 2009

i saw a tank in reefkeeping magazine that was like that. the guy only had a handful of large colonies in a tank > 100g (cannot remember exactly how big it was). the tank looked great.

Murfman · Sep 30, 2009

You can check out Sanjay Joshi's 500 gallon tank build on RC. He spaced his corals out and now, 3 years later it is grown in and looks amazing.

500G (84X48X30)- NOW REAL ! - Page 40 - Reef Central Online Community
500G (84X48X30)- NOW REAL ! - Reef Central Online Community

amay121 · Sep 30, 2009

He's got a gorgeous tank, but not so spaced out. Sorta spaced out the frags/mini colonies that he has though.

Rickyrooz · Oct 5, 2009

I plan to do that on my next tank, dimensions 72"x40"x24". I'm only going to keep LE corals so I'll have colorful and expensive colonies.

2FarNorth · Oct 5, 2009

I always liked the idea of open spaced SPS tanks, I made the attempt, place my frags around 6-8" away from each other,,, now they are hitting each other and breaching the brim.....

Darn weeds.....

In all seriousness,, I cannot see a tank staying spaced out for too long, the corals grow and fill in the space... or the addict keeping the tank fills it in with more coral.....:xd:

Brad Syphus · Oct 6, 2009

When I started my tank 3 years ago, I spaced the acros out, but now they are all growing into each other. I never thought it would be this soon.

sportzfish · Oct 6, 2009

Nice wrasses you got too.

amay121 · Oct 6, 2009

Wow... Now this is what I'm talking about.

Still, seems like as an afterthought, you might have wanted to space your corals out a little more. By the way, how big is the tank? If you had to do it all over again, would you space your corals out even further and go with only a few corals?

Murfman · Oct 6, 2009

Sanjay's tank from the start Nov 06;

March 07;

Sanjay's tank now;

I don't think he went 12" but he had them spaced pretty well apart, when he started.

Brad Syphus · Oct 6, 2009

amay121 said:
Wow... Now this is what I'm talking about. Still, seems like as an afterthought, you might have wanted to space your corals out a little more. By the way, how big is the tank? If you had to do it all over again, would you space your corals out even further and go with only a few corals?

The tank is 72" L x 24'H x 30"W 225 gallons

I think if I had to do it all over again, I probably would do the same.
But probably would of aquascaped different.