Geographical or Zone Themed Reeftanks ???

[TJL]

Are there any RF members out there who have or do a Reeftank that all livestock Fish & Corals are from one particular geographical or reef-zone location ??? Please share with us if you do.

I have been debating doing exactly this with my new 125g display since collecting many of my new fish and inverterbrates from Hawaii with one of our sponsors Les of Wet Pet Hawaii. I'm pretty good with just keeping fish from Hawaii except maybe for my Powder Blue Tang as he/she is one of my favorites. The the big hurdle will be Corals since you cannot legally collect any hard-corals from Hawaiian waters just thier soft Blue Octocoral and Paly/Zoanthids. While diving/snorkeling there I saw a whole lot of Pocillopora & Porites species a few Pavona and Montipora and only one very cool Acropora. From a book I have 'Hawai'i's Sea Creatures by John P. Hoover it shows that there are also Leptoseris, Fungia, Cyphastrea, Leptastrea and Tubastraea corals all native to Hawaii so I could only introduce these types of corals just collected from elsewhere.

Besides Hawaii there are some other remotely unique locations that could be/would be interesting choices like the Red Sea, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, ???
For Reef-zone locations having all livestock from the Reef-crest, Lagoon or Deepwater would be interesting....


Cheers, Todd

 

[trido]

I know that Steve Weast is running a Pacific Northwest cold water reef shown here if your interested in taking a look.

I haven't seen much other than a very few species tank in the last few years that have ususally been part of a larger reef system.

I think you should go for it. The hardest part about it will be avoiding those spontanious "That is so cool", or "I just cant live without" buys or coral trades.

 

[tyson256031]

The hardest part about it will be avoiding those spontanious "That is so cool", or "I just cant live without" buys or coral trades.

This is the hardest thing for me LOL.. i always walk into barrier and leave with something that doesn't work with my tank.

My new 240 will be Aussie only, fish and coral.

 

[Peppie]

Does it count if I have stocked 90% of my tank from The Bay of Eric & Becca??

 

[tamarindthai]

i used to collected and put many of sps,, i can get from all over the world in my glass 240 gals tank,,so far 90% of successes,,10% not make it or by just place them in the wrong place in the tank and they start t0 kill each others,,,when they are start to like each other or they learned to live it together,,it doesn't matter where you get them from auusie ,bali red sea Fiji or vietnam,,,etc they will grow and grow,,fishes is no different either,,just get them from the right place,,so far i saw your fishes,,they are looking great and they are already lean to live together in small q tank,,,give it try..