Hey Colin!

[elephantnose3334]

Yes, you Colin. What is the best fish tank you have ever made?

 

[Colin_T]

I don't make tanks.

 

[elephantnose3334]

I don't make tanks.

Oh. Right. That was a typo. Best tank you ever had?

 

[Colin_T]

My 4x2x2ft plant tank was nice but so was my 4ft marine tank with live rock, macro algae (Caulerpa and Halimeda) and coralline algae. Most of my tanks were never display tanks, they were holding tanks for adult fish and rearing tanks for the babies.

 

[elephantnose3334]

My 4x2x2ft plant tank was nice but so was my 4ft marine tank with live rock, macro algae (Caulerpa and Halimeda) and coralline algae. Most of my tanks were never display tanks, they were holding tanks for adult fish and rearing tanks for the babies.

Do you have a pic for it?

 

[Fishmanic]

But Colin took care of dozens of tanks as his vocation if I’m not mistaken

 

[elephantnose3334]

But Colin took care of dozens of tanks as his vocation if I’m not mistaken

Yes he did take care of many tanks.

 

[Colin_T]

Do you have a pic for it?

No idea where the pictures are, probably on the hard drive that disappeared in 2016.

But Colin took care of dozens of tanks as his vocation if I’m not mistaken

Yeah I worked in a few pet shops over the years and most had well over 100 tanks.

 

[elephantnose3334]

No idea where the pictures are, probably on the hard drive that disappeared in 2016.


Yeah I worked in a few pet shops over the years and most had well over 100 tanks.

More than 100 tanks? You have been working very hard on your hobby. You're pretty good at it. What livestock was in that 4ft marine tank?

 

[Colin_T]

The 4ft marine tank had a pr of skunk clownfish (Amhiprion perideraion), a pr of banded coral shrimp (Stenopus hispidus), some sort of blenny and a few other bits. It was back in the 90s so can't really remember all of them.

There was a bubbletip anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor) in the tank that used to divide each year. One half would stay put and the other half would wander off to the opposite side of the tank.

The decoration was mostly limestone rock with 2 types of Caulerpa and some coralline algae. There was about an inch of crushed shell on the bottom. I got the shell from Woodman's Point (south of Fremantle). It was on the edge of the water by the shore and mixed with sand. I scooped some up in a fish net and sieved the sand out in the water before adding the shell to a bucket.