Marine Tank Size?

[The Dragon Lord]

Hi,

i hope this isn't seen as rude of me to join and post a poll straight away but this research for my personal interest project and sparsholt college - ornamental fisheries management course, and i'm sure it will help newbies to marine keeping see what sort of size tanks are out there

If you have multiple tanks then could you please use an average size of them

thanks

 

[The Dragon Lord]

only 14 people? surely there are more of you salties out there than that?

 

[chrissaysyes]

Pushy arent ya

 

[Lynden]

Anyone can start with any size tank. It depends on the research done.

 

[steelhealr]

Agree with Lynden...just that the smaller the tank, the more unstable it is with regards to handling contamination and requires a bit more attention to water quality, per se. SH

 

[SkiFletch]

yeah those results are pretty much what I would have expected. Most people have moderate sized tanks, a bunch of nanos, and few really big tanks. Pretty indicative of most in the hobby. I bet most of us would love a big one, but money and space limits that ability

 

[chrissaysyes]

I can come up with money, space is what gets me. Thank god I dont have a garage

 

[andywg]

Doing an average is silly. I currently have one system with a total volume in the 150 imp gallon range, and another tank that is less than 6 gallons. An average would indicate that I have a mid range sized tank that doesn't take account of the completely different challenges faced on the two ends of the tank size spectrum.

 

[Arimus]

I've only just moved into marine tanks - got a nice little nano-cube up and running

I'm happy with the nano but if TV doesn't improve within the next 3 months I'm planning on getting a 750l tank (actually if I can persuade the wife regardless of TV).