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Thanks for the suggestion of building a tropical marine tank.. ] Have been there and done that, ( keep percula/osilaris (sp?) clowns , and chromis, and various gobies and other misc stuff. Its interesting that you say its 'Much more interesting'. I'm not so sure of that.. I've dived on some of the best reefs in the world in both tropical and temperate locations, and i can tell you there is a lot of interesting things in the first 10meters of water around most NZ coastline. I want to capture a little of the NZ seascape, so people who don't dive, can see a little peice of live natural history.

Millions. seriously.. I'm hoping i can contain this project within $10k.

I was pretty much planning, to build the whole back wall of the tank as rock, from top to bottom.. thats an interesting challenge with using Live Rock, as I would need to collect it, and build it in bits! But its doable, i think.. The other thing that woud be great to keep going would be some seaweed but that might be quite a challenge.. Anemonoes and Inverts are probably obvious choices for residents.. but at 3000l i was hoping to put some other fish in the tank that normally woud'nt be contenders for a small tank.. Perhaps some small blue cod? or even a small snapper? I think it is possible to get a permit to have undersized aquarium specinums ( including Paua and crays ).

Hi all. I'm going to embark on a bit of a crazy project.. I want to build a large ( around 3000L ) cold-water marine tank to be installed in our work foyer.. I'm thinking about 800mm x 1000mm x 4000mm I've been running a 300L tank for quite some time, but a 10x scale might require a different approach. I've convinced my work to spend some $$$ on the project, which makes things quite nice.. I suspect i will find a few enthuastists at work who will be keen to help as well!I'm fortuanate that our work has a great chilled water source, ( we run a very large computer installation ) that is used for airconditioning, so in theory, i might be able to connect into that for some cooling.. I was thinking of building fibreglass on ply back and sides, with a glass front, and using a couple of big plastic drums for filtration.. I dive around the welly coast, so finding critters to live in the tank should'nt be too hard.. Does anyone have any ideas about what else i might contemplate putting in a large tank like this?