A little about me. I have been in this hobby (or lifestyle as my wife calls it) for about 8-9 years now. Started out with a 29 gallon and kept upgrading to our current setup. My wife and I started out as tangs being our passion (thus the screen name) and then moved into wrasses then angels and now keep a mix of them all. I bred my first clownfish a little over 6 years ago and have done some other easier fish species as well now.
Our saltwater current setups include:
900ish gallon SW reef system - 520 gallon display (96" x 42" x 30") with a 150 gallon and 100 gallon plumbed into them as my conditioning tanks and for some bubble tip anemones these all drain into a common sump.
70ish gallon non-photo, subtropical system in our living room - 60 gallon display (36" x 22" x 18") rimless with some rare deeper water fish.
150ish gallon broodstock system with all my breeding clowns (10 pairs these days)
2 x 140ish gallon growout systems for the juvenile fish
3 x 50 gallon QT tanks that are running all the time
About a year ago we decided to get into freshwater stingrays and put in an additional 520 gallon display tank in the basement for these. Currently a couple adult females (18" across) a fly river turtle, black arowana and some various other fish in there. My adult male resides in a different tank other then breeding times.
I have a lot of experience in this hobby but am by no means an expert. I still learn new things all the time. All of my systems are setup to be energy efficient and easy maintenance. I tank a long time to do my builds and plan for failure in the sense of equipment and have redundancy built in.
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