ideas for my 750gallon

[Lakehouse]

Hi Everyone,

This is my first post. I have been doing freshwater aquascaping/planted tanks for 1.5 years now and just 2 days ago I got a SMOKIN' deal on a 750 gallon saltwater tank that was set up as a FOWLR. The tank is 5x5x4tall. It has about 4-5" of crushed coral and about 800lbs of lace rock. No fish or corals. I have never done salt befora and am looking for stocking ideas. It came with a 1hp chiller, 2huge uv sterilizers, a Ocean Clear filter and a couple pumps. No refigum or protein skimmer(not sure why some salt tanks have these and some dont). I really like reef tanks, but not sure if I have the equipment for it or the money. Any advice/recommendations are welcomed.

 

[jsodwi]

2 or 3 arowana tigrinus or jurense cat

 

[LBathory]

dats and rays

 

[Conner]

2 or 3 arowana tigrinus or jurense cat

dats and rays

Guys, I do believe he was looking for saltwater suggestions...

It would make a great freshwater tank, but if you can invest in the equipment initially (good sump/refugium/skimmer and lighting) you could turn that into an eye-popping reef.

I guess it depends on what you want. Do you want a busy tank, with lots of fish and lots of color. Or do you want a more bare-looking tank, with a couple of larger, predatory fish in it?

Personally, if I'd scored that tank, I'd be thinking tropical reef all night long. Lots of little fish, lots of coral, and tons of color...

 

[The1and only]

If you wanted to go sump, which I would, you are going to make a pipe from the drain that is as high as the desired water level. I am assuming the holes are drilled in the middle, so you will need more live rock to cover it up.

I would leave the UV off and only use it in case of a outbreak or when adding new fish.

I agree with conner to go reef with a bunch of little fish. There are a lot of corals that don't need high lighting requirement. I get frags pretty cheap like 5-10 bucks so I found which corals I can keep and what I can't. I also like watching as little corals grow to be big corals. The cool thing about tanks like this is you can set up a different looks from different viewing sides.

 

[Coues]

Awesome tank. I know squat about salt, so I say stay fresh! Cichla, Dats, and Rays would look phenominal in that thing.

 

[fishy12]

I say a moray eel, voltrain lionfish, trigger!

Or a amazing community!

 

[Nighthawk]

If it were my tank I'd have a volitan lionfish and either a blue face angel or emperor angel for sure. Along with a group of 3 yellow tangs OR a powder blue tang, hippo tang, and yellow tang with a harlequin tusk and an eel of some sort.

 

[scriving]

cichla dats ray aros big flagtail and a tigirnius salt is overrated stay fresh my freind

 

[DREAM-faw]

Damn, what a HUGE tank! I'd sat go with 1000 fancy guppies! hahaha! x)