Dual 40g Breeder's

[drock59]

Tried a search but came up empty.

I am curious if anyone has tried to set up two tanks, not necessarily 40 breeders, right next to each other. I could run a reef tank and an aggressive tank along side each other.

This is all I have found thus far:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1758552&highlight=dual+tank

Does anyone have experience with this or links to people who have tried it?

[tkeracer619]

You can easily share the same sump and return pump / filtration.

[Postal]

My system has 3 tanks sharing a common sump / return.

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l47/postal33610/40%20Breeder%20-%2025%20Cube%20-%2040%20Breeder%20Setup/TBRC%20meeting%2010-15-11/IMGP1272.jpg

[drock59]

There we go! Thanks for sharing. Do you have each tank separated by type of inhabitants?

[Postal]

There we go! Thanks for sharing. Do you have each tank separated by type of inhabitants?

Yes, I went with different ideas but finally settled on the following:

Left 40 breeder - almost a planted tank with large amounts of macro and home to a pair of orange-spotted filefish, a pair of black leopard wrasses, a meleagris leopard, a SI WC percula with her anemone, and several rock-flower and maxi-mini anemones.

Center cube - home of a haddoni carpet anemone with a pair of GSM clowns.

Right 40 breeder - traditional reef tank with LPS and zoas / palys and more wrasses.

[jluspo]

TOTM last Nov 2011 was multi-tank - http://reefkeeping.com/joomla/index.php/current-issue/article/88-tank-of-the-month



I'm actually thinking of doing a multi-tank (same sump/filtration). I now have a 120 reef but would like to add a 40breeder for butterflys and dwarf angels or other species I could/would not add to my main tank.

[drock59]

Sweet, thanks. That is a pretty cool setup.

[drock59]

Anybody else have something similar?