Cold Water marine aquariums

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  1. ZachB

    ZachB Giant Squid

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    Has anyone here had experience keeping marine fish / invertebrates from cold water environments?
     
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  2. Iraf

    Iraf Snowflake Eel

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    I've looked into it on a couple of occasions was looking into doing a custom jellyfish setup but when the equipment bill got around 12k I quit looking at it

    It really depends on how cold you need to keep it I was going for a 40-50 degree consistent water temp setup of around 150 gallons
     
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  3. phoenixhieghts

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    I thought about it as i live in a coldwater enviroment. But my lfs stated that they are more difficult then tropical
     
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    This guy...in addition to having a HUGE Kick A$$ tropical reef, has some pretty cool cold water stuff as well. Check it out.

    Oregonreef.com
     
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  5. ZachB

    ZachB Giant Squid

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    Those systems look amazing! I've seen some very interesting cold water creatures - there's got to be a way to do a DIY chiller that could keep everything cold, and not run up the pricetag of the system. 55 degrees would be roughly 23-25 degrees colder than what I keep my house .... hrrm.
     
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  6. inwall75

    inwall75 Giant Squid

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    Steve's coldwater reefs were in his garage so that helped him a lot.
     
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  7. Aqualung

    Aqualung Stylophora

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    Cool, I never knew coldwater reefs were so beautiful. I lived on Jersey Coast for a while.. nothin that cool!
     
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  8. RHorton

    RHorton Pajama Cardinal

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    Those are nice cold water set ups.
     
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  9. inwall75

    inwall75 Giant Squid

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    You have to have a MONSTER skimmer as just about everything is non-photosynthetic and requires a lot of food.
     
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  10. ZachB

    ZachB Giant Squid

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    Good point. Money that's normally spent on lighting would be spent on a giant skimmer :cheesy:
     
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