Hello i got a 55 gallon acrlic tank for free and now am thinking of ideas for it i want a saltwater tank and it does not have to be reef if there can be some other great things in it please just post any ideas or themes you think of and any info or link to info would be much appriciated

predator tank
(lionfish, frogfish, anglers, scorpians, maybe a mantis shrimp, etc)

nice idea if i was to i would get a mantis shrimp honestly they freak me out but the only problem is i thought i could only get a few fish so how entertaining could that really be also would those predators be reef safe. also to add on to yours yes scooter blennys do kick ass.

I had a predator tank in a 55 gallon once. Not quite as cool as I thought it would be, although I was new to the hobby (long time ago) and didn't know what I was doing and got all my info from the LFS.

I had a Lionfish, Lunar Wrasse, Niger Trigger, Picasso Trigger, etc.

They were very pretty and active fish but man they tried to kill each other and they decimated everything I put in the tank. The Picasso Trigger was the meanest fish I've ever seen.

well you could do a fw, im doing that with a free 20 long in an amazonian river biotope. the nice thing about freshwater is you can really load up with a lot of cheap cool fish like schools of cory cats or tetras. i know this is so blasphemy.

dont worry i still love my reef

My 55 has Maroon clowns, a niger trigger, a lawnmower blenny, and a dwarf lion as soon as my LFS is done QTing him. I'm thinking about a Mantis shrimp also, I don't really want to add much sand though, so the shrimp is still up in the air.

hmmm i already have a fw to actually its a 20 but more sqaurish rectangle then long and i want a sw so i can diversify also they have some cool one there