Do you upgrade older tanks when more equipment is available?

[karissabob]

Just wondering if anyone just keeps their early game smaller tanks, or do you re-model them and their occupants into bigger/better tanks as the game progresses? Or a bit of both?

Does having a mixture of different size/type tanks keep visitors happier?

[Arcanuspurple]

I typically have a build/jury-rig/redesign cycle, where I build the best at the tech I have, spend a while jury-rigging new stuff onto it, and then usually 2 tech levels later I strip the whole section and rebuild from scratch. However, my strategy is to have tanks with as many fish as I can keep alive/happy in them, usually surrounded by a few small tanks with the cranky/finicky fish in them. Works great till you start getting sea turtles and octopi and stuff where keeping them fed can result in significant time expenditure/running out of time. Then you have to start lovingly balancing staff workloads.

[Tryclyde]

Gameplay wise having those early, easy to feed and maintain small tanks around makes it easier to level up new staff. Use different zones for different difficulties and have new staff move up the zones as they increase in level.

Aesthetically it's a different game though. Having all big tanks looks awesome but can become a problem when hiring new staff.

[Sangaris]

For most of the scenarios, i just keep the tanks i placed in the first place.
For the last scenarios for large megaquarim builds i rebuild some tanks from little ones to medium size one. Enough to be able to keep 4-5 species happy toghether.

Other than that, I try to keep small fish in small tanks, and big fish in big tanks. I dont think it makes a diference in prestige, but for me seems a bit odd to have de azure demoiselles in a 250 huge belfast tank.

Other than that i tend to move tanks around than rebuilding.

[Flishster]

I keep the old equipment and honestly I use the old equipment as much as possible. While it doesn't filter as much, it is much easier to fix and breaks down way less often.

[Alejandro Monteagudo]

Yes, everything other than the biggest equipment is just a place holder.

I normally run things in one massive loop, connecting all the tanks together with pumps and have 1 area where ALL the equipment lives, together with the repair crew that hasn't seen their family in years.

Obviously you have to separate cold and hot and fresh and salty, and acid, but the point is that if you heat 40 on every 36 tank you waste 4 heat on every tank, so you pool everything together.... Profit.

Some people also say to create 1 loop at like 70/80 water putity and then put all the fishes that need more on a separate loop, but I normally just bruteforce filters until the whole aquarium is at 90 something

Note: This is MY way not necesarily the BEST way