just saw an episode of tanked

[Chrisplosion]

Don't get your hopes up guys it the same old reality show bull....

Clip of them collecting fish can be found here http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/new-video-clips-from-fish-tank-kings

Another clip http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/first-peek-at-fishtank-kings

 

[Johnnylightning]

I believed that until I watched the episode of the mob tank. They put ice cubes from a dispenser in to cool the tank. Used media and sand is great and they don't use live rock that I have seen but experts or not that tank has to cycle before sticking in most of those fish. You can stick in tangs all day long but rays and sharks forget it.

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[Chrisplosion]

At least this one seems to have a more indepth on the fish description end of it. Its just like "oh yellow fish looks like taxi derp"

 

[davdev]

Do you actually think, if that happened, they would still be in business? Like every episode, all the fishes they put in died. In my opinion, this is the internet, and what people say can be far from the truth. And by the way, the reef board forums loved that shark tank that they did, 8 foot, 18,000 gallons acrylic tank.

Maybe, but I have seen the same written about the Mob Tank, and that god awful Phone Booth tank was on ebay a week after the show aired.

I would say when they are building tanks for actual customers they probably do a good job, but I think the tanks they do on the shows are death traps.

Hell, look at the Rainbowfish in the pin ball tank. They said outright they put in mostly males, but added a few females to make the males color up. You know what happens when you put in one or two females into an all male Rainbow tank, you get dead females.

 

[Red_Belly_Pacu]

I believed that until I watched the episode of the mob tank. They put ice cubes from a dispenser in to cool the tank. Used media and sand is great and they don't use live rock that I have seen but experts or not that tank has to cycle before sticking in most of those fish. You can stick in tangs all day long but rays and sharks forget it.

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A reply from another board about the show tanked:

"There's ways to instantly cycle an aquarium--such as, installing an already mature fluidized bed filter, moving over mature bioballs, incorporating lots of mature cured live rock--that make it to where these businesses can install custom built aquariums and stock them quickly.

They have to be employing some strategy such as this, since their business is one of the most successful custom aquarium businesses that there is, and they wouldn't be very successful if all their expensive and rare livestock died right after being introduced."

 

[Bottomfeeder]

I would say when they are building tanks for actual customers they probably do a good job, but I think the tanks they do on the shows are death traps.

I agree. I dont know anything about their company outside the show, but I doubt they are going around setting up time-bomb tanks like they do every episode of the show. The husbandry and just the aesthetics of the tanks, just

 

[oscaroo]

This is kinda fun to read. A other entertaining forum argument.

 

[815billybob]

I think its funny people get there pants in a bunch about a stupid TV show. It supposed to be entertainment like the guy dropping the glass from the pinball machine. Do you think that was not planed out its reality TV and for the first person who posted about this bashing on my show. Come on really you don't know a angelfish isn't a cichlid and the fish poop dose help the plans grow lol I'm joust giving u a hard time it a realty show not a documetry. Just have fun with it that's what there doing.

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[Johnnylightning]

A reply from another board about the show tanked:

"There's ways to instantly cycle an aquarium--such as, installing an already mature fluidized bed filter, moving over mature bioballs, incorporating lots of mature cured live rock--that make it to where these businesses can install custom built aquariums and stock them quickly.

They have to be employing some strategy such as this, since their business is one of the most successful custom aquarium businesses that there is, and they wouldn't be very successful if all their expensive and rare livestock died right after being introduced."

LOL doing what they do is hard on fish which causes them to be open to diseases. Imagine five days from that mob tank the massive water changes.

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[Chrisplosion]

In the phone booth episode you can see them adding a dead damsel to the tank