an odd question..

[Jeox]

lets just say it was possible to pressurize an aquarium, and lets forget the fact that fish need room to swim.
if you had a tank, that would normally hold 50 gallons, and had it pressurised with 500 gallons, would it be able to have the bioload of a 50, or a 500?

 

[xFLEAxx]

I would say a 50 gallon becasue that is still the size of the tank itself.

 

[pcfriedrich]

the bio-waste would just be compressed, too.

 

[id10t]

water doesn't compress, so it don't work that way.

what you'd need is 40 gallons of water in it and a valve to pump air in. You'd pump in 10atm of pressure, and the air would compress and push down.

now if you are looking for more fish, look at either different kinds of fish (smaller), or look into massive filtration, esp. with a sump.

 

[BushFishRox]

not to mention you would crush the fish...

 

[pcfriedrich]

definately is an odd, odd question.

 

[Fishermoe14]

water doesn't compress like air does..

 

[Fishes33]

If you try to compress your 50G of water into something bigger.. The tank will burst instantly, because you cant compress water, no space in between each molecule for you to compress

 

[Jeox]

water doesn't compress, so it don't work that way.

what you'd need is 40 gallons of water in it and a valve to pump air in. You'd pump in 10atm of pressure, and the air would compress and push down.

now if you are looking for more fish, look at either different kinds of fish (smaller), or look into massive filtration, esp. with a sump.

oh..

how does deep sea work then?

 

[Druu]

oh..

how does deep sea work then?

Water isn't compressed into a smaller volume- it's just the weight of all the water above it as well. For example, put a brick on each of your shoulders. Feels fine right? Put 500 bricks on each shoulder. The bricks remain the same size, but there is more pressure from the weight of the bricks above it. Not the best example though, methinks...