Blue fin tuna

[likestofish]

I honestly have given this thought. Not Bluefin, but Albacore or maybe Yellow Fin...

I am thinking a current pool with the current put on a dimmer that was on a timer. The current could slowly increase and decrease several times a day. You could get one big enough to house a school of albacore comfortably for about $30k.

My worry is when they jump, which bring us back to the airplane on a tread mill question. Would a fish in a current tank land back in the tank when it jumped or would it land on the pool deck. A fence around the pool would force it to land back in the water, but how tall should it be? I have seen BFT jump 18-20 feet.

thats the style of tank that guy used to breed them. Except it was circular

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

wow I cant beleive we kept the one we caught on are deep sea fishing trip. I say we need to start a tuna war.

 

[Zoodiver]

My worry is when they jump, which bring us back to the airplane on a tread mill question. Would a fish in a current tank land back in the tank when it jumped or would it land on the pool deck. A fence around the pool would force it to land back in the water, but how tall should it be? I have seen BFT jump 18-20 feet.

It's a bit different that the airplane / tread mill question. With that, the plane is moving due to pushing against the air around it (with the prop), not using the wheels for forward motion - so yes the plane takes off. That is why we also have float planes and planes on skis. The surface they are on doesn't inhibit flight. (As a pilot, we usually laugh at that whole theory of not flying from a treadmill.)

With fish, they'd be using the water as medium for movement, so if they push against it, they'd not be moving forward in the air around them - meaning they would stay put and land back in the pool.

Down side is you'd need a pool big enough for them to swim in, and circular. That and they don't always swim the same speed, so you'd need to match current in the pool to the speed they were swimming.

 

[~ocean]

that'd be a bit extreame... unless someone has all this already