Dammmnnn those are some nice looking tanks!
Drew
Dream displays?
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Drew
I would like an outdoor tropical pond around 50-100ft mishapen circle, 5ft deep above ground with a 5ft drop off below ground. a waterfall with a drop of 40ft over natural rocks.
It would be scaped and planted, a concave 5ft by 30ft window next to a BBQ patio seating area.
Then the pond would be sat against the house where it would pass through the wall into two living rooms, one would have a glass wall as if it's a tank sunk into the wall and the other would have an open top pond area.
It would all be lit from various angles all full dimmable and remote controlled.
I would stock it with giant snakehead, alligator gar, a massive shoal of Caribe pirahna feeders, rtc, and a piraiba. A few dwarf camen and as it would be next to the Amazon a and my entire house and pond would float up and I down with the seasons and it would have doorways that let wild freshwater dolphins come and go as they please but keep all my fish secure inside...
Just thought I would add a 20ft cube inside the house that dissects into the upper levels of the house and the water would be sucked and held up by a vacuum, same principle as a water bridge.
Of course all 100% water change per hour with Amazon filtered water too.
Just a humble idea!-)
It would be scaped and planted, a concave 5ft by 30ft window next to a BBQ patio seating area.
Then the pond would be sat against the house where it would pass through the wall into two living rooms, one would have a glass wall as if it's a tank sunk into the wall and the other would have an open top pond area.
It would all be lit from various angles all full dimmable and remote controlled.
I would stock it with giant snakehead, alligator gar, a massive shoal of Caribe pirahna feeders, rtc, and a piraiba. A few dwarf camen and as it would be next to the Amazon a and my entire house and pond would float up and I down with the seasons and it would have doorways that let wild freshwater dolphins come and go as they please but keep all my fish secure inside...
Just thought I would add a 20ft cube inside the house that dissects into the upper levels of the house and the water would be sucked and held up by a vacuum, same principle as a water bridge.
Of course all 100% water change per hour with Amazon filtered water too.
Just a humble idea!-)
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Ok, so we're playing this game huh? Let me see what I can do
We can't start with the tank on this one - we need to start with the house.
First, a large round building, about 60' in diameter, would be built. The ceilings on this room would go up to 30' high at the center, and the walls would be made of 4"+ thick acrylic panels, probably at least 30 of them. This room would feature a massive glass dining table, a full-stocked bar with a kitchen area inside, a variety of "game tables" such as poker, bumper pool, and standard pool, a home theater system, and a full surround-sound system hooked up to a DJ station.
From here, three hallways would be built, all around 10' high and 10' wide. To the north, the biggest tunnel would be built at 60' long. To the west, a 35' tunnel would be built. To the south, a 25' tunnel would be built. There would be sets of doors at the end of the north and west tunnels.
The southern tunnel would lead to another room, this would be another round room approximately 35' in diameter. This would be the living quarters, featuring a king-sized bed, a central glass shower, in-ground jaccuzi, walk-in closet space, separate bathroom space, and a very casual office setup. There would also be plenty of high-quality furniture around the room, like couches/chairs, night stands, etc. The room would be built with the same 4"+ thick acrylic panels, however this one would also feature a very large round acrylic panel on the roof. The entirety of this room would be able to view outside of it (by now, you should know where this is going). It would be about 12'-14 high.
The hallways would be built from that same thick acrylic.
After the house was completed, then we could worry about the tank. It would be built with concrete walls, and it would be build in a somewhat odd shape, with a few large, gradual curves going around the walls. Each end (north and south) would just be like a semi-circle, with the east and western ends featuring a few curves.
The widest point of the tank would be (including the house) 125', and the longest (again, including the house) would be about 300'. The tank's final height would be around 30'. I will provide sketches of this thing later, if I get around to it.
From here the fun begins. The tank would be given tons and tons of sand on the bottom, then the rockwork would be added, and then false corals could be added. These would be made to mimic large, mature coral colonies - and I'm guessing this would mean it would take 80,000-90,000 artificial coral colonies to fill the tank. Once all of that was done, the tank would be filled and stocking could commence.
The main stock of this tank would be a huge school of blacktip reef sharks. Not a shoal - this group would be big enough to be a full-on school. We are talking 140-150 sharks in this tank. I would not add whitetip reef sharks, because I do not want them picking off the fish in this artificial reef tank - which would be inevitable.
Next, a group of 7-8 zebra sharks would be added. These sharks would have the potential to grow to massive sizes in this tank, and would swim across the lower half of the water column very gracefully.
Then, 7-8 tasseled wobbegongs would be added, and another 16-18 ornate wobbegongs would be added. These are probably my favorite wobbegongs, and they fit in with the theme of an Australian tank so we will add them. In such a large tank, they will be target fed and not bother to eat tankmates (unlike whitetip reef sharks, which would be moving around all the time and nearly impossible to target feed individually). These would be the only other sharks added.
Next, I would add some rays. Reticulated whiptail rays would be my number one choice, so I would add 24-25 individuals to the tank. I would also add the somewhat rare black-blotched fantail ray to the tank, probably a group of 16-18 of them.
These would be the only elasmobranchs in the tank - six species, and anywhere from 210-225 individuals.
I would keep a single MASSIVE green sea turtle in this tank. I wouldn't want any more than that in here, it would be the ultimate "wet pet".
After this, we could focus on adding filler fish (actually, the filler fish would be added first - but I planned the sharks before I planned the fillers).
So what kind of filler fish are we looking at? Well, here's a basic run down.
- 800+ tangs (naso, unicorn, vlamingi, regal, sailfin, orange shoulder, convict, dussumieri)
- 200+ pyjama cardinalfish
- 60-70 triggerfish (pinktail, niger, blue throated, clown, titan)
- 80-90 butterflyfish (sunbust and pyramid butterflies)
- 140-150 hawkfish (flame, longnose, freckled)
- 100-110 batfish (orbicular, longfin)
- 15-16 oriental sweetlips
- 400+ wrasses (lyretail hogfish, redbreasted wrasse, napoleon wrasse, harlequin tusk, slingjaw wrasse, yellow coris, various other species of tuskfish and Thalassoma wrasses)
- 24-25 threadfin snapper
- 375+ mono argenteus
- 7-8 whitemouth morays
- 300+ two-lined monocle breams
- 200+ angelfish (emperor, koran, spotbreast, and various other Centropyge and Pomacanthus species)
- 70 clownfish (various species)
- 2,600+ damsels and chromis (golden damsel, blackbar chromis, blue devil damsel, blue green chromis, domino damsel)
- 24-25 purple dottybacks
- 15-16 bicolor parrotfish
- 70 groupers (panther, queensland, potato cod, various other Cephalopholis species)
- 270+ square back anthias
- 24 pufferfish (guineafowl, various other Arothron species)
It would be cool, seeing all of the fish group up by species in the tank. In such a large, natural-looking tank, the fish would stick within their respective species groups and move as one unit around the tank. Seeing a 375-fish school of monos would be awesome - seeing one closer to 1,300-1,400 fish would be even cooler.
I've got another part I would add to this, freshwater though. I'll put it in another post tomorrow.
Drew
Why not just get a really big submersible and chill on the Great Barrier Reef itself? Cheaper and IMO betterOk, so we're playing this game huh? Let me see what I can do
We can't start with the tank on this one - we need to start with the house.
First, a large round building, about 60' in diameter, would be built. The ceilings on this room would go up to 30' high at the center, and the walls would be made of 4"+ thick acrylic panels, probably at least 30 of them. This room would feature a massive glass dining table, a full-stocked bar with a kitchen area inside, a variety of "game tables" such as poker, bumper pool, and standard pool, a home theater system, and a full surround-sound system hooked up to a DJ station.
From here, three hallways would be built, all around 10' high and 10' wide. To the north, the biggest tunnel would be built at 60' long. To the west, a 35' tunnel would be built. To the south, a 25' tunnel would be built. There would be sets of doors at the end of the north and west tunnels.
The southern tunnel would lead to another room, this would be another round room approximately 35' in diameter. This would be the living quarters, featuring a king-sized bed, a central glass shower, in-ground jaccuzi, walk-in closet space, separate bathroom space, and a very casual office setup. There would also be plenty of high-quality furniture around the room, like couches/chairs, night stands, etc. The room would be built with the same 4"+ thick acrylic panels, however this one would also feature a very large round acrylic panel on the roof. The entirety of this room would be able to view outside of it (by now, you should know where this is going). It would be about 12'-14 high.
The hallways would be built from that same thick acrylic.
After the house was completed, then we could worry about the tank. It would be built with concrete walls, and it would be build in a somewhat odd shape, with a few large, gradual curves going around the walls. Each end (north and south) would just be like a semi-circle, with the east and western ends featuring a few curves.
The widest point of the tank would be (including the house) 125', and the longest (again, including the house) would be about 300'. The tank's final height would be around 30'. I will provide sketches of this thing later, if I get around to it.
From here the fun begins. The tank would be given tons and tons of sand on the bottom, then the rockwork would be added, and then false corals could be added. These would be made to mimic large, mature coral colonies - and I'm guessing this would mean it would take 80,000-90,000 artificial coral colonies to fill the tank. Once all of that was done, the tank would be filled and stocking could commence.
The main stock of this tank would be a huge school of blacktip reef sharks. Not a shoal - this group would be big enough to be a full-on school. We are talking 140-150 sharks in this tank. I would not add whitetip reef sharks, because I do not want them picking off the fish in this artificial reef tank - which would be inevitable.
Next, a group of 7-8 zebra sharks would be added. These sharks would have the potential to grow to massive sizes in this tank, and would swim across the lower half of the water column very gracefully.
Then, 7-8 tasseled wobbegongs would be added, and another 16-18 ornate wobbegongs would be added. These are probably my favorite wobbegongs, and they fit in with the theme of an Australian tank so we will add them. In such a large tank, they will be target fed and not bother to eat tankmates (unlike whitetip reef sharks, which would be moving around all the time and nearly impossible to target feed individually). These would be the only other sharks added.
Next, I would add some rays. Reticulated whiptail rays would be my number one choice, so I would add 24-25 individuals to the tank. I would also add the somewhat rare black-blotched fantail ray to the tank, probably a group of 16-18 of them.
These would be the only elasmobranchs in the tank - six species, and anywhere from 210-225 individuals.
I would keep a single MASSIVE green sea turtle in this tank. I wouldn't want any more than that in here, it would be the ultimate "wet pet".
After this, we could focus on adding filler fish (actually, the filler fish would be added first - but I planned the sharks before I planned the fillers).
So what kind of filler fish are we looking at? Well, here's a basic run down.
That's a good starting list, I think. More could be added though, and numbers could be increased dramatically - the reef sharks could realistically be raised to 200+, and the filler fish could be raised by about 3.5 times what they are now.
- 800+ tangs (naso, unicorn, vlamingi, regal, sailfin, orange shoulder, convict, dussumieri)
- 200+ pyjama cardinalfish
- 60-70 triggerfish (pinktail, niger, blue throated, clown, titan)
- 80-90 butterflyfish (sunbust and pyramid butterflies)
- 140-150 hawkfish (flame, longnose, freckled)
- 100-110 batfish (orbicular, longfin)
- 15-16 oriental sweetlips
- 400+ wrasses (lyretail hogfish, redbreasted wrasse, napoleon wrasse, harlequin tusk, slingjaw wrasse, yellow coris, various other species of tuskfish and Thalassoma wrasses)
- 24-25 threadfin snapper
- 375+ mono argenteus
- 7-8 whitemouth morays
- 300+ two-lined monocle breams
- 200+ angelfish (emperor, koran, spotbreast, and various other Centropyge and Pomacanthus species)
- 70 clownfish (various species)
- 2,600+ damsels and chromis (golden damsel, blackbar chromis, blue devil damsel, blue green chromis, domino damsel)
- 24-25 purple dottybacks
- 15-16 bicolor parrotfish
- 70 groupers (panther, queensland, potato cod, various other Cephalopholis species)
- 270+ square back anthias
- 24 pufferfish (guineafowl, various other Arothron species)
It would be cool, seeing all of the fish group up by species in the tank. In such a large, natural-looking tank, the fish would stick within their respective species groups and move as one unit around the tank. Seeing a 375-fish school of monos would be awesome - seeing one closer to 1,300-1,400 fish would be even cooler.
I've got another part I would add to this, freshwater though. I'll put it in another post tomorrow.
Drew
Not sure about better - but that would be pretty awesome.Why not just get a really big submersible and chill on the Great Barrier Reef itself? Cheaper and IMO better
Drew
Assuming that my dream tank would not be maintenance free lol... id go 12'x3'x3'. Any bigger and id need one of you guys to clean it for free...stock would be smaller central to south americans. Salvinis...jewels...electric blue acaras...firemouths...some exotic plecos...landscape would be typical cichlid setup with sturdy plants...im a simple guy lol
