Local mall monster tanks

[Ilawis]

A local mall here in Perth has 6 monster tanks thought some people might be interested in them the 2 largest ones would be about 4 meters long 1.5 meters tall and 1.3 meters wide all tanks are acrilic about 2"thick if not thicker
If anyone has some other places where monster tanks can be found in public that most people won't know about let us know and post a photo!

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Nice. I wish all malls everywhere had such tanks. And petting zoos.

Is the modest stock a reflection of Australia's tough stance on exotics?

 

[Ilawis]

Fish here are not cheap the ones in most of these tanks are the cheapest you can buy
This mall is a Asian style Mart mall so not a place you will find puma shoes more like pumba shoes so hence the bigger focus on goldfish and more Asian regional fish
Overall Australia doesn't have a huge range of fish from overseas they clamped down on new species a few years ago so most of the ones we have here got in before the clamp down happened

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

I would love the auburn mall here to have something like that...but then people would have to go to the auburn mall for them to afford it, place is like a ghost town these days.

 

[Ilawis]

Yea that true this mall is half empty of stalls/shops. But there seems to be quite a few people in there I think it's because of a few things
1 it's 500 yards from a normal mall
2 is a mixture of specifically Indian grocery stores and Asian stores
3 there is a dedicated area that sells like a fish market and meat market (about 4 stores of each)
4 there is a international supermarket there
5 there is a decent kids playground inside the shopping centre
So it covers a decent portion of what people want

Other than that once these tanks are set up im sure it wouldn't be too much of a problem keeping them clean and tidy the are kinda low maintenance so not a huge amount in ongoing costs

 

[Deadliestviper7]

I wish my malls did something like this, there r so many empty fountains that could work

 

[Peckoltia]

Wow when i opened this thread, I didn't expect it to be pics of the tanks at Coventry Square/Market.

I find the tanks there super disappointing, for their size and the cost of the tanks to set up, they are extremely poorly maintained. At times only half full for extended periods of time, and algae over all the acrylic. I know Paul at Morley Aquariums stocked the tanks but he doesn't maintain them, someone else does.

Think they started with 10 rays, down to about 3-4 now.

Cool that they have the tanks, just very very poorly executed in the long run.

 

[Ilawis]

I've just moved to the area so I didn't know about all that to me they look OK not great but better than nothing there
I do think it's a bit bad having so much wood on the bottom of the tank there is nowhere for the rays to sit nicely