1100 gallon Salt water tank

[Bryan3536]

I'm sorry i opened my mouth my lord, I'll go back to my fallowed land with the rest of the serfs.

Man, I'm taking an unfair beating here!


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[OrQidz]

Interesting thread! Sounds like hoping the house might find that perfect person, but also keeping the option open to remove the tank would be the best idea. One thing to keep in mind, if *I* were looking into buying a house with a ginormous tank, I would want to be sure the inspection included looking for any signs of past leaks or salt water damage.

Bryan, I didn't take your post the way others seem to have. I took it more like "it's not us (crazy reef tank people) who are buying the house". Most "normal" people -ie non reefers - would be intimidated by the tank. Or have a completely different reaction to it.

I personally would turn that thing into a giant paludarium

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Man, I'm taking an unfair beating here!


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I didn't get that from your post, I thought it was well thought out and offered the hard truth.

Cindy,

I have a friend that had an 800 gallon peninsula built into his house, beautiful tank, awesome set up. He upped and sold the house and the buyer didn't want the tank, told the seller to get rid of it. What my friend did was post a thread (on the local forum) that if someone came and removed the tank, they could have it all for free. This was no easy task, however the $20k plus this guy had in the tank and equipment alone was worth the hassle.

The one big difference between these 2 situations is that my friend had a live reef tank(real live corals in the tank) and the buyer wasn't willing to assume nor pay the expense to maintain the ecosystem. Your tank is that of what we would see on the show that animal planet airs every week. A tank with fake coral and only fish to take care of. The monthly expense will be far cheaper and easy for a novice to jump head first in to.

The tank that you're selling with the house can easily be viewed as ornamental and can be sold just like a property with koi pond on it.

There's so many ways that you can sell the idea. I'd be interested to know the outcome, please keep us posted.