Dream Tanks?

My dream tanks:

* 2,000 gallon fresh water in an atrium in the center of the house. Seen from the ground floor there are waterlilies, and there are windows in the basement so the fish can be seen, an Arrowana and a couple of other prehistoric looking fish.

*500 gallon reef fully automated.

* 100 gallon Angler fish species tank with sponges and a few corals.

*60,000 gallon aggressive FOWLER for Angels and Triggers. Hey, dream big, right?
I'd like to buy a public aquarium and just move in.

*100 gallon Pipefish species tank with lots of macro algae and pods.
 
SoloChromis said:
I haven't had any build threads so far, mainly due to a lack of any decent camera, but I do plan on buying a nice DSLR in the near future, so things may be changing :dance: When I refer to a "bonsai mangrove", I'm just referring to keeping a small mangrove tree, and pruning it here and there to have it look a certain way, as you would a bonsai tree.
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Ah, gotcha. Can't wait to see some pics!
 
Whiterabbitrage said:
My dream tanks:

* 2,000 gallon fresh water in an atrium in the center of the house. Seen from the ground floor there are waterlilies, and there are windows in the basement so the fish can be seen, an Arrowana and a couple of other prehistoric looking fish.

*500 gallon reef fully automated.

* 100 gallon Angler fish species tank with sponges and a few corals.

*60,000 gallon aggressive FOWLER for Angels and Triggers. Hey, dream big, right?
I'd like to buy a public aquarium and just move in.

*100 gallon Pipefish species tank with lots of macro algae and pods.
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Lol that 60,000 gallon though :D
Not sure even a 2,000 gallon would be big enough for an arapaima:eek1:Those things get huge and eat EVERYTHING - like a giant, slow arowana, but if it jumps it will break glass and could potentially kill you (remember when Jeremy Wade suffered near heart failure from one hitting him? That wasn't even one of the big ones). I tried one in my 1200 gallon and it lasted bout 2 years before it just got too big, and my tank is 10 foot long!
 
SoloChromis said:
When I worked at a LFS my coworker helped a man convert his swimming pool into a full blown coral reef, and the maintenance was supposedly minimal, as the guy lived on an estuary, so clean water was constantly being cycled through the reef. One of the perks of being a reef nut in Florida :bum:
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Dude, that's freaking sweet. I live right by the water on NC... no chance of moving though (I kinda can't move concrete ponds and 5,000 square foot enclosures... not to mention crocodiles)
 
O.k. I'll bite....

1) 300 gal lake tanganyika cichlids mostly altolamprologus , tropheus and neolamprologus species.

2) 90 gal . Reef with sponges and Whip coral , Pygmy bargibanti seahorses, trimmas, clown gobies whip coral gobies and such. Spotted Mandarin pair , assorted inverts shrimps , stars and nudibranchs.

3)800 gal coral reef with anemones hosting Nigripes pair , A pair of leopard blennies ( exallias brevis) a blue spot jawfish pair, long nose hawk pair , a school of Achilles tang, a pair of potter's Angels, a pair of clarion Angels , a pair of leopard wrasses, and a bunch 20+ of sunburst anthias....

4) 240 gal cephalopod tank either small octopus, cuttlefish or nautilus tank

5) 600 with large cowfish and puffers and "littler" frogfish[emoji7]
 
If I had the money, I would get a house that has a large room with a tall ceiling, I would create an "avenue of tanks" so there would be tanks on both sides with plenty of room on the back and front sides. Tanks would be something like this.

1) 10'X3'x3' FOWLER with larger tangs, butterflies etc.
2) 6'X3X18" Reef on the same side, with larger anemones, clowns and some soft corals, hardy lps (no SPS).

On the opposite side

Several small tanks with starfire glass (Innovative Marine 120 or 80s) mostly with different types of most colorful SPS and LPS coral and different pairs of clowns and other smaller fish and critters on each tank. The smaller tanks would allow for a closer look to the colorful corals and smaller fish. No aggressive fish would be on these smaller tanks. These would also include species only tanks like Sea Horse and pipefish etc.

The room would have a tiled floor with plenty of drains and plumbing to automate water changes. A small fish room next to this room would house quarantine tanks etc.
 
Just google "largest private aquarium" and Mr Bill Wann has what I need, I would take his next tank he plans on building too. You can keep the other 3 tanks
 
Dmorty217 said:
Just google "largest private aquarium" and Mr Bill Wann has what I need, I would take his next tank he plans on building too. You can keep the other 3 tanks
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He's got the biggest saltwater setup, but arapaimag on Monster fish keepers has a 15 thousand gallon freshwater tank and a 52 thousand gallon freshwater tank. It's INSANE
 
hmmm... well to think outside the 'box' .. I'd like to build a huge reef say around the size of 1 acre in the middle of a well landscaped 3-5 acre lot, with glass living/bedrooms underwater... with couple of access points to get into/ out - 1 access point to which we can dive in/ out..!

living the dream... :P

Oh and the other 4 tanks... Few hundred gallon QT tanks inside the living space ? lol
 
kangadrew said:
Bumping this. This was an interesting thread, I'd love to hear some more
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What are the 6 birds you have? And where did you get a zebra, and how friendly is the fox? lol. I'd have a huge stream with a bunch of ponds/pools, each housing different fish, specifically one with sunfish/shiners/minnows/dace/etc, one with goldfish, one with koi, and one with little to no fish for frogs, salamanders, etc where the fish won't eat them. The 2nd tank would be a huge caribbean biotope, around 2000 gallons, that looks as close to the natural habitat as possible, including details such as sponges, small fish, microfauna, shallow/deep, mangroves, macros, a small beachy area, semi-aquatic crabs/snails, terrestrial/salt-tolerant plants, etc. The 3rd would be a large paludarium/vivarium/riparium in one, I don't know the word for it, but it would have a water section with vertical land, then it comes to and end with a shallow pool with flat land, then the 3rd section is a stream w/o fish and lots of flat land. Not to mention it's completely covered with plants/mosses. I love mosses. I'm thinking that a Trinidadian biotope would be cool for this type of setup, possibly Amazonian. The 4th would be an indo-pacific biotope similar to the caribbean one I mentioned. I don't know what the 5th would be. :dance:
 
kangadrew said:
Bumping this. This was an interesting thread, I'd love to hear some more
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What are the 6 birds you have? And where did you get a zebra and a fox? lol. I'd have a huge stream with a bunch of ponds/pools, each housing different fish, specifically one with sunfish/shiners/minnows/dace/etc, one with goldfish, one with koi, and one with little to no fish for frogs, salamanders, etc where the fish won't eat them. The 2nd tank would be a huge caribbean biotope, around 2000 gallons, that looks as close to the natural habitat as possible, including details such as sponges, small fish, microfauna, shallow/deep, mangroves, macros, a small beachy area, semi-aquatic crabs/snails, terrestrial/salt-tolerant plants, etc. The 3rd would be a huge paludarium/vivarium/riparium in one, about 16' x 8', I don't know the word for it, but it would have a water section with vertical land, then it comes to and end with the water turning into a stream with flat land, then the 3rd section is a stream and lots of flat land. Amphibians, reptiles, fish, and insects would be in balance. Not to mention it's completely covered with plants/mosses. I love mosses. I'm thinking that a Trinidadian biotope would be cool for this type of setup, possibly Amazonian. The 4th would be an indo-pacific biotope similar to the caribbean one I mentioned. The 5th would be a HUGE reef tank, that is self maintained, that has some rooms (i.e. bedroom, living room, etc.) underneath. This brings a whole new meaning to sleeping with the fishes.:dance:
 
Mine would be to have mine looking great. No GHA or very little for the snails to eat. Healthy fish. And full of colorful corals.
 
Genera said:
What are the 6 birds you have? And where did you get a zebra and a fox? lol. I'd have a huge stream with a bunch of ponds/pools, each housing different fish, specifically one with sunfish/shiners/minnows/dace/etc, one with goldfish, one with koi, and one with little to no fish for frogs, salamanders, etc where the fish won't eat them. The 2nd tank would be a huge caribbean biotope, around 2000 gallons, that looks as close to the natural habitat as possible, including details such as sponges, small fish, microfauna, shallow/deep, mangroves, macros, a small beachy area, semi-aquatic crabs/snails, terrestrial/salt-tolerant plants, etc. The 3rd would be a huge paludarium/vivarium/riparium in one, about 16' x 8', I don't know the word for it, but it would have a water section with vertical land, then it comes to and end with the water turning into a stream with flat land, then the 3rd section is a stream and lots of flat land. Amphibians, reptiles, fish, and insects would be in balance. Not to mention it's completely covered with plants/mosses. I love mosses. I'm thinking that a Trinidadian biotope would be cool for this type of setup, possibly Amazonian. The 4th would be an indo-pacific biotope similar to the caribbean one I mentioned. The 5th would be a HUGE reef tank, that is self maintained, that has some rooms (i.e. bedroom, living room, etc.) underneath. This brings a whole new meaning to sleeping with the fishes.:dance:
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Yeeeaaaahhhh :bum: We've gotta collaborate on a tank one of these days :beer:
 
I'd only have 2 tanks.

1 tall seahorse tank. Probably in the 120 gallon cube. Lots of softies, zoanthids and seahorses

and a 360 gallon shallow cube full of reef fish and corals. But it would be to showcase clams.
 
Id be happy with one tank.

I dont even know the gallons, but it would be a 10' x 4' x 4' tank that was partially mounted in-wall with a big dedicated fish room housing seperate LARGE refugium and water change stations etc...

--- full reef with lots of colorful fish and huge coral colonies.


Id be content with that.
 
kangadrew said:
I'm in NC, so they're outdoors. Lol NC is great there are barely any laws on keeping exotics - none on keeping reptiles :)

The caiman is a 6' spectacled that lives in a 30x22 pen and the nile is a 7 footer that lives in a 75x58 pen. They both have their own big concrete ponds, their own sheds to go into (though the caiman's is much tinier and in the cage - crocodile one is the third side of the enclosure), and plants outside the water. Any noobs reading this thread - DO NOT GET ANY CROCODILIAN AS A PET. OR PRETTY MUCH ANYBODY READING THIS. MINE WERE RESCUES THAT WERE THROWN ON ME AND NOBODY ELSE WANTED. THEY ARE DANGEROUS WILD ANIMALS AND NEED TO BE TREATED AS SUCH. That being said I have loved my 2 tho :)
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do you have to heat the water?
 
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