How much would this TANKED tank cost

No this show just fascinates me for some reason. Not the show itself, just the economics of these huge tank builds.
 
I would "recommend" port Jacksons too...if you kept your tank at 65 degrees. And pilotfish, out.

It is a fascinating show, for many reasons. One of them being the economics, as you mentioned

Edit: pilotfish oiy
 
Depends. If you're talking just the tank itself (no equipment or inserts), it'd run around $10k - $20k.

The inserts would run another $10k or so.
 
I like the show, I wish they would add less fish but some of the tanks are awesome! Last weeks episodes tank was huge. I am sure the natural seawater is free for advertising? Also you have to remember they build the tanks, others maintain them.
 
I would assume it would be $100,000 + for that tank.

I will probably get banned for this but
I really liked the tank they did last week.
 
ricks49reef said:
Big Money and tank will look like crap in a few months.Algae and fake corals don't go well together.
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I saw a video and they could pop the fake stuff in and out so as part maintenance they tool old out to clean and just rotated. I agree though I went to the aquarium restaurant in Nashville and it is kind of depressing to see fish missing eyeballs swimming next to fake coral. The main display was pretty awesome though.
 
They were going through their office in one scene last week and a guy had a nano reef on his desk. I was thinking show that tank!

I liked the Guy Harvey tank-
 
haha woah never did the math on that nutri-water stuff, dang. Yea i'd guess around 100k or so.

Interesting sideish note, read somewhere that crab fishers in the Bering were struggling because those fishers featured on "Deadliest Catch" undercut everyone on price, since they made so much on the show. Wonder if ATM does this too.
 
I always assumed they put a few buckets of nutrisea water in the tank for show (advertising) then filled the majority of the tank with much cheaper salt. I saw on the last episode a pallet of salt buckets in their shop. Why would they need that if they only used nutrisea? And of course that is free for them, and they get paid for showing it on tv on top of that. Along with the bags of live sand that they always have to show them putting in.
 
I thought on the last show they came in with very large containers of nutri-seawater? I am sure they film the bosses throwing everything in, and then the cameras stops and someone else does most of the work. Just like the car shows, a lot of it is staged for the camera.
 
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