Weird and unusual tank ideas

[HeadAblaze]

I have had some strange and interesting tank ideas in the past, and am curious of others ideas. My favorite idea, that I'd love to acomplish one day is a maybe 10-15 gallon tank in my Astro Van. I'd have of course about 1 inch thick acrylic for stability, rock glued down, only sps glued as well, one hardy *** fish, led lighting, filtration like a biocube, cooling fans, a chiller (duhhh), and a solar panel controlling everything with a couple car batteries, or something that can run everything at night till the sun comes up. Almost flawless, almost.

 

[killafornia]

come get your damn tank

 

[sillygoose]

I have a feeling that the 400 would be too big for a van :wildone:

 

[prickles]

my dream tank has a beach with waves outside you can sunbathe on, and then slopes down to open water for swimming, with a reef at the far end that has glass looking into a living room on the other side. This would create an inwall tank from inside the house, and a nice beach outside. The thing I am struggling with in my fantasy world is how to keep birds from swooping down and eating my fish. I figure about 30 feet would be enough length and maybe 12 feet wide or so for the pool/tank. I saw something like this in the bird section of the monterey aquarium, but it was only about half that size, with little depth.

 

[HeadAblaze]

I will later today Logan, you ****...Pickles, I like your idea, it's pretty fantastic. You can make it in maybe a room that has a clear roof, maybe, then the water wont evaporate as fast, or you can hire a professional hunter, and they can snipe the birds all day long...

 

[prickles]

yeah my wife does want an indoor pool, or what they call a "lanai" in florida. I just wonder if I could get the screens to move so they aren't always there.

 

[HeadAblaze]

If they can have retractable roofs on football stadiumsm that'll be cake. Now we'd have to worry about the rain and the pool/reef flooding potentially. I'm sure it's been done, and it probably isn't impossible.

 

[Counts/min]

Biosphere 2 has the reef, the beach, and the window.... It's also deep/large enough to swim as they dive in it.

 

[sillygoose]

Is it pretty these days? I went some years ago and they might have had an algal bloom. You couldn't even see through the murky green water. I was bummed.

 

[HeadAblaze]

Eww, that wouldn't be nice to see....If I ever have a large house, which is highly doubtful, I think that idea would be dooable. I'd probably just do an indoor pool, with led lighting over the whole thing, and have a switch that changes it to regular florescents so you can swim without the light blaring. Kinda a rough though, but I just thought it up, haha

 

[AcroButcher]

the biospheres ocean is still very murky and covered in diatoms. as of right now the water is being turned over once every 3 days. They are in the process of upgrading the filtration. New skimmers and better pumps. the goal is for it to turn the volume 3 times a day. Its just shy of a million gallons.

 

[HeadAblaze]

What do they use for lighting?

 

[Osaka-san]

I understood that the Biosphere tank went untended for quite awhile with the expected result that all the coral and most of the fish died - EXCEPT the yellow tang population, which expanded greatly. They arent sure yet as to why but it has sparked some research.

 

[sillygoose]

Well mine is certainly tough as nails - and quite a character too. It's one plucky little fish.

Wow - turnover once every 3 days! When you think about how we talk about turnovers per hour...

 

[mattsummers]

i heard they used a lot of quarry rock and they had a problem with rock leaching out

 

[HeadAblaze]

Maybethey thrived because the murky algae water? Maybe not. Just a thought