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Dream tank..

dan4x4

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Hi, hope everyone's enjoying their long weekend.

If you could have any size tank with anything in it.. what would you choose? no budget, no size limitations, anything you like!

I know for sure I'd have a 40,000 gallon with 30 red bellied piranha. I'd have tannin stained water so that when they where at the back of the aquarium you would find it hard to see them under the mangrove style roots coming down from the top. It would have a sandy bottom. Plants, Id have loads of anubia barteri/java fern attached to the wood amazon frog bit and One giant amazon lily plant!
 
Hi, hope everyone's enjoying their long weekend.

If you could have any size tank with anything in it.. what would you choose? no budget, no size limitations, anything you like!

I know for sure I'd have a 40,000 gallon with 30 red bellied piranha. I'd have tannin stained water so that when they where at the back of the aquarium you would find it hard to see them under the mangrove style roots coming down from the top. It would have a sandy bottom. Plants, Id have loads of anubia barteri/java fern attached to the wood amazon frog bit and One giant amazon lily plant!

Oooohh yes please!

I struggle to think of a single dream tank, it always escalates to a fully planted fish room or semi-public aquascaping aquarium attraction... haha

My "realistic" dream tank would be:
400x50x50cm / 1000L
I have always had a thing for panoramic aquariums, at 8:1 you could create several scape styles stitched together. (Valleys, Islands, Overhangs ect)
Heavily planted, jungle style stocked with a selection of SA fish.

It doesn't seem that aspirational but I cant forsee even having a 4m wall to put it against XD
 
I guess many here will follow "The King of DIY" , but for those not here's how to do a 2000 Gallon tank. It's not so out there, maybe replace that patio door.

 
Hi all,
and One giant amazon lily plant!
This one for me (and the glasshouse to put it in - <"Princess of Wales conservatory at RBG Kew">).

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cheers Darrel
 
really depends if I live long enough. I have the space for it. Just need to get kids out of the way.

200x200x50cm tank. A few species, always nano, probably not heavily, heavily plated. Torn between types, probably SA.
 
really depends if I live long enough. I have the space for it. Just need to get kids out of the way.

200x200x50cm tank. A few species, always nano, probably not heavily, heavily plated. Torn between types, probably SA.

I hope you win a boat load of money, if you do I hope you do a journal on here!
 
I guess many here will follow "The King of DIY" , but for those not here's how to do a 2000 Gallon tank. It's not so out there, maybe replace that patio door.



Also following ha
 
Oooohh yes please!

I struggle to think of a single dream tank, it always escalates to a fully planted fish room or semi-public aquascaping aquarium attraction... haha

My "realistic" dream tank would be:
400x50x50cm / 1000L
I have always had a thing for panoramic aquariums, at 8:1 you could create several scape styles stitched together. (Valleys, Islands, Overhangs ect)
Heavily planted, jungle style stocked with a selection of SA fish.

It doesn't seem that aspirational but I cant forsee even having a 4m wall to put it against XD

Yeah a fish room or a green house like darrel mentioned would be truly awesome.

My piranha tank could be incorporated to that but then I could have other smaller tanks with tiger barbs and another with pearl gourami. If you had all that space too you could plant different areas like different tropical rainforests!
 
Many years ago I was asked by a certain gentleman if I could build a koi pond for him.
He had acquired permission to build a swimming pool but, after reading an advert I had placed in the locale paper, he wanted to know if I could build a koi pond in place of the swimming pool.
Of course it had to be cheaper than the proposed swimming pool but the same size!
Anyway I built the pond (pool), I did not make much money but it was the first big contract I was offered.
About 30 years later, as in today, the 16.000gal pond is still gracing his garden.
Full of big mature Koi (and a sturgeon) but the most interesting thing is ... the gentleman swims in the pond every day & he has done so for 30+ years, only missing his swims when away on holiday or otherwise incapable.
I must say that if I had an aquatic dream, it would be to build my own koi swim pool but, perhaps with winter heating!
 
You could incorporate @dan4x4 piranha into that, now that would be great to watch ;)
I have a 3x3m outbuilding that used to be a shed / coal house. I've often fancied making it into a summer house with a pond on the outside but with a bit of a twist where the pond is half in the and half outside so the fish could pop in and out as and when they felt like it. Don't suppose that's a dream though as it's actually feasible if I had the brass and inclination or more importantly the time.
I recently completed a high end contract at a music therapy charity where a specialist contractors installed a living wall which was quite cool. They fixed some kind of paneling to the wall which they filled with plants but indoors. Lots of herbs in there so you can imagine what it smelled like.

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You could incorporate @dan4x4 piranha into that, now that would be great to watch ;)
I have a 3x3m outbuilding that used to be a shed / coal house. I've often fancied making it into a summer house with a pond on the outside but with a bit of a twist where the pond is half in the and half outside so the fish could pop in and out as and when they felt like it. Don't suppose that's a dream though as it's actually feasible if I had the brass and inclination or more importantly the time.
I recently completed a high end contract at a music therapy charity where a specialist contractors installed a living wall which was quite cool. They fixed some kind of paneling to the wall which they filled with plants but indoors. Lots of herbs in there so you can imagine what it smelled like.

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Haha I'm not scared of swimming with sturgeon and koi, but piranhas well.. haha maybe call Steve-o from jack ass I'm sure he'd literally jump at the opportunity!
 
At that level of light, even algae might be dead by photoinhibition.
But if you can afford to have that light, well, there must be a way. :lol:
 
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