Bora Bora theme tank?

[NanoReefNoob]

ok its been a while sence i have posted, but i was looking at pictures online and had an idea come to me and wanted to know what yal thought on it and know if yal thought it would even be possible.

I saw a picture of a hotel room in Bora Bora and the floors are glass so you can see down into the sea. Google it its amazing. I thought that it would be cool if you could put a tank on the floor and look down on it. Like mount the tank in the floor so the lid/roof of the tank was the floor. It would give a diffrent perspective then what we are all use to and you could even set it up to be on a 2nd story floor so the front of the tank could still be seen from the 1st floor.

Then i thought about the lights? what effect would the lights have on the corals if they were mounted on the side of the tank. mabey do like a center island for the aqua scape and have the lights be on each side? I wonder if the coral would grow in a diffrent manner.

Then I wondered about the air at the top of the tank. I had a tank up for about 2 years and never really thought about the air at the top of the tank. It would be nice to be able to have the tank filled all the way to the top to so you dont have the obscured view from the watter serface. Is serface air a super big deal or could like a quarter of one of the sides be open to air and sufice?

Any ways this is just a thought and I wanted to know what yal thought on it. I kind of like the idea.

[gbru316]

Cool idea, but it is probably prohibitively expensive for most of us.

[snulma1]

If you set it up right, you probably could fill the tank in the floor completely, with almost no air (you'd have to probably tilt the tank so air doesn't get trapped in the display tank).
But you would need to have a remote sump with a good amount of surface area to allow for gas exchange.
But then you also will have a problem with cleaning inside the tank, as well as positioning things and/or adding corals/fish....

Overall it seems like more work then its worth!

[1SlickFish]

I would worry more about how to keep it all clean? You can always have another tank attached to it for oxygen exchange. Gardening would be a bear to say the least, lol.

[willyboy]

I recently watched the movie Columbiana and there was a dude in there that had sharks in his floor. He had lots of thick glass panes sitting in a grid. The glass panes were removable. What if the floor pane was removable. That would make it easier to service

[NanoReefNoob]

Originally Posted by willyboy

I recently watched the movie Columbiana and there was a dude in there that had sharks in his floor. He had lots of thick glass panes sitting in a grid. The glass panes were removable. What if the floor pane was removable. That would make it easier to service

Ya I was thinking about that as well. set it up so you have seals around the edge of the glass at the top.

[albano]

Originally Posted by NanoReefNoob

set it up so you have seals around the edge of the glass at the top.

Seals can get loud and aggressive... And attract killer whales!

[NanoReefNoob]

Originally Posted by albano

Seals can get loud and aggressive... And attract killer whales!

Man i knew someone was going to notice that lol

[o2manyfish]

Out here in Beverly Hills we have a restaurant called 'Crustacean', They have a large salt tank in the entranceway.

But from the entrance of the restaurant all the way through the bar and into the dining rooms is a Koi pond built into the floor with glass panels so that you walk over the top of the pond.

We also have a local mall, that has a kid's play area with a glass floor that has a large koi pond underneath it. Probably 12x16x10' deep. The water surface is a couple of feet below the glass. And the kids are always lying on the glass looking down at the fish.

Dave B