Dream Tanks?

[tc2007]

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.

[Dmorty217]

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

[ginpang]

Originally Posted by Dmorty217

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

Lol ! For the size maybe .... But that brick is hideous

[kangadrew]

Originally Posted by Dmorty217

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

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

[kangadrew]

Bumping this. This was an interesting thread, I'd love to hear some more

[silentstorm]

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

[Genera]

Originally Posted by kangadrew

Bumping this. This was an interesting thread, I'd love to hear some more

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.

[Genera]

Originally Posted by kangadrew

Bumping this. This was an interesting thread, I'd love to hear some more

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.

[Kolkri]

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.

[SoloChromis]

Originally Posted by Genera

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.

Yeeeaaaahhhh We've gotta collaborate on a tank one of these days

[BrianD]

This thread has been moved to the current forum....

[Swanwillow]

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.

[Mr.Tan]

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.

[thelawnwrangler]

Originally Posted by kangadrew

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

do you have to heat the water?

[gavinsepanik]

Originally Posted by Dmorty217

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

He shops at my fish store, nicest guy ever. He buys around 15 tangs a week

[Dmorty217]

Originally Posted by gavinsepanik

He shops at my fish store, nicest guy ever. He buys around 15 tangs a week

Bill is a great guy, I spoke with him at MACNA this year. Also met Hedgedrew (Andrew) there, he has 2 builds totaling 30,000g

[brett559]

The constraint in my office is depth. I would need a tank no more than 18" deep. So my dream tank would be 84" L x 18" W x 24" H, about 150 gallons.

I'd probably overstock it.

[kangadrew]

Originally Posted by thelawnwrangler

do you have to heat the water?

Winter I run pond de-icers and a small pool heater but not too much. The sun does a decent job heating them since there's no type of cover and they're pretty shallow.

[kangadrew]

Originally Posted by Genera

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.

Dude, me you and SoloChromis need to get a tank going! But seriously though, the zebra was on a classified (if you go to exoticanimalsforsale.net there are actually a decent amount of them - where they are originally collected, I have no clue but I would assume a select few breeders get their hands on them and release the babies). Meant to say 5 birds - major mitchell's cockatoo, greenwing macaw, and 3 peacocks. I might get a toucan soon, not sure though - super hard to care for and birds aren't cheap (I think toucans go for like 5K). The fox is like a kitten - if they're not sleeping, they will play with you. But they don't cuddle or anything - mine has its own room to roam around in, like some people's cats

[SoloChromis]

Originally Posted by kangadrew

Dude, me you and SoloChromis need to get a tank going! But seriously though, the zebra was on a classified (if you go to exoticanimalsforsale.net there are actually a decent amount of them - where they are originally collected, I have no clue but I would assume a select few breeders get their hands on them and release the babies). Meant to say 5 birds - major mitchell's cockatoo, greenwing macaw, and 3 peacocks. I might get a toucan soon, not sure though - super hard to care for and birds aren't cheap (I think toucans go for like 5K). The fox is like a kitten - if they're not sleeping, they will play with you. But they don't cuddle or anything - mine has its own room to roam around in, like some people's cats

I'm in I've considered rescuing a pair of caiques, as they seem to be one of the more "apartment friendly" parrots out there, or maybe a pair of parrotlets.

[kangadrew]

Originally Posted by SoloChromis

I'm in I've considered rescuing a pair of caiques, as they seem to be one of the more "apartment friendly" parrots out there, or maybe a pair of parrotlets.

Def. the more apartment friendly parrots. Amazons are good too and African greys