Lets talk dream tanks
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The hotel in Kona, Hawaii, that we we are going back to this Christmas has a natural reef lagoon, just like a swimming pool. In low tide, the water is about waist-high, and so still and clear you can see the fish swimming around your legs - you don't even need a mask!
When I was a kid, I always dreamed of a freshwater tank big enough that I could go swimming in, filled with, yes, angelfish
When I was a kid, I always dreamed of a freshwater tank big enough that I could go swimming in, filled with, yes, angelfish
When I move out I'm dedicating my whole garage to my pets. It's going to be my "personal zoo". Of course it'll have an __thousand gallon pond. Forget the stupid car!
300-ish gallon tank
Thickly planted and perfectly aquascaped. A rock background with caves carved right in it!
Altum angels, discus, Bolivian rams, a huge school of odessa barbs (40-50), Royal pleco, a nice big school Sterbai cories (20)..
__thousand gallon concrete pond.
Lots of driftwood, lilypads.
Oscars, jaguar cichlids, midas cichlids, ropefish, arowana, rtc, ID sharks, Common plecos, probably some map turtles.
If any of you are interested in indoor ponds, check out monster fishkeepers. They have *tons* of indoor pond threads. I almost made myself a 500-ish gallon indoor pond, then I realized my mom probably wouldn't be too happy about me taking over her laundry room... or the living room...
I too would like an african cichlid tank. Hmm... there's that space underneath my paludarium..
300-ish gallon tank
Thickly planted and perfectly aquascaped. A rock background with caves carved right in it!
Altum angels, discus, Bolivian rams, a huge school of odessa barbs (40-50), Royal pleco, a nice big school Sterbai cories (20)..
__thousand gallon concrete pond.
Lots of driftwood, lilypads.
Oscars, jaguar cichlids, midas cichlids, ropefish, arowana, rtc, ID sharks, Common plecos, probably some map turtles.
If any of you are interested in indoor ponds, check out monster fishkeepers. They have *tons* of indoor pond threads. I almost made myself a 500-ish gallon indoor pond, then I realized my mom probably wouldn't be too happy about me taking over her laundry room... or the living room...
I too would like an african cichlid tank. Hmm... there's that space underneath my paludarium..
Oh, and I forgot the reef pond.. I don't know enough about sw **yet** to say exactly what kinds of fish. Too bad I'm so poor, otherwise I would already have SW tanks.
Oh, and I like the TV aquarium. I watch my aquariums so much more than tv, my mom often walks by and says "You know, you can't change the channel."
@fishman, I too want to be a marine biologist so does my friend. I'm a long ways off though..
Oh, and I like the TV aquarium. I watch my aquariums so much more than tv, my mom often walks by and says "You know, you can't change the channel."
@fishman, I too want to be a marine biologist
so does my friend. I'm a long ways off though..
In a perfect world I would have a 15x8x8 hahitat with with a 10x4x4 water area for a Male American Mink. With the mink I would have some cheap turtles(RES or Painted) and some colected natives(sunnies, bass, minnows(chubs), suckers, and carp). The mink would be fed froglegs, chicks, mice, prawn, fish filets, and crayfish.
In a realistic world prob a 90gal brackish for Violet, Knight, and Bumblebee Gobies, Fidler crab trio, Wild Sailfin Mollies, and Green Chromides.
In a realistic world prob a 90gal brackish for Violet, Knight, and Bumblebee Gobies, Fidler crab trio, Wild Sailfin Mollies, and Green Chromides.
Aak ima get a stick after you if you dont hush lmao, now you got me wantin to make my house built around a HUGE 10 thousand gallon tank! I still got 2 more years of highschool Val and then im shooting for 6 years of college, workin on my scholarships atm if im a marine biologist i might can get an Aquarium built at my lab i work for for research, THAT'D BE AWESOME lol
if im a marine biologist i might can get an Aquarium built at my lab i work for for research, THAT'D BE AWESOME lol One thing to keep in mind with out door backyard ponds are the predators you can do nothing about. We have neighbors that have a beautiful pond in a park like setting all landscaped, etc. A pair of eagles moved in. The pond is now fishless. Eagles do not scare easily and of course you can't shoot them. I had a defective fiberglass hot tub I got for next to nothing and we put it at ground level in our back yard. Snakes and herons were feasting on fish, but it was also a hazard for kids - toddlers were fascinated and we were always afraid someone would fall in - with the straight sides, even small dogs could not get out. We eventually decided bad idea and dug it up.
That's what they do on the fish farm in Florida. I remember watching the wading birds line up all along the man-made canals on 'shipping day.' They bred gourami in the one I watched. The guy had all the fish in the center of 3 canals and had a bucket and a huge net (like you'd see cleaning out a pool). He'd scoop up a buncha fish, put only adult males in the bucket, and toss the females up on the grass to the waiting birds to eat. Every so often, he'd toss some females in the 1st canal (his breeding stock), and any juvies he found, he'd toss into the 3rd canal.
They nets were not 100% effective, so he also had several Australian Sheppard dogs that chased off the birds.
They nets were not 100% effective, so he also had several Australian Sheppard dogs that chased off the birds.
