Dream tanks

[Alien Anna]

Hi Everyone,
its a public holiday here in England, so I'm bored (no place to go, too many kids, hubby at DIY store...). Hence my numerous posts today - when bored, think about fish, that's my moto.

If money, time and space were no object, what sort of tank would you have?

For me, it would have to be a reef tank, but I'd also like a mangrove swamp (with real mangroves!) and lung-fish and other exotics clambering about in it. Do archerfish live in mangroves? Anyway, I'd like some of them.

I'd also like a massive tank the size of a room (would have to buy the house to put it in, of course) with vast schools of fish swimming in it, like the tank with Emporer Tetras I saw at the zoo.

And in the other wing, I'd have discus.

But my biggest dream project is to convert my conservatory into a complete rain-forest environment with birds, butterflies and pools of tropical fish swimming about. If anyone's been to the Wildwalk at Bristol (@Bristol) UK, that's what it will look like, only slightly smaller.

 

[CFC]

If money were no object i would like a huge indoor pond inside a greenhouse type building (much the same as your idea AA) in which i could grow all the marginal terrestial and aquatic plants found within a amazonian biotope,hopefully the pond would be big enough to support its own ecco system with the correct balance of herbivors omnivores and predators all substaining themselves so all id have to do is make sure the filters were running properly and enjoy watching the fish behaving as naturally as possible.

 

[Missy]

I'd have a 100 gal built in to the wall between my living room and dining room and I'd built a huge Koi pond in my backyard.

I'd also either need a new house for this or at least $50-60 thousand to make it anywhere worth it

Oh yeah, I'd also hire a nanny to help with kids, cooking, cleaning and vacuuming out fish tanks! He He He. yuck, hate doing that.

 

[cory]

I would do a 250 gallon Southeast Asia Estuary tank. I'd fill it with giant hygrophila, java fern and lots of curio wood.

I'd leave the slightly brackish water about eight or ten inches from the top(or whatever level was required) so I could have crickets crawling around on the plants and the curio wood so the archers could spit and knock them into to water for a snack. I'd also have lots of finger fish, a few arius seemani catfish and various types of gobys.





I dream of large reef tanks but know that I will never put forth the effort it takes to maintain one. Very good topic by the way.