The Perfect Set-up

[ben1987]

i think 3' width on a 10' is still too narrow...

theres a 12x3x3 on UR and thats just like a wall. if i was having a 10 footer it would be atleast 4' wide. Built into an extension with skylights and halides.

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Pffft, you said money was no object Ok fine, you want the tank for my summer home in buffalo?

/snip

You can tell somebody has thought about this before

 

[greenbottle]

Pfft, those are your guys' dream aquariums? You're all thinking way too small

Step 1, move to South Florida
Step 2, buy a LOT of land on the ocean and/or intercoastal
Step 3, hire a contractor that builds public aquariums
Step 4, build aquarium into the ground. Say something like 50x10 yards in surface area and maybe 15 feet deep. The aquarium will sit alongside my house with one wall of the aquarium as the foundation of the house and inset with MASSIVE acrylic windows for viewing "dry". Also have multiple sets of snorkel and SCUBA gear on-hand for those that want to view "wet" up close and personal

A tank that big would require MASSIVE algae scrubbers to remove nutrients and the rockwork would probably have to be created from the stone that was mined to dig the foundation of the house/tank. In south florida this is cheating though cause the rock under the house is all aragonite based anyway, so it's like having instant free base rock. Lighting is of course all natural and so would waterchanges. In fact there would be no waterchanges since the aquarium would communicate directly with seawater, eliminating the need for additives as well.

Some guy in Portugal did something similar, so it's definitely possible

I think you missed something....

Have it set up so you have to walk through a tunnel through your 'tank' to get to the garage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[OscarWilde]

There you go (Including the bar at the bottom)

 

[kj23502]

is that an elevator in the middle of it?

 

[bagu]

a 1100Gallon (UK) tank

with live rock walls, and nems with clown fishes and a shoal of chromis and mandarins and FF and Gobys and Flame Angels XD XD

 

[doktor doris]

Pfft, those are your guys' dream aquariums? You're all thinking way too small

Step 1, move to South Florida
Step 2, buy a LOT of land on the ocean and/or intercoastal
Step 3, hire a contractor that builds public aquariums
Step 4, build aquarium into the ground. Say something like 50x10 yards in surface area and maybe 15 feet deep. The aquarium will sit alongside my house with one wall of the aquarium as the foundation of the house and inset with MASSIVE acrylic windows for viewing "dry". Also have multiple sets of snorkel and SCUBA gear on-hand for those that want to view "wet" up close and personal

A tank that big would require MASSIVE algae scrubbers to remove nutrients and the rockwork would probably have to be created from the stone that was mined to dig the foundation of the house/tank. In south florida this is cheating though cause the rock under the house is all aragonite based anyway, so it's like having instant free base rock. Lighting is of course all natural and so would waterchanges. In fact there would be no waterchanges since the aquarium would communicate directly with seawater, eliminating the need for additives as well.

Some guy in Portugal did something similar, so it's definitely possible

You are still thinking smalll.

Build a huge glass 'pressure cooker' fill it with water, rack the pressure up then keep Vampyroteuthis, and Saccopharyngiformes.
In fact no, build a black smoker in it and cover that with appropriate fish!

doris

 

[SkiFletch]

There you go (Including the bar at the bottom)

WOW

Is that the hotel in Dubai I heard about?