What is your dream tank?

[Sgooosh]

1000 gal goldfish pond
or a 40g fancy goldfish tank

if someone helps me take care of it


or like 2000 gallon tank with just a huge school of cardinal tetras
densely planted with viewing space that would look amazing nothing else just cardinal tetras
and probably pest snails with my luck

 

[Caesar]

1,000 gallon Central American cichlid 'biotope'.

Also, a 210 gallon paludarium with thousands of boraras sp, geosesarma crabs, shrimp, snails, and other invertebrates.

 

[FF_Member146894]

They ALL do, if you listen to the LFS employees....

not my LFS

also my dream tank is a 72x24x18ish tetraodon pustulatus tank
my favorite type of fish is the puffer and the best puffer is the pustulatus
I probably will sell my 155 that was never close to finished and go with my dream tank
after that my MTS will be practically cured

 

[itiwhetu]

I have now been allowed to setup my dream tank 150g (190x60x55), open top low tech. Naturally lit, with only around 4-5 species in it.

 

[Caesar]

They ALL do, if you listen to the LFS employees....

It was a hobby of mine refusing sales when I was a LFS employee. Highlight of the job to tell people no and explain why what they're doing is wrong.

 

[vanalisa]

One that does it's own water changes.

Well maybe all of the water change part except for gravel vacuuming the substrate which I find very satisfying.

 

[vanalisa]

I have now been allowed to setup my dream tank 150g (190x60x55), open top low tech. Naturally lit, with only around 4-5 species in it.

Wait, I thought that was Iti's tank!

 

[FishHobby99]

one big enough for a few mermen to entertain me on boring rainy days

 

[itiwhetu]

one big enough for a few meremen to entertain me on boring rainy days View attachment 150947

My father used to travel alot and once he ended up in a restaurant in Germany, sitting by himself in front of a large blank wall. All of a sudden light came on and he realized that the wall was a tank, and then a couple of half-naked ladies started to swim in front of him. He didn't know which way look

 

[PlasticGalaxy]

It was a hobby of mine refusing sales when I was a LFS employee. Highlight of the job to tell people no and explain why what they're doing is wrong.

I did this too! "Sorry, I can't sell you this angelfish if your 10 litre tank has only been up for 6 hours." And get the whole "well, where can I go that will let me do that then?" Stuff back from them.

About the tank, though... My ideal would be a 10ft plec tank along the back wall of my living room. A nice big school of cardinal or rummynose tetras would be nice, haven't given it much thought yet. Sand substrate for sure, and lots of slate caves.

 

[GaryE]

Mine is a crazy idea - a tank that goes around three walls of a room, at maybe one foot to 18 inches deep. It would be a stream tank, with different parts of a stream - a shallow bog area, a riffle or two, some longer deeper sand bottom stretches, all with plants chosen for the environment, and all western African. I'd have terrestrial riverbank plants behind it, shading the water with their leaves. I would put lampeye, Chromaphyosemion and and Aphyosemion killies as fish, with a bunch of Enteromius barbs. And hulstaerti barbs... yeah, them too. I might have a pair or two of Pelvicachromis kribensis (not 'kribs, which are P. pulcher, and are too large for my plan). Yup. It would be more than 20 feet long and there would be mostly 1-2 inch fish in it. I'd start with a few, and see what happened over time.
Why not dream ambitiously? I've made three and four foot versions, but you can't do much. I'm the old Pinky and the Brain cartoon characters with a fishtank.

 

[Colin_T]

Not really my dream tank but I did use a swimming pool for my fish once. It was many years ago and my mum went overseas. I was babysitting the house and decided to make the pool pay for itself. I added 6 rainbowfish to the 20,000 litre (5000 gallon) below ground swimming pool. I added some plants too. 6 months later I got the fish and plants out and sold several hundred fish and heaps of plants. I poured a heap of chlorine in the pool and turned the filter back on. Mummsy was none the wiser.

But if I had space and money, I would use a below ground swimming pool and breed catfish, cichlids and rainbows in it.

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Back in the early 90s, I went to a customer's house to drop some stuff off. He showed us around his place. It was a beautiful Japanese style of building with a "fish pond" (he called it his fish pond) under most of the house and around the property. It was like a lake under the house and a mote around it. All joined together by streams. There were some pretty decent sized Koi carp in the pond. The owner had a bit of money

 

[GaryE]

I saw a house here with a moat, and basement windows designed to look out into it. It was built by a wealthy European who had just arrived here, to his custom home. I have a feeling that after the first winter with the usual one week of -30, he skated away from that project.

 

[Rocky998]

I did this too! "Sorry, I can't sell you this angelfish if your 10 litre tank has only been up for 6 hours." And get the whole "well, where can I go that will let me do that then?" Stuff back from them.

About the tank, though... My ideal would be a 10ft plec tank along the back wall of my living room. A nice big school of cardinal or rummynose tetras would be nice, haven't given it much thought yet. Sand substrate for sure, and lots of slate caves.

I hate those people... Cant take no for an answer

 

[WhistlingBadger]

My other dream tank might actually happen someday: A paludarium of a Wyoming desert riparian area. Upstairs, desert plants and a waterfall with lots of native mosses and riparian wildflowers, sagebrush lizards and boreal chorus frogs.

Downstairs, native water plants, plains killifish, stonerollers, and crawdads.

I might actually be able to do that one in a financially responsible manner. But what fun is that