Amano's Tank

[lljdma06]

gosh i wonder how that tank looks like in real life......

Indeed. The tank is situated in Amano's back room, exiting to his garden, that needless to say is another masterpiece, very wabi-sabi. My wife says it's an overgrown mess, she's a Dutch style girl at heart, although she'd have no idea what I'm talking about!

Your wife and I would get along. It's just so huge! My goodness. I like some parts of it, and it definitely looks natural. Perhaps a little much for me, but that's just me. I'd feel like it was invading and perhaps trying to cause bodily harm. Not to mention that I could probably live quite comfortably in a tank that size, minus water of course.

Amano's swimming pool is the next step. That'll be his next book, "Decorating your Swimming Pool: Amano Style, a Practical Guide to the Uber Large Planted Aquarium."

Chapters:

Chpt. 1: How to rob a bank to obtain funds
Chpt. 2: Draining your swimming pool (What to do with all that water?)
Chpt. 3: Plants for the very, very, very large aquarium.
Chpt. 4: Water maitenance (Time to become scuba certified)
Chpt. 5: Fish for the aquarium (or Amphibians, or reptiles, or mammals)
Chpt. 6: Photo gallery (Find Amano in these pictures)

Sorry, this is perhaps very silly, but I couldn't resist. Anybody else have a few more chapters to add?

 

[IovaykInD]

Yea, chpt. 2 should've been, how to rob a bank AGAIN without getting caught to get enough money.

..He must've had a great paying job, and had a lot of time on his hand. Wonder if when he started, his tanks looked like ours. HAHA

Isaac

 

[George Farmer]

Chapter 7. Build a nuclear reactor to power the lighting.

 

[scott67892002]

chapter 8 planting your glosso field!!!!

 

[lljdma06]

chapter 8 planting your glosso field!!!!

I am inspired. A few more installments.

Chapter 9: Installing an emergency alarm system, in case you fall into the tank during maintenance.
Chapter 10: So your guppy has Ich? Netting and quaranteening one fish among thousands...It can be done.
Chapter 11: Upgrading to Cold Fusion, when you want Metal halides to get that glosso to carpet.
Chapter 12: How to raise cattle (Need a source of fertilizer)

Ok this is just silly. We should send this to Amano, I'm sure he'll get a big kick out it.

 

[IovaykInD]

Chapter 13: What to do during a leak in the tank

 

[Themuleous]

Chapter 14: How to build an underwater combine harvester to cut the glosso field
Chapter 15: Chainsaws and how to prune 2metre java ferms

Wicked post lljdma06, has made me chuckle

Sam

 

[lljdma06]

Chapter 14: How to build an underwater combine harvester to cut the glosso field
Chapter 15: Chainsaws and how to prune 2metre java ferms

Wicked post lljdma06, has made me chuckle

Sam

Chapter 16: Operating Electrical Chainsaws and other equipment over aquatic environments (Why rubber shoes are important and a discussion of proper electrical grounding techniques)
Chapter 17: Intervention: how to let your aquarium addict know that no, the community pool would not be the ideal location for an Amazonian blackwater biotope.
Chapter 18: Adapting a Hoover for aquatic use: Subtrate cleaning and a side-discussion of algae-removal in the uber planted aquarium, with special focus on BGA.

Thanks, this book is getting kind of long now.

 

[Ptarmigan]

Taking a cue from post#33 by George -->

More chapters :

Apple Trees for the Larger Plaudarium
by Guest Author : Isaac Newton

Large Tanks in Small Rooms : Guest article -
Space-Time Curvature for the aquarist by A.Einstien

Uncertainty when planning an aquascape
advice by Guest Author : Werner Heisenberg

Novel approach to filtering the larger tank :
using the latest theories on Wave-Particle Duality
by DeBroglie, Young, Fresnel, Maxwell et.al.

Protecting your aquarium against cats.
by Erwin Schrodinger.

Aquascape re-design
Part A: for the smaller tank, the atomic bomb.
A.1 Uranium devices
A.2 Plutonium devices

Part B: for the larger tank, the hydrogen bomb.
as in A2 but with heavy water including duterium, a little tritium and a neutron reflector.

How to hide your tank from your landlord using 11Dim Superstrings
by Kaluza and Klein and others.

GUTts
Grand Unified Theories of tanks.
Designs that escaped Einstein's notice
by S. Hawking , S. Weinberg, P. Higgs et.al.

RTGs for the Aquarist
Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators for heating the larger aquaria,
by gf225

Automatic ejection mechanisms for spent carbon cartriges
by gf225


Oh, I nearly forgot to include -

Using O-rings to seal leaks in the larger canisters, by Richard Feynman with help from NASA.

OK, I'll get my hat and coat -->>

 

[lljdma06]

Oh, I nearly forgot to include -

Using O-rings to seal leaks in the larger canisters, by Richard Feynman with help from NASA.

OK, I'll get my hat and coat -->>

Brilliant, post PtarmiganUK, very funny, but the last one takes the cake, though the two chapters by gf are great too.

I think we've had a lot of fun at poor Amano's expense. Somehow, however, I really don't think he's minding too much.

If we were half serious, we should actually write chapters based on these titles.

 

[pieman]

Chapter 19 : How to cut down trees without being squished - Building the perfect shed to house your tank.

 

[Spiceweasel69]

I really dont know what all the fuss is about


Its a standard 4 ft tank..................................Japanese people are just small, thats all

no offence intended

 

[IovaykInD]

Haha..good one, but I think we should leave out any racial comments. We know that tank is much longer than you'll ever be tall xP JKJK

 

[pieman]

Lol, I don't think I'd have much of a problem living in that tank for a weeks.... providing there is no water in it and no other animals