Fish Tanks

[PDSimon]

Hello there,

I'm a student currently doing some research into fish tanks. I'm looking into designing something new and out of the box.

I would be grateful if anyone could advise me on the advantages and disadvantages of current fish tanks (this could be cold, tropical or marine) or any ideas on improvements for them.

Thanks for your time - Simon

Sorry if this is the wrong forum.

 

[fatheadminnow]

You are in the right place!

to TFF!!!!

I am sure someone will be on soon to help you out!

I think a heavily planted, high-tech tank is my favorite kind of tank!

-FHM

 

[PDSimon]

You are in the right place!

to TFF!!!!

I am sure someone will be on soon to help you out!

I think a heavily planted, high-tech tank is my favorite kind of tank!

-FHM

Thanks

high- tech does sound good, I am looking for any variations, especially in shape/form and any ways of enhancing user experience.

 

[Skellie]

This seems like a very interesting thread!

Still quite new to fish keeping but have been interested for a number of years. I was never really a fan of 'traditional' tanks i.e. rectangular with a hood, so for my first tank bought a Biorb (will post some pics later). These tanks are notorious for being more of a design ornament than a tank but I, & more importantly my fish are happy with it!

Also, the Fluval Edge seem a very design conscientious tank. I would have probably bought one but the size is quite limiting.

Good Luck!

 

[fatheadminnow]

You are in the right place!

to TFF!!!!

I am sure someone will be on soon to help you out!

I think a heavily planted, high-tech tank is my favorite kind of tank!

-FHM

Thanks

high- tech does sound good, I am looking for any variations, especially in shape/form and any ways of enhancing user experience.

The best kind of tank is the good old rectangle tank. The tall narrow tanks and other alike, are not as good. You want a tank that has the most surface area of water to the atmosphere.

A 55 gallon hexagon tank cannot be stocked the same as a standard 55 gallon rectangle tank. The standard 55 gallon tank will be able to hold more fish, and bigger fish.

-FHM

This seems like a very interesting thread!

Still quite new to fish keeping but have been interested for a number of years. I was never really a fan of 'traditional' tanks i.e. rectangular with a hood, so for my first tank bought a Biorb (will post some pics later). These tanks are notorious for being more of a design ornament than a tank but I, & more importantly my fish are happy with it!

Also, the Fluval Edge seem a very design conscientious tank. I would have probably bought one but the size is quite limiting.

Good Luck!

The edge is not a user friendly tank.

-FHM

 

[ian]

i like corner tanks, i was thinking about this the other day and would love to see a stylish 'L' shaped tank on the market. I think these would look ace, with the right design.

 

[star4]

Hiya Simon and welcome. I have mainly Juwel tanks 180l upto 400l, I love the fact there is no big pieces of glass around the top to strenghten the tank its a large plastic surround, however I do find the brace bars (I have the older juwel tanks) very flimsy and easy to break and a pain when trying to catch fish!! From a design point of view I would love a large tank without bracebars, impossible probably unless I went for a trigon style (Triangular with a curved front). I hope this is the sort of info you are after

 

[snowflake311]

If you could in some way make an acrylic tank that is hard to scratch then you would have something amazing.

As far as shape it's all been done. Tanks conected by tubes to other tanks like a hamster cage. Open bottom fish tanks are awesome.look it up on YouTube.
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWknp5iXCMU&feature=youtube_gdata
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2EIO2hX1Hc&feature=youtube_gdata

if you really want to make a splash in the hobby fixing the material we use to make tanks would be best. Glass is heavy and cracks acrylic is light very hard to crack but scratched. They are not perfect.

http/seanbuckley.ca/blog/2007/01/09/the-fish-highway-rat-tubes-for-an-aquarium/

I like the no brace idea.

I just found this fun clip.

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq_wAVt_3Qk&feature=youtube_gdata

 

[PDSimon]

This seems like a very interesting thread!

Still quite new to fish keeping but have been interested for a number of years. I was never really a fan of 'traditional' tanks i.e. rectangular with a hood, so for my first tank bought a Biorb (will post some pics later). These tanks are notorious for being more of a design ornament than a tank but I, & more importantly my fish are happy with it!

Also, the Fluval Edge seem a very design conscientious tank. I would have probably bought one but the size is quite limiting.

Good Luck!

Yeah I think so too, you guys are certainly very helpful so thank you for all the posts

I am interested as well, but barely know anything but thinking about getting into a smaller beginner tank but thats another discussion for now

The fluval tanks do look really nice, looks like a good example to break down.

Cheers!

 

[fatheadminnow]

This seems like a very interesting thread!

Still quite new to fish keeping but have been interested for a number of years. I was never really a fan of 'traditional' tanks i.e. rectangular with a hood, so for my first tank bought a Biorb (will post some pics later). These tanks are notorious for being more of a design ornament than a tank but I, & more importantly my fish are happy with it!

Also, the Fluval Edge seem a very design conscientious tank. I would have probably bought one but the size is quite limiting.

Good Luck!

Yeah I think so too, you guys are certainly very helpful so thank you for all the posts

I am interested as well, but barely know anything but thinking about getting into a smaller beginner tank but thats another discussion for now

The fluval tanks do look really nice, looks like a good example to break down.

Cheers!

The bigger the tank, the easier it is to maintain.

-FHM

 

[PDSimon]

You are in the right place!

to TFF!!!!

I am sure someone will be on soon to help you out!

I think a heavily planted, high-tech tank is my favorite kind of tank!

-FHM

Thanks

high- tech does sound good, I am looking for any variations, especially in shape/form and any ways of enhancing user experience.

The best kind of tank is the good old rectangle tank. The tall narrow tanks and other alike, are not as good. You want a tank that has the most surface area of water to the atmosphere.

A 55 gallon hexagon tank cannot be stocked the same as a standard 55 gallon rectangle tank. The standard 55 gallon tank will be able to hold more fish, and bigger fish.

-FHM

Yeah, these are all very useful points. It might be that you sacrifice some user interaction for elegance so it's just understanding some of the basics and developing those to make something new and interesting.

 

[fatheadminnow]

You are in the right place!

to TFF!!!!

I am sure someone will be on soon to help you out!

I think a heavily planted, high-tech tank is my favorite kind of tank!

-FHM

Thanks

high- tech does sound good, I am looking for any variations, especially in shape/form and any ways of enhancing user experience.

The best kind of tank is the good old rectangle tank. The tall narrow tanks and other alike, are not as good. You want a tank that has the most surface area of water to the atmosphere.

A 55 gallon hexagon tank cannot be stocked the same as a standard 55 gallon rectangle tank. The standard 55 gallon tank will be able to hold more fish, and bigger fish.

-FHM

Yeah, these are all very useful points. It might be that you sacrifice some user interaction for elegance so it's just understanding some of the basics and developing those to make something new and interesting.

Yup! Whatever makes you happy is the key! especially in this hobby!

-FHM

 

[PDSimon]

i like corner tanks, i was thinking about this the other day and would love to see a stylish 'L' shaped tank on the market. I think these would look ace, with the right design.

That does sound nice, cheers

Hiya Simon and welcome. I have mainly Juwel tanks 180l upto 400l, I love the fact there is no big pieces of glass around the top to strenghten the tank its a large plastic surround, however I do find the brace bars (I have the older juwel tanks) very flimsy and easy to break and a pain when trying to catch fish!! From a design point of view I would love a large tank without bracebars, impossible probably unless I went for a trigon style (Triangular with a curved front). I hope this is the sort of info you are after

Hey and thank you! It is indeed, anything is possible, it's just who your aiming it at, something with complicated engineering would be very expensive Fortunately for me this is just research for a concept. I do find the idea of using plastics interesting from a manufacturing point of view because you could make some crazy shapes. They don't seem to look quite as nice as glass though and apparently scratch from reading this. Thanks

If you could in some way make an acrylic tank that is hard to scratch then you would have something amazing.

As far as shape it's all been done. Tanks conected by tubes to other tanks like a hamster cage. Open bottom fish tanks are awesome.look it up on YouTube.
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWknp5iXCMU&feature=youtube_gdata
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2EIO2hX1Hc&feature=youtube_gdata

if you really want to make a splash in the hobby fixing the material we use to make tanks would be best. Glass is heavy and cracks acrylic is light very hard to crack but scratched. They are not perfect.

http/seanbuckley.ca/blog/2007/01/09/the-fish-highway-rat-tubes-for-an-aquarium/

I like the no brace idea.

I just found this fun clip.

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq_wAVt_3Qk&feature=youtube_gdata

Thats interesting, i'm sure there are materials for it nowadays, it just depends on the price of it I guess! A bit like the scratch proof iPod screens... i'm sure theres a way of putting that over acrylic.

I will check out the vidoes and thanks

 

[star4]

I would love to be able to get "inside" my tank with my fish, something like those tanks at the sea life centre where you put your head in a hole and you are inside the tank. Having crazy ideas now about getting a biorb, cutting a hole in the bottom of my rio 400 and siliconing the biorb to the bottom

 

[meguro]

There's water on mars.

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