What Size Tank Do You Wish You Could Have?

[Tasty Wheat]

Good topic.... I wouldnt mind a 10' x 4' x 4' for some large south american cichilids plus some oddballs. I liked the large tank in this post here

I may be buying a 7' x 2.5' x 2.5' soon though

 

[smithrc]

Before we moved I'd got it all planned...

We bought a new house and got to choose how we wanted it laied out... So I chose to have the dining room connected to the living room via double doors... saving me havine to cut the wall out to fit the room dividing tank

It was planned to be just over 2m x 900 x 1.2 If I remember it was going to be about 2000l

It was going to be marine and I'd even started buying stuff (oops)

Plans are out of the window now though

 

[Neal]

I would love to knock out the closet in my spare bedroom. Get rid of all the junk being stored there. Line the floor with tile, put down a drain in the floor, and have a sink in the corner. Without the closet, I would have room for a 7 ft. L X 3 ft. W X 3 ft. D. That would be a 404 gallon tank.

Your closet is nearly the same size as my bedroom! My bedroom is 8ft by 7ft. I hate it! You Americans all have big houses, so unfair!

 

[wendywc]

^^^ Haha, yeah. It's a big storage closet right now. Oh, you forget I'm also in Texas... everything is big here!

 

[Phillip.M]

I would like a 700g with a huge school of bala sharks.

 

[Miss Dib Dabs]

Awwww I'd love a massive marine tank with seahorses and the like. But right now I'm finding my current *ahem* 14 tanks quite enough! ) The 100 gallon is a bugger to clean out sometimes, especially when I'm feeling tired and also done out half a dozen tanks already.
Hugs,
P.

 

[bobwumba]

i would like a 12'x5'x5' for a small shark

 

[Dragonscales]

I would be interested in having a tank no bigger than 150 gallons. Thats big enough for any fish you would possibly want to keep, and knowing me I would make it into a Cory Heaven.. with around 20 different species, and about 150 of them in total...

Hmmm, I can think of a few fish I'd love to keep one day that wouldn't even begin to fit in a 150gal

To truly be happy as far as size goes, I'd need at least a dozen tanks about the size of olympic swimming pools for some of the smaller tankbusters out there. Bigger ones such as maneating catfish, etc would be better in something even larger as I'd want groups, not just one per tank

As for marine, well....there is virtually no limit to how large the ideal tank would be

 

[Captain Retardo]

The Whole Ocean!!!

 

[severina]

Ohh! Me too! I pick the ocean!

 

[dwarfgourami]

I don't think I'd go for one mega-tank: not really a big fish person. But I would like an assortment, along these lines:

my present 15 and 19 gallons with their current stocking of guppies, platies and cories

three 63 gallon tanks or thereabouts- one for active fish (giant danios and the like)
one for peacelovers (pearl gouramis, tetras etc)
one for breeding goodeids

a number of tanks in the 15-20 gallon range for:
small colony of shelldwellers
harem of peacock gobies
bumblebee gobies

plus a number of fry tanks

 

[SamUK]

i like the room idea.


if you had a house where there was a room that was the same size upstairs and down, imagine knocking the sealing through so it was one 2 storey room and then sealing it all up.

that would be an ace tank and quite a feature for your house.


you could have windows where the door to the room was and maybe make more.


then use the upstairs door to get in and swim with the fish.


or am i takin it too far?

 

[severina]

i like the room idea.


if you had a house where there was a room that was the same size upstairs and down, imagine knocking the sealing through so it was one 2 storey room and then sealing it all up.

that would be an ace tank and quite a feature for your house.


you could have windows where the door to the room was and maybe make more.


then use the upstairs door to get in and swim with the fish.


or am i takin it too far?

Hehehe! Not at all! I would totally swim with my fish!