Your Dream Tank?

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just wondering, what would be in the tank of your dreams. imagine you had a tank of whatever size you want, and all that you need to stalk it with.

mine would be a 300g. white sand substrate. minimal blogwood and plants. 2 fire eels, 1 saddled bichir, 3 black aros, 3 silver sharks.

thats all that i can come up with for now. really makes me :drool: thinking of all these. :shout:
 
Hm, it wouldn't just be the one tank for me lol!


My dream would be to firstly have an indoor pond room, with one 24-30ft long by 12ft wide and 3-4ft deep heated tropical indoor pond with a large Red Tailed Catfish in it, an oxydoras niger, some tiger shovelnose catfish and a small shoal of irredescent sharks or similar shark type catfish or some pacu etc.
It would be relatively sparsely decorated, just some giant branchs of driftwood, scattered boulders, slate slab rock waterfall, perhaps some water lillies too.

The second indoor pond would be about 12ft long by 6ft wide and 2-3ft deep, and would be full of large shoals of bala sharks and tinfoil barbs, large schools of clown loaches, some large plecos like common and sailfin plecos, maybe lotsa common livebearers, armoured shrimp, shoals of tiger barbs and torpedo barbs etc. Or i might change some of the smaller fish stocking to make it more oscar fish friendly, and have large numbers of oscars etc.
There would be a large slate slab rock waterfall at one end, the water would fall onto a mass of boulders and smooth rocks, towards the other end of the pond there would be water lillies and other thriving aquatic plants. As a substrate, there would be lots of fine white silica sand to contrast against the colours of the fish to its best.

Both ponds would be lined with white ceramic tiles, the room they would be in would be heated to humid tropical temperatures to keep the ponds warm, so i woudl probably also place large plant pots/containers with plants which love such conditions like tropical ferns and avocado tree's. Lighting would be provided by a glass section in the ceiling from above so natural sunlight could illuminate the ponds from above during the day, while underwater pond lights would light up the ponds during the evening and night etc.



Then as far as tanks go, i would get a 6x2x2ft tank and turn it into a raging river rapid sub-tropical tank set up, devoted to fish which thrive in the cooler tropical temps in fast water current conditions, like herds of hillstream loaches, yoyo loaches, weather/dojo loachs, danios like zebra and leopard danios, torpedo barbs, bloodfin tetras, white cloud mountain minnows etc etc. The tank would have strong lighting but little planting, it would have a fine sand and gravel mixed substrate and the tank would be full of smooth pebbles and boulders and scatted bits of driftwood with aquatic plants clinging to it etc...



Lol, i have a lot of dreams :lol: .
 
If fantasy was a part of it I'd have a tank about 10' X 18' with a good 20-30 clown loaches, a bunch of bala sharks, some bristlenose plecos, CAE'S, upside down catfish, zebra pleco's and maybe some angelfish or discus for the center of tank. I've thought many a times what it would be like to have a super large tank built into the house. My one thing I really want is a huge tank to have clown loaches in so as to enjoy them. My second tank would be a little bigger with some albino channels in it for sure, but not sure after that maybe set up with bass, crappie and such. But that is a dream that will only come true if someone decided to leave me an inheritance with tons of millions of dollars, no harm in dreaming.
 
6 foot tank, black sand, lots of green plants at the back, a bit of bog wood.

As for fish..

Zebra Plecos
 
My dream would be many tanks containing Catfish from around the world....Would love a fully grown Rendahls and a Ripsaw Catfish :D
 
My house, would be inside my fish tank at the bottom. Oxygen would be pumped into the house. All the walls would be glass, and the fish tank would be the same. My house would be 200 sq. feet, and my fish tank 1000 or more :X


Tank would inhabit a huge shoal of wild caught Discus, and a huge shoal of dithers...

... Better get out my check book!
 
My house, would be inside my fish tank at the bottom. Oxygen would be pumped into the house. All the walls would be glass, and the fish tank would be the same. My house would be 200 sq. feet, and my fish tank 1000 or more :X


Tank would inhabit a huge shoal of wild caught Discus, and a huge shoal of dithers.


And you would have to eat fish for dinner all the time though :p
 
If i can dive and explore in it it would be big enough

Oh and it would be a marine setup with caves big enough for me to go in. so maybe the lower floor of the house in size (In a high ceiling house) and a external stairway to the top floor....

Hmmm nice... Feeding would be fun!!!
 
really interesting all! :hyper: i like the house in the tank thing. haha. i starting to think of many many tanks, something like a fish shop for that matter.

apart from the 300gallon above which has yet to be fully stocked, i'd like to have around 2 more tanks, for now. first, one really really big brackish tank. black background, minimal planting and more blogwood, again white sand substrate, with many many moray eels and a pair of all the brackish puffers available in it. and miraculously, there will be no fighting among species :D that'd be so awesome. haha.

either that or many different 55 gallon tanks with different species of puffers in them.

next another big big big tank, this time filled with shoaling species. tetras, danios, barbs etc. planted with a normal mix of gravel and soil. also there will be many species of cories.
 
My dream would be to firstly have an indoor pond room,


That sound fantastic, i would really love one of those, i know someone that uses an outside pond in summer for breeding rare cichlids and they seem to breed much easier in there, but it costs a fortune with our bad summers. i wish i had a bigger house now. A pond in middle with lots of tanks all around the walls would be my ideal, i would want a caretaker too for maintanence.
Angel
 
a lot of people in the states here are finishing off the garage and putting a pond and a flat screen or projection tv and finishing off over the garage door making it into a tank/pond room.


my dream tank would be an open pond in a large glassed in room that would be about 10' around in a kidney shape with seating and walkways around it. It would be about 8' deep and go into the basement with full walk around access. heavily planted, drawing off the glassed in room for light, with lots of bog wood and either discus or cats or various sort.
 
I would have it on a plate, next to some spaghetti.

Oops, I read "Your Dream Fish"
 
30' x 5' x 3' reef tank. 30' is the length of my living room and dining room.
I'd have TONS of tangs, soome angelfish, a lot of gobies and some clownfish.
Isn't that everyone's dream tank? :p

8' x 2' x 2'
big school of clown loaches
big school of cories
bala sharks
torpedo barbs
big school of hatchetfish for the top
and lots of plecos
heavily planted
lots of bogwood

10' x 3' x 2'
FOWLR tank
eel
lionfish
triggerfish
hawkfish
etc.

:D
 
A few ideas:
Firstly, a tank that measures 35x30x16 feet with 6 Black-Tip Reef Sharks, 3 Angel Sharks, 2 Nurse Sharks, 1 Zebra Shark, various eels and big fish.
Secondly, a tank that is 15x9x4 feet which would be a massive Amazon Biotope, hundreds of tetras, catfish, other fish.
Lastly, which I can't believe no one has said so far: A HUMUNGUS 350x250x50 foot marine tank with a Great White Shark.
Cheers,
GobyMaster
 

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