Dream tank thread

I'm starting a dream tank thread. Hopefully most of this will come true in a few years.

180g-
Blood parrots, blue acara
wanted: bala sharks, silver dollars, common pleco, oscars EBJDs.

55g-
2 angelfish, guppies, mollies, platies.

I plan on putting the 180 in the basement after it's finished. Wishful thinking for now. But hey, I can dream.


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I'm torn.....I LOVE living on the beach, but there are no basements here on the island.....

 

Getting all of my 200 tanks going again.

 

I have mine. A 500 gallon monster, with some monster fish.

Now for a indoor pond, for a red tail catfish....someday

 

A 350g african cichlid tank with a huge sump and a QT tank underneath

not sure what type of african cichlids tho

 

My dream tank is something as big as what rougeagent built before he left India. Over 2,000 gallons! I am not sure what I would put in that big a tank, but it would be awesome. Here is a link to rouge's thread below.

A BIIG project.

 

A peninsula tank that's huge Like 12'long by 6' wide by 4' high. Four 450W metal halides at 6500K, lots of driftwood, some rocks, sand, and a ton of plants. All amazonian. All wild fish, like angels, discus, festivums, and a whole bunch of tetras. Thousands of cardinals and rummies. That would be amazing!

 

A 100 gallon bowfront heavily planted discus tank (never gonna happen unless I strike it rich)

And a 300g+ raised pond with tons of pretty plants and a bunch of cute little wiggly ranchus in it. (some day...)

 

I'm torn.....I LOVE living on the beach, but there are no basements here on the island.....

Are you on piers? That's the way my family's beach house on LBI was built. Best decision you could ever make if building down the shore.

Wow, it seems that everyone has their exact dreams and plans all ready for action! It's really cool hearing what others want and desire. Keep 'em coming! Lol




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Are you on piers? That's the way my family's beach house on LBI was built. Best decision you could ever make if building down the shore.

Wow, it seems that everyone has their exact dreams and plans all ready for action! It's really cool hearing what others want and desire. Keep 'em coming! Lol

All the houses here have crawl spaces underneath. Some of the ones on the beach are up on stilts.

I would like to build a tank in a basement that's so big I would have to get in it to clean it

 

Haha, honestly I rather have a fish room than one huge tank. I'd eventually like to build a rack for my tanks and have a utility sink/station in the middle.

 

I like having them spread out around the house. I have 4 in the living room, 3 in the kitchen and 4 in the bedroom. 0 in the guest room. The big tank surely wouldn't be the only tank in the basement

 

A show tank in everyone room in addition to the fish room would be nice. Oh, and a river tank full of rainbow trout.

 

I have the fishroom with 10 tanks in it, a 125 in the living room but it is not enough need more.I will eventually get a 300-500 in the living room with some bigger fish.

 

Forget the 180, I changed my mind after seeing pictures of Ken's 265g filled with blood parrots drool

 

Pic of Ken's tank?

I want a 300+ gallon tank for a small mouth bass. I'd love to have a mbuna tank or peacock tank that measures in the thousands. I'm talking floor to ceiling built in, 15 feet long and 10 feet deep. On the ground level you can view it, on the next level up you can walk over it on a little bridge.

What is important is to make sure I'm realistic in my goals. I mean, I'm going to be CEO of my company some day, so this seems quite simple next to that!?

 

Ken, also known as Aquarist48 on the forums. Check out his albums on his profile page. His tank is huge!

 

Keeping it realistic for now -

75G or 100G filled with native fish and native plants that I caught myself from all over NC.

 

I'm pretty sure ken had that part of the house actually built around the tank.

 

I've always wanted an indoor saltwater pond where its big enough for a heat lamp a beach chairs and some nice sand. Or a 14 wide 3 deep by 5 high tank either a reef tank or maybe some clown loaches and more peaceful brighter fish like JDs. When I can afford that call me luke gates jr realistically thought I want to set up a nice 40 gallon salt tank by the end of summer than stop see how trade school goes and go on from there

 

Good morning,

Thanks for the compliments on my tank folks! I appreciate it.

JaySee is correct, I had to build the room around the fish tank. There was no way to get such a large aquarium through the house.

Ken

 

And I would only use this as a grow out tank for an indoor pond. True monster catfish's.

 

holy catfish! very nice. if they only had a "dwarf" red tail cat...

Keeping somewhat realistic dreams in mind:
100G - "Discus" Theme - heavily planted with mainly all types of discus. throw in some angels/rams, some cardinal tetras, sterba cories or kuhlI loaches, etc

100G - "Reef" Theme - I will eventually delve into SW. This one will have a nice colorful colony of coral, inverts, and fish. Love gobies, most shrimp, lots of snails and hermits, cardinal fish, wrasses, a royal gramma basslet, chromis and anthias, and of course Nemo/pair of clowns...etc, etc

125G - "SW Aggressive" Theme - While the others would be in the living room, maybe the bedroom? This tank will be in my man cave! I really want a Snowflake eel, a Volitan Lionfish, and a Porcupine Puffer. All these are so different and just amaze me. I know the puffer can get stung, but it might work.

*AND a ???G Pond in my backyard. I want to have goldfish, a turtle (who in theory wouldn't eat everything, so stay small like a mud turtle) and a small catfish (mad tom) and some craws, etc. It would be nice to have a bullfrog too. nicely land/aquascaped with proper filtration and heating, plus a mini-waterfall

I will also always keep my small betta and ADF tank as they are great! and will be good for the kids.

...and I have about 10-12 other solid ideas to go through first before I can handle this load, but we can discuss these later as this will only encourage me to break into my LFS and steal everything I need...
ishy10 i'm just overwhelmed thinking about it

 

Good morning,

Should something every happen to my 265g tank, I will replace it with 3 more 33g long tanks for a total of 4. Although should a hurricane blow my house down and destroy my tanks, a 500g isn't out of the question

Ken

 

hey winnie...what do you have in your 500? that's awesome!

I have my new 150 half way full atm....so for now I'm very happy! but in the future a 500 might be prty cool

-j

 

holy catfish! very nice. if they only had a "dwarf" red tail cat...

Keeping somewhat realistic dreams in mind:
100G - "Discus" Theme - heavily planted with mainly all types of discus. throw in some angels/rams, some cardinal tetras, sterba cories or kuhlI loaches, etc

100G - "Reef" Theme - I will eventually delve into SW. This one will have a nice colorful colony of coral, inverts, and fish. Love gobies, most shrimp, lots of snails and hermits, cardinal fish, wrasses, a royal gramma basslet, chromis and anthias, and of course Nemo/pair of clowns...etc, etc

125G - "SW Aggressive" Theme - While the others would be in the living room, maybe the bedroom? This tank will be in my man cave! I really want a Snowflake eel, a Volitan Lionfish, and a Porcupine Puffer. All these are so different and just amaze me. I know the puffer can get stung, but it might work.



*AND a ???G Pond in my backyard. I want to have goldfish, a turtle (who in theory wouldn't eat everything, so stay small like a mud turtle) and a small catfish (mad tom) and some craws, etc. It would be nice to have a bullfrog too. nicely land/aquascaped with proper filtration and heating, plus a mini-waterfall

I will also always keep my small betta and ADF tank as they are great! and will be good for the kids.

...and I have about 10-12 other solid ideas to go through first before I can handle this load, but we can discuss these later as this will only encourage me to break into my LFS and steal everything I need...
ishy10 i'm just overwhelmed thinking about it

I feel you I'm saving up paychecks and at the end of summer I'm purchasing a 40 gallon tank for a dwarf lionfish there so amazing ill probally get tank and stand on craigslist maybe even more stuff but I don't know. There's something about aggressive fish

 

I've been researching a lot of paludariums (terrarium and aquarium) and had a crazy idea for a tank! Basically it's a turtle tank, with a MississippI Map turtle (males stay small, ~5", so not as much of a potential threat). I was thinking 90G (~48x18x25) for some height, which I'll explain in a sec. Have about 2/3 water and 1/3 open, and then take a good chunk (maybe 1/4-1/3) of the tank length to make an amazing little terrarium section. Obviously this would be slopped with rocks or something for the turtle to climb, but want to keep most of under it open for swimming/hiding space.

In the water I was thinking some mollies to add some color (platinum, orange, and black) and use their fry for food. Plus they are fast and big enough to escape from the turtle if need be, and cheap if they don't. I could get an adult BN pleco for algae. Throw in some ghost shrimp to pick up the messy turtles scraps and also as a source of food. Keep some pond snails for clean up and food too maybe. For the bottom dweller/cleaner I was thinking of a striped rapheal catfish since it could get bigger than the turtle and has that amazing spiked armor coat. Maybe throw a Large cray in there if he could defend himself. Have a few hardy, tough, low-med light plants and some driftwood and rock structure for hiding spots. I would want a few plants to pop out of the water...any suggestions?

For the land part I was thinking of somehow cutting out a plastic area (DIY) that would have carved out recesses (NOT open to the aquarium water) for planting proper soil and plants and could anchor the whole thing to my glass tank. Still figuring out substrate though...something that would work but not be dragged back into the tank by the turtle. I want this to have enough space for the turtle to bask but also look somewhat junglish. So for plants we need a type of vine/ivy, something with a safe flower, some grass/moss, and some fern. Then add a small branch structure of possibly manzanita wood. The reason I wanted the wood and the extra inches of the 90G vs the 75G is so I would be able to keep a green anole in the land section! Everything would meet his requirements temp wise, plant wise, climbing wise. They can swim if need be and is way too fast for anything to catch him.

Those are my currrent thoughts...whatcha think?

 

1. A tiny 10 Gallon Cyclinder Sea-Horse Tank

2. A Display Reef Tank. From floor to roof. About 2000 Gallons

3. A Community tank that I can climb into a wetsuit and swim in (with lots and lots and lots of schools of rainbowfish)

 

A Community tank that I can climb into a wetsuit and swim in (with lots and lots and lots of schools of rainbowfish)

 

A 1000 gallon tank with Tilapia so I can go fishing in my living room ;D

 

My dream tank would only be a dream. Here is a picture of it.



Well its a dream. Though I would have all those species of fish in a tank. Out of the natural, no? Throw a Sailfin tang and some rainbowfish. Maybe an Majestic angel would be nice too.

But when it comes to natural:

1. A 100 Gallon Assorted Discus and Angelfish tank. Add Rams, Black skirt tetras, and BosemanI Rainbowfish, some cories, a pearl gourami and a black barb.

2. A 70 Gallon Marine FOWLR tank, with a Bandit and Majestic Angel, Clown Trigger, Copperband and Banded butterflyfish, a Royal Gramma Blasset, Blue and Yellow Tangs.

3. A Big aquarium with a giant Red Cap Oranda. :3

 

Wouldn't it be great if all fish were compatible? That would make so many things easier!

 

I also what a restored metaframe tank planted with all the classic standby plants and stocked with wild altum angels.

My LFS has a stack of old metaframes in their greenhouse but I'm not sure if they would sell one...

 

Wouldn't it be great if all fish were compatible? That would make so many things easier!

Oh yeah it would...

 

Wouldn't it be great if all fish were compatible? That would make so many things easier!

If only the world could roll over and world peace comes to earth...

We can only dream about such nonsense ;D

 

LOL Well if we can dream about nonsense, then occasionally my dream tank has been filled with 6 inch killer whales or great whites...that would be awesome

 

If only the world could roll over and world peace comes to earth...

We can only dream about such nonsense ;D

Ahem, you are in the "dream" tank thread.

Six inch killer whales would be great too!

 

hahaha... indeed we are

Well on that basis then... ... I want my own public FRESHWATER aquarium that isn't public. ;D