What is your Dream Tank?

[dcantucson]

I'm wondering what size set-up most of us would want if we could have anything we wanted and money wasn't a factor. I started with a 10g, then a 32g and now I have 150g. I find myself wanting to go bigger still yet. I've day dreamed about taking a room in the house, sectioning it off and building an enormous system of 1500+ gallons. I see most of us want bigger, but yet I see some down sizing too. :scratchch

 

[tankedchemist]

I have always wanted a huge tank dividing two rooms in my house-- like my office, and the living room. My mom had a boss when I was younger with a setup like this-- and a completely separate room with auto-top off, skimmers, etc so there wasn't fish equipment hangin out everywhere. That system is exactly what I've always wanted to have.

 

[Alexander]

3000 plus black tip reef shark tank! absolute dream tank. also any tank similar to david saxbys reef.

 

[mblack]

any size tank that warrants me having a tank room for all the equipment to be put in!

 

[Bifferwine]

I've found that for me, a big tank wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Too much work. Ideally, I'd like to go back to a 75 or 90 gallon I think.

 

[swninja]

i've had everything from a2galhex to 125 gal. at one point i was breeding african chiclids and i had 9 tanks set up in a room of my house. never again. i don't care what size the tank is as long as it's "low" maintenance (i know none are really that low, but i got to throw it in there).

 

[RyanG]

If I were to win the lottery I would have a tank similar to the patagonian reefs display at the John Ball zoo in Grand Rapids MI. Except mine would be a traditional reef instead of a cold water setup. Its close to 5000g with surges that make the water volume rise a couple feet. Probably too much for what I want but its close. A tank that I could take a true slice of the reef and have the money to operate and maintain it would be the heat. Right now I would settle for a tank with no closed loop!

 

[wontonflip]

I started with my 45g, then added my 10g...and now I'm working on my 125, which actually is my dream tank because we made it so that it divides off a corner of the room that I can just sit, read, and admire the tank. And the best part is that we've been building a lot of the setup ourselves.

 

[sen5241b]

Two or three one thousand gallon tanks located throughout my massive beach house with clear, interconnecting plexi tubes that run thru the many rooms of the house. A dozen elves in a secret chamber would labor night and day taking care of it for me while I sit back and just drink beer and watch it all.

 

[Rcpilot]

I'm currently running a 30g high as my reef with a 10g frag tank.

I have a 90g tank thats been sitting for over a year. I would be really happy if I had the money to set it up with a completely separate room to keep the equipment out of sight. It'll be full of LPS and only the most exotic zoas and mushrooms. Minimal fish--maybe 2 or 3 max. Just don't like fish all that much.

If I won Powerball, I'd have a giant tank built into a wall. 1000g sounds about right. If you got that kind of money, you've also got the coin to pay somebody else to take care of it. :mrgreen:

A outside frag tank in a greenhouse would be wonderful too.

 

[yote]

My dream tank,would be 10ft long,4ft wide,and 2 feet deep,setup as a reef crest,with the wave surging in over all the SPS,with just a few of the fish that inhabit the reef crest.Then along the other wall,but plumbed into the same sump,would be a 10ftX4ftX2ft lagoon tank filled with seagrasses and the corals that live in the lagoons.Of course all the equipment would be in a seperate room.

 

[BigH55]

A tank big enough for a school of hot mermaids and with a glory hole. :)

 

[dcantucson]

Big... that's a bit TMI for some of us!

 

[BigH55]

Sorry Ill clean it up.

 

[d.french]

this would be close to my dream tank in a new house with a room similar to this one in link below.
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-12/totm/index.php

 

[RyanG]

Im with you on that one Darrick, that is one of my favorite tanks that I have ever seen!

 

[d.french]

the room itself is awesome, but to have a big square tank with all 4 sides viewable. I can sit in there a drink a 12 pack and just stare at that tank all night.

 

[RyanG]

I just want to have a tank that is natural looking in its surroundings. A tank in a giant solarium like that is perfect!

 

[dcantucson]

Sorry Ill clean it up.

HeyBig- you don't have to clean it up for me! I was LOL, for sure! I was just kidding with you about the TMI.

 

[motorcyclereefer]

I've always thought it would be cool to have one made out of a swimming pool. Like the pools that are beside the house and on a wall you can look into the pool. But take the whole wall out and just have a glass wall instead. I can dream I guess but I will be building one this fall but it will only be around 120 gallons.