FishProfiles.com Message Forums

a member of the website monsterfishkeepers.com has made a whoping 50,000 gallon aquarium. It is connected to his house and houses some big fish.And think of this: If you think you have it tough with water changes your water changes are nothing compared to this guy's: he changes 10,000 gallons of water a week. That makes me happy i only have a 55 gal.! haha. And luckily the guy posted a lot of pics from when they stated diging a hole for it till the completed result. I garuntee this will wow any fish keeper.
Go here:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8952

tell me what you think

>>>----> <----<<<

pnh

Seen it, but it's still an amazing project. Unfortunately, many of these huge set-ups have rust problems, as this person has noted. You'd think they'd go with how most large public aquariums do it if there going to shell out that much cash anyway.

In any case, it is pretty awesome.

--------------------------------------------
The aquarist is one who must learn the ways of the biologist, the chemist, and the veterinarian.

Yeah haha. Id love to have something like that as long as all i hadto do was observe the fish somebody else did all the tough work. haha

>>>----> <----<<<

pnh

Imagine an ammonia spike in that thank

I would think it would take alot to make a big enough amonia spike in that tank to really kill all the fish. I would think it would need something like a dead whale in it to cause a big ammonia spike that would kill all the fish.


But if it were to happen: THAT WOULD SUCK

>>>----> <----<<<

pnh

Do you know what the stock list is?


Heh, If I had that big of a tank I'd either fill it with little fishies (see how big they really get ) Or Id get Giant Morays

Inky

hmm, i would probly fill it with neon tetras, cardinals, angels, corys, and probly somehting odd looking, but small odd, lol, start off with 5 angels, 50 each of cardinals and neons, and 20 each of 4 different cory species....that...would be awesome!

OH OH OH!!! and one more thing, also stock it with 100 blue/gold rams




\



......

no im sorry no stocklist.

You know what would be really cool to have in the tank...

A great white shark haha
just imagine telling ur friends that you have a 55,000 gallon fish tank filled with a great white. haha and yeah i know it wouldnt work (tank's too small)

but really id like to get the biggest school of fish possible haha. 500 neon tetra's wow that'd be cool!

>>>----> <----<<<

pnh

50,000 pristellas would look SO cool!

________________________________________________
I like Led Zeppelin.

lol, not sure about the tetras, theyd go about a foot away from the glass and disappear in that tank. Id go totally paludarium, trees, large lillies, and stuff in a complete working biotope of all the amazon fish I could find. It would be interesting to see what fish really call a territory. Frogs, small lizards , even a few small birds , it would be waay cool.

If youre gonna have a tank that big, might as well build a vivarium into the floor above it The living trees might cut down on his water changes lol. In fact , wouldnt it be possible to provide enough plant filtration and microorganisms , reeds etc to do away with water changes as long as the current was good? You could have peat beds, the lot. That guy lacks ambition.lol. He just had to go with big fish didnt he, small ones are much less work .lol.

I couldn't emagine what a gravel vac would be like. HAHAHA

Imagine the water change, 10000 gallon weekly

I've met that guy before, he comes all the way from Canada to check out the LFS I work at. That's not his only big tank. He has other tanks in the thousands of gallons. Really nice guy too.

---

Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

I was just thinking, I wonder what the guy's job is that lets him afford all that?

--------------------------------------------
The aquarist is one who must learn the ways of the biologist, the chemist, and the veterinarian.

He's actually in a wheelchair now. My boss said he got some HUGE settlement from an accident of some sort. I don't know if that's true so definitely don't quote me on it or anything.

---

Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Im imagining the headlines now

Man drowned during water change.

I hope he has drainer taps set up, he'll never get control of a 25 foot long gravel cleaner from a wheelchair. I can imagine the look on the home helps face when he shows them the diving suit and starts pointing at the dirty spots in the tank.

I hope hes not forced to give the tanks up, that would be a shame. Wouldnt it be cool if he did webcams of the tanks

Yeah, read up on this a while back. That must've been SOME settlement. o.o

Oh yea, that guy. Poorly planned, but still cool nonetheless, i wouldn't have the cahones to attempt that!!

he comes all the way from Canada to check out the LFS I work at

Sorry, that gave me a chuckle...depedning upon where you live that can be just a 10 minute drive I used to drive 4.5 hrs one way to see the husband way back when we were dating, so I know what you mean


~~~~~~~~~~~~
There is water at the bottom of the ocean

Yeah, I think he lives way out in Ontario. I know it's more than an hour drive for him. If he were coming from the Falls area it would be about 30min drive - East/West, not N/S.

---

Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients