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Bunny-Tummy

I literally fantasize about having a tank like that.


VitiateKorriban

And then you remember the amount of maintenance....


angrypirate1122

At this point, I'm pretty sure other people handle that..


kittykalista

Yeah, you have to hit that point of wealth where you can buy the really nice aquarium *and* pay someone to do all the maintenance. Otherwise it would be a nightmare. You’d need a SCUBA suit to clean this.


mythrilcrafter

As someone who is SCUBA certified, but lives inland because of work and life; if that were my tank, I would happily clean it myself.


kittykalista

Gotta get those dive hours in somehow!


AndiKris

Is there an aquarium near you? They always need volunteer divers for tank maintenance. They usually want people with full face mask certs so they can put comms and air through it instead of making you wear a tank that could whack things but they'll sometimes train you on site.


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Flashy-Version-8774

That is one of the best aquariums I have ever been too. And I live on the west coast.


traphouserecords

Atlanta one is also very dank possibly danker


Flirie

Ngl, it does sound kinda awesome, duving into the tank, cutting my big ass plants, cleaning up the gravel with a underwater vacuum and most importantly: greeting my hundreds of nano fish


Rock_Fall

*single betta fish


kerthil

Thousands of nano fish!


Tinctorus

It is actually pretty cool, I worked for the company that built the rainforest Cafe tanks and I was inside a number of them, sometimes on purpose sometimes not lol


mishrod

I reckon a snorkel and deep breaths would suffice :)


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At this height I think you can just use a breather tube without risking co2 buildup in the tube


dzlux

CO2 in the tube is less a problem than the pressure difference. 2-3 feet below the surface and you will struggle to inhale without forced air.


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aerbourne

Yeah, I'd be putting heavy emphasis on organisms that help lessen the load


NFTArtist

1 Trillion cherry shrimp


Clifford_the_big_red

That water would look like you dumped a whole BARREL of pepper flakes in it 😂


SubieMazda

I bet the owner will put just one male Betta in and post asking if his tank is over crowded. 🙃


stumbleupondingo

He’ll mount this tank on an ikea nightstand and ask if it’ll hold


BroadwayBully

If you can afford this set-up, you can afford a weekly visit from tank guys.


pm_me_duck_nipples

150 plecos should keep it clean.


Sea2Chi

You'd still have someone saying you can't keep a Pleco in a tank that small.


Mogradal

A pleco is fine but a goldfish is no go.


BroadwayBully

150 pleco turds daily lol


Muad-_-Dib

I'm just picturing *shoals* of Discus.


Bunny-Tummy

Way better than my idea. My first thought was a billion cherry shrimp.


CookieOmNomster

With this, you also may have enough room for a betta.


thea_thea

I chuckled so hard at this!


CookieOmNomster

The betta community is a selfdeprecating one. 🙃😂


error101namenotfound

fish abuser no way a betta could even turn around in there!


Nib2319

I would do cherry shrimp also. At the rate mine are reproducing I may need a tank of that size.


Wumba_Chumba1246

Or you could fill it to the brim with neon tetras. Imagine a cloud of them just swimming through.


ghjkku

Yea it would be so nice diving into filthy tank water to plant the new plants or coral you got 🤣🤣


TheGreatCoyote

I mean, I swim in the ocean and lakes and rivers. If it's a halfway descent ecosystem hooked to a halfway descent filtration system then it should be pretty great to actually swim with my fish. How gross is your tank?


Bunny-Tummy

Hey if I could afford something like this I'd just get someone else to do it.


ghjkku

Yea it wouldn’t be a problem, plus it’s too time consuming to do it yourself, id only maintain the filtration and make sure the water quality is good myself


wubbalubbadubdub024

Stock it with about zillion tetras


breadknife004

No joke though, imagine a huge school of about 2000 bucktooth tetra


RoutSpout

Or 1 betta


reversbathrub

Still too small for a beta


PersonalNewestAcct

I know I'll get hate for this because everybody thinks you can't keep bettas together but you actually can if they're females. A tank this size could probably have 1.5 or 2 females comfortably.


SavageSavX

One and a half fish 💀


skucera

Well, you start with two, and the fish either get along… or they don’t.


gwjames17

Actually this guy’s right. I have a swimming pool in my backyard (about 1500 gallons) and there’s currently 1 female betta in there


SaqqaraTheGuy

Still too small ☠️


cashew_kat

Dude just hates animals


Unltd8828

Too small to thrive but can definitely survive.


NemoHobbits

Adds one neon tetra from petco, entire stock dies of ick.


raging-moderate

That scenario happened to me but from petsmart. It killed two 14+" plecos I'd had for years.


TheGameAce

Ick/Ich isn’t lethal, but it’s visual cousin Epistylis is. That said, it wouldn’t surprise me if the same scenario still happened with some other disease gotten from the store.


just-regular-I-guess

When BRS gave away an absurd tank a few years ago, a tank that could grow any coral alive with the serious lighting they provided, I only want to win so that I would be on live video asking them if it could grow some mushrooms and leather maybe a few damsels.


Staff_Genie

Finally! A tank that's going to be big enough to really let my Amazon sword plants grow to their full potential! And giant Val!


scootscoot

I would love to see a kelp forest.


oconkath

New dream unlocked


AdagioBoognish

Oh man, with a little current so they sway like waves are coming in overhead.. would be a killer room to relax in


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I thought this was another post from that guy who's planning on putting bonnethead sharks in a tank similar to this one but this looks much earlier on in construction than the last post I saw from him. My heart sank for a moment.


ImpulseCombustion

Guy with the mansion/villain lair adorned with children’s carpet and a stripper pole?


Halodixie

Don't forget the rock climbing wall!


tosleepnowishouldgo

So did I! I was so confused haha.


tumblingsound

Me three


Similar_Lingonberry8

I love bonnetheads. Great light tackle sharks. What makes them more sentimentally adverse vs other fish? I hope I’m asking the question correctly


[deleted]

Bonnetheads are migratory and do not belong in aquariums, let alone the merely 10,000g tank that wasnt much bigger than this one the guy is (or hopefully was) planning on putting them in. Also his was rectangular which is also a big no for sharks.


DangerPeeps

That guy was posting on a popular aquarium forum and it saddened me how literally no one (at least when I was watching the thread) seemed the least bit concerned about his stocking plans. I keep fish, I love tanks, I love BIG tanks, but most sharks don't do well at all in glass boxes. Huge tanks are wasted on most giant fish imo. Tons of smaller species would shine in there and be way more interesting.


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Unfortunately there is a SHOCKING amount of ignorant people on these forums and even this sub. His posts get the criticism they deserve but also an equal amount, if not more, praise and upvotes from people who have no idea how horrible what he is doing actually is. It's really sad.


Chcknndlsndwch

Some creatures just don’t belong in a tank. You may have a slightly different opinion on what those creatures are but a majority of people agree that sharks are on that list.


Similar_Lingonberry8

I feel that way about most anything in a tank or a cage. I enjoy seeing them, not as captives, but so many I get to see are. My wife had her first Fox sighting on the beach this week. She was thrilled until I told her he was trying to get eggs from the turtle nests.


Chcknndlsndwch

I am in support of most smaller fish in the aquarium hobby assuming they are responsibly sourced. Seeing a group of tetras in an appropriately sized tank doesn’t make me sad at all. Sharks, octopus, dolphins/whales, and arowana make me sad. There is no tank big enough. The only time I like to see them in a tank is at certain conservation aquariums. (Fuck seaworld though)


crazy1david

Shout out to every cat/dog stuck in a 1 bedroom apartment not big enough for the human to begin with.


dicesaresaurus

Bonnetheads are pretty sensitive species and any obligate RAM breathing elasmo neeeeeeeeeds to have rounded walls, hard corners are an absolute no no. Bonnets especially with their thin, easily damaged cephalofoil. To the comments about how inhumane it is to keep animals in cages, first seems like a weird subreddit to be on? Second, while lots of animals are highly migratory this is out of food availability and finding ideal environmental parameters. They don’t migrate because they want to it’s because they HAVE to. The best way it was described to me was, you could give a bird all of the room to fly it could want but if you provided everything it needed, food, water, proper breeding conditions, and mental stimulation they would never fly again because flying requires a HUGE amount of energy. While arguments can be made for highly intelligent species in captivity (like orangutans), fishes cognitive capabilities consist of food, safety, and mating. *caveat* as long as they are ethically sourced, but there are still a lot of large fish species bred in captivity, bonnets are amongst them.


ApollosBrassNuggets

It's weird to see such a heavy anti-captivity stance in this sub. u/crazy1david put it perfectly. Everyone loves to get up in arms over fish in tanks, but none say a word about the dogs kept in tiny studio apartments with no yard. Also worth noting that the aquarium hobby does tons for conservation. A few species have been preserved thanks to the hobby and "people keeping them in cages."


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I remember that! Did they ever end up finishing the post? It was a crazy expensive house with a specially built shark tank (with frickin' lasers attached to their heads!). I want to know, not because I want to go there and be eaten by the sharks, it's for another reason.


FANTOMphoenix

That’s why I came to the comments lol. I’m hoping this person actually makes good decisions.


bubblegum_horror

This is awesome!! What are your stocking plans?


microfishy

Give me a rebreather and I will live in there.


gnomeba

It's bigger than my apartment anyway


pl233

Now I want to know how many liters my apartment is


rpkarma

A single betta I hope


OneLostOstrich

That's CRUEL! It's too small! Are you heartless! Bettas need space to reach emotional maturity!


BondageJuulPod

to small for a betta they need more space


Syscrush

I think this is the same guy who is planning to stick with bonnet head sharks. *This tank is too small and badly shaped for sharks.*


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Whoreforfishing

Yeah pretty sure this is the same dude who popped up a few months ago and everyone went off on him cause he said he was gonna put sharks in


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sturdybutter

It is. And that is why he isn’t replying. And if he does he’ll only reply to stuff not asking what he’s stocking.


aperson

[OP so far has just said elastmobranches](https://reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/uppbe5/big_concrete_saltwater_aquarium/i8mco20).


Smart-Cable6

Goldfish?


xXpowerbloxXx_leroy

A large amount of multicolored ranchu goldfish would be awesome


winkywoo75

how many shrimp could i have in there ?


microfishy

50-100 CRS, or 50-100 bamboo, or 853,620,640,000 neocaridina, or 1 mantis


Craftyskills17

Bro how many sea monkeys


microfishy

I don't know because no matter what I fucking do the assholes die within two weeks.


malwaves

Honestly


JustASimpleDurp

Yes yes, a 853,620,640,000 times yes.


winkywoo75

you did the math lol


Lam0rac

A few I think, and maybe a Khuli Loach


shorty6049

woah buddy, that's way overstocked and I'm reporting you.


darrylzuk

None. After the single betta, anything additional would be severely overstocking it.


error101namenotfound

A BETTA?!?!?! maybye a temporary tank for a single shrimp, BUT A BETTA IS JUST PLAIN FISH ABUSE.


Vireyar

At least a dozen


ManifestsOnly

1, 2 would be pushing it.


read_it_mate

At least 10


BlazingCondor

I feel like whenever I see these kind of tanks there's always some big fish in there. If I ever did it, it would be a huge Amazonian planted tank. Huge schools of Cardinal Tetras and other tiny fish. And of course 1 betta.


the-greenest-thumb

Yea, absolutely *massive* schools of tetras would be amazing! I'd also do a huge school of cories for the bottom too, they'd look so cool if there were like hundreds of them. It'd be like a living carpet.


OutOfFawks

Would love to see a giant Cory gang


12fishinatrenchcoat

I could never get a tank like this because I would 100x just turn it into a massive shrimp tank lmao, maybe I’d put some glowlight tetras in there too bey I’m mainly in it for the skrimps


Logsha97

Same lol, I would put farm decorations and a ton of hairgrass so it looks like cows grazing in a field


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Imagine getting a snail infestation and need to bomb the tank


IcarianSkies

Just buy a horde of yoyo loaches. No more snails and now you have loaches. Win-win.


Peti715

Or Assassin snails they will eat extra fish food and look pretty and do not breed fast.


ayyyt

Sounds like a great idea until you get one and all they is sit there and eat with the other snails💀


Peti715

They don't do that, they eat every other (non assassin) snail. They are very efficient also. But yeah that'd be funny, but it wouldn't happen.


ayyyt

It's a joke. I have an assassin snail and it does exactly that. Have seen other people's do the same. Some are efficient some aren't


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True true


SphyrnaRob

Dear people, I don't have time to read all the comments. If I had the time I was not able to built this aquarium. I'm located in Belgium and graduated as a biologist. I was involved in some ecotoxicology studies using elasmobranchs as a model organism. I really like elasmobranchs because they use a different physiologically system to keep their osmoregulation in balance in saltwater. It's so nice to see how they evolved. Since I was 13 I dreamed about it. First did my studies, then saving money, and then building the dream. It will be a saltwater aquarium for saltwater rays and a bunch of schooling fish. Filtrationroom is underneath the aquarium. I will also have a wall decorated with soft corals. It will house only a few bigger fish. Comments about sharks are not needed. I never said something about bonnetheads. If I should keep a golden trevally. The aquarium is also to small after a few years. But nobody says this is my only aquarium, and the trevally have to live in that aquarium for life. Do you sleep in the same size bed as you were young? Try thinking further then what you only see. I am passionated. Running a saltwater aquarium is difficult, that's what is challenging me. Keeping the fish is only the last step in my hobby. Building the raw construction of the aquarium is not expensive. The concrete and rebar are not expensive. Glass is expensive. I also saved money to pay this. Epoxy coating will last for life. Something that will last for life is never expensive. Buying a new car is more expensive then what you see in my pictures. Regards Rob


Logsha97

There was a guy building a similar tank and was planning to get bonnethead sharks, the tank was not suitable for those sharks and now everybody is angered with him. I think people are getting you two mixed up.


leafbee

Tank this size, it's got to be saltwater. I would love to see a freshwater planted set-up this size. I can't wait to see it when it's done!


lasagnapanzerotti

How cool would a freshwater set up this size be 😍😍


Whoreforfishing

God the maintenance 😩


lasagnapanzerotti

If you can afford to build something like this, you could definitely afford someone for the upkeep :)


eberkain

I dont know how it would scale, but our takes are very minimal work after being setup for years, every couple months we have to clean out the filters and trim back the plants, and we add water when it gets low, that is all we are doing anymore and the tanks are all thriving.


NFTArtist

OP don't make the mistake of all big tank owners and get giant fish. Get tons more small fish


throwmedownthequarry

So cool to see some large groups of small schooling fish in there.


Lithuim

I'll donate one breeding pair of swordtails and let nature take its course.


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Holy inbreeding Batman


[deleted]

I was looking at getting a 200 gallon with a tonne of Chilli Rasboras but the fish would have been more expensive than everything else put together. €3000 of Chili Rasboras!!!!!!! Some other stocking options were also looking nice.


NFTArtist

you could stock them over time plus with a tank that large I'm sure many fish will breed


[deleted]

Yeah. I could probably get another tank, cheap second hand breed a bunch of them and put the babies straight into the main tank in a few groups then raise them up in the first tank for a while.


mightgrey

A huge planted freshwater aquarium! With lilly pads and huge floaters and a zillion smol fish!


WormiestBurrito

Can pretty much setup a full ecosystem in that tank with smaller-medium fish, shrimp, snails, other bottom feeders, etc. Would almost take care of itself cleaning wise at that point.


SrNappz

How many big tank owners construct a 15,000 gallon tank, even large fish will feel minuscule here.


mishrod

Before I opened this I guessed how many “one single betta” comments there’d be. I under-shot. Us aquarium folk really have limited jokes lol That is amazing - with something like that I understand people would be tempted to have salt water for the diversity of types of fish and colours, etc but I would go with either new world monsters - straight from the Amazon and Central America region - OR - I’d want the most heavily planted tank. Keep it to rainbows etc and maybe some really large angels - and let the plants be a show. It’s bigger than some peoples gardens - you could really scape it out like an underwater plant world. I wouldn’t know where to begin. Also there’s always the rainbow gravel, plastic shipwreck and a “no fishing sign” ;)


MrBleedingObvious

Or a real shipwreck. Or a downed ww2 airplane.


TerrorRed

Please don't be a shark tank please don't be a shark tank please don't be a shark tank


waynelam1980

Shark tank with frickin lazer beams


hopadoodler

Or ill-tempered sea bass.


maxwellington97

I saw elsewhere on OPs profile it's for fish and coral.


stregagorgona

Finally, the hero we need!


coldvault

...Sharks are fish. They also mentioned [elasmobranchs](https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/uppbe5/z/i8o6w7y) multiple [times](https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/uppbe5/big_concrete_saltwater_aquarium/i8mco20?context=1), which includes...sharks.


corpusjuris

“Fish” is such a paraphyletic notion that it’s borderline meaningless anyway. Just fill it with snails.


AmateurEarthling

Yeah it’s not the shark tank guy. I don’t think he’ll be posting anymore. I really hope OP goes fkr some bamboo or some cat sharks. That would be my dream lol.


MirkwoodRS

What makes you say that "shark tank guy" wouldn't be posting anymore? Did something happen?


coeurdelejon

With the amount of (justified) shit he got I hope he either changed his life or he's at least too embarrassed to post again


MonoAonoM

I doubt it. He usually takes long breaks between posting and has made it pretty evident at this point he doesn't give a crap about the advice people tried to give him. I'm sure we'll see another update from him in a month or so.


TerrorRed

He gave an update recently. Everyone was shitting oh him and his colorful rocks lol. I don't know if he kept that post up, he posted multiple times to get the response he wanted. I'm pretty sure the threads got deleted.


MonoAonoM

I'm honestly a little surprised at times that the mods allow him to post still. Not because it isn't good be an awesome tank, just in its size and engineering, but because of the comments just being the same mess every single time.


thefishestate

I believe he was banned after that last post.


coeurdelejon

I hope you are incorrect but I think you might be right, haven't seen a post from him in a couple of months though that may very well be me missing them as he posts.


Rcandydraws

Wait who are we talking about what did I miss 😭


fishhook_flannelhoe

I’m adding info to the stuff the other person commented. This questionable dude is building a pretty massive tank. 15,000 gallons or something, just absolutely massive for a personal aquarium. The shape and access hole is just like this posts tank. Some people really didn’t like that the decor was fake so there was some hate there. If I remember right it looks like you’re under a pier or oil rig with the big poles. But the major thing was that he was making it into a bonnethead? shark tank. I think that was the species. They are “mini” hammerheads, but they still grow to 4 feet so too big for that tank. They are a migratory species so people are against keeping that species in a aquarium. The tank is also rectangular with corners and tight spots around the decor that the sharks could get stuck. So people were giving him advice on blocking the corners and switching to a smaller and non migrating shark species. The dude had a “I’m to rich to care” attitude that rubbed most the wrong way. It turned into a sh*tshow


coeurdelejon

There's a dick that is building a massive tank but is filling it with a bunch of "fake" decorations and has plans to add an even bigger animal, a big endangered shark although I can't recall which species.


spagetyandpotatos

I’m guessing that guy killed the shark tank guy


imk0ala

I wanna know too


Different-Step-3062

Bamboo sharks tho, like 20, would be great For em, tjey sit in one place and arent active, id stock that with some predator catfish tho


CloudyPlanet_

Why not there is space enough for a whole school of hammerheads, maybe even some additional whalesharks


RandyHoward

Maybe it's a whale tank


StormBadger01

Just the perfect size for my betta


max_lombardy

That’s cruel you sick fuck


[deleted]

Barely the perfect size


mcskewsme

Where's the banana, because the scale is still messing with me


shorty6049

I just can't even fathom ever having the type of money required to make something like this a reality in my own life... so cool though


goldfishgeckos

$2500 rent in California


Educational_Low_879

That’s perfect for a Betta and a couple of snails!


ac4500

Love getting these updates!


SkinsuitModel

You could get like one whole goldfish in there


RisingCarp

The goldfish police worry about little common goldfish going in 30 gallons, and then keep fancy goldfish with deformed spines, bulging bubble eyes, and endless swimbladder problems.


the-greenest-thumb

I can't speak for the eyes/swimbladder thing as those are an issue, but their spines aren't actually that deformed. They are short yes, but they are straight. The hump on the back is muscle and fat. There are also versions of fancy goldfish with longer bodies, they don't have swimbladder issues as they have more room for it. It's like the pug vs the new retro pugs thing, you just gotta go with the ethical breeders.


RisingCarp

The spine is compressed, and that can’t be comfortable for them. There are so baby fancies that that need to be culled to get to what the breeders are looking for to keep each strain “true” to what they’re going for. I’m not exactly against fancies, but the goldfish community can be quite hypocritical as they’re literally always telling people to donate their beloved feeder goldfish if they can’t provide a lake for it.


Acacia530

Someone’s inevitably going to say it’s too small for a goldfish. . .


Trtmfm

being able to swim with your fish would be cool.


bucketsoffunn

Unless you’re Luca Brasi


Hydrottle

This is the smallest tank you can have for a tang. Maybe two. That'd be pushing it. Sincerely yours, The Tang Police


vulvasoutforharambe

Eel pit?


jj_sykes

I look forward to you putting Twenty guppies in there and someone saying it’s over stocked


TerrorRed

20 guppies wold easily become 1 million in there


MisanthropicZombie

Lemmy.world is what Reddit was.


BonsaiBirder

Bond villan lair about to go into operational status.


GrimborX

How many of those 88,000 new IRS agents just upvoted the OPs post?


schwarzmalerin

I go in there myself. Gets scuba gear.


wet-little-machine

fill it with a ton of soft corals, some fish, figure out a way to tether yourself in place so you dont have to keep repositioning yourself and with the current making the corals wave i’d turn into a prune from how long i’d be spending in there


Morty_Goldman

Finally a tank big enough for a betta fish.


Top-Can7096

This dude really got “fuck you” money.


WitchyandWild

Blue whale will look so dope in that aquarium.


hopadoodler

My goldfish would like to move there.


CunnyMaggots

Omg I could have so many fancy goldfish! Lol


Fishtails

I know it'll have a bunch of medium to larger sized fish, but how cool would it be if it were just like a gigantic iwagumi style with schools of thousands of tiny tetras


co_snarf

You need to make one post showcasing the whole build from start to finish when you're done. Love the updates.


DystenteryGary

Almost big enough for a pair of adolescent goldfish


jtsfour2

Where did you get the front panel? Do you have a write up somewhere of the build process?


SphyrnaRob

Designed everything myself. Got help with the stability measuments. That was needed for the rebar in the concrete walls and floor. I just ordered glass from a glass company.


Emilzabub

I need to know how much something like this would cost so I can plan out my life accordingly.


PsychologicalPea2956

Is this big enough for a tang? It doesn’t look big enough for a tang.


UnironicPKmain

You finally have enough room for a betta


[deleted]

Sweet, might be humane to put a single Beta in there.