When $ is no object...17000 gal tank complete with house

[Snappy]

Originally Posted by Moogled

Link me up to pictures of this 20,000g tank!

The reason I mention the appearance is because it seems the owners of tanks these sizes normally put more emphasis on quantity rather than quality.

I'm sure the scale is immensely difficult to duplicate but I find it hard to appreciate a tank when it's just several rocks and murky water.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/fo...ead.php?t=8952

Coral magazine is a printed publication and I am not familiar with their website or if they even have one. Here is a picture of part of the 20000 gal tank. It is actually a public aquarium in New York called Atlantis Marine World but it looks spectacular from the magazine pics and I guess my point is that this guy could certainly afford to stock his in a similar manner.


Personally I am often disappointed with the coral & reef displays in public aquariums but this one is very nice.

[Delphinus]

Meh, it's impressive but this is more about doing it because he can, and not because of a real love of the subject matter. Seeing that house and his cars, he probably already has a villa on an island somewhere anyhow.

If you want a reef tank you can dive in, why not just call it a "stocked swimming pool". Actually this idea is being tried somewhere, I forget where, is it Chicago? Some organization wants to make an indoor coral reef diving centre. It's an interesting challenge but honestly the decadence of it does make me a little uncomfortable given the current situation of coral reef depletion, we should be focusing more effort on conservation rather than "well I'll just take my own piece of the reef and take it home."

[Phanman]

wow this is crazy. Im sure Bill will stock the reef to his liking and it will be full of coral and fish. I would love to get home from a hard day and jump in my reef, lol. Must be nice to have these kinda challenges with what to do with all your money, hehe. Only time will tell what Bills interpretation of a reef tank looks like.

[Matt]

It will be epic, and epically expensive. I don't imagine I'll like it much. I've never personally seen any monster tanks outside of public aquariums, but I've never seen one I really liked.

I'll make an exception for SuperFudge, and Steve Weast, but I haven't seen those in person, either.

[andrewsk]

I have to say that I would never want a tank this size. I have a 300 Gallon system and ya I would like to have a larger tank, but at some point you lose the intamacy of your reef.

I like knowing the fish in my tank and being able to check up on each corals growth.

A tank that big would be overwhelming. There would be so much stuff in it that you would lose track of all the details.

Just my opinion.

[lastlight]

The 20,000 guy is justjoe on RC. What an amazing job he has...

Here he is at 'work' hehe

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...highlight=clam

[Snappy]

Originally Posted by lastlight

The 20,000 guy is justjoe on RC. What an amazing job he has...

Here he is at 'worl' hehe

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...highlight=clam

Thanks for the link, that's my dream job.

[trilinearmipmap]

Does anyone know why that guy got banned from Reef Central? Just wondering because there is a lot of immature stuff I have seen on that board so I rarely go there any more.