Interesting Fish Tank Design

[Mission Man]

Check out this link and then tell me if this has gone too far.

http://homes.yahoo.com/news/awesome-aquariums-5-cool-modern-fish-tank-designs-202952576.html

[Ron]

The maze one - just imagine once algae starts to grow! I know about magfloats for hard to reach algae cleaning, but on a curved surface?! PITA!

The sink one - now that is slick.    Curved surface problem again though, otherwise I'd get one.

The suspended one - ridiculous!

The coffee table ones ... I've got a great place for one of those.  (Scared to see the pricing though.)

[TrailerParkFishTanks]

i liked the lopsided bowl hanging on the edge but as far as having one i would be constantly nervous it would actually fall over the edge. there are some very cool ideas in there. coffee table one looks BA

[linuxrulesusa]

I've seen people selling the coffee table ones for under $100, if I remember right.  My wife said no though. 

[PowerCerg One]

I've seen people selling the coffee table ones for under $100, if I remember right.  My wife said no though. 

Saw a 40 gallon on craigslist for $75 a while back

[RichE]

Very interesting but I would think the "cool factor" would ware off soon after installing one.

the maintenance would be brutal

[Mission Man]

The sink is cool, but you wouldn't be able to use anything but lukewarm water.   

[Ogre44]

The coffee table ones seem like they'd be full of spooked freaked out fish with everyone looming over them and all the movement from legs and feet.
The other designs don't really seem feasible, more like fish as decoration than as living creature, not my cup of tea.

[linuxrulesusa]

The coffee table ones seem like they'd be full of spooked freaked out fish with everyone looming over them and all the movement from legs and feet.
The other designs don't really seem feasible, more like fish as decoration than as living creature, not my cup of tea.

I agree.  As an idea it's great...then you start thinking about stuff like how to power a filter (and hide it), how to clean the weird shape thing in the middle of your room, and despair of it ever looking like the picture after the fish make a mess five minutes after a water change...still tempting to try one.  Even if it's doomed to failure. 

[TrailerParkFishTanks]

i want a toilet tank...are those available?

[linuxrulesusa]

i want a toilet tank...are those available?

Yep, they're the ones people switch to after they get tired of siphoning out pleco waste.    See also - drainage ditch tank, flowerbed tank, recycling bin tank. 

[greg y]

Maybe for seamonkeys, not fish

[Sean]

these are all for sale on thisiswhyimbroke.com they give the link for where to buy it. the prices are ridiculous

[Steve]

I've seen most of these before and the first thing I always think is what others here have said, cool at first, but tank maintenance would be a pain in the rear. Makes you wonder if the designers even care about what happens to the tank once it leaves their shop. Just like a week ago on the show "Tanked" where they built that drum set aquariums with the electronic drum pads on top of each tank and didn't even use filters on them. I like "different" but there's some things these tank builders do which prove they simply want to be flashy and don't really care about the fish nor the headaches the owners will have to deal with.