Fishtank habitrail
Octopus Studios' tropical/freshwater fish-tanks assembles into a kind of fishy habitrail, wherein bulbous spheres of water are connected by diagonal tubes.
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Octopus Studios' tropical/freshwater fish-tanks assembles into a kind of fishy habitrail, wherein bulbous spheres of water are connected by diagonal tubes.
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Wow, that looks really pretty. But can you imagine cleaning that thing?
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Reminds me of that homemade fish habitrail posted on BB over a year ago.
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/09/habitrail-for-fish.html
no, I can't imagine cleaning it
WANT!!!
But my Blue Yabbie and black shark would still manage to find and harass one another.
I used to own/maintain an aquarium & all I can think of is how difficult that must be to clean.
. . . But it is neat.
Now if they made that into something like the Atomium in Brussels then I might have to wipe out my savings.
Never mind the cleaning; how do they handle the *oxygenation*? Those lower spheres probably wouldn't get a lot of flow ...
The prices are available by request, must not be cheap
yeah mooserov, i was just thinking that the age old pricing rule of "if you have to ask, you don't want to know" most likely applies here.
That's exactly what I thought, Beryllium: practically no surface area for oxygen exchange. Also, I bet it's a bear to keep it from leaking. Cool as a novelty, though, or it could be sealed with some plants and shrimp as a "biosphere".
The obvious solution to the aeration problem would be a sump hidden in the stand containing a wet-dry filter. However, the specs say it has a canister filter and an air pump. I suspect that the owner will have to exercise willpower not normally seen in aquarists and keep it understocked relative to a normal aquarium. Either way, if the power goes out for any length of time, the fish may go to the big pond in the sky.
And those lower segments would be bad for any of the many aquarium fish (e.g. Corydoras, labyrinth fish) that want access to air. Looks kind of cool, not a very good choice for animal welfare.
Don't worry about cleaning! You can get a maintenance contract!!
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Octopus Studios can arrange a maintenance contract for your Silverfish Aquarium, in the event that you do not wish to personally maintain it.
This service, undertaken by a third party professional, includes all necessary maintenance in the form of cleaning, servicing and general upkeep.
Please contact us for further details regarding this service.
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I think what makes fish happy is a long low tank with a lot of surface area. And if they are a sluggish sort of species, even that might not matter. But I think that even little zebra danios and tiny cardinal tetras would not enjoy that tank and slightly larger giant danios and congo tetras would weep invisible tears or dash their little brains out on the plastic bubble walls.
I sure hope it works better than their website does.
You can tell the people who have kept aquariums. The first thing they think of: "That would be a bitch to clean!"
Hahahaha! It's exactly what I thought.
It has 3 undergravel filters, presumably in the bottom 3 tanks, which would be sufficient to aerate the tanks completely. I don't think you have to worry about that.
Couldn't you just drop a bunch of Efferdent in there to clean it, like a bong?
I would be curious to know whether fish move around from module to module in this contraption or whether they tend to stay in one place more than in a wide open tank.
I would be curious to see if an aggressive fish, like a Jack Dempsey, would sit in one of the globes and attack any other fish that came into its territory or if it would go from globe to globe, terrorizing on the run.
...and how would one scrap at the algae?
I heard that undergravel filter sucks everything into the gravel...and that eventually you have to clean the gravel anyways, and carefully so that all that junk won't be unleashed into the waters above.
It would be cool though, if someone were to build a public aquarium along this model. Cleaning would be okay if a diver could swim through the tubed area! If each speare has a different filter system, they can heat some sphere more than others, and have fishes that require similar water chemistry, but different temps, in the same system. Heck, it'll be great for fishes that travel through waters of vastly different temps.
If you keep a good tank, you don't need to clean the undergravel very often. We had one that ran for over 3 years without cleaning.
We fed our fish live tubifex worms and they lived under the undergravel filter. When we finally cleaned it, it was jam-packed with these worms, who feasted on fish droppings and food the fish missed. On the other hand, the angel fish were constantly picking off worms who stuck their heads out of the gravel. It was ALMOST self-sustaining! Hahaha!