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One day while procastrinating I ran into this article: http://www.geekologie.com/2008/02/fishtank_looks_like_habitrail.php

I must admit, it looks beautiful, and my first reaction was 'oooh I wanna'.
But, as many in the coments also note, it has some major flaws. Like filtration, cleaning, airsurface (especially since there are betas and gouramis in there).
So my conclusion is that this thing can't function, however it does make me wonder, is the square/rectangle really the only option we have for a tank? Are there other interesting non traditional tanks that actually do 'work'?
And could this design be altered to meet the filtration, cleaning and oxygen demands?

Also, another piece of interesting aqua-architecture: http://www.aquatic-eden.com/2007/10/creating-waterfall-illusion-underwater.html

I have seen people with sand water falls. Or... sand falls? in their fish tank.

God that would be hard to clean! Think of the algae buildup! gonk

Meh, sounds much too spacy to me. And, I'm not too sure on this, don't fish need light to stay healthy too?
But if I would go for the set up you sugest Skittles I'd take blind cavefish and maybe some random albino species. I hope you don't mean painted fish when you mentioned glowy fish. That practice is just cruel.

I think those filters that go under the gravel may work, but that still leaves the problem of what you would do when you have a dead fish. Or worse, a sick fish, how would you catch it and quarentine it before it infects the others?

what i think would be a GREAT idea for that tank would be to do it saltwater with crabs snails and shrimp
clean up crew to well clean up any algae or dead animals and the biological filtration should be plenty to keep it from getting skuzzy :3

Frogs? They paint frogs now too!? crying
Gah, I don't get the whole painting thing, it's such and ugly and horrible practice. I feel an urge to smack every kid I see begging their parents for painted fish. I once scolded a kid in a petshop and ranted about how those fish got their 'magical colors' and the response was; 'so? It's just a fish'
grrr

aaaanyway.



You know, that's a brilliant idea! The structure does kind of remind of those coral tunnels. There are some really pretty 'nocturnal' reef fish too if I'm not mistaken, they could meet the standards the aquarium sets pretty well. Like basslets and cardinalfish.

Man, now I want to try to set up a tank like this crying

If corals aren't a good idea, how about sponges? I don't know but are they easier to care for? And need less light? And when keeping sponges, why not add Yellowline Gobies? I love those cute and shy critters.

Personally I prefer the Royal Gamma to the Blackcap. Maybe if the set up is made bigger the anthias can be kept? I'm pretty sure this is a custom made tank, so you can have your say in the measurement.
This all reminds me of a 'tank' I wanted when I was a kid. The main concept was that I would have large tanks in each room of the house, and that they'd all be connected. My childhood dream house was pretty much to live in an aquarium redface

Ah bleh, didn't know that. But it makes sense.
Hmm, I only ever encountered grammas around 50ft down at dropoffs when diving. So I never really picked them for shallow reef fish. Though amount of boats and jetski's might have driven them away from their original habitat. Then again, my perception of shallow may not be correct sweatdrop
I think you might be able to keep muliple in this set up, since the small tubes connecting the sections can act as a natural barrier. I immagine it'd be hard for one fish to dominate all the globes.

That sounds so nice ^^
Hope you guys can mannage to get a house like that. I wish you the best of luck ^^