You have $200,000 to build you dream tank, what do you build

[Rich the Newb]

Since everyone is having fun discussing building a 300,000 tank that most if not all of us cannot afford I figure it would be fun to discuss what you would build with a budget of $200,000 (I figure most educated people could pull that off as a lifetime goal). So get started, tell me what you would do. What dimensions, what shape, where would you put it, hardware, fish, etc.

[rmendis]

With $200K, I'd buy some nice beachfront property and go scubadiving whenever I felt like it. My reef tank would be the reef itself.

[KenT]

$150.000 addition to my house, "the fish room". A 12'x48"x 36" tank with all the best equipment. All corals would be from frags, and all aquacultured rock.

[SPS Reef]

I would make an indoor swimming Pool into a Reef so you can dive with your own fish and corals.

[MiddletonMark]

Yep, either an estate and a nice boat in the South Pacific [no tank, just dive to see stuff].

Or else build a greenhouse out back with a coral propagation setup there. Grow a lot of softies, RBTA's, SPS to a lesser extent ... and quit my job. Eventually have a `show tank' in my house - but frankly a lot of growout tanks would mean I can put my arm in more often ;)

[Zacrifice]

I would take a swimming pool, convert it into a reef and place a walk down area on one side that would allow you to view it from the side through glass..

I would use Natural sun light with supplimental at night when I want to view the tank (when the moons not out) filtration would be a very very large skimmer and minimal sand on the bottom (just for looks) I would have LR reaching to the top of the tank/pool with loads of fish, inverts, corals and all that

Other equipment would consist of a calium reactor and auto top off unit plus pumps for circulation I would also have thee 1100L storage tanks for water changes and maybe if I felt the need Ozone for the skimmer

I think that would essentually be it....

[kanankeban]

I will spend $170,000 for diving trips, let say about 17 two per year, that's 8 1/2 years of diving trips to beautifull diving resorts all over the world..the rest, $30K I'll spend it in a 500-1000G DIY tank...
Regards...
Hector

[Rich the Newb]

I think I would have a tank floor to ceiling on the first floor with an open top that is accessible from the second floor. Basically at floor level have open water on the second floor. Gotta keep the cats out of that room though.

[Agent Powder Tang]

I'd open a fish store and just live there. :lol:

[jdieck]

A Ferrari?

[[G]h0S'][']

i like your style, kanankeban :D

[kanankeban]

Originally posted by [G]h0S']['
i like your style, kanankeban :D
that's what life is for, no? sea & sun :D

[ez1ez]

I would build a solarium/breakfast room and have an L shaped tank along 2 walls. 22'L x 30"H x 24"W. This way I can reach everything and when I finish off the 200,000.00 I can still afford to maintain it. of course it will have the proper lighting for the cloudy days, skimmer, calcium reactor, pumps....

[RicksReefs]

basement chill room with an acrylic wall, looking into
the outdoor pool/reef. i could pull off everything
except the acrylic for under 50K. think i can get
a piece 9'x20'x12" acrylic for under 100K?
( i'll need 50K for stocking dive trips) :D :bum:

[alguy344]

I would put all that money into a sweet 10 gallon nano tank:) LOL

[Rich the Newb]

Originally posted by alguy344
I would put all that money into a sweet 10 gallon nano tank:) LOL
Would this tank be made of platinum and encrusted with diamonds?:D

[jjmg]

Since I refuse to add it up, I may have already spent 200,000 on my 56 gal! The wife seems to think I have.

[ensley]

With $200K, I'd buy some nice beachfront property and go scubadiving whenever I felt like it. My reef tank would be the reef itself.

Here in NC 200K will get you a view of the guy who has a view of beach front property.

I would need my own substation for the MH lighting demands. The skimmer would have a walkin access for cleaning. And you could dive in it.

[DgenR8]

200K wouldn't be enough for me, but it's a heck of a good start!

[hubris007]

I think i'd go with a bigger version of my current 90G SMOWLR. (Sea monkeys only with live rock)

[MiddletonMark]

Originally posted by ensley
Here in NC 200K will get you a view of the guy who has a view of beach front property.


Yep, but not great diving in NC. In Fiji or the Marshall Islands ... I bet I could get something decent, with a dock, for $200K.
No redneck riviera for me :)

[tyler]

200k

lets see, grad school in marine biology somewhere after i finish here, go be a prof somewhere after that's all said and done, spend most of the rest on a house with a big (~1000g) diy tank in the basement.

none of this "the ocean is my dream tank" nonsense for me.

[uryy4me]

I'd go for a nice little aquaculture farm in the South Pacific :D

[ensley]

Redneck Riveara,
You have no idea how true that is....

[Shoestring Reefer]

Originally posted by ensley

I would need my own substation for the MH lighting demands. The skimmer would have a walkin access for cleaning. And you could dive in it.
Who would want to dive in their skimmer? J/K

Originally posted by hubris007
I think i'd go with a bigger version of my current 90G SMOWLR. (Sea monkeys only with live rock)
Mine's been a 55G SMOWLR since June.

My dream tank: in the basement, say a 20' X 40' house, have a 20' X 25' room with a continuous tank running along all 4 sides, with the other 15' X 20" portion for equipment and houshold stuff (furnace, hot water htr., ect.) I think that might actually be doable someday.

But all the talk about additions, solariums, etc has me thinking: do the same thing in a solarium to use nat. sunlight (I'd maby still need lighting this far North) and have the entrance to the room either up from the basement, or down from the second floor-no room for a door on the wall with the tank on all 4 sides. Have one or two sections for reef, and as close to infinant swimming distance for tangs as a tank can get :)