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From: jla@inuxd.UUCP (Joyce Andrews)
Newsgroups: rec.pets,alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Marine Equiptment
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Date: 13 Jan 88 13:17:17 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Consumer Products, Indianapolis
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> local pet store.  It has sections on fresh and salt aquariums, as well as 
> artificial ponds(!) and biofilters for same.  Would you believe that one guy 
> was asking for advice on building a 10'x4'x4' salt water aquarium?  That's
> five TONS of water!  Hope he lives in the basement ... 'cause he will once
> he fills that tank.

I'm thinking of such a tank...but I want to build it as a wall.
The Florida room on the first floor (the house is on a slab and
the slab is on coral limestone) would be a great place for a
whole-wall aqaurium.  Since I am only a few feet from clean sea
water, I would just keep a fresh supply of ocean pumping in and
the old stuff pumping out, so I wouldn't have to worry much about
biofilters and such, I don't think.  I sure would be in trouble
if the pump went out, though.  

How big do you all think it could be?  At what point is the glass
going to have to be too thick?  I have such a wonderful choice of
specimens, although I rarely keep anything for a really long time
because I like to return them to the reef and get new varieties.
But a really big tank would allow me to have a baby nurse shark
and a 12-inch ray and BIG moray eels as well as young specimens
of the beautiful grouper family.  I saw a Nassau grouper the other
day (in someone's tank) that was about 5 inches long.  It is
striped (in a mottled sort of a way) yellow and brownish-black,
and it looks like velvet.  A really attractive fish. 

Maybe I should just build myself a commercial aquarium as another
tourist attraction?

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	Joyce Andrews King                      
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	AT&T, Indianapolis