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Would it ever be possible to have a deep sea home aquarium? Is it too unfeasible?
 
You'd have to pressurize the tank. Or de-pressurize the fish. Would be cool though.
 
You want a fish that needs to be at immense pressure, and will die if not kept in near-total darkness?
 
"Deep sea" aquarium fish are usually only collected from the top 200 meters of the ocean. Even then, the odds of survival are low. Stress from collecting, stress in the shipping, acclimating to captive care, etc.
Deep sea fish like you posted would be boring anyways. Most animals deep sea animals are ambush predators and don't spend much time swimming.

If you want an odd ball aquarium, there's tons of easily obtainable options out there.
 
TS isn't a real Sherdogger, even my PA has a deep sea tank in her office at the hedge fund I manage.

I like to keep things more low key with the great white ceiling tank........
 
Saltwater tanks are a pain in the ass to upkeep. Have a friend who has I want to say 60 gallon tank. He had to spend a lot of time messing with the water, filters, etc. It looked really cool with all the fish and anomone creatures but so much work.
 
sverre054 said:
You want a fish that needs to be at immense pressure, and will die if not kept in near-total darkness?
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If you got some of those ones that do the crazy lightshows though you don't need lights to appreciate them.
 
ripsta619 said:
Saltwater tanks are a pain in the ass to upkeep. Have a friend who has I want to say 60 gallon tank. He had to spend a lot of time messing with the water, filters, etc. It looked really cool with all the fish and anomone creatures but so much work.
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Saltwater isn’t as bad as people think. The science and equipment have come a long ways in the past 5 years.
Make your ro/di water, mix the salt, and do your water changes. Clean your skimmer filter. And daily dose your supplements if needed.
It’s less than 2 hours a week of work and that’s for an intermediate, LPS, level corals.
A heavily planted freshwater tank takes way more time.
 
jefferz said:
Saltwater isn’t as bad as people think. The science and equipment have come a long ways in the past 5 years.
Make your ro/di water, mix the salt, and do your water changes. Clean your skimmer filter. And daily dose your supplements if needed.
It’s less than 2 hours a week of work and that’s for an intermediate, LPS, level corals.
A heavily planted freshwater tank takes way more time.
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Last time I hung out with my friend was a about 10 years ago so that's probably why I remember it being so time consuming. I don't know what ro/di is unfortunately. But it sounds like you make your own saltwater which is pretty cool. He would just get the saltwater from the beach from station you pump it from.

Could have also looked like a lot of work since it wasn't my hobby it was his so just spent more time because it was enjoyable for him. Not going to lie though it was gorgeous. He didn't too many fish and nothing fancy in that regard but the coral and coral like things were very colorful and trippy looking. I remember being on shrooms and got stuck staring at the aquarium for like an hour lol.
 
ripsta619 said:
Last time I hung out with my friend was a about 10 years ago so that's probably why I remember it being so time consuming. I don't know what ro/di is unfortunately. But it sounds like you make your own saltwater which is pretty cool. He would just get the saltwater from the beach from station you pump it from.

Could have also looked like a lot of work since it wasn't my hobby it was his so just spent more time because it was enjoyable for him. Not going to lie though it was gorgeous. He didn't too many fish and nothing fancy in that regard but the coral and coral like things were very colorful and trippy looking. I remember being on shrooms and got stuck staring at the aquarium for like an hour lol.
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Yeah things have changed a lot since then. I live in the midwest and used to breed Darwin clown fish. You buy specifically designed salt and mix it with water. The salt mix adds the right amount of calcium, buffers the ph, makes the water the right salinity, etc.
RO/DI is a Reverse Osmosis unit just like you use for drinking water in your house but it has an additional filter, de-ionizer, on it to remove impurities in the water and make it as pure as possible.
You can chase the dragon trying to make the water perfect with but that causes more harm than good. Slow and steady wins the race when it comes to SW tanks.

 
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