Ridiculous fish tanks

[Deltad]

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15 ridiculous fish tanks

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We like innovation in aquarium design, but they must always put the needs of the fish first. Here are some which definitely don't!
This one will bring you to tears (above)
I guess you'd class this one as art, but no doubt those goldfish will be pretty upset about it.

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Bright idea
A goldfish bowl designed to look like a light bulb. From an artistic point of view it has merit, but as a container to hold live fish it gets a big fat zero.

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The birds will like this one!
Quite a few people have tried this aviary/aquarium mix, but for the birds in the middle life looks pretty rubbish.

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Wash your hands of this one…
Sinks, toilets – they're far better off for their original intended uses, not as aquariums. No idea how you clean this one...?

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Arty farty
Can't see any point in this one. An aquarium builder seems to have gone a bit OTT and the result, an impractical tank and a bewildered goldfish.

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Waste of space
Minimalist, and not an aquarium. Its a blown piece of glass, on a stand, with a Siamese fighter in it. Poor old fighter.

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Bra-vo
Not a fish tank as such, but then none of them are really. A bikini top made out of bags containing live goldfish.

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Handbags at the ready
Want to look cool in the far east - carry this acrylic goldfish bowl around wherever you go…and abuse an animal in the process.

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Space age
A load of spherical bowls linked up to make one super structure, a bit like a fishy Rotastack. Wouldn't want to clean the lower ones.

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Ring a ding ding
It's a phone booth, with fish in it. At least it has plenty of water volume, but give us a 6 x 2 x 2' the right way up, any day.

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Fish TV
This fishy television seems quite clever, and as long as the tank is filtered, stocked and maintained in the proper way, there's not much that is wrong with it. Might make visitors look twice too.

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Return of the mac
On the same vein as the TV, there have been a whole host of Apple Mac conversions over the years. Here's one.
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Fish highway
We can't really see the point in this one. The fish is offered a bit more swimming room, and the onlooker a strange spectacle, but again, stick those cichlids in a standard six footer and they would be much happier. Wouldn't want to clean this one either.

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Attack of the clones
This Star Wars R2D2 "toy" appears also to be a fish tank, though we suspect that the fish and plants have been photoshopped in. Way too small for goldfish and no substitute for a proper aquarium.
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Fashion disaster
For the fish, anyway. We couldn't fail to mention the dreadful live fish and turtle keyrings (http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=3791) which are so popular in China.

[angel510]

that fish highway is pretty bad a$$

[biggin]

I like the phone booth idea... that is kind of cool.

[Gumbie]

Looks to me like the Bra-vo photo is just someone that won some goldfish at the fair and was too lazy to carry them.

The Handbag photo is a happy guy that decided his goldfish needed some outdoor time. If a dog is a chick magnet, I wonder what a fish would attract.

I like the Space age set up. Sign me up.

I’ve actually seen someone turn their old tv console into a fish tank...they were happy with it. It even swiveled.

The Fish highway could also double as a cat exercise highway.

I’m surprised you didn’t have the photo of the guy who turned his car into an aquarium.

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[robert1]

I like the space age one. Looks like it would be a huge footprint

[dbjasmin]

There are some creative people out there but just think how hard those are to clean and maintain!

[satyra]

Wow some of those are crazy, i really like the space age one though, the fish can go visit their buddies in the next little ball over haha. THey all look like a nightmare to clean though :eek:

[NursePlaty]

i like the space age and sink one.

[KingBichir]

i really like the space age one and would love to have a tv/aquarium

[Minnow]

The phone booth and the fish highway are neat.

[NDSE]

When i was an undergraduate, we had access to several large, clean glass reaction vessels. A friend of mine took one such 50L flask similar to this:

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and built a community aquarium out of it.

[Squirrel]

I have to say that the toilet tank always makes me laugh. I would like to have a mock bathroom in my house so people walk in and have to think about what's going on. :hehe:

[JaneG]

Am I the only one that thinks some of these seem cruel to the fish? :confused:

[alta678]

Am I the only one that thinks some of these seem cruel to the fish? :confused:

Nope, not at all. A lot of us do.