A not at all exhaustive collection of cool bizarro aquariums.
Modular fish tank
Toilet tank. Kind of like fish purgatory.
The Fish-Bird Tank-Cage
many more below the fold...
Sink tank
The sophisticated ichthyologist's sitting room
A concept piece by a Japanese architectural firm
More of the above
This robotic fish tank senses which direction the fish is swimming and drives off in that direction. Could prove extremely useful in absolutely no circumstances.
In this Korean tank, the pump and aerator are powered via USB. Additionally, temperature is controlled via software on your computer and a video feed of your fish doing their thing is streamed on your monitor.
Turning your expensive Mac into a home for $.50 goldfish is a very popular hobby. See more below.
Mac Classic Tank
Insertz nauseating LOLZ here.
PC Tank - Hard to clean, impossible to customize and frequently crashes killing all fish and requiring you to buy new ones OR insert your own mildly-clever Windows joke here. Many more computer tanks here and here.
At first I was going to call this fish hell... but if they are schooling fish, maybe this is like constant bliss.
Car tank at the London Aquarium
Multi-level fish tank
CD player fish tank
A quick hat tip to Cephalopodcast you apparently did something like this a year ago.
Technology
Comments
Posted by: Tegumai Bopsulai, FCD | June 28, 2008 11:08 AM
I always thought it would be fun to make a koi pond coffee table out of a bathtub. Seal the bathtub and have a very solid glass coffee table top raised a few inches over the top of the tub. Fill the tub with gravel, plants, water, and add koi. Alternatively, have two glass coffee table tops with a gap in the middle, so you can brush crumbs off the coffee table and into the aquarium.
Posted by: bicycle Hussein paladin | June 28, 2008 8:44 PM
For the cruelty-inclined, I would suggest a fishtank made from a giant blender.
Anyway, excelllent photos but the zooilogix layout is now a complete mess in IE, rpobably because of the pasted pics.
Posted by: milkshake | June 28, 2008 8:58 PM
I feel rather sorry for a lot of those fish. Goldfish tend to be sensitive to noise (actually, most fish are) -- the ones which are subject to bangs and thumps as people put things down on top of them or what have you tend to live a lot shorter time than ones in quiet tanks. Their hearts give out.
And yes, when they are properly cared for, goldfish live quite a long time; there are two in this neighbourhood which are 40 years+ (ordinary tank-dwellers, not koi in a pond), and mine are about 10.
Posted by: Luna_the_cat | June 29, 2008 11:38 AM
What kind of tank do they keep you in, Andrew?
Posted by: Size | June 29, 2008 12:19 PM
Sweden just passed legislation requiring all fish tanks to have a solid back. Clear walls on all sides leads to additional stress.
Also, I'd be careful what animals we give vehicular capabilities to. I don't want to wake up one morning to find an army of mobile goldfish burning down the Stop and Shop.
Posted by: Jives | June 30, 2008 4:28 PM
....The Fish-Bird Tank-Cage...
also known as "the kitty's dilemma"
Posted by: neural | June 30, 2008 6:15 PM
I know this was all light hearted stuff but unfortunately cool looking tanks are always the cruelest as well. I got so angry watching these tanks and thinking how naive and ignorant the people who made them are. They should be made to live in similar conditions. Arrgghh. Preferable with water and no SCUBA. All i can say is GO SWEDEN!!!! Yes sorry for been a kill joy.
Posted by: Daniel | July 4, 2008 4:27 PM
[1] im in ur akwereumz bein a katfish.
[2] teh akwariumz iz a lie.
[3] tankz 4 nuffingks.
:-P
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Posted by: Ankara Nakliyat | July 21, 2008 10:41 AM
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Posted by: Ankara evden eve nakliyat | July 21, 2008 10:42 AM
really cool fish tank deisghs i love the toliet fish tank and the sink one that looks pretty when you wash your hands also cool bird and fish one nice!! I always loved unique fish tanks, fish always look are gorgeous swimming in the water!!!
Posted by: christina | September 9, 2008 8:47 PM
dude your fish tanks are the best I have ever seen
Posted by: vanilla coke | September 14, 2008 4:16 PM
I am amazed by these tanks! They aren't all cruel. The first one looks quite serene, like living in a molecule. The video of the multilayer fish tank is especially incredible. By the laws of physics that water should not stay up there, they must have it pressurized? I am really curious to know how it is done!
Posted by: mary | September 16, 2008 1:44 AM
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i love the fish tank sink and the like everything that happend to this website :)
Posted by: jimmy | September 21, 2008 1:52 AM
Mary - the multi-level tank doesn't defy physics or need to be pressurised. Next time you're washing up, put a glass under the water. Turn it up on its end (open end downwards) and lift it out of the water, bottom first. The water will stay in the glass (until the bottom of the glass leaves the top of the water in the sink). It works up to about 10 metres - then the weight of the water becomes too much to hold it there.
Brilliant idea for a tank. Absolutely no idea how you'd clean it though.
Posted by: Mark | September 21, 2008 5:30 PM
Sadly most of the above images are little more than gimmicks, whereby the fish are treated as ornaments rather than living creatures.
Please visit the London Aquarium, and you'll realise that the most serene tanks of all are the one's designed around the fishes natural habitat, not superficial plastic things.
Posted by: Fish | September 28, 2008 12:53 PM