Poll: Do you have an aquarium?

[ScubaTexan]

Jersey once bubbled...
Does PADI offer aquarium diving as a new specialty? I too did Epcot - what a blast! Lots-o-fun playing with the people on the outside. I will be diving the NJ State Aquarium to work out some photo equip.

As far as I know, no one offers aquarium diving as a specialty. This program I'm going into is with the Dallas Aquarium (not to be confused with the Dallas World Aquarium). I wish PADI would offer it as a specialty course.

 

[djhall]

ScubaTexan once bubbled...
I'm supposed to begin training before long in aquarium diving. It looks and sounds like a lot of fun.

Oh man, my tank is only 10 gallons. If I start posting about aquarium diving, you know I've gotten really desperate to dive!

 

[lanun]

55 gallon, 13 gallon, 10 gallon and one of those plastic tub thingies you bury in the backyard. the aquarium was good - it took my kids' eyeball off the tv a bit.

but then i sold all of it off and returned home to malaysia.

re:someone already spoke about captive breeding - for corals, shrimp and clams there's also commercial growing, including rocks (though they don't grow the rocks - soaked 'em in leased patches of ocean).

 

[Big-t-2538]

Where's the I don't have one, but want one option....

I just don't have the room right now, but when I finally get a house in a couple of months, I wast to get a 125 and make it a saltwater tank.....

I know it's a good bit of work, but I used to work at a local pet store that specialized in sea-life. Does that men I learned about the fish...no...it means I was the only one who could tear pumps apart, de-crust them, and get them running again. When I quit, they stopped offering pump repair services....

 

[IJS]

Big-t-2538 once bubbled...
Where's the I don't have one, but want one option....

I'm with you on this one. Except I want the one that I saw at the Rainforest Cafe recently... Its big enough for me to get in and dive in!

 

[Bomber]

450gal basic reef tank. You know, packed top to bottom with corals.

40gal fresh - livebearers

 

[JustAddWater]

I have a 50 gallon reef tank, and a 35 gallon African Cichlid tank. There is also a koi pond in the planning stage.

 

[scuba_katt]

although I desperately want one, its just not viable because I go away on research trips all the time.

I already have enough trouble convincing my housemate to feed my cat while I'm away, I think asking her to de-scum a tank would really be pushing the "housemate rules".

The other day I saw a "virtual" aquarium for about AU$45. It had water in it and the background was of a sea anemone and it had a few fake fish floating around that looked reasonably realistic. They moved about in the water, maybe by magnets, I'm not sure.

I was tempted, but decided to wait for the real thing!

 

[Amanda]

I don't own one and don't want to... I prefer to see the fishes out in the sea ! I have too much admiration to all the sea cratures to keep them locked up in an aquarium, no matter how big is it...

 

[Green Mountain]

I do have an aquarium with mechanical fish. Does that count?

It is easy to care for, all you have to do is change the batteries every once and a while.