Adam's Nano Challenge 2

Edited by soundsurfer - February 13 2008 at 9:44pm

Holdencraft 33 wrote: "COOL POOL"   Keeping it at 50-55 degrees would be the challenge.

If you put the electricity you normally use for lighting and heating towards a chiller, it not too bad... or expensive.

Here's some for you (like you haven't heard enough from me )

 

1. Round tank mounted in one of those old school diving outfits. Maybe displayed from the ceiling via some clear lines.

2. Lantern.  Mount nano high on wall as to serve as a water filled lantern.

3. Habit trail. Think about when you had hamsters and had the cool set up with the five cages connected with tunnels....replace cages with nanos, colorful tubes with clear acrylic, and replace hamsters with a bunch of schooling damsels.

4.  Mount several nanos in one wall.

5.  Build a treasure chest around the nano.  Maybe add a pirate skull or two.

6. Make it into a cookie jar with chocolate chip starfish.

7. Fire extinguisher.  Fire gobies a must. 

8.  A “jewelry box: of pearls and such with one of those cute crabs that cover themselves in pebbles.

9. A seahorse tank with tiny coral corrals appropriately named the “water mustang ranch”

10.  An artist pallet.  Intricately placed splashed of colored coral to replicate an artists pallet.  The right rocks are a must.

11. A tank full of yellow fish and yellow corals.  Great for depressing snowy days.

12.  Black sand with fire gobies…great contrast!

13. A circus tank with clown fish.

14. 70’s disco tank with a disco ball incorporated somewhere.

15. 80’s tank: anything colorful and obnoxious.

16. 90’s: black sand with a lionfish.  Dark and punk.

17.  Figure out someway to use huge magnets to center the tank in the middle of the room so it floats.

18. Cuttlefish tank with different areas to mimic.

19. Make it into a computer case, then my husband and I can finally agree on something.

20. That is it I am tired.

 

Camille

 

Edited by mermaidcamille - February 13 2008 at 11:09pm

WOW Camille, I wish I had 1/4 of your creativity.  Great ideas.

Do any of you have any idea how long it is going to take me to write all these down and compile a straight list?

I want to take the tv and put it behind the Nano so you can watch your fish and tv at the same time you would just have to match the size of the tank to the screen then your fish would have something to watch too.

Edited by bannshy - February 15 2008 at 12:36am

I like the thought of a shallow reef nano with a small octipus... an Austrailian Blue Spot would be awesome(the cuttlefish would be pretty cool too). With course crushed coral, a small cave or even just a tin can to replicate an area close the the shore or pier. Perhaps a small clump of turtle grass and, of course, a nylon screen top with a way to lock it... I would want to provide light for the grass. It should be quite easy to feed it with feeder shrimp or donated tank pests/hitchhikers. I've always wanted a tank like that.

How about a "Nightstand Nano"?  Integrate a clock/radio/cd player/ipod player into the hood.  Have the time on the front of the canopy or better yet, project it onto the front or back of the tank.  The back could be an lcd display so you could have different backdrops to match the fish/time of day.  Like the "fish" screen savers for computers.  You could vacation in Cancun, dive the barrier reef, the Palancar in Cozumel, kelp forests of California.  What could be more relaxing at night or more pleasant to wake to than your own vacation with real fish and coral!  It could also double as an Ipod video player or maybe even a dvd.