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Green star polyps everywhere!To each his own but I would be making this a fish only with coral inserts. Understand that I HATE coral inserts but a live reef that big would be a monster to care for.
Any pictures?I have done an install similar in size to this.
There is a lot of maintenance involved with a system like this.
Start up cost is expensive; Expect to pay over 50k.
The wife and I purchased a home not too long ago which came with an inground indoor salt water pool. There is a glass window on the side so you can watch people dive in under water. My wife and I do not swim but she wants to convert it into a saltwater fish aquarium. Where can I buy reefs and stuff? Are there people that can be hired to set up aquariums? Are larger fish available to the public? I am a massive Marlin lover.
The op has an indoor poolI'll be very real with you, with the way most pools are designed (squared off corners, etc.), you'll be hard pressed to keep any of the BIG pelagic fish (tuna, billfish, sharks, etc.).
Water stuff: It's going to be expensive. Even using tap water will be complicated, and rain might bring in contaminants into the pool...hello algae blooms!
Heating/Cooling stuff: You're gonna get really dinged by the NorthEast's (Pittsburgh, PA?) hot hot summers, and frigging cold winters, so heaters and coolers would be a necessity. If you decided to do something like build a greenhouse on top of the pool in order to keep it heated better, that would be a good step to getting it to at least heat up nicely during the winter, although I remain unconvinced that the electrical bill for heating the pool would be worth it, unless you're running something like geothermal heating.
Water movement stuff: So corals need water movement. A (non-wave) pool isn't exactly great at moving large quantities of water around (anywhere from 10x the water volume upwards in most reef tanks nowadays). Your best bet is to use fake decorations throughout most of the pool, and then BLAST the viewing window area using submersible pumps if you want to grow coral. Although I maintain that you're better off just using fake decorations.
Fish stuff: hmm....24.3K gallons...have you considered stingray species? A shark (depending on how rounded off the pool's corners are) may work as well. There are also quite a number of large fish (lookdowns, atlantic spadefish, aforementioned Pomacanthus angelfish, etc.) that will look nice. There are vendors for the larger fish species, but most of the time, people will figure out what they want to buy, do the research for the care requirements, and find the fish that way. You'll also have to keep in mind the sheer feeding costs of feeding those fish as well.
Life Support System stuff: Yeah. With a fish only setup, it's manageable, since you can do stuff like hang baskets of macroalgae into the pool, do large water changes, etc. They do sell very large protein skimmers (and have fun cleaning them!). But corals are a complete game changer....you'd either be okay, since it would be such a large volume and water changes would be able to sustain the coral population...OR, you'd be screwed over and spend way too much money on dosing reagents + equipment.
Well that’s an oop on my endThe op has an indoor pool
It is 5 below zero outside right now. Indoor heated pool is always at 84. It costs less to heat it than my house. I think cooling it would be a much bigger issue. We also spend more money heating the water for the laundry. And we have a hot tub at 103. Two separate heaters.
It kept a few of us entertained both myself and forum members during a global pandemic. Not the worst thing someone could do.Well that's not a very nice thing to do...
If you got a chiller you could do penguins.
The wife and I purchased a home not too long ago which came with an inground indoor salt water pool. There is a glass window on the side so you can watch people dive in under water. My wife and I do not swim but she wants to convert it into a saltwater fish aquarium. Where can I buy reefs and stuff? Are there people that can be hired to set up aquariums? Are larger fish available to the public? I am a massive Marlin lover.