Aquarium on a boat

[jimi]

There is nothing I like better than to relax back in a plush chair and dreamily watch tropical fish darting about in an aquarium. Has anyone installed one in a yacht and if so do the fish suffer mal de mer when the vessel is underway?

 

[sarabande]

Yes, they're fine, but don't practice the pipes in the same room....

 

[Kilter]

You can get lots of fish in your boat for free! All you have to do is sink it and wait! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[jimi]

Listen guys, I ask a serious question and you treat it flipperly erm I mean flippantly .. will the friggin fish get seasick as I bowl merrily along?

 

[Kilter]

Oooooooooooooooooooh! Pardon me! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Well if you want serious have you even considered the drain on the batteries of keeping the said finny ones in the tropical heat they need in order to remain right way up? Well have you? Bet you haven't. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[longjohnsilver]

No they won't. Have kept mackerel in a large tub and they were quite happy until I cooked them. Same with scallops, lobsters and crabs, all fine but get a bit hot under the collar when cooked.

 

[Kilter]

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No they won't. all fine but get a bit hot under the collar when cooked.

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Which is very unreasonable of them because that is what they are there for in the first place (or plaice, as it's Jimi's thread!)!

 

[ParaHandy]

if an inferior recaptcle is acceptable, sardines are ok .... they're a bit shy, though, hence the tin

 

[jimi]

I have ..I'll run ducting from the eberspacher through the tank.

 

[Kilter]

Bound to leak where you run it through the glass. You could always ask on pbo about the best way to do it, i suppose.

Thread drift...why is you avatar a rounders ball?

 

[Porthandbuoy]

A compromise springs to mind: how about a glass bottomed boat?

 

[Danny Jo]

You could even make the fish work for their keep. Instal two aquaria, one on each side of the saloon, as ballast tanks. It requires a fairly sophisticated device to persuade the fish and the water to migrate to the windward tank, of course, but that could be designed to add to the aesthetic appeal.

Mark

 

[sarabande]

Or, if you install a long glass tube below the waterline with an inlet at the bow and an outlet at the stern, you could get propulsion for free.

Plus bow fish thruster and a stern fish thruster - all very ecumenical and environmental.

"Sorry, dear, shan't be back for a day or two; just got to feed the fish and exercise them...."

 

[copterdoctor]

What dose fish puke look like? How could we tell if they are sea sick or just have a bug?

 

[Helina]

Then you ought to teach the fish to eat carrots so you could tempt them to swim and make the water run. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[Kilter]

and you could tell if they puked!

 

[Lakesailor]

Don't dice them first as you wouldn't know if they'd puked or just not eaten them.

 

[jimi]

If you put carrot fish in with a shark, would that be dicing with death?

 

[Kilter]

If you put a vacuum cleaner in an aquarium would it be Dyson with death?

 

[brianrunyard]

No, but they might get sloshed!!!