Originally Posted by AW2x3
I've been reading thru this and havent said anything...just been reading.
I dont want to be the "negative person" here, but is anyone else kind of skeptical about this?
The Shedd Aquarium, in Chicago, just recently installed a 400,000gal. shark exhibit (Wild Reef) and I was privy to be apart of moving in the sharks, groupers, and other fish as well as regularly diving that tank for cleaning, feedings and moving animals. Have you ever seen people trying to move a 10' Sand Bar Shark or a 400lb Grouper? You're gonna have to have a vetrinatian almost on 24 hour call, for animals once you start talking about keeping large species sharks. How much do you think it's gonna cost to have a small team of vets come out and treat one your large sharks?
Someone asked about acrylic thickness and Ophiura pointed out 4" - 6". Have you priced 4" - 6" cast cell acrylic, in the size you're needing? I'd bet money you're not gonna find it for less than $75,000 - $100,000. Even if you know a guy, who knows a guy, who knows a guy...you may be lucky to find it for $50,000.
At even half of that tank size, you're looking at MILLIONS of dollars...not hundreds of thousands...not 3/4 of a million...but multiple millions of dollars. That's just for the tank building and the initial set up costs. On top of that, you're also going to be looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars, PER YEAR, just to maintain this system (if not more).
You and your family might have come into quite a substantial amount of money, but I dont think you're looking at/thinking about long term setup, of this system. Think of the thousands of dollars, per month, it's going to cost for maintainance...AND food. I'm not even going to get into the electric bill, etc.
Again...not trying to be rude or a downer, but I just think there's no possible way for this to ever get off the ground, once you start looking at complete costs.
yes i know have have thought about all of this many a time and have come to the conclusion that i can keep it going unless me or wife losses our job which is very very unlikely. IM not worried about the cost of the tank cause ive already paid for it and its due for delivery at our house Jan5 2007 ive ordered all the concrete structures that im going to cover in lr and have sent out a request for me to get lr straight out of the water and get it back to the house and in reality i wont need that much of it even though its a large tank. As for electricity the roof will be covered in solar panels and im trying to find a spot where i could possibly put a whole feild of them and have it go to the electric company and in return they would take money off the bill according to how much power i gave them that month or whatever but so far i cant find a field for sale that is in the middle of the desert where i could put them but then again i havent looked too hard just been to a few places and asked....Also when u buy in bulk they give u quite a good dicount and also im thinking of doing school tour or something to educate people about sharks and to make alittle $$$ but not much lol. If i did that too it they would give me a discount also but i need to check with the zoning laws etc to see if i can do that or not.
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Good luck with it...... and get me one of these great aero jobs, so i can get my own shart tank someday
lol did you go into the comertial aircraft field or the military aircraft? If you went into the military work on getting the highest security clearence and then go shopping around for jobs and see who will pay you the most because after you get ur top security clearence there are alot more high paying jobs available and also i believe it costs something like $2000 for each level of clearence so if you get that at one company then the other doesnt have to pay for it except the, annual fee,and it makes them happy that they dont have to spend all that money to get you to where they want u to be. If you went into more of the comercial/freight airlines field then i cant really help you much lol.
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