"Tanked" aquarium reality show!

[Shawn84]

You can watch it at
letmewatchthis.com

[Malyon18]

I am pretty sure it starts on animal planet tomorrow night at like 7 or 8 if you get animal planet

[percula99]

Well if anyone is interested this show it is now airing on Animal Planet, Mondays at 8PM with reruns all week. I could not beleive what these guys did this week. They set up an 1100 gallon tank in a Las Vegas casino with warm water right out of the tap. They noticed the temp was 92F and dumped tonnes of ice in to cool it down, while they have 21 boxes of fish waiting to go in. All of a sudden they say they got the temp, Ph and salt OK and dumped all those fish in. I must be doing this all wrong because apparently cycling a tank doesn't matter. Supposedly they are doing this for entertainment value and not information value. I would hate to come back in a day or two and see how many of those fish were still alive.

[Hookup]

oh my... that is different.

[JetJumper]

I believe there was only 6 episodes (watched them all) and yes its mostly for entertainment and no follow up/maintenance routines.  Thats probably why there has not been a renewal yet.  (I think)

[bt]

The 2nd season got green-lit a few weeks ago.

I get that it's about entertainment.  I just wish they'd do a disclaimer or info-drop before/after commercials.

[Medym]

Well if anyone is interested this show it is now airing on Animal Planet, Mondays at 8PM with reruns all week. I could not beleive what these guys did this week. They set up an 1100 gallon tank in a Las Vegas casino with warm water right out of the tap. They noticed the temp was 92F and dumped tonnes of ice in to cool it down, while they have 21 boxes of fish waiting to go in. All of a sudden they say they got the temp, Ph and salt OK and dumped all those fish in. I must be doing this all wrong because apparently cycling a tank doesn't matter. Supposedly they are doing this for entertainment value and not information value. I would hate to come back in a day or two and see how many of those fish were still alive.

I saw Tanked was on Animal Planet and I was pretty excited.  I ended up watching it at 1 am because I thought it would be a cool show.  When I saw them dumping ice into a tank followed by the fish I was stunned.  I can see there is more entertainment then education in this show. 

The other tank they did in the episode was a "phone booth aquarium" which was a massive upright column aquarium which is essentially a tank, a bubbler and thats it.  They dumped in a huge amount of fish with no consideration for hiding spaces for the fish in there.  It was water and fish, thats it.  It over simplifies the hobby and could easily mislead people who are interested in starting tanks.

I don't plan on watching it again; I swear I found myself yelling once; NOOOOO YOU DIDNT CYCLE!

[Hookup]

well, if they are doing temporary "art" installations it's different than setting up long-term tanks...

Still, ice+fish = scratching my head... lol

[percula99]

A discalimer would be nice. "Please do not attempt this at home, leave it to the knuckleheads...er...professionals."

They are art tanks, but not intended to be temporary. They are set up in casinos, professional establishments and millionaire homes. They must have signed maintenance contracts, all the owner does is feed and they do the rest. So far no actual reef tanks have been shown.

Can you imagine $30K for a QT system? And they screwed up the build and the installation, and probably still made a killing. And then they dumped tonnes of fish in there without cycling.

[Cheebs]

And they probably tell the new owners that "some die off is normal in the beginning" And profit some more when they have to replace half the fish

[Medym]

I am pretty sure they dumped in about 12+ medium sized yellow tangs into the one tank.  That adds up fast!

[JetJumper]

A discalimer would be nice. "Please do not attempt this at home, leave it to the knuckleheads...er...professionals."

They are art tanks, but not intended to be temporary. They are set up in casinos, professional establishments and millionaire homes. They must have signed maintenance contracts, all the owner does is feed and they do the rest. So far no actual reef tanks have been shown.

Can you imagine $30K for a QT system? And they screwed up the build and the installation, and probably still made a killing. And then they dumped tonnes of fish in there without cycling.

There is an episode with a reef tank.  And there is another system with a $30K QT system.  I can't remember which episodes though

[bt]

They could also do behind the scenes webisodes.  "Want to see the work that goes on behind the scenes?  Go to (website) and click on videos."  I'm sure there's a lot of the less entertaining steps that get caught on camera and then left on the cutting room floor.

[Hookup]

They could also do behind the scenes webisodes.  "Want to see the work that goes on behind the scenes?  Go to (website) and click on videos."  I'm sure there's a lot of the less entertaining steps that get caught on camera and then left on the cutting room floor.

very good idea here... infact, a good start-up company idea would be to offer up a "free" serivce to tv shows where you go in with a small crew and film the behind the scenes stuff and pre it for posting on a web-site.. then charge the company x$/hit/view of the stuff...

sorry.. business mind always going trying to make a buck.