I've been wanting to set up a small, 5 gallon, shrimp tank. I already have 8 tanks (I'll have 10 in about a month, not including the shrimp tank), and I'm running out of space for tanks in my small house. I was thinking about putting the tank on top of my piano. We recently painted the piano. I'm worried if I set the tank on the top, when I remove the tank, it will leave a ring where it was sitting. I'm also worried it might leak on the piano and ruin it. Has anyone had tanks on pianos before? Did you have any trouble?
Dan M2010-06-06T22:47:07Z
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Maybe a more creative but less disastrous place than a piano for another tank is needed. When my son was little he wanted his own fish room, so I build sturdy shelves in a walk-in closet which was then a step-in closet with a triple tier stand on one end and a quadruple tier stand for smaller tanks on the other. so you could get 16 tanks on the right side and 15 on the left. I visited a killifish keeper in Arizona who had a very tall wall in his house. He built shelves all the way up and had one of those ladders that you see in old libraries that slides along a track.
I only have 16 tanks now, the largest only a 150 gallon, way down from over a hundred tanks filling a forty by fourteen foot fish room with my largest tank a 540. but with planning to move, it seemed like a good idea to scale down. Oh I almost forgot. 18 tanks... set up two more this afternoon to house some clown killifish that needed more room.
I have had tanks leak, filters run backwards, and missed a tank with some of the new water I was pouring in, so even if you went to Home Depot and bought a cement mixing tub to set the new tank inside on top of the piano, something could still happen. And if the piano is played, the sound and vibration could affect the tank inhabitants badly.What about under the piano? What about inside a cabinet? My son had tanks and terrariums inside drawers in his dressers.
I have also seen people insulate a small tool shed you would think not much larger than needed for a lawn mower, and then using special tanks with thick glass, stack the tanks (without any stands!) on top of each other in brick wall fashion with gaps between the upper tanks so you could access the tanks under them. It's all outside and you have to duck in in cold weather since there is hardly room for a coat and no need for one inside the "fish house". Another guy used to convert old TV's into aquariums. Some of the old style public aquariums in Eastern Europe when there was still an Iron Curtain, had sturdy brackets on the walls that held aquariums. But accidentally converting your piano into a wet/dry filter for your aquarium sounds a bit beyond the call.
yes. fish are one of the natural predators of the piano. as soon as night falls the fish will jump out of the aquarium and try to kill the piano. the fish and the piano must be kept at least five hundred feet away from each other at all times. the piano will also pull out it's cell phone during the day and call it's piano friends for nighttime backup and assistance. by morning there will be dead fish and water and broken piano bits everywhere. i don not recommend putting the two in the same house.
My cousin has her hermit crabs on her old piano (for some bizarre reason not relating to space?)... anyways, I would think if you put a clean towel underneath it that matched and was thick (not a cheap old one) it should be alright. I have my fish tank in my room on a bookcase and I have to use a towel so I won't wreck the finishing.
Second thought, I'm not to sure how the shrimp will take to the noise and vibrations when you're playing...?