Motor Home Aquarium - Any RVers live in and have experiences?

[Autumnsky]

Not now, but in a couple years, I am planning on being on the road for 1+ years.

I won't be able to have a pond, or 3-5 fish tanks, so when I finally do head out I was wondering what the chances might be of having just one.

Thinking of one Betta originally and building a frame thing to keep it from moving around. Then my daughter got a Fluval Edge 6.6 and it has a cube tank of water, which I am borrowing ATM, and that looked very interesting and got me thinking of a little more.

Then wondering if something like that could work...

Just wondering if any one has done it? And problems and helpful hints...

I want to to get a plan in my mind so I can focus toward that ideal.

 

[Autumnsky]

Hello??? Anyone else out there???

I can't really believe no one has been Rv-ing with a fish before.

 

[fort384]

Interesting idea... I have never seen or heard of someone doing this before. You would obviously need something with a very tight fitting lid so that as you break and accelerate your aquarium doesn't slosh all over the floor. This could present issues with oxygen exchange...

 

[Rhino]

I really don't see this working out personally. The constant weight transfer from the water moving back and forth would stress the seems to much.

 

[Tetra1990]

Not now, but in a couple years, I am planning on being on the road for 1+ years.

I won't be able to have a pond, or 3-5 fish tanks, so when I finally do head out I was wondering what the chances might be of having just one.

Thinking of one Betta originally and building a frame thing to keep it from moving around. Then my daughter got a Fluval Edge 6.6 and it has a cube tank of water, which I am borrowing ATM, and that looked very interesting and got me thinking of a little more.

Then wondering if something like that could work...

Just wondering if any one has done it? And problems and helpful hints...

I want to to get a plan in my mind so I can focus toward that ideal.

Sounds like a great idea. Highly doubt it could be successfully pulled off,imo.

 

[Autumnsky]

Thank you for posting the thoughts. I have some time to work on this idea.
Keep the thinking coming, I feel I will at least need the Betta, no fish would be so sad.

 

[Autumnsky]

Or maybe shrimp?

 

[Matt_7689]

I think that you would have a lot of problems with all of the decorations and gravel/sand shifting constantly. It is a great idea, just most likely VERY hard to pull it off. Also, the fish might become stressed from all of the movement.

Good luck though!!

 

[andresdeo]

I've seen acrylic can be bent into odd shapes, could it be bent into a solid lid-less box? So there are no seems at all? Then a tight fitting and snug lid, which is only closed while on the road. Could that work? It would have to be screwed onto the surface aswell.

 

[Smcoyle87]

Autumnsky- I'm going to send you a personal message. I know a guy that builds custom acrylic tanks. He's in Maryland but has clients all over the US. Hope I can help Out!

 

[Autumnsky]

If you already sent the PM, I am not sure I got it got a message I had one but never saw the box- still new at AA trying to figure everything out, Smcoyle87.
Can you try it again please?

 

[Autumnsky]

Moss bottom for cush?

No rocks, then, don't want to beat them up!

 

[smomus]

If you get this figured out you will definitely have to post pics! Interesting concept.

 

[Loudog21]

How about a goldfish??

 

[Mumma.of.two]

How about a goldfish??

They get WAY too large. One needs 20g.

To the OP - I don't see it working. The constant movement of the RV is going to cause the fish great stress IMO. Especially a Betta that prefers still water.

 

[Chronos313]

I agree with mumma, now I have seen one in a movie but the rv was parked. In transformers dark of the moon Sam's parents have a tank in their rv when they go visit him, you only see it briefly. That's the only one I've seen

 

[Autumnsky]

I already have a couple Betta's so I would probably end up with one of them which was already a pet, but I have really started to be interested in shrimp, have been following the.... invert chat, <3 spineless critters, thread, request for its own category. Fascinating.

Goldfish could get too big and poop too much, but I love the Fantails, I have one which will probably go live at my mom's Koi tank, she picks out Koi and then grows them for a while til they are gorgeous pond size babies for a LFS where she lives in California.

 

[Autumnsky]

A closed system wouldn't work for the Betta, they need open air and that would cause sloshing. True Mumma...no sloshing for Bettas.

 

[tarpon]

Maybe you could design some sort of stability device. Like a gyroscope. Or with a gyroscope. So that it stays level as the vehicle tilts. Just putting it out there

 

[Autumnsky]

tarpon, love the idea, I'm not an engineer, but I have a neighbor/friend who is....

I had been thinking of something like they build the skyscrapers in Japan on, a sort of spring sliding base, the ones they use so buildings can withstand earthquakes.