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Bathroom Sink Aquarium May Not Be the Best Place to Show Off Your Fish
Posted by Adam Frucci at 7:20 AM on October 2, 2008
Why put your very expensive aquarium out in the living room where everyone can see it? That's just silly. What you should do is stick it in the backroom so you can admire it while you're sitting on the toilet or brushing your teeth. That makes much more sense! Especially for $US4,700, which is how much this ridiculous aquarium sink costs. You can open it up on either side under the soap dish, which, if it's anything like my bathroom sink, will be coated with dried soap, toothpaste and spittle just waiting to fall in and kill your poor unsuspecting aquatic life. [Home Click via Popgadget]

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ripfire
Posted 7:59 AM 2/10/08
@discounteggroll: If you think that's uncomfortable, how about those bathrooms with a mirror behind the toilet?
ripfire
discounteggroll
Posted 7:57 AM 2/10/08
I don't think I could poo with goldfish staring at me. Just makes me uncomfortable
discounteggroll
frigg
Posted 7:56 AM 2/10/08
I would get this, fill it with fish, and then fill up the sink bowl with water and fill that with fish. The bowl fish and the sink fish would swim around and stare at each other all day, wondering which was better.
frigg
dwarfgoat
Posted 7:53 AM 2/10/08
You know how they say not to tap on the glass of a fish tank, 'cause it's bad for the fish? Imagine what it would sound like to them every time you ran the water! They'd think that they were about to go over Niagara falls or something. Or the reverberating booms every time you set your can of shaving cream down too hard?
In my experience, panicked fish equal dead fish!
dwarfgoat
linuxidiot
Posted 7:40 AM 2/10/08
@Nintenboy01: @livinzlife:
Y fish has no bloodz?
linuxidiot
os_2
Posted 7:37 AM 2/10/08
This sure make water change lot easier.
os_2
TheMurderer
Posted 7:30 AM 2/10/08
@ripfire: Good lord.
TheMurderer
takashimiike 7
Posted 7:30 AM 2/10/08
@Nintenboy01:Don't they have gills?
takashimiike 7
ripfire
Posted 7:27 AM 2/10/08
@TheMurderer: Plumming that leads directly to the toilet is an option.
ripfire
Nintenboy01
Posted 7:27 AM 2/10/08
How do those poor fish breathe? Is there any gap or airspace in there?
Nintenboy01
phoenix27
Posted 7:27 AM 2/10/08
@N@tedog: I bet you could make this thing for like, $1,000 and make it look pro.
But ya, drunk, bathroom, fish, probably wouldn't mix ><
phoenix27
livinzlife
Posted 7:25 AM 2/10/08
that is quite entertaining...death by stink for those fishes
livinzlife
N@tedog
Posted 7:25 AM 2/10/08
Wait.. I've seen this on giz before. I actually looked into getting this. It wasn't the price that turned me away. I realized I'd have my drunk friends trying to stick things in the tank. And the price.. the price too.
N@tedog
shorty63136
Posted 7:25 AM 2/10/08
To 3-year-old godson: "Why did you squeeze toothpaste in there with the fish???"
Godson: "I had to, but Nemo didn't brush his teeth today!"
I can't even be mad at that.
shorty63136
phoenix27
Posted 7:24 AM 2/10/08
I don't see this for home use really for the reasons posted in the article. I kinda see it happening at trendy, $15 mixed drink bars though...
phoenix27
TheMurderer
Posted 7:24 AM 2/10/08
Fish in MY bathroom would be dead in 3 days. Tops.
TheMurderer
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 8:23 AM 2/10/08
@ab3: Yes, but that would have nothing to do with an 'airspace', or lack thereof. What would be required is a filtration system and/or steadily replenishing source of fresh water.
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
ab3
Posted 8:21 AM 2/10/08
@discounteggroll: What about how the fish feels? Do you think he likes it with you watching him take a poo?
ab3
ab3
Posted 8:19 AM 2/10/08
@takashimiike 7: @qwertyfreak69: You two are idiots he's being entirely serious. Fish use gills to remove oxygen dissolved in the water to breath. Just like in air if there is no source of fresh oxygen then carbon dioxide accumulates and the fish, lacking oxygen, die. So maybe you should check your information before you go making fun of people.
ab3
qwertyfreak69
Posted 8:09 AM 2/10/08
@Nintenboy01: I don't know, they might drown in all that water! I really hope you're being sarcastic.
qwertyfreak69
dwarfgoat
Posted 8:37 AM 2/10/08
@ripfire: Ugh! Yes, indeed! Very uncomfortable! My old apartment was like that (huge honkin' mirror covering most of one wall).
Honestly, I never really noticed/let it bug me until one day a buddy of mine announced, "Well, I'm gonna go watch myself pee. Be right back."
After that, I could never quite get over how kinda weird it was. *shudder*
dwarfgoat
godwhacker
Posted 8:30 AM 2/10/08
herbert regretted putting the minilaser on the baby shark in his new sink.......
godwhacker
daath
Posted 8:29 AM 2/10/08
I saw this in 2005. I believe it was around 4-5000$ :P
Oh, from the site: "A powerhead is also provided to ensure water circulation, oxygenation and filtration."
daath
qwertyfreak69
Posted 9:07 AM 2/10/08
@ab3: Dude, I never said that fish don't need oxygen. They just need to have the oxygen in their tank replenished, which you can do even by swishing the water around. It has nothing to do with "airspace".
qwertyfreak69
geekinky
Posted 9:02 AM 2/10/08
you could fill it with tilapia and then poop in it! symbiosis in the bathroom!!
geekinky
bbfreak
Posted 9:59 AM 2/10/08
I don't think I could stand having fish watch me do my thing in the bathroom!
bbfreak
frigg
Posted 9:43 AM 2/10/08
@ripfire: In which case I would install a wok next to the sink and during any sort of emergency, the bathroom would function as a self-contained life-sustaining personal Chinese restaurant. Until the fish ran out.
frigg
ripfire
Posted 9:32 AM 2/10/08
@frigg: If you fill it with too much fish, then it'll just look like a chinese restaurant.
ripfire
frigg
Posted 9:27 AM 2/10/08
@Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...: I'm completely confused about who's calling who an idiot, who is an idiot, and how the damn fish can breathe if you put them in a container of water, put the container into the freezer, turn them into an ice cube, put the ice cube into the toilet, and flush. How is that good for the fish?!
frigg
StopTheLHC
Posted 9:25 AM 2/10/08
Pretty sweet sink.
Off topic, but is this you in this video for CollegeHumor?
[www.collegehumor.com]
StopTheLHC
redman042
Posted 9:24 AM 2/10/08
Why would I need goldfish in my sink when I've already got brown trout in the toilet bowl?
redman042
frigg
Posted 9:22 AM 2/10/08
@PlayerX: A friend of mine in high school had an aunt, no more than 12 inches tall, with a shriveled up witchy face, who used to stand on top of the back of the toilet, wave her little arms around, and sing traditional Baltic folk songs. And loud! Try peeing to that.
frigg
frigg
Posted 9:18 AM 2/10/08
Of course, there is an advantage to having a fish tank that close to the flusher.
frigg
PlayerX
Posted 9:15 AM 2/10/08
A friend of mine in high school had a fish tank on top of her toilet. It was hard to pee... felt like the fishies were watching me.
PlayerX
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 9:15 AM 2/10/08
@qwertyfreak69: No, but you called two people (who were clearly joking around) idiots. You also assumed that Nintendoboy01 was himself being serious and never considered the possibility that he might have also been kidding.
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
TheMurderer
Posted 11:24 AM 2/10/08
@ab3: PWND.
TheMurderer
Griffehpoo
Posted 11:03 AM 2/10/08
Nice fixtures, but I bet that tank's impossible to clean! I don't even think the little magnetic brush dealies would work here, the glass looks so thick.
Griffehpoo
frigg
Posted 11:02 AM 2/10/08
Oh fishy fishy fishy OH,
It went wherever I did GO.
frigg
Griffehpoo
Posted 11:01 AM 2/10/08
@frigg: I think...I think that would actually make it easier for me...
Griffehpoo
Griffehpoo
Posted 10:58 AM 2/10/08
@frigg: Cryogenics, duh! How else will Walt Disney have pet fish when he wakes up? Geez!
Griffehpoo
discounteggroll
Posted 10:51 AM 2/10/08
@Mr_LaZy:
3) tempura
discounteggroll
Mr_LaZy
Posted 10:44 AM 2/10/08
3 Errors:
1) Hard to remove fish if died.
2) Can't clean the tank
3) When using hot water, the temperature of the tank will change, possibly killing the fishlife.
Why can't we keep things simple?
Mr_LaZy
banmojo
Posted 3:39 PM 2/10/08
fish heads
fish heads
roly poly fish heads
fish heads
fish heads
eat them up, yum.
banmojo
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 2:48 PM 2/10/08
@frigg: Sorry, that was directed @ab3 and not @qwertyfreak69...
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
dingus
Posted 11:56 PM 2/10/08
@frigg: I'm soliciting solutions to close that loop.
dingus
Bluesk1d
Posted 11:45 PM 2/10/08
And you clean it how?
Bluesk1d
dingus
Posted 1:00 AM 3/10/08
@dingus: Geekinny's tilapia solution below has promise.
dingus
EricAlder
Posted 12:55 AM 3/10/08
Maybe they could just put a few magnetic swimming fish toys inside and everything would be okay - no feeding nor cleaning, visually entertaining and no dead fish.
EricAlder
EricAlder
Posted 5:59 AM 3/10/08
I took a fish head out to see a movie
Didn't have to pay to get it in
They don't play baseball
They don't wear sweaters
They're not good dancers
They don't play drums
(Thanks for the flash-back!)
EricAlder