Pink Slip: Something fishy….
One interior designer, Christopher Stevens who has been asked to work a few mega fish tanks into client projects, attributes the fish tank interest to the desire to wow friends, as well as to “humanize” a modern space. I guess when you own a $100K fish tank, you don’t just fish the floater out with a little net and send it on its way into the sewer system. Although I never possessed one – or ever really wanted one - I am something of an admirer of fish tanks, large and small. The main feature of their tank is that, with the press of a button, they can turn their fish – which are “bred to be colorless” – one of 64 colors. This one’s about a bright spot in the economy: the growing market for six-figure fish tanks. Maybe this is one-upsmanship, now that expensive fish tanks are showing up everywhere you turn. Still, I can understand the appeal of having a nice, calming fish tank to look at. Another couple in the article has spent $200K, between equipment and service – chump change, really, given that their apartment is on the market for $16. So I found the article on pricey custom fish tanks pretty interesting. Among the many things I did not have as a kid growing up was a fish tank. 9 million (not clear whether that’s with or without tank + fish and eel). And I wouldn’t have thought tank either. The owners are considering switching to a jellyfish tank when they move. And there’s something rivetingly disgusting about figuring out that one of your fish has disappeared in some act of piscine cannibalism – and trying to figure out which of the remaining fish is the metaphorical cat that swallowed the canary. And my last look at the dead goldfish would be as it whirled down the toilet bowl. There is something mesmerizing about watching pretty little fish flit (if one can flit in water) about. No word on what the color does to or for the fish, but it does raise the question of what’s wrong with the natural color of koi. No, I would have wanted something like what Pinocchio’s fish Cleo lived in – the classic un-fancy, un-aerated, unlit fis hb0wl-fishbowl. ) Wonder if violet-blue, blue-violet, burnt sienna, and flesh (later PC-ily renamed “peach”, although it looks a lot more like pale Caucasian flesh than it does like anything remotely resembling any part of a peach) are on the aquarium color wheel. (Gosh, I’m sure that fish are plenty reflective. To have a fish story. One couple in the article has a 14 1/2 foot aquarium, which, I believe is quite a bit longer than one of those swim in place pools. Not that I ever really wanted one.