{"id":560,"date":"2006-08-14T13:51:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T13:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/08\/impossible-fish-tank\/"},"modified":"2006-08-14T13:51:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T13:51:20","slug":"impossible-fish-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2006\/08\/14\/impossible-fish-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Impossible Fish Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how this fish tank works exactly, but from what I could understand, the tank on top that joins the adjacent tanks works as a vacuum. The result is that there are feeding holes in the side of the tank, and the water does not flow out. I could not wrap my mind around this technology, but it works.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"krt061.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/krt061.JPG\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nThe fish were swimming between the side tanks over the tunnel. The smarter fish would swim across to the side where we were giving them shrimp.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"krt048.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/krt048.JPG\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nAs you can see, the water stays within the half bowls that are affixed to the side of the tank.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"krt062.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/krt062.JPG\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nYou would think that the water would come gushing out, but it doesn&#8217;t. In the words of Arthur C. Clarke, &#8220;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic.&#8221;. Yup.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"krt032.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/krt032.JPG\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nThese are all fish that you can find off of the coast of Oita.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"krt035.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/krt035.JPG\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nThis guy got a little carried away and jumped out of the tank. He was delicious!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"krt037.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/krt037.JPG\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nA brightly colored wrasse goes after some krill and misses. Not the most coordinated fish in the tank&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"krt038.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/krt038.JPG\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nThis rockfish was by far the most tenacious fish in the tank. He boxed out all of the other fish, until he had his fill.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"krt047.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/krt047.JPG\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nThe squirrel fish was a bit harder to lure out.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"krt046.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/krt046.JPG\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nA trigger fish takes his time, and grazes on a shrimp buffet.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"krt044.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/krt044.JPG\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nThis is my favorite picture of the lot. Puffers, box fish, and cowfish all make me happy for some reason. They&#8217;re such goofy fish, and tough to boot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how this fish tank works exactly, but from what I could understand, the tank on top that joins the adjacent tanks works as a vacuum. The result is that there are feeding holes in the side of the tank, and the water does not flow out. 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