News Turn Your Aquarium Up to 11 With the MetalFish PC Case

[Geezer760]

Not even the guys from the TV show Tanked would think this would be a good idea, but hey you know that infamous line from you know who "JUST BUY IT" !!

 

[mo_osk]

3.4 gallons isn't big enough for 99.9% of fish in the aquarium hobby.


Or you cook your fish. 80 degrees Fahrenheit, 26.6 Celsius, is usually the top end for tropical fish.

Maybe we got it wrong, that's not an aquarium, that's slow a cooker.

 

[Colif]

We might think its dumb but some office out there somewhere will get it. until the fish die.

it might be good for axolotl, i know people who used to keep them in tanks. although its a little small for anything. I have had fish bigger than that tank. My black shark was outgrowing a 4 foot tank

base needs to be bigger really. just so tank can be too.

 

[punkncat]

I don’t know you could grow weed in it

They would have to be pretty short and bushy to get a yield, for sure.

 

[Colif]

i suspect thats slightly off topic

 

[lasbrujazz]

Too bad the tank above doesn't act as a big heatsink for the component below. In where I live, the ambient temperature of water is around 25 celcius, which is too cold for fish. Warming it up by, say like, Core i9-12900K would be pretty, in my mind.

 

[Colif]

its only really big enough for gold fish and they don't need a heater so unless it ices over, they be fine.

tbh I wouldn't put any fish in and just use it for plants or something, as keeping it clean would be a pain.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

They would have to be pretty short and bushy to get a yield, for sure.

As long as they’re nice and stinky and sticky. In my state you can grow your own. The way I’ve done it in the past you just grow a big bud for each plant and I don’t get that tall. Yeah this is a little too short

 

[Colif]

As long as they’re nice and stinky and sticky. In my state you can grow your own. The way I’ve done it in the past you just grow a big bud for each plant and I don’t get that tall. Yeah this is a little too short

i suspect thats slightly off topic

can we go back to talking about it being a bad idea, not what alternate ideas might work.

 

[Phaaze88]

its only really big enough for gold fish and they don't need a heater so unless it ices over, they be fine.

Actually, this is terrible for goldfish. Goldfish can get to a nice size. The notorious goldfish bowl stunts growth and even cause them to develop spinal defects.
Plus, they're poop machines. Food passes through their guts very quickly. Plenty of filtration is needed and weekly water changes would be ideal.
Some pet stores and online guides say they're great for beginners - nah. I'd say they're intermediate level.


By the way, is fish poop a good thermal medium? XD

 

[Colif]

so basically its good for no fish.

Someone thought it was a good idea, but had never had fish before.

i think I prefer their other try - https://www.metalfish.cn/productinfo/1190804.html - seems they trying to hide PC... why not have them as 2 different items... yes, stunning idea, I know.

 

[Phaaze88]

Aye. That's why I said it's a novelty item - in practice, it's terrible.

 

[Colif]

i want the EATX version, it lets fish tank be bigger then. I like fish and computers, together would be good but this isn't it. It might be hard to sell a 6 foot PC case though 😀

and ship it, and make it.

 

[Math Geek]

i also think many folks missed the line near the end

"In addition, you have to install a small 1U or FlexATX power supply. "

so all the "600w gpu and 300w cpu gonna cook it" stuff is not really part of the idea anyway. ~400w is about as big as you can go though there are a few 500w versions out there.

not saying it won't heat the water, but much more basic parts would have much less impact.

 

[Colif]

It needs to be bigger, for more of everything below and above. Not enough space for tank unless you go vertical.

Are we surprised really, they did it to stand out in market. It sure got people talking about them.

 

[Awev]

This looks incredibly fishy.

Don't worry people, I'll be here all afternoon!

Regards XD

Another one for you to use as you are held over another day - the idea is tanking badly.

 

[jefferzbooboo]

Gigabyte a couple of years ago at Computex had a computer with fish in it. Mineral oil was at the bottom with a graphics card in it and the top half was freshwater with guppies in it.

Absolutely. I'm under the impression that most aquariums needed chillers more than heaters, unless things get really cold in winter. Pumps and lights do more than enough heating the water a few degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius (doesn't really matter which) above ambient most of the time.

Or maybe I'm just used to corys and tetras. Those are almost cold-water as far as tropical fish went.


You may well soon have fireplace-styled cases, complete with cozy animated orange-red lighting, the way things are going for high-end parts and their wattage.

Yes, even that would've made more sense than a fishtank.

It all depends on what temp you keep your house at and the fish you keep. If you keep your house at 21.1C (70F), you'll need a heater for tropical fish.
A hobbyist grade aquarium chiller can only cool the tank to a couple degrees below ambient and are very power hungry. If you're having issues with your tank being too hot, you're better off investing in an air conditioner to keep the whole room cool.
The lights producing heat used to be a thing when we used T8, T5HO, and Metal Halide lights. But with LED's, heat is no longer and issues. Pumps don't really add much heat.

We might think its dumb but some office out there somewhere will get it. until the fish die.

it might be good for axolotl, i know people who used to keep them in tanks. although its a little small for anything. I have had fish bigger than that tank. My black shark was outgrowing a 4 foot tank

base needs to be bigger really. just so tank can be too.

Axolotl would be worse than tropical fish. 17.7C (64F) is the high end of what they should be kept at.

 

[Colif]

It is a pc case designed by people who don't have fish or care if they live.

It sure got us talking about it, even if its all negative.

 

[JWNoctis]

Gigabyte a couple of years ago at Computex had a computer with fish in it. Mineral oil was at the bottom with a graphics card in it and the top half was freshwater with guppies in it.

It all depends on what temp you keep your house at and the fish you keep. If you keep your house at 21.1C (70F), you'll need a heater for tropical fish.
A hobbyist grade aquarium chiller can only cool the tank to a couple degrees below ambient and are very power hungry. If you're having issues with your tank being too hot, you're better off investing in an air conditioner to keep the whole room cool.
The lights producing heat used to be a thing when we used T8, T5HO, and Metal Halide lights. But with LED's, heat is no longer and issues. Pumps don't really add much heat.

Axolotl would be worse than tropical fish. 17.7C (64F) is the high end of what they should be kept at.

True enough, if the tank is sufficiently large.

FWIW the setup I'm familiar with is a planted 5g nano tank with 11W of pump (in a filter setup meant for a much larger tank that never came), 3W of LED lighting on a timer, and 200W of peltier cooler on an on-off controller that keeps the tank ~3C/5F below summer ambient at about ~50% duty cycle. That's a bit more than 2.5kWh per day, give or take, to run the whole setup in summer. Keeping the largish room around it at 22C/71F to keep the tank at the same temperature without the cooler would probably have needed ten times that much electricity from A/C alone, and fog up the windows on the outside. Water change is 25% twice per week, and the inhabitants...appeared to do mostly fine, but I really need a larger tank at some point.

That might have skewered my impressions a little.

It is a pc case designed by people who don't have fish or care if they live.

It sure got us talking about it, even if its all negative.

Yet if they had just put a bunch of cherry shrimps in that marketing material, they might've drawn less criticism and ridicule, if the case below is used for an expanded filter-sterilizer-heater-chiller setup instead, probably with a smart controller. Put something like a RPi in there for interest. and cool it with aquarium water as part of the heater for bonus points.

All-integrated open-source high-tech nano-smart-tank with media center and some PC functionality. Sell that for $300 and there might be a larger market for that.