![[Trevor Tondro for The New York Times] Andre Jones and Richard Wise have a 700-gallon trank suspended from the ceiling of their West Village town house apartment.](http://www.vinnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/tank8.jpg "tank8")
New York – KARIN WILZIG has a hard time choosing a favorite color from among the 64 that she and her husband can use to illuminate the 14 1/2- foot, 450-gallon aquarium in their TriBeCa town house. The default is fuchsia, which turns the dozen koi a deep pink.
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“Not pink,” said Mrs. Wilzig, 40, an artist and a mother of two small children. “Alan, go to the turquoise.”
Her husband, Alan Wilzig, 45, a former banker who collects motorcycles and prides himself on the orange tanning bed in his basement, goes to the James Bond-like control panel in the kitchen, where a touch of a button turns the fish — which are specially bred to be colorless — a vivid blue.
“I think they like that,” he said, walking down the steps to the sunken living room to admire the fish from another angle. (Given that they do nothing but swim from one side of the tank to the other, it’s hard to tell.)
Most people who keep fish have a tank or two; perhaps they start with a five-gallon model and graduate to the 35- or 50-gallon version that doctors put in waiting rooms to keep patients calm. But for a certain segment of the population — many of whom never considered keeping fish before they had a big space to decorate — a showpiece aquarium has become a must-have piece of décor.
Go okeanos go
Whenever our friends come over, they always comment on the beautiful gefilte fish swimming in the one gallon pot on our stove…
if these people really want to waste mony they could send it to me
Where does it say anything abt Okeanos? Is this there work?
Dumb rich people get easily fooled in over paying for products and services that do not cost what they pay. I have 640 gallon corral reef, salt water fish tank that cost me $8000 dollars and that includes air filtration, pumps, heating and lighting. No where did I have to pay 6 figures to have my exotic fish. People need to do their homework or be ripped off.
Some people are making money. Don’t you know the rich are the best customers.
I love it how whenever there is an article about how people spend their money there will always be comments like #3. The people in this article obviously work hard for their money and have every right to spend it as they please and they don’t owe you a penny. No different than the heimish people buying their wives 100k kitchens, fur coats, jewelry and cars. I see nothing wrong in spending money that you can afford to part with and bringing a little of serenity and beauty into the home. That said, get off the computer and do something constructive.
And to comment #5 , I don’t know if you viewed all of the photos in the original article, but this tank was custom built and suspended from the ceiling – so yes, it makes sense that it cost him that much.