If you abhorrence your life, pause, and accede that it could be abundant worse: "I get calls at division to 12 on New Year's Eve," says Ralph Ammirati, who tends to the maxed out aquariums of New York's megarich.
The NY Times paddles into the at already abundantly air-conditioned and abundantly aberrant apple of humans who accept abundant money to afflict over which cast to colorize their $600 fish: "Not pink," muses one TriBeCa resident. "Alan, go to the turquoise." Her 450-gallon aquarium, controlled by a limited touchpad, can be abounding with a array of lights—though dejected is the favorite. "I anticipate they like that," quips her husband, as he stares into the deep. The lighting accessory runs on the aforementioned software that admiral Broadway performances and bedrock concerts, Alan brand to acquaint guests.
Mega-aquariums are barter big-ticket cars, adorable children, and animal art as the go-to cachet attribute of the clearly consuming, according to Christopher Stevens, a Manhattan-based autogenous designer. "They accept a accumulating of cars, of motorcycles, of art, they accept three dogs," Mr. Stevens said. "It's like, ‘What else, what's the next affair to wow my friends?'" This sounds like a austere problem!
The austere answer? Vast volumes of alien saltwater, $6,000 pet sharks, and added adventuresome designs. Case in point: a 700-gallon (enough to ample midsize car) tank, belief 6,000 pounds, abeyant from the beam of a West Village townhouse. The bureaucracy is so ample that the requisite pumps and filters absorb an absolute applicant closet and allotment of the building's rooftop.
But, whatever, that's just a ellipsoidal tank. Even from the ceiling, that's so pedestrian. Those searching for added amphibian action ability accept to install the aswell ceiling-mounted Spacearium—available in sizes from 5 to eight anxiety long—which conceals its own pumping and filtration accouterment and offers a 360 amount appearance of its insides, like a amphibian LCD screen. Only, you know, added big-ticket by an adjustment of magnitude.
Who is affairs these supertanks? Not sea animal enthusiasts: "I would say 95 percent of our residential barter never had an aquarium before," says a affluence aquarium purveyor, "and weren't even because one in the aboriginal abode until they bumped into our artefact in a annual or shows." Let this put your a lot of contempo actuation buy in perspective.
And now, aback to my accommodation hunt. Does anyone in TriBeCa accept allowance for me in their tank? [NY Times]
Photos by Robert Presutti and Trevor Tondro for The New York Times
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