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UK’s largest private aquarium

January 11, 2012 by xAquatic

Largest Home Aquarium

Jack Heathcote is an eXtreme Aquarist. He converted the basement of his home into an enormous 4,800 gallon freshwater aquarium. The Daily Mail interviewed Jack, here’s a small excerpt from that article:

It is so large – arguably the largest privately owned aquarium in Britain – that Jack has to dive in himself once a fortnight to clean it. And the salsa teacher has admitted he does not own a TV, claiming he doesn’t need one as he prefers to watch the sea creatures swimming instead.

Largest Home Aquarium

Read more: A Place of his own: Fish fan turns cellar into Britain’s biggest home aquarium

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  1. Keith Howard says

    March 15, 2012 at 6:24 pm

    Well done mate, I am a keen fish keeper in Gibraltar and looking forward in converting a garage into a fish room……some day, with different rift valley set ups of at least 4 X 2000L aquariums. I currently have 5 aquariums at home ranging from 200L to 1000L but only wish i could do something like you have. ENJOY :-D

  2. tommy says

    June 25, 2013 at 4:37 pm

    That’s impressive.

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