Aquariums and Audio Equipment


I'm dying to shift my audio equipment closer to one one side and center a 80 gallon reef aquarium between my revel studios. However, I'm getting nervous about the potential problems this may present (flourescent bulbs, potentially noisy pumps, caustic salt water, bubbling of jets, etc). Anyone have experience with mixing aquariums with audio equipment?
leftistelf

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Obviously a quiet pump and a sump-less set-up is required, which probably rules out a salt water set-up. A fresh water aquarium w/ eclipse mount on top filters would probably be better, but how to defeat the imaging issue created by a 3-4' long glass/acrylic tank in the middle of the speakers?

In the end, I'm guessing that its fairly impossible, unless I knock a hole in the wall and mount everything on the other side of the wall - which in my condo, happens to be my neighbor's living room...
Prpixel - What a nightmare! Wet/dry scares the bejesus out of me. The mere thought of 150 gallons of stinky, potentially salty, aquarium water on my hard wood floors, soaking into my Revel Studios, and leaking down into my bedroom horrifies me.

I used to have a 55g planted amazon tank w/ lights, CO2, etc. Its now sitting in my storage area, empty after I moved. I'm trying to build up the gumption to get back into aquaria, but the investment in home audio equipment necessitates that I figure out a way to make the two work together. From the comments above, it appears that nothing can be done...Aquarists either live with the risk and noise floor, or live without audio equipment.