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Sleeping with the fishes! NFL star's amazing fish tank in his bedroom

By Mike O'brien
From: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

Nobody really wants to be upstaged in the bedroom but it seems that's exactly what happened to the New England Patriots's wide receiver Chad Ochocinco.

Since he had an amazing fish tank installed in his bedroom in his Florida mansion, he says fiancee Evelyn Lozada cant stop looking at it.

Evelyn, who became a known face on the TV show Basketball Wives because of her previous engagement to ex-Celtic Antoine Walker, 'stares at these damn fish every time before bed,' Chad says.

Aquatic flair: Chad Ochocinco's arched fish tank that appears on the Animal Planet show Tanked

But it's easy to see the fascination.

The unique aquarium was created by Wayde King and Brett Raymer, the stars of the new hit reality show Tanked on Animal Planet.

Their ATM (Acrylic Tank Manufacturing) company is the largest aquarium manufacturer in the United States. 

Always something to watch: The TV room features one large tank fronted by three flatscreen TVs

The show, airs at 9pm Fridays on Animal Planet,  features the brothers-in-law as they create fish tanks in all shapes and sizes for everything from casinos to fast food restaurants.King and Raymer told Boston Herald's Inside Track.

 

'We made a shark tank for his living room and an arch tank for his bed, so when he sleeps he can look up at the fish.'

Glamour couple: Chad Ochocinco and Evelyn Lozada attend Cosmopolitan Magazine's Fun Fearless Males Of 2011 in New York earlier this year

But building Chad’s tanks wasn’t all work and no play. 


Both of them are football fans so they loved having the chance to hang out with Ochocinco for a couple of days while they did the installation.

'He was cool as heck,' said King. 'We hung on the couch, talked about going out, sports, and he let me take pictures in front of his Lamborghini. 

Reality star: Chad on Dancing With The Stars with professional dancer Cheryl Burke

'He’s a really down-to-earth cool guy.'

They also built an oversized tank for Chad’s TV room with enough room for three full-size flat screen TVs to hang on the front.

'He’s way more outspoken in front of the camera than he is in person,' Wayde and Brett told the Boston Herald. 


'He’s a really, really nice guy.'

The showman and his gal: Chad is one of the characters of NFL. Right, his fiance Evelyn Lozada

In addition to Chad’s bachelor pad, Brett and Wayde have created custom tanks for everyone from director Steven Spielberg to rapper Dr Dre. 


They have built fish cribs in the shape of pyramids, phone booths, cars, kegs and even the female anatomy.

So when they started creating fish tanks, did they expect to end up as big time reality TV stars?


Actually, the answer is yes.

'I told Wayde five years ago when we came up with the idea for the show ... we’d be on Animal Planet or Disney,' Brett said.

7 Over-the-Top Aquariums

Dive in to the life aquatic at these impressive tanks

By Olivia Putnal

from WomansDay.com

Life underwater is pretty fascinating, which is why we land dwellers like to scope out unique marine environments and exotic creatures. But sometimes, it’s about more than just fish, so WD found the most innovative tanks and aquariums across the globe. From the largest underwater tunnel to a fish tank in a phone booth, check out seven impressive ways to see under the sea—without getting wet.

Telephone Booth Fish Tank

Believe it or not, this phone booth is real. Constructed for the 2007 Lyon Light Festival in France by artists Benoît Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino, the piece was intended to combine a phone booth and aquarium to create a unique way to house exotic fish. Photo courtesy of Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino.

Oita Marine Palace Feeding Tank

This incredibly innovative tank in Japan has strategically placed holes for feeding and petting the fish. Thanks to physics, the airtight tank reduces pressure, allowing the feeding cups to stay filled with water. Photo courtesy of Adam Yoshida.

Georgia Aquarium

Atlanta is home to the largest aquarium in the world—containing more than 61 miles of pipes and wires to assist with all of the tanks. There are plenty of innovative exhibits including the Ocean Voyager, which contains 1.8 million pounds of sea salt in order to replicate actual seawater. Photo courtesy of GeorgiaAquarium.org.

AquaDom

Located at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin, Germany, at 25 meters tall, the AquaDom is the largest cylinder-shaped aquarium in the world. Containing more than 1,500 fish as well as a glass elevator, it has become a popular attraction for non-hotel guests. Photo by Getty Images.

Two Oceans Aquarium

This Cape Town, South Africa, aquarium is known for raising environmental consciousness and promoting the aquatic diversity of the nearby Indian and Atlantic oceans. With over 3,000 creatures, the site amazes visitors with the variety of underwater life on display. Photo courtesy of S. Lennert.

Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium

Okinawa, Japan’s aquarium is home to many of the aquatic world’s bests and firsts, including the first-ever birth of a manta pup in captivity. With a dolphin lagoon, manatee house, ocean nursery and more, this public aquarium definitely deserves a spot on our list. Photo courtesy of Rosanna Leung via Flickr.com.

Deep Sea World

Home to the United Kingdom’s longest underwater viewing tunnel, this Scottish aquarium also has coral reefs, an Amazon River exhibit and a seal sanctuary. And if you think you have what it takes to the swim with the sharks, this is your place! Photo courtesy of DeepSeaWorld.com.

Rough Sex at 40,000 Leagues Under the Sea

What do you do to pass on your genes to the next generation if you are really hard up, it’s too dark to see clearly and you are literally under enormous pressure. The short answer: play rough and weird.

Species of deep-sea squid that strut their stuff in the blackness that prevail thousands of feet beneath the ocean surface encounter few opportunities to mate and so every tryst must count.

So what's a guy (squid) to do? Males of the species Taningia danae use sharp beaks or hooks on tentacles to make cuts into their mates of more than two inches before depositing sperm packets called spermatophores, Australian biologists tell the German magazine Der Spiegel.

Males may get really agro because of an inferiority complex, the pub reports: They are generally smaller and, if they don’t play hard, fast, or clever they may get eaten by the Big Mamas. At these depths, size may matter a lot to make sure those little packets of love really stay put.

The researchers report they found spermatophores that had been “injected” into a female by a three-foot-long penis, that sometimes misses its mark. In one case of bad aim, a squid accidentally injected himself under the skin, providing perhaps the most literal example in the animal world of shooting oneself in the foot. (Another species of squid just injects the sperm into water near their female and a chemical in the sperm packet dissolves female tissue, allowing the sperm to enter.)

Some of these wimpy squid males apparently try brains instead of brawn. The men of Ancistrocheirus lesueurii are cross dressers, taking on the appearance of females, possibly as a ploy to get closer to the real thing before pouncing. Females who hail from the clan Heteroteuthis dispar are models of thrift. They store sperm in their body that accounts for up to 3 percent of their body weight.

For female squids, sex is truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience—and an apparently horrible one at that. The female releases millions of tiny eggs into the water along with the sperm contributed by the one male who got his hooks into her, and usually never goes back for seconds, the researchers found. Afterward, they never let a male get close—a behavior that even has led to the technical term “traumatic fertilization.”

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