Yours sounds great I built a cold water environment for trout for a science project in high school. I would much rather set up an expensive fish tank with local fish not some fish ive never seen and probably never will see anywhere but in a fish tank. So mine would be a mixture of Brown and Brook trout in long tank with variable water speed motor and I would have to decide which kind of food i want protein mixtures or like you say crickets. As the tank would be rather long i would stretch it from the kitchen to the living room and watch it all the time.

I had a 2 foot longnose gar in a big tank in my liveingroom for a couple years. Probably not what you had in mind, but made a cool aquariam fish,except I cant tell ya how many times I found her wiggleing across the carpet and had to throw her back in. Not many fish could survive that more than once.

I'd probably have a 200 gallon freshwater aquarium with like a 5 or 6 pound largemouth bass in it. Maybe some pan size crappie with some smaller bluegill and some frogs to top it off. Of cource these would be fish i would catch from the wild though.

A New Car Dealer in Seattle had just finished his custom home and I helped him move in.

As you entered the 20ft ceiling entry, you couldn't help but notice that the two columns that seemed to be holding up the roof were aquariums full of tropic fish.
They were.

As I walked through the multi-million dollar main house, each column in the home had the same treatment.

Disposeable income...

I want a house like that! I'd probably enjoy having catfish, bass, pike, crappie and so on. It would be so cool to have many diffferent types of fish in all different types of tanks.

a tank with fish in it so I can fish all year round. I'm easy to please;)

Something i could fish out of. Similar to what you see at BassPro, but bigger.

pirrahna

I think my tank would have crabs and lobsters crawling around. And a casino with...

I think I would fill mine with brooke trout. That way whenever I got hungry I could just dip my hand in there and grab one of those tasty fish.

bluegills, lots of bluegills (size doesn't matter after all right?) how rad would that be. . . an entire plexiglass wall ten feet high with pretty little bluegills inside?

Mine would start off like yours, except filled with Browns and rainbows. After it snaked through my house for a while it would spread out into grass beds and then deepen into a nice sized pond filled with bluegills and bass. Since we're dreaming of what we would do if money were no option I would spend a few million on making sure the trout stream part was cool and the pond part was warm.

I'm pretty sure it's against the law here in Michigan but my brother used to keep a 100 gallon with rock bass and walleye and even had a baby pike for a while. He had it done up just like a river would look like sandy rocky bottom and some logs. Even a sunken beer can which is all too common in the Huron River where we caught most of the fish. Way cooler than any salt water tank. He was one hell of a fishermen.