What should I do with it?

I got the biOrb that I won from the video contest and its A LOT bigger than I thought! (Thanks again for all of those who voted for my "How to Turn Your Tank Maintenance Into a Workout" Video

My original idea was to grow pods in it, but this thing holds 8 gallons of water, so IMO, that's too much for a pod culture and I don't want a large green sphere sitting in my house.

Here's what I can tell you about it: (pic is attached for reference)
1. I don't have a heater for it yet. Our house stays @ 77-76 degrees during the summer.
2. There is no way to put a HOB filter on it since it is round. For that reason, it has a built-in filter pad. Under the pad I could put chemi-pure/purigen/carbon/GFO. Note: water is moved through the media via a bubbler not a water pump so I don't think I'll get tons of flow through the media, but I don't think that will be a problem.
3. Water is moved around via a bubble, not a power head. IMO, it'd look a little cheezy to have a reef tank w/a bubbler, but what the heck...this thing was free!
4. The light is a standard halogen light...nothing fancy. I can get an LED upgrade, but I'm not looking to spend money on it in the near future.

Here are my thoughts:
- go ahead with the pod culture. Yes, 8G is a lot of water for a pod culture, but maybe I could sell them?
- make a pico tank with a cool clown goby and pistol shrimp or something else cool.
- get a goldfish! (Even freshwater fish need some love!!)
- maybe a seahorse tank?

Sooo...what do you think I should do with it?

 

IMO a goby would not be a goog idea because of small sandbed size. How about you tie some lr around that central shaft for maximum space and go with a helfrichi goby?

 

clown gobies do not use the sand bed like some of the others you are thinking about, and i say pod cultures sounds like a great idea then you can send us 3reefers some =)

 

the only issue with stacking LR around the central shaft is that you have to take out the shaft to clean and replace the filter.

 

The thing that might be an issue with a clown goby is that they like to perch on things...especially coral (even fake). Just from looking at the picture and the spherical shape, it looks like it might be kind of hard to put enough "perches" in there.

But only you can tell - since you have the actual tank!

 

anything but a gold fish;D

 

You could do a betta

 

Jellyfish!

 

+1 it would actually be kind of cruel to have a goldfish.

 

I like the clown goby idea but what would be even cooler would be the flaming prawn goby.