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Yes, if I can come up with a better collision-avoidance scheme, the fish would be able to get closer together. This will be necessary for schooling behavior, chasing, nibbling of corals, etc.
When I first designed the Aquarium, there were no LCD displays, so I sized the tank to be roughly correct for a large CRT monitor. The areas where the fish can go off the sides of the screen are only about as wide as the bezel of the monitor, so when the scene is viewed with 3D shutter glasses, the effect was extremely convincing - the glass of the monitor was the front glass of the tank, and the water extended in about 14 inches. Unfortunately, stereoscopic glasses are nearly a dead issue with everyone going to LCD screens (which can't come close to the 100-120 fields-per-second necessary for a smooth stereo effect).
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