Aquarium Madness

I began to grow quite annoyed at the dark blue background sheet that was taped on to the back of my 75 gallon tank. It was kinda ugly, getting worn out and not looking very nice anymore.

These background sheets they sell for tanks are interesting, with their goofy seaweed backdrops and other pattern landscapes. They sometimes can help improve the look of a tank. My low-quality backdrop could have possibly lasted longer. I didn’t want just a plain blue background on my tank anymore, though.

I am probably going to hang some random posters from the back of my aquarium to give it an interesting mixed up look. I can then swap out posters as I see fit to change up the background in my fish tank. Yeah, this will be interesting.

The new aquarium look, without the blue backdrop:

Anyways, compared to the above image of the ugly blue background in my aquarium, doesn’t this new version of the tank look better? At least for now?

During the course of having the 75 gallon tank I’ve now had 2 blue knuckle hermit crabs. The first one lived for just over 2 and half years. After he died, there was no crab in the tank at all for a few months. Now, recently, I have added more crabs again. In the mix of the new batch is a small blue knuckle hermit.

The first one I had lasted a long time. He got to be quite large for a hermit crab. He was so large that when I got my new hermit crabs they all seemed surprisingly small. I hope my new blue knuckle hermit gets to be as large as the first one. He needs to grow to be about 2 inches if he’s gonna fill the shell that the original blue knuckle hermit used to use.

In my experience, the blue knuckle hermit likes to climb on everything in the tank. It will suspend itself upside down on live rock. It will climb steep slopes on underwater structures. It will fall from time to time. Sometimes I hear “clunks”, only to glance at the tank and see the blue knuckle crab has just fallen off a high perch on some live rock.

I haven’t seen any of my blue knuckle hermits kill or even battle with any other aquarium inhabitants, so I’ve never had to deal with hostilities. Tangs even liked to eat algae off the top of the first hermits shell. The hermit didn’t even flinch or try to hide.

I like it when I run across unique fish tank setups. This unique aquarium in particular is cool because it’s a computer. Or it was a computer.

Last week I had the idea that the older G4 Mac Cube would make a great small fish tank. I asked around and saw that we had a broken one in Burlington.

That’s the setup for the story.

Read the rest of this interesting G4 Cube Fish Tank tale here. There’s also a sweet picture. Check it out.

Not too long of a story.

The 75 gallon saltwater aquarium that I have right now was originally owned by a business. I was a part owner of the business. When I left the business part of the buyout agreement was that I got to keep the aquarium. Sweet deal.

I continued to operate out of the same office for a while longer, I didn’t have to move the aquarium yet. I just had to feed the inhabitants and do the regular maintenance stuff. It was easy to do since I was at the office much of the time anyways.

After I moved out of that particular office I was forced to move the aquarium to a different location. Moving a 75 gallon aquarium is not fun. I moved it to my apartment.

A short few months later I had to move out of my apartment (long story). I had just moved this 75 gallon beast and now had to do it again. So I did.

It’s now been in my home studio/office for almost a year. A 75 gallon saltwater aquarium is a nice feature to have in a room that is only the size of a bedroom. It fits the room very nicely. I like having the aquarium in that room. No natural light is permitted in that room either, so it is easy to control light levels on the tank.

Yep. That’s the story.