The Tank is UP!

Ah ha! A picture of the tank finally. Really beautiful tank that I inherited sometime back. To think about it this tank's been with me for couple of years already. Before this it was a freshwater tank with lotsa plants, some kinda like a underwater tropical jungle. Its a totally different game in all between fresh water aquariums and marine aquariums. With a fresh water, there's much less to bother about. Water could easily be taken from the tap and things were lot more convenient. Besides the maintainence requirements, the feel of it is entirely different. When you look into a freshwater planted tank, you somehow feel a sense of peace, tranquility, serenity, its kinda like a lil underwater refuge and esp when you keep a school of small fish and watch them swim slowly and gracefully among the leaves of the plants, you get a calm relaxing feel. Very therapeutic. Marine aquariums are entirely different. You feel a sense of excitement, life and mystery. Its just amazing how diverse and colorful the life forms can be. Gazing into a marine aquarium makes me feel happy and excited. Also depending on the way the tank is set up, the arrangements of rocks can be made to create an environment some sorta like an underwater paradise. Like you see in Finding Nemo. I also feel that the behaviour of marine organisms are much more interesting to observe. There are fishes that bury themselves in the sand, symbiotic relatoinships between anemones and anemone fishes etc.

There you go, another picture of the tank. Before i left for California I cleared out this tank and it was filled with junk. It took me quite a while to shift everything out. just couple of weeks back I emptied the tank and took it out for a wash. Everything looks good, silicon joinings are in tact and in good conditoin.

One aquarium technqiue here, you realise that there's a piece of styrofoam under the tank. NEVER EVER place a tank directly on to the supporting platform or table. Reason being should there be any irregularities in the platform's surface, the weight from all the water pressing down on the tank's base is conventrated on to any 'protruding' bump and as you know pressure = weight / surface area. A small bump results in concentrated pressure at a particular point on the tank's bottom and will cause it to crack. The styrofoam solves this problem as its able to 'mould' to the irregularities and compensate for that. Just a tip that everyone in this field knows.