Pearly Jaw and Tailspot Blenny pictures (Room Pics)

GreenSpottedPuffer · #1 11-18-2009, 04:37 PM

This is as close to a full tank shot as I am going to take right now (until the tank starts to grow in)! I wanted to post a shot of where the tank is and how it works with the room. The stand is coming up a little bit orange I think but its a nice bright red. There are going to be some professional pictures taken of our place in the new year, so I will post those

lastlight · #2 11-18-2009, 04:47 PM

How on earth did you get that massive piece of art up there? Is it your work? Room's lookin' tight =)

GreenSpottedPuffer · #3 11-18-2009, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

How on earth did you get that massive piece of art up there? Is it your work? Room's lookin' tight =)

Yes it is my art. The canvas is super lightweight and I build them on site (not that I have done a lot but I have sold a few similar sized) and then I guess the owner has to get them out later somehow. It ain't fitting through many doors.

This one is to hide the ugly murphy bed when its not being used. The art just slides to the side when the bed comes down. Take a few seconds. Actually someone commented on how that would be annoying to do everynight until I showed them how easy it was. I also explained how having a murphy bed means NEVER having to make the bed

Thanks, the room was my first crack at interior design with a budget. Got me my initial job (along with my usual design portfolio) into that industry which can be pretty tough to get into if you haven't gone to school for it.

lastlight · #4 11-18-2009, 05:21 PM

Oh one of those flip up beds. Isn't every condo at least one bedroom though? What made you decide to do it this way?

I'm sure the Solana lights aren't the best as far as reflectors go but it'd tie in nicely with your big extender light thingie...

GreenSpottedPuffer · #5 11-18-2009, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

Oh one of those flip up beds. Isn't every condo at least one bedroom though? What made you decide to do it this way?

I'm sure the Solana lights aren't the best as far as reflectors go but it'd tie in nicely with your big extender light thingie...

No, there are studio condos like ours. We went with it because it had a bigger living space than anything else we saw. Basically its a similar square footage to a one bedroom but without the bedroom, so we get a big livingroom. Most of the condos we looked at would never fit such a large sectional and what you can't see in the photos is that there is even a 6' daybed in that room. It's quite a large room for a Vancouver condo. Feels more like a house livingroom to me than a condo livingroom (other than the industrial style). We figured it would be nice just to have one big room over a few tiny ones. It's also a king sized bed that is really not possible in most condos.

Then on top of that, our building is about $650/sq. foot

The 2 bedroom unit we really wanted to buy was $1.6 million...

lastlight · #6 11-18-2009, 05:40 PM

Yeah nuff said. Forgot for a moment exactly where you are but I've walked down there. Concrete and glass...SEXY. Must be nice not having to worry about your floor's structural integrity when planning a tank.

GreenSpottedPuffer · #7 11-18-2009, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by lastlight

Yeah nuff said. Forgot for a moment exactly where you are but I've walked down there. Concrete and glass...SEXY. Must be nice not having to worry about your floor's structural integrity when planning a tank.

I actually had an engineer come (paranoid) to check out the place before I set up the 200G...he laughed when he got here and said I had wasted my money

He had the building plans as well.

He told us, on the record, he can't give us a number (tank size), but off the record, he wouldn't worry about anything under 5000-6000 lbs. So up to about 500G.

Our strata doesn't have a bylaw for aquariums, just how many fish you have

but I wasn't going to push it. They recently changed it to one aquarium only but still left out size. Apparently now you can have as many fish as you like but in any sized tank.

I would hate to have water leaking down into the Falafel house downstairs at lunch time! I think I would pack up and just leave. Although I had about 50G of RO water on my floor the other night/morning and I have to say, it pools up very nicely and only took about 20 minutes to clean up and maybe an hour to dry with no fans. Polished concrete floors are nice!

EDIT: Oh have you been by the building before?

It's this one: