Pearly Jaw and Tailspot Blenny pictures (Room Pics)

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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]

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...

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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]

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:

[lastlight]

Aren't they all the new ones recently built along the water near Stanley Park I think?

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Aren't they all the new ones recently built along the water near Stanley Park I think?

No actually but I know which ones your talking about. Those are even nicer! And probably more expensive.

I am at Broadway and Cambie, so just across the bridge from BC Place and false creek. It used to be just a pretty quiet area but they have really developed it the past few years. Added Home Depot, Best Buy, Winners, Canadian Tire, Save On foods, 2 different starbucks a block apart of course and a bunch of small shops, so its really busy now. It's nice to have all these places across the street sometimes but other times I hate it. When your plumbing a tank, HD across the street comes in handy--but most of the employees also know me by name now...kinda weird.

Oh and the new Skytrain/subway to downtown is just on the corner too...so even busier now. I suppose it's upped the value of our place though. Hope so cause the building is leaking and we owe a bunch of money for our share...even though we don't technically have a "roof", just a neighbors floor

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I don't see any pheasant balls...