Well… we finally got it done. The old aquarium stand is gone, and the new stand, freshly painted, has taken its place. As you might guess, this took a little doing. I’ll walk you through the process in this post.
I mentioned last post that my father and I built a new aquarium stand. We built it over the last two weeks in December, 2009. I’m really pleased with the result, so I want to share how we did it.
I definitely got the “bigger is better” bug a month or two back. No, I haven’t bought a new 800 gallon aquarium (yet). This post is going to discuss the kinds of options I was thinking about, why I dismissed most of them, and what I really intend to do. First, however, why would bigger [...]
With the year coming to a close soon, it’s time I took stock of the aquarium and its inhabitants. I intend to do this kind of post about twice per year.
I found another tenant in the aquarium this weekend. A very small starfish. I think he’s about a quarter inch across. He is blue, with five tiny legs. He’s right about in the middle of the picture below, on the lip of the large shell.