👏Overall just glad to be moving away from a tank full of biscuits
Great philosophy and story with the tank. Really great to involve the family but it must help knowing that you have everything in place to allow the plants to grow back in again.......like a haircut, only a few weeks between a good one and a bad oneHad all sorts of ideas when this scape started up. Actually glad biscuit-gate happened... got the ol’ noggin thinking properly about what this tank is actually about and what mattered.
This one is about the kids at it’s heart. They can have a go at trimming and if it goes off script, it grows back soon enough.
There’s also only a 6 hour photo period on this tank so wanted something reef like that would be colourful just viewed by sunlight from the kids point of view.
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Here’s what the tank looks like lit by daylight from my youngest lads height:
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Like most four year olds it’s the surface rippling and reflecting that catches his gaze. That and getting lifts off dad for aerial viewing:
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When I was a lad the tanks were something you left alone lest you want an earful and telling off. It’s a bit ironic that a generation on the endeavour is to get them involved, curious and asking questions.
So yeah... biscuits happen occasionally. Along with Lego sprayed everywhere and enough hotwheels cars to make it look like a container ship has sank carrying a massive car shipment
But will forever enjoy what this tank does for the young minds in the house rather than anything it is. For everything else, there’s the 1200.
i am going to start getting my 7 year old son involved a bit once the 900 set up and like you say maybe abit trimmimg
it must help knowing that you have everything in place to allow the plants to grow back in again.......like a haircut, only a few weeks between a good one and a bad one
Point is involving your kids with this hobby and listening to their questions is priceless
By far and away the least bothered fish this house has ever seen. Unphased by anything:
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Hitting the curve...
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They look really pretty little fish - how many do you have in there?
You can’t really lose @Deano3 and you never know what it might lead to down the line. Seven year old version of me wanted to know how a siphon worked watching the ‘ol man cleaning his tank, this then led to a question about how trees get water up so high. Then got an explanation about transpiration and negative pressure. This then led to questions about what atmospheric pressure is. This then led to questions about weather prediction.... All from watching my dad siphoning a tank and him being willing to share his down time.
@Geoffrey Rea I’ve met your dad, i can imagine the A level knowledge being drilled into knee high Geoffers..
In contrast I had a relatively normal childhood -
‘where‘s Dad?......’Down the pub’!