Sunday, August 22, 2004
I began tackling a small project today. I've always been an aquarium enthusiast having worked in a tropical fish place a decade or so ago. I've been wanting to set up a small tank but, you know, financial blah blah blah. Well, it turns out that Lindsey's sister had a tank that she got bored with and has since abandoned and Lindsey's dad was nice enough to let me have it.
I picked the tank up from Lindsey's grandmother's place and dropped by one of the numerous tropical fish spots in Burbank to grab a couple more items.
As I was pondering this new thing, I thought it might be cool to drop an Abe Sapien action figure in there. I thought I might have to buy another one since I would still like to have a dry-land version in the apartment. Well, the action figure gods dropped by my place that day and when we got home, I found Abe on the floor with a broken arm. He'd never taken a header before (unlike like the old Hellboy figure that committed suicide every 5 hours) and I figured this was fate saying "throw this fucker in the tank."
I spent a couple hours today setting up the tank and all that stuff. Then I set about the task of figuring out how to get Abe in the tank and have it look good. The tank came with a requisite rock that I thought would be good support for Abe. I made a small hole in Abe's ass (yeah, you heard me) and used a piece of wire hanger to attach him to the rock. All this was done without adhesive of any kind since the wire stuck pretty good to Abe and the other end found a home in one of the convenient little pores on the rock.
After a bit of wrangling, I got it in there and I must say I dig it.
Here's a widescreen shot of the tank. It's just a 10-gallon. I hope to upgrade in the future.
And a couple of semi close-ups...
The bubbler I added underneath Abe does a decent job of hiding the wire hanger bit. You can see it clearly here, but with the bubbles going it's hidden fairly well.
Abe's mighty cool in there, looking as if he's floating.
I hope to design a custom backdrop for the tank as well. Haven't figured out what that'll be though. Good thing too that Lindsey has access to a laminator at her work for this.
And tomorrow, fish!
Lindsey and I may go to Priscilla's tonight or maybe a late movie. She's on vacation for the next week or so. Sweet!
I picked the tank up from Lindsey's grandmother's place and dropped by one of the numerous tropical fish spots in Burbank to grab a couple more items.
As I was pondering this new thing, I thought it might be cool to drop an Abe Sapien action figure in there. I thought I might have to buy another one since I would still like to have a dry-land version in the apartment. Well, the action figure gods dropped by my place that day and when we got home, I found Abe on the floor with a broken arm. He'd never taken a header before (unlike like the old Hellboy figure that committed suicide every 5 hours) and I figured this was fate saying "throw this fucker in the tank."
I spent a couple hours today setting up the tank and all that stuff. Then I set about the task of figuring out how to get Abe in the tank and have it look good. The tank came with a requisite rock that I thought would be good support for Abe. I made a small hole in Abe's ass (yeah, you heard me) and used a piece of wire hanger to attach him to the rock. All this was done without adhesive of any kind since the wire stuck pretty good to Abe and the other end found a home in one of the convenient little pores on the rock.
After a bit of wrangling, I got it in there and I must say I dig it.
Here's a widescreen shot of the tank. It's just a 10-gallon. I hope to upgrade in the future.
And a couple of semi close-ups...
The bubbler I added underneath Abe does a decent job of hiding the wire hanger bit. You can see it clearly here, but with the bubbles going it's hidden fairly well.
Abe's mighty cool in there, looking as if he's floating.
I hope to design a custom backdrop for the tank as well. Haven't figured out what that'll be though. Good thing too that Lindsey has access to a laminator at her work for this.
And tomorrow, fish!
Lindsey and I may go to Priscilla's tonight or maybe a late movie. She's on vacation for the next week or so. Sweet!
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