What is your...optimal viewing position!?

Dancingmad · Feb 16, 2017

Lets hear it!

We got any bucket sitters? kicking back in a recliner? Arm chairin' it? One of those top-view floating portal thingies?!

Share with us your optimal viewing position!

Personally I lay on the couch for casual fish watching, but have been known to sit on a bucket and smash my face against the glass checkin' out all the micro fauna! How else are you going to see a couple of hermits get into a real estate battle?

billwill · Feb 16, 2017

My 90g sits next to my couch in the living room, with a nice office task chair right in front of it.

Dancingmad · Feb 16, 2017

Excellent! Great looking tank too!

cbutkos · Feb 16, 2017

My girlfriend put a papasan chair in front of the tank, perfect for falling asleep in front of the tank

Shaddow_wolf169 · Feb 16, 2017

I have a kitchen chair bucket lay on the floor looking at the tank and sump. Since I put the nyos 160 skimmer in my sump Is amazing to watch.

watdachuck · Feb 16, 2017

It will be from this couch!

tripdad · Feb 16, 2017

I agree, office chair with a magnifying lens and my face about an inch from the glass. My fish probably wonder why my one eye is so much bigger than the other,lol.

Waters · Feb 16, 2017

watdachuck said:
It will be from this couch!

I was about to say that is way too far away from the tank...until I saw the beauty to the left

watdachuck · Feb 16, 2017

Waters said:
I was about to say that is way too far away from the tank...until I saw the beauty to the left

Oh yea! I just drop a knee in front of the other one lol

najer · Feb 16, 2017

I had to lean a touch forward in my desk chair to get the acantho in as well, , if I lean sideways a touch I can touch the corner of the tank with my elbow, view from my desk.

DSC04501 by sshipuk, on Flickr

JBradford · Feb 16, 2017

I have a recliner that if I look right I see the 65" HDTV and if I look left I see the 90 gal reef. I always kick back with my black lab in my lap and we watch the tank. Sometimes I just spin the chair to watch the tank only.

The lab loves the tank. I think her favorite is the new 2" yellow watchman goby. She wags her tail when he comes out to dig in the sand.

redfishbluefish · Feb 16, 2017

I'm with @cbutkos .......a papasan chair. One of my kids brought this home after graduating from college and decided she didn't want it....so I put it in the fish room. They get a kick out of it because that can't believe the old man would want to sit in a "young person's" chair. I wasn't aware it was for the young only. And yes, I've fallen asleep in the chair too.

I also have an "old person's" regular couch right behind the papasan.

Betty1964 · Feb 16, 2017

It depends on my focus: looking at fish swimming back and forth requires my recliner; looking at small inverts or coral growth means the glasses come off and my nose goes to the glass; looking at cool things happening in my refugium means I'm on my belly in the floor. Best of all, sharing it with the grandkids.

JBradford · Feb 16, 2017

redfishbluefish said:
I'm with @cbutkos .......a papasan chair. One of my kids brought this home after graduating from college and decided she didn't want it....so I put it in the fish room. They get a kick out of it because that can't believe the old man would want to sit in a "young person's" chair. I wasn't aware it was for the young only. And yes, I've fallen asleep in the chair too.

I also have an "old person's" regular couch right behind the papasan.

But those are comfy!