What is your...optimal viewing position!?

[Dancingmad]

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? :D

 

[billwill]

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

 

[Dancingmad]

Excellent! Great looking tank too!

 

[cbutkos]

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

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

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]

It will be from this couch!

 

[tripdad]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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. :D

 

[Betty1964]

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]

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. :D

But those are comfy!

 

[Midrats]

My favorite view is from outside my house at night through the living room window as I walk down the sidewalk.

 

[themcnertney]

When I dunk my head in the water to fix a rock or coral that is 30" deep.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Nice viewing spots!

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

NOT mine but thought this was cool!

 

[redfishbluefish]

NOT mine but thought this was cool!

Rev, I know it's not yours, but did you notice the couch is facing the wrong way. :eek:. "Doctor, could you tell me why I have a sore neck? I can't figure it out." :D

 

[Broadfield]

This is my viewing room with two positions to view the reef from:

IMG_4434 by Toby Broadfield, on Flickr

And this is essentially the the view from each location:

FTS + Stand Right Angle by Toby Broadfield, on Flickr

IMG_5293 by Toby Broadfield, on Flickr