You are driving up my mile long driveway. I have invited you here to see the new house. You will be the first person who is not family to see the newly completed house.
You eventually reach the front door. You get out of your car, and look up at this mansion. You open the front door, and walk into the foyer, were you set down your keys, and stare at the glistening chandalier. I immediately walk through the door, and greet you.
You follow me back through the double doors.
On the other side, we arrive at the living room. it is a large living room, but it is several times longer than it is wide. On the left, you see a 72" tv, which has collected dust. You think the reason why is because no one watches the tv. All of the chairs and couches, are faced to the right. You understand why...on the right side of the room, the whole wall is an aquarium. You sit down.
You immidiately focus on the right side of the tank, which has a TOWER of LR. You stare, because this is a true reef. So many colors melding together, some moving, some not. I explain to you as you stare, that on the other side of the tank is the dining room, and on the right is the kitchen, so the kitchen has a (shorter) wall made of the right panel of acrylic of the aquarium, so you can see the reef in both of these rooms.
A white tip shark swims bye the bottom of the reef tower, toward what you thought was a sea grass bed. But the seagrass bed immediately moves...into the sand! It takes you a while, but you realize that it is a COLONY OF GARDEN EELS!
After a good thirty minutes, you begin moving your gaze to the left.
As your eyes move left, you see less, and less live rock... until you see the HUGE colonyl of jawfish! All popping in and out. Some with eggs in there mouth!
Your eyes continue to move left, as you sit in the comfiest chair on earth...their is almost no rubble left...but it is green...you begin to wonder what it is...until you realize it is a huge caulerpa/turtle grass bed! And you think that is pretty cool...but nothing special...until you see all 50 of my cb seadragons!
You are so astounded by their colors that you absolutely MUST get out of the chair, to look! you walk very close to the glass...face almost pressed to it...then you see something move...you are not sure what it is... so you move a little closer. You soon realize it is just a piece of algae, and immediately focus on the female weedy sea dragon, that has taken up an interest in you.
As you stare at her, something catches your eye again. You look back to the piece of algae. You convince yourself that it is just the current that was moving it.
Just as you are about to turn your head to this new male leafy seadragon, that has come to the acrylic, you see the algae move...its fins! You watch it, and soon realize that it is actually a ghost pipefish! You are astounded, and begin to look among the blades of turtle grass and caulerpa, and soon start to see the other 33 cb ghost pipes. Some are red, other green, still others multiple colours, that you find difficult to turn away from.
You are startled by my voice. I ask you to follow me.
You follow me to the left, assuming I was just taking you to the dining room. As you walk, you notice that the 2 foot sand bed, begins to get much deeper. Eventually, it is taller than you are! It continuos to rise. It eventually reaches the top of the tank. You still have about 15 more feet of the tank.
Eventually we reach a door, which you expect me to pass. But I stop at the door, and open it. Their is no light in here except for a flourescent light on the cieling, which is actually pretty far up, because after about 2 feet of shelves, which are mostly lined with scuba, and snorkel gear, is a flight of stairs. Pretty steep stairs at that.