I have to laugh when I read your response, you are so right! Spot spends all his time in one of his two hides and I only see him when he's moving between the two (or we're handling him). He's three years old so he's about 3 feet long and the tank fits him nicely but yes how ironic that I have this nice set up with all the natural looking hides, backwall, etc and I get to stare at it as if it is an empty tank!!