Recent content by Paul B

I just tested the water I collected today with the amphipods from the Long Island Sound. The salinity is so low that it is the lowest I can read on my swing arm hydrometer. 0.012. I'm surprised anything lives in it. :unsure:

I just finished doing a lot of needed maintenance that I have not done in 9 years. My skimmer wasn't working too efficiently and neither was my algae scrubber. Along with that there was hardly any water going into my reverse undergravel filter. I found the problem. The 5/8" tubes supplying the...

Diana, I never bought any kind of a Pod. :biggrin: All the amphipods and mud is in my tank and the fish are smiling from gill to gill. I glued some Codium seaweeds to rocks and everything looks great. I am mixing up water so I can remove the right side of the tank and re-aquascape...

This guy, (who I don't know) talks about the benefits of amphipods

This morning I went down to the beach armed with a plastic bag to collect seaweeds. I didn't bring a bucket for amphipods because tomorrow morning at 6:15 will be dead low tide and perfect for amphipod collecting. The tide was lower than I expected so I turned over some rocks at the breaker...

Today I removed about a third of the left side of the tank and re-aquascaped. I had to push everything back away from the front glass. Now it is very "lacy" with large passages all the way to the back. It was too piled up before. I like it so much that soon I will tackle the right side. The...

You can see it better here. Those corals are hitting the glass as is that seaweed covered rock

You can't tell from this picture because it is a little old, but all the corals on the left side of my tank grew about 3 times the size shown here. As a matter of fact, all those green slimer corals and gorgonians grew 3 or 4 times the size here and many are up against the front glass. It is...

Only if I found the seaweed under a rock. :biggrin:

Yep, I will collect at the next low tide. :biggrin:

I took a very long beach walk this morning. I go before it gets too hot and it will be 90 degrees today. The tide was such that I didn't have to do any gymnastics to get across the thin portions of the shore next to the bulkhead that holds up the 170' dune. There was 4 or 5 different types...

For months I thought I only had one of these guys because I never see two of them. Then today I saw one out in the front so I gave him an earthworm that he jumped on. Then the other one came out and sat next to him, so I also gave him a worm. I guess I still have two of them. I bet if I wait...

I know, I probably have copies from the 70s. :biggrin:

Nope, Never heard of it. That Waspfish looks very young. Mine are Old Guys...Or Girls.