Recent content by Paul B

I have my own bathroom and shower so we don't have that issue. :biggrin:

Beautiful beach walk this morning, except I found two dead horseshoe crabs It must have been a rough night because there was beautiful and large codium seaweeds all over the beach. Many of them had a holdfast which is important if you want to put them in your tank. This one is over a foot...

Great. Our Daughter went to Fordham University in the Bronx which wasn't that far away but she dormed there. Our Grand Daughter is going away to High School someplace near Canada. :eek2:

So yesterday I re-grouted and sealed my bathroom that I just re-built so I am not supposed to get it wet for 24 hours so I had to take a "shower" in my wife's Walk In Handicapped tub. (here it is before I finished the granite on the right side) It is very hard to take a shower in this thing...

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: