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Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

Paul B

NJRC Member
I am a little disappointed this morning. They predicted it to be 5 degrees but it is 12. A little too warm for a Manly walk.

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This is in front of my house. Snow is piled about 7' high

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Paul B

NJRC Member
We are having friends coming over tonight for dinner. They don't eat seafood (must be Communists), so I am making chicken noodle soup and baking rosemary-olive-oil Italian bread.

Nothing new at the beach this morning. No walruses, seals or penguins. Just Manly ice.

All that "gray water" is solid ice. And that is salt water. The Atlantic Ocean. You can see the waves breaking about a hundred yards out before the ice.

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Paul B

NJRC Member
OOOOOhhhhhhHHHHooo NNNooo. There are some ich spots on my 2 yellow wrasses.
OMG, Maybe I will empty my tank, sterilize with bleach, dip all wildlife in fresh water and peroxide and maybe a little Methylene blue and toilet bowl cleaner then leave fallow until July.



Or maybe, I will just do nothing, knowing that seeing those few spots means there are still living parasites in my tank keeping my fish immune.
 

Paul B

NJRC Member
Maybe just two.

It's a little warmer today so the ice receded from our shore a lot.

Because of this, it revealed the icebergs that sunk the titanic over 120 years ago.

This is amazing.

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Paul B

NJRC Member
I haven't posted anything about my tank in a while, with my wife's illness, all the doctor's appointments, and all the snow we had. I also haven't done much maintenance on the tank, but I do feed them almost every day. When I don't have the time to properly feed the tank, I at least throw in a few live whiteworms just for my long-nose butterfly.

Those things have such tiny mouths that I want to make sure she eats at least a little every day and she sucks down the worms even before they hit the water, so the rest of the fish don't get much of a chance.



These guys are very tough to feed, but I only have to feed them once a week or so. When they don't feel like eating, they hang around in the back somewhere under a rock, like a few people I know.



It's very hard to feed them because this filefish is on their food before they even know the food is there. They are very slow and need to look at the food for a few minutes to see if they want it or not, so I have to keep feeding the fish on the other end of the tank to make sure these guys eat.



These guys are no trouble at all and will probably eat a piece of paper if it has a picture of a clam or worm on it.
None of my fish ever saw nori.





Mandarins are the easiest fish and require no care or feeding from me as they take care of themselves and I never bought a pod in my life. I think that's ridiculous.



I love all these little fish and I have them in all different colors. They eat anything tiny and are like eight or ten bucks. I don't know how many I have but many of them spawn.





















These guys cost a little more. Maybe $25.00, I don't remember as they are old.

 

MadReefer

Vice President
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NJRC Member
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The new tank looks baron even with the same fish from my old tank. I picked up a Mandarin online for $12 couple years ago and thought it died. During the move and was excited it was alive. Placed it in the new tank and 2 days later its sticking out of the powerhead on top chopped to bits. :(
 
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