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Mr Humblefish, I am a Total Noob and each one of my fish in a 5 gallon tank have a different issue. My blue tang turned orange and my yellow tang turned green. My leopard wrasse looks like a lionfish and my bird wrasse looks more like a penguin. Should I dose Prizapro or dip them in Vinegar...

Man warns pet owners after fish tank releases 'second deadliest' poison, hospitalizes 10

Our Vacation It's actually hard to call anything a Vacation when you are retired so I should have said, "Our Trip". Anyway this was to the Caribbean but it wasn't a normal Caribbean Island. This was a private Island off Saint Vincent. The Island is about 2 miles long and a mile wide. You...

I have been reading through a lot of threads on here and elsewhere and I hear all the time, "I use this or that with great success" or "I fed my moorish Idol bagels and cream cheese with great success". Or I never show my wife what I spend on my tank and have great success. What exactly is...

I have been feeding new born brine shrimp, blackworms and white worms to my mandarins for many years and they are all excellent foods. My mandarins get live foods as do all my fish every day which I believe is a big key to this hobby for a number of reasons, but I just want to discuss...

I realize 97% of anyone who is accidentally reading this has no idea what I am talking about. I like to feed my fish live worms and there are basically two types commonly available. Blackworms and whiteworms. Blackworms live in freshwater and you buy them in water in small portions or online...

How times have changed. I was just reading a Sharper Image Catalog and now they sell so many things that we didn't have when I was a kid. Did you ever look through one of those catalogs? We used to play this game where you got a ball and you threw it at the other person to see if you could...

This Whiteworm culture is a few years old and the original worms were very small and skinny. In time the new generations are much longer and fatter. I don't know why. But these new worms are also much harder to separate from the soil they live in. The original worms used to swarm by the...

Today as many Americans know is Veterans Day. I was on my way to the Veteran Festivities at out town hall this morning and I stopped at Star Bucks. As I was waiting on line a girl behind me said she wanted to buy me breakfast. I was totally honored and blown away as that has never happened to...

Bangai Cardinal dying from old age. These fish have a lifespan of only 3 or 4 years, this one maybe 5 years old. Bangai's have one of the shortest lifespans of all fish although some will live longer. His mate died a while ago and they spawned for their entire adult life. He has not eaten...

Yesterday I fed my tank as usual. Clams, mysis, new born brine shrimp and live worms. Of course all the fish, especially the copperband rushed out and try to eat everything before the next fish gets it. My Janss pipefish also but he has a tiny mouth and can't eat much food unless it is very...

Why do I say that fish are smarter than us? Well think about it, we as 2 legged beings can go forward, backward and from side to side. Fish can do that too, but they can also go up and down, and they can do that just by thinking about it and barely moving a fin. If we get up in the middle of...

A couple of times a year my town has a drop off place for all the toxic liquids you have laying around that you can't or at least should not put in the garbage and they frown on you dumping it down the storm drains in the street. Today is the day to do this so I gather all this stuff that I...

This long spine urchin has been in my tank for quite a few years and when ever he can get it, he enjoys some clam for dessert. I sometimes have to help him because when he approaches a piece of clam, he impales it on a spine and being he is all "thumbs" he can't get the thing off so I suck the...

Lets talk about Pod eaters. We aquarists call anything small a Pod, but a Pod or copepod is a real animal unlike Pee Wee Herman or Weiner who are other things, but not pods. We also have amphipods which are much larger. If our tanks are healthy and the paired fish are spawning, like they...

I am sure no one uses this stuff any longer, but before I re-cycle it this weekend, I have older photographic equipment such as 2 Sea & Sea underwater "Film" camera's with one flash along with the wide angle lens and other accessories in a water proof case. I also have a Sony, Videocam Video 8...

I don't think I used it in 15 years. It's blue, but looks black here. It was used maybe 5 times, great condition. I am 5'7" and not real skinny. I think I was 180 lbs when this picture was taken. I am on Long Island exit 34 on the LIE

I was a GM Mechanic in the 60s and I am moving. I have a timing light, dwell meter, compression gauge and a flexible 18" tool for adjusting the cam angle on old GM cars as well as about an 18" angle screwdriver to adjust the idle and carb adjustment. Maybe a few other odds and ends

OK Monday is not Memorial Day. So Have A great Labor Day, Especially people in Labor.

The advantages of keeping a natural Reef We all know that there are many ways to run a tank but I would like to start a thread about keeping a natural reef. The ocean is natural and the fish there are all very healthy and never have to worry about getting sick, getting enough food, getting...