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For a couple of months my Reverse Under Gravel Filter has been backing up and I wasn't sure why. I found out. I took a mirror and looked into the manifold that has three acrylic tubes coming out the bottom that feed the Reverse UG filter. That is fed by the algae scrubber screen on the right...

I find this very odd. I have a breeding pair of bluestripe pipefish for 4 or 5 years and there is no problem with them. A month ago I added a pair of Janss Pipefish which are also doing fine. But yesterday I noticed my male pipefish is losing his tail and it is just ribs. He seems healthy...

The problem of having healthy fish and inverts. Most of us, or rather “all” of us want healthy fish and invertebrates so this may sound odd. But just as there are problems having sickly fish, there are other "problems” having healthy animals. I will explain. Fish that are not in the best...

Memorial Day, which is the last Monday in May is a holiday and many of us have off from work or school and some of us look forward to sales. But lets also remember that Memorial Day, which started right after the Civil War, is to honor our men and women who died fighting for America. Too...

I got a call this morning from my credit card company telling me to cut up my credit card because of fradulant activity. So I have no credit card now. I was asked to go to my Grand Son's school today in Manhattan to give a talk about Sea Creatures. My Grand Son Teddy is 3 Even though I worked...

I just finished having breakfast with my wife. I made her egg whites and I had steel cut oatmeal, but who cares. I was thinking about what our fish goes through before we get them. It goes something like this: The fish, lets say it's a copperband butterfly is swimming around the reef...

I just baked a bunch of corn muffins and while they are cooling I thought of something. (Yes I like to bake and do other things, But only Manly things, shoot me) I was looking at some threads and I realize there is something that goes on in our tanks that is never discussed. Cycles. If you keep...

We as aquarists normally feed our fish something that we can buy commercially. We normally buy some food that has a nice picture of a healthy, colorful fish on the package. I also use some commercially available food but besides that I feed something else at every meal. Most commercial frozen...

Medical Visit to California This week I took my wife to La Jolla California for Stem Cell treatment for her Multiple Sclerosis. It is kind of an experimental treatment but we hope it works. Before the "visit" began we spoke to the nurses a few times there on the phone and they were so nice I...

Floating stuff I was just messing around with my tank and I noticed something that is so obvious but we never seem to remark or think about it. "Floating stuff". Floating stuff in our tanks and in the sea is actually very important, maybe the most important thing there is besides Supermodels...

Picture is from last year but it looks almost the same except the gorgonians are larger and the few SPS are bigger. Not the nicest tank on here, but it is what it is. This picture was maybe 3 years ago.

This week we went to Disney World with our two Grand Kids, Daughter and Son N Law. They actually took us. We haven't gone to Disney in about 30 years when we took our Daughter a few times. A lot is changed as now they added more princesses, Buzz Lightyear, some Johnny Depp stuff in Pirates of...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGG Flood!! I hate when I have a flood, but I really hate to have a flood when we have 8" of snow on the ground and are expecting a lot more, and I really hate having a flood, with 8" of snow on the ground when I also have a Doctors appointment and I know the...

In My Opinion, how I feel a reef tank could be run to last over forty years with "Almost" no problems. First of all this will not be for Noobs as I realize most things printed for this hobby are. There are many other people besides Noobs and if many Noobs tried these methods, they would fail...

Lets remember that 75 years ago today Pearl Harbor was attacked bringing us into the war with Japan. Thousands of lives were lost on that day of Infamy

I finished my Steampunk Lamp. I would like to take the credit for the design but I can't. I actually saw it on a site called "Intructables". I found it by accident and they have a lot of cool things to build or just to get ideas from. I embellished on this project by adding a water valve...

This weekend my Wife and I took our Grand Daughter to Sesame Place in Pennsylvania which is about 100 miles from our house on Long Island. We had to pick up Greta in Downtown Manhattan where she lives. So we leave our house on Friday way before rush hour at 1:30 in the afternoon. (Greta is...

Yesterday my wife and I took out three other people for dinner on our boat. I told them at least five times that there were dangerous storms and squalls in the area and it would be better if I just took them (by boat) to the restaurant right near my marina so if a storm started they could wait...

Target feeding my Clingfish. I target feed everything. The clingfish takes a little time to chew.

This is the first page of my log book. I also found a book that I started writing at that time. I was listing the fish that I kept and wrote a page or so for each fish. The pictures were drawings that I did at the time. It's a little out dated now. Remember this was before just about anyone...