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I was out in my boat with a younger cousin going to a seafood restaurant in the Bronx that specializes in my favorite food. Clams on the half shell. And they sell them for $6.00 a dozen which is a third what my marina charges for them. So I get half way there and like most days, my boat is the...

Every year I take my wife and some of her friends on a nice boat ride and we come back in moonlight. This year I took them to the Statue of Liberty. It was one of the Lady's birthdays and she really enjoyed it. I have gone there on my boat many times but with the price of fuel now I can't...

Every few weeks my pair of mandarins spawn and every time they do, I say to myself, Self, I don't think a fish could get any more pregnant than her. But every month, just when I think she is going to explode, she spawns. I used to think she was egg bound but she always pulls through and has...

I just noticed something in my tank that is never discussed. No one thinks of the benefits, or detriments. No one has used these things for any reason that I know of and if your tank is a new one of only a few years you probably don't have any. What am I talking about? I better write it before I...

I often have to go out of town and with pipefish that only eat live newborn brine shrimp that is always a problem. I have a tank sitter that can feed the fish but I can't ask her to hatch brine shrimp every day and sit there while the pipefish eat for an hour so I designed this device which is...

This week I went to get my wife a new I Phone which is supposed to be smart. It's not as smart as it thinks it is. First of all a few months ago I went to a Verizon store and they told me she was not ready to upgrade until January of next year. But, for some reason they must think it is...

I have a theory. I collected to many amphipods in the Long Island Sound so I am giving a few thousand away to someone who is coming tomorrow to take them, but in the meantime I am keeping them in a bare tank as I can't put them in my reef as it is overwhelmed with them already. I have to change...

Today was a beautiful day so my wife and I went out with my friend and his wife to anchor where we always go a few yards off a tide pool in the Long Island Sound. I went to this spot yesterday and collected more amphipods that I could fit in my tank so I wasn't really collecting today. Just...

Today it was a beautiful day so my wife, I and another friend went out on my boat. We anchored where I usually do right off a tide pool in the Long Island Sound. I took my dinghy to the tide pool to do a little collecting and it is now officially amphipod season. I go here almost every week...

So for Father's day my Daughter asked me what I needed. Last year I lost the lower unit to my tiny outboard that powers my dinghy so I asked her to get me one of those. I received it yesterday and it looks cool. My old one was 1 1/2hp and it was just about powerful enough for the two man...

I figured out another reason why I hate to change water even though I made it much easier with pumps so I don't carry any water or do almost anything physical. I roll a 30 gallon container near the tank and using a large siphon hose with a strainer on it, I suck out about 25 gallons of water...

These are two multi banded and one dragon face pipefish eating new born brine shrimp that they get a few times a day. Video Here are stills of them

This is something I have not seen before with pipefish. The copperband seeks out this pipefish and they stay together while the pipefish inspects and eats irritations or maybe parasites that I can't see off the copperband. They have been together for 15 minutes so far and the copperband seems...

I can't believe how stupid I am. Well, yes I can. I have been having a problem losing pipefish for a long time and I couldn't figure out why. But I did now and I should have realized it which is driving me crazy because I usually see these potential problems. The problem started a couple of...

I was on my boat today in the Long Island Sound and a member on here was there with me collecting grass shrimp next to my boat. He also collected this, which I studied when I got him home and I think he in an elver or baby eel. They grow to about 4' long. I was studying him in a small tank...

This is a multibanded pipefish eating newborn brine shrimp that escaped from the feeder. This is a dragon faced pipefish eating new born brine. A bluestripe pipefish comes over the the feeder eventually

So I am sitting in my basement watching my fish as they were watching me and all of a sudden the lights go out. I was an electrician for 40 years and I can count on one hand how many times my circuit breaker tripped in my house while I was not doing anything like leaf blowing, arc welding or...

My closest friend and dive partner spends half the time in the Florida Keys and half here in New York. We can't really tank any kind of pictures here as the visability here is measured in inches. My avatar was taken from about an inch away here in NY and that's about the farthest away you can...

I am finally at the point in my life and the life of my reef tank where I know I can relax and nothing is going to happen. Well, I may become senile and the Earth may be invaded by aliens, global warming may disturb some polar bears and people will lost interest in Myley Cyrus, but besides that...

I realize a lot of people have problems with mandarins and I designed a feeder for them to allow them to eat new born brine shrimp all day and that will certainly keep them alive but if you are stuck with a very skinny mandarin and you want to fatten him up quickly there is something else we can...