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Yesterday I watched a 4" bristle worm get cozy with the glass heater. He wrapped around it like a boa constrictor and seemed comfortable. Then the heater came on and bristle worms are not really good jumpers so he fried. :o The arrow crab who loves fried foods walked over and unwrapped the worm...

I love it when something new grows in my tank, even if it is something that many people think is a plague. I just find it interesting. This is the stuff that stirs my interest in this lifelong hobby. This stuff started growing on my rocks a few months ago and at first I thought it was some...

Getting into this hobby was easy for me. My family owned a seafood business and I grew up playing with dead fish so it was natural for me to start a tank. Of course at 2 or 3 years old I needed a little help. On fridays my Dad would bring me to the Fulton Fish Market in Manhattan which was...

Today is again Veterans Day, the most important day of the year for all Americans. Lets thank the people we have now serving to protect us and the Veterans that went before them. A lot of guys gave all so we can be here talking about fish.

I thought it would be interesting to talk about some of the odder things some of us do that is not the norm. Thanks to computers and the internet much of this hobby has become a cookie cutter endeavour and many people do the same things the same way. :eek:I started way before the internet so...

Hair algae is something that scares a lot of people and for good reason. I only have one place in my reef where I grow it on purpose. This was a string that I had tied to a coral that was at one time suspended from above the tank. I cut the string and let it unravel. It grew this tuft of hair...

It snowed in NY yesterday and I was not sure if my weather station was working. But it works fine. :)

Hey guys what are you being on Halloween? Or your kids? My Daughter lives in the West Village of Manhattan with her husband and they always walk in the Halloween parade there. This year I built them as a costume, the Brooklyn Bridge. The parade goes right near the Bridge. It is 13 feet long and...

A while ago I added a Shrimp/gobi combination and just today they moved to a home at the back corner of the tank under my overflow skimmer. Anyway they are in a place where food never gets to so I shot some pellets near them. In less than a minute the entire corner of the tank extending about...

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I don't know about most people but I have a problem with small corals staying put. Especially is you have a type of fish that like to re aquascape. Yes, you can glue everything in but that makes it hard to move things later if need be. I like to use lead. I know if fresh water they sell lead...

Old fish. What is an old fish? I am not sure but I do know that some fish live a really long time. How long? Real long, like over 20 years. I think most larger fish can live much longer than that but the small fish we normally keep seem to have a much shorter lifespan. :disillusionment: From my...

This last March my tank was 40 years old. Thats not why I started this thread but I figured I would mention it because I know that somewhere on here there was a thread about it. I can't find it so I am putting this here. A few weeks ago I added one of those silly gobi/shrimp pairs. As soon as...

This week is my 38th :rolleyes:wedding anniversary and I am almost out of ideas for gifts for my wife. :soap: We have gone on many trips to off the wall places, I took her around Manhattan on a helocopter, we did the horse and buggy thing through Central Park a few times, ate at the top of the...

I am very happy with the way my tank is running now. It has gone through many cycles over the years and now the LPS, SPS and fish all seem very healthy and there are no problems that I can see. These cycles usually only last a year or so and then something or other changes and either the LPS...

It's raining and I feel like rambling. Biodiversity. I am facinated by this. I also think it is a cool word. But for us aquarists it is restricted to marine animals, some good (for our tanks) and some bad (for our tanks). All animals are good for something, at least they think so. Even...

As a Captain today I re married my closest two friends on our boat. Actually we had 6 boats tied together and I performed the cerimony. It was their 40th anniversary and they wanted to renew their vows. It was a goof, I was dressed like Captain Steubing from the Love Boat and I am not really...

Bristle worms, a few years ago these things were a sign of doom. We thought they would eat our corals, fish, TVs and I Pods. Sometimes my reef is full of tiny ones and other times like now there are only a few giant ones. I just fed the tank with blackworms, mysis and pellets and I was...

Lets talk about Undergravel filters, no really. Old technology? maybe but so is running water. When we got tired of going outside to pump water, we didn't stop using water . We invented faucets. OK not a great analogy. In the beginning of the aquarium hobby, which was right after WW2 we all kept...

Today I added a copperband and long nose butterfly. These have always been my favorite fish and I have always had them in my reef. The copperband is not in the greatest health, he has flukes and some wounds. It is not very easy getting a very healthy one of those. I knew that when I saw him but...