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This summer I bought a new boat. The problem was that my marina is on the north shore of Long Island and the boat was on the south shore. I sailed it around with only a few problems. My closest friend, and fellow Captain Richie, is in the Coast Guard Auxiliary and he brought the boat around with...

I know everyone has seen those dyed freshwater fish that are injected with green, pink or blue dyes. Yes I know it's wierd, cruel, mean, whatever, but I just came back from the LFS around the corner and now you can buy fish like that but they have names, hearts, Christmas trees, Easter bunnies...

Do you guys ever turn off your pumps? That is my favorite time to watch my fish. I turn off the pumps to feed and sometimes I leave them off for an hour or two just to watch the "creatures" come out. You see tiny brittle star arms and spaghetti worms waving in the still water. Then you see...

Today is our anniversary. Wow 36, thats a big number, I guess I am old. I am also lucky to still be married to my childhood sweetheart. We met when she was 11 and I dated her older cousin. My wife is 6 years younger than I am. We are somehow still best friends and hang out together all the...

For anyone who does not believe that corals have wars, I caught two of mine fighting. My hermit crab turned this small SPS coral towards this LPS and this is what happened. Both corals lost significant tissue. This happens all the time and you need a lot of distance between unrelated species.

Execution Lighthouse was built in the early 1800s and sits in the middle of the Lond Island Sound. It has never been opened to the public and was sealed shut since the 1970s. The Coast Guard is giving away all of it's lighthouses for one dollar with a few stipulations. The owners must maintain...

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Support our Troops Red Shirt If the red shirt thing is new to you, read below how it went for a man... Last week, while traveling to Chicago on business, I noticed a Marine sergeant traveling with a folded flag, but did not put two and two together.. After we boarded our flight, I...

This is what this fish looked two years ago in it's yellow phase. She has recently changed to look like the next picture, this is the same fish Eventually they look like this old married couple. I don't remember how old they are but they have been spawning for a few years. I have four of...

As I posted in October I installed Solar electric on my home and I would like to report the results being it is almost 100 degrees here in NY today. I can access my electric bills for a year and I am happy to say that I have been saving about $110.00 a month in electric costs. My bill this month...

Every time I dive I think of all the ways I can make my tank more like the sea I get overwhelmed. First of all the sea is deep. Our animals know that they are in very shallow water and they would never venture into such shallow water if they had a choice. At the waters edge and in tide pools we...

Today was an interesting day of boating and collecting. I went to my usual place at low tide, the tide pool goes under a road and on the other side there is a lake that spills over these 20' long walls ibnto this tide pool. At high tide the lake is almost the same height as the sea. Anyway these...

Five or six years ago I built and installed a trough in my main reef to control algae. I want algae in my tank but not growing on my corals so I built something which has better growing conditions than the main tank. I feel algae is healthy and if there is no algae at all, the tank has a...

Now I know that I have always said that the best all around food for our animals is whole fish followed by blackworms, but I lied. :( Live blackworms is actually the third best food. The absolute best food for our animals, bar none, not even if you go to Mars is Salmon eggs. Salmon happens to...

I know I talk alot about blackworms, (I know I talk a lot anyway) But I have been feeding these things to my fish since Nixon was President, (just after Lincoln) They are filled with the correct oil our fish need and I personally would not be able to have a tank of breeding fish if it were not...

I don't think too many people use an algae trough, I know a lot of people use lighted refugiums though. The Idea of the trough is that it is free to operate and almost free to build. It is basically a place for algae to grow which has bettter growing conditions that your tank. I use a 4" PVC...

It is my belief that whatever system you run it will greatly benefit from adding bacteria from the sea. I feel that eventually, in a couple of years the bacterial diversity of our tanks will suffer and we will be left with only a few strains of bacteria many of which will not benefit our tanks...

OK who has a problem with UG filters and why? Think hard before you reply ;D