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It's over 60 degrees here and I almost went swimming as I just came back from collecting water which is 40 degrees. I am diatom filtering it now because it is full f seaweed. It was very windy and the pump didn't want to stay underwater in the surf so it kept coming back on to the beach. I...

Equalizer, this reminds me of a story One day in Nam we were standing around in a firebase, (clearing in the jungle with some small field artillery), There was maybe 20 of us. This guy lands and comes over. He had a helmet on with sticks all over it, chamaflage paint all over his face. 4 or 5...

If you start a tank with dry rock, the only bacteria that tank will have is from whatever bacteria is in your LFS tank from when you buy coral. A lot of his bacteria is from his wholesaler and remember his tanks received his fish in water that was treated with who knows what. The bacteria we...

Equalizer, thank you for posting. I never had 18" arms, well I never measured them but I am sure they were no way near that. Maybe my neck but I don't know. :) I do find many young people today to be snowflakes. We don't even train our military anymore to be men which is a shame and we are...

I still like rock from the sea. I also take mud from the sea all the time to throw in my tank and in 14 months my reef will be fifty years old so it can't hurt

Dry, dead rock is definitely a problem and no tank would be healthy with that. It is almost impossible to get a tank started like that without going on the disease forum.

I spent a year living in mud in Viet Nam. We never washed our hands, or anything else as we didn't have much water or soap. We got bitten by mosquitoes constantly and were always cut either from the bamboo or shrapnel. No one died "from that". We also had no clean drinking water. We just pushed...

I found this on Facebook which I never go on but accidentally fell on there. I wrote this 2 or 3 years ago and don't even remember it. This morning my wife and I were discussing how we lived when we were much younger and how the world has changed. My Dad and her Dad had retail stores. My...

My tank is doing great and the few SPS that I thought would croak are growing "arms" all over the place. My old copperband who I have not seen eat in a month is also fine and doesn't look like he lost any weight, kind of like me. :rolleyes: I am also surprised my janss pipefish is still living...

I have a Hippo tang now only a few months but I give it no greens at all. I have followed therm in the sea and I realize that is most of their diet but for now, mine has only had clams, worms and mysis and so far looks fantastic, not a scale out of place. That diet is loaded with vitamin A and...

That is interesting. In my Log book from about 1975 or so I wrote that my French Angel got much better after I fed it large doses of Vitamin A for a few weeks. I can't post that page from my log now because Photobucket, where it is is not working. That fish was in a 40 gallon tank so it is a...

I wrote this someplace else as someone said that Hippo Tangs live about 20 years in the sea: This I am sure is true. All of our fish are lacking something in their diet in a tank, but a tang is missing far more than the correct food. Tangs including Hippo's live in schools. They always live...

My copperband hasn't eaten on over a week but still looks perfect and hunts food all day even though she can't figure out how to bite it. Healthy fish can go for weeks or even months without eating. Copperbands can't go that long because they are not a really fat, lethargic fish. Soon she...

I found a flag pole on American Flag.com and ordered an American one. Now I am happy.

Today I went to Lowes and Home Depot to buy a 5' flag pole for my American Flag. The old pole broke. Then I spent a good amount of time on Amazon looking for one but all I can find are poles made in China. I would rather not have a flag than hang my American made, American Flag on a pole made...

Today I picked up a female blue stripe pipefish and a bleeny. They are in my tank and seem happy. The pipefish insists on hanging out right next to the snout of my much larger Janss pipefish which constantly tries to bite the little one in half. I guess there is not much intelligence in that...

I had to go to the gallery to take a picture of this because I realized i didn't have a finished picture. I added a fan with streamers so you can see it is running and some more copper tubes with lights. Two people who came to the gallery seem to want it so there is a bit of a price war going on.

My copperband used to eat like this.

I have been searching for information on the lifespan of copperband butterflies and it seems that ten years isn't bad. I have also read that they are very hard to keep (which I totally disagree with). I also read their lifespan is between 4-7 years. Then I read an informative article about them...

Diana, it is amazing, most (but not all) people under 40 are snowflakes who just think about facebook, twitter etc. I don't even know what twitter is and don't want to. I also never take a selfie because in my house I have a mirror so I know what I look like and I have no reason to send a...