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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...

We took the boat to the Bronx last night for dinner to my favorite clam place and on the way back to Long Island as I was driving I held the phone behind me and without looking I took this. I think it was kind of cool. To make this post about fish (because I know I don't do that a lot) There...

I will tell you about a Jiboni. A few years ago I went to an optometrist, or optomoligist, I forget, but it is the one who tests your eyes for glasses so I guess they have to go to about as much schooling as a guy who takes up the hem on a Supermodels dress. But I don't really know. Anyway when...

My new pair of Janss Pipefish seem to be doing fine. I needed to really step up my brine shrimp hatching operation and I am probably still woefully to short to provide enough food for all the planktavores I have If I get time (and that won't happen until the winter) I will build another shrimp...

I am looking for a new (or used) outboard for my 7 1/2' dinghy. I bought one two years ago but it is from China and a piece of garbage. It is a 2 1/2hp 2 stroke something I can't pronounce but the main problem is that it is air cooled. Air cooled anything run by gas is silly. I want a water...

I just came back from my boat and am thrilled because not only is the bilge bone dry, but it is spider web bone dry, and not just any bone dry, because bones can get wet, but bones from a Tyrannosaurus Rex that died of thirst in the middle of the Sahara desert on a Tuesday.

I would have thought 90% as most people are kids. :cool: Before plastic and Justin Beiber we had wood and bakelite. It's like a black glass, very brittle.

If she wanted to be any taller, she would have to walk on stilts. I think she is 5'6" Here she is at my book signing party. She is a cutie.

Yesterday I went to a party on a rooftop of one of the oldest hotels in Manhattan, (Not my Idea) But they had a raw bar and if they have a raw bar, I am there. This was a birthday party for my Son N Laws Mother. There was maybe 60 people there and I got to meet some artists and show off some...

I made a Steampunk Lamp Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwM-TPdSDw&feature=youtu.be

So am I :D

So I go to my boat today because for some reason, there is always water in the bilge and it drives me nuts. For 10 years I have been cramming myself in the bilge with a rag and a bottle of Lestoil so I can get the grease off of everything especially those white bilge pump hoses in between the...

Njtiget, thanks for posting. You are correct she can see Tom Sellic on TV but she can look at me every day. :rolleyes: My test kits are so old they came in wooden boxes. Wood is the stuff we make trees out of. The instructions read to keep in a cool chariot. I can't get some of the reagents...

Some thoughts about the hobby. Now it is boating season so I have little time for my tank. Sometimes I get home after the tank lights go out so the fish go to sleep without dinner. They get over it. Sometimes I can't change water for 3, 4 or 5 months, I never got a bad text from my fish as...

I would leave them open but I don't think it matters. If you want to use NSW right away, the same day, just check the temp and salinity and dump it in. If you want to store it, you may see stuff settling. That is normal and is dead bacteria and possibly plankton. The water may get cloudy for...

I know I keep saying my bangai cardinal is dying of old age but he is still with me. As a matter of fact, his cataracts cleared up and he is livelier than ever and he eats much more than he ever did. I think he is having a mid life, or end of life crisis as he looks like a teenager. I can't...

Diana, I take a little of the mud, maybe a few tablespoons and "shoot" it around my tank with a baster. I also shoot some into my UG filter and behind the rocks. Sometimes I just take a cup of it and put it in a small container on my gravel for a few days then remove it as I just want the...

This morning I came downstairs and looked at my tank and all of a sudden, the tank lights went out. I walked around the back of the tank in the closet, and the lights came back on. I stated looking at the fish and the lights went out. 15 seconds later, they came back on and I walked around the...

I started building a steampunk porcupine fish. I am not sure how this will come out. I also ordered another 1920's telephone call box exactly like this one. But I am not sure exactly what I am going to build out of it as nothing hit me yet.

I collected a bunch more amphipods and mud yesterday as I was exploring the muddy tide pool. There are thousands of baby horseshoe crabs but the mud there is shoe sucking mud and you sink up to your knees and lose your shoes. I am surprised the crabs like it. It's places like that which keeps...