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It seems very quiet today and I found out why. My cell phone doesn't work. It doesn't ring and I can't call anyone. But I can text, which I never do anyway. This quiet is actually nice. Life was a lot easier before they invented these stupid things. In those days my Mother used to hang out...

I made a video of that little gobi. He is still alive but is obviously dying of old age. You rarely see this because if he was still in my tank a crab would have grabbed him and the fish would tear his fins to pieces. He has no diseases and is breathing normally but can't really swim or eat...

JRWOHLER. In post #48 I mention what will happen to these lamps. If any are left after the art show I will keep at least one and sel the rest as I have no room for all of them.

Finished. The crank turns on some very bright LEDs on the front left. The tubes and gauge light up and the bulb is dimmable. I think I will keep this one.

Oh, I got it.

I just noticed that I have a brown, in descript little gobi who is dying of old age. I have no Idea how many years ago I got him and he is a sort of fish that I almost never saw as he hid almost all of the time. I even forgot about him for months at a time. I know he is probably dying of old...

Whats Erte?

Yesterday my wife asked me to help her find her old Barbie Dolls. She had a bunch of them when she was a kid and she wanted to take them out and play with them with my Grand Daughter. Neither of us remembered where we put them but I figured I would look in this very old cedar chest that was My...

This has nothing to do with quarantine, if you keep the fish for it's entire, natural lifespan, quarantined or not, you have succeeded. If the fish dies before that from anything else, we failed. That copperband in the picture is still in my tank. I don't remember when I got her but she is...

I just finished having breakfast with my wife. I made her egg whites and I had steel cut oatmeal, but who cares. I was thinking about what our fish goes through before we get them. It goes something like this: The fish, lets say it's a copperband butterfly is swimming around the reef...

This one is about half completed. You can see the tubes light up. The crank mechanism was originally inside the box and it was used in 1920 as a telephone call box. It had a phone on top and when you cranked it, the bell would ring at a switchboard somewhere and you told the operator who you...

I am all excited now because my boat is in the water and in a week or so I will start to go collecting. I want to get a new influx of bacteria in my tank and I need to go about a mile from my marina for that. The water under my boat, although teeming with life is not a good place to collect as...

I just baked a bunch of corn muffins and while they are cooling I thought of something. (Yes I like to bake and do other things, But only Manly things, shoot me) I was looking at some threads and I realize there is something that goes on in our tanks that is never discussed. Cycles. If you keep...

Those four anthias look much better now after about 5 weeks in the tank. You can't see it in the video, but their tails now are longer and pointier and two of them are tipped with a fluorescent orange. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNErRoboN_o

Good advice. I also may stand in the corner painting a can of Campbell soup. Or eating it. :confused:

No, because he lives near this one. :)

Mark. Thanks, but no need to advertise. They are all going in an art show here in New York. I was invited by an artist to display them there for one month in August. There people can buy or bid on them. Many people want to buy them now and I didn't show them yet. The art show will be on...

This one is about 3/4 done. The small tube will have a red light in it and there will be some sort of dimmer knob on the front. It may also have a cage around the bulb.

That blue striped wrasse is fine, he just got a little headache. But I had to go away this past weekend to speak about pollution and I found one of my yellow wrasses decided to jump out. I am not sure if he was imitating the striped one but he didn't fare to well. Unfortunately, very healthy...

Thanks, all the bulbs have that same wound filament. I just didn't install the dimmer on the bulbs in the glass yet. It is nice when they are very dim and the filiments show up.