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I keep my water parameters in check by not checking them. If the corals are growing, the fish are spawning, I go out for dinner have a nice bottle of Pinot Noir and forget about it.

The long phone cord reaches all over my neighborhood because that was way before cell phones or cordless phones so I could go all over the place with it. It still works and has phone numbers on speed dial of people who died 25 years ago so I can call them long distance. Notice that SteamPunk...

MadReefer, I do not use a canister filter although I think I have 3 of them someplace. I use a diatom filter once a year for maintenance. It is basically a canister filter but contains diatom powder that you throw out after an hour or so when it gets clogged. Then you empty the thing out and...

For a couple of days I could only find two of my four porcelain crabs. Yesterday, right at the front of the tank, I see my big hermit crab munching on my smallest porcelain crab. He was pulling off the arms, sucking on the legs and cleaning his teeth with the antenna. I know what people will...

OMG I accidently came down and glanced at the tank. My garden eel came to the front of the tank and started to dig down into the gravel. He assumed the gravel was a foot deep but boy was he disappointed. He just discovered what an Under Gravel filter plate is and I don't think he is happy...

I doubt I will ever see that fish again. I had a cusk eel for 18 years and saw it maybe 5 times. This thing found a home where the UG filter tubes go under the gravel in back of the tank and I think he is happy there. I will shoot food there and hope he finds it because I don't think he will...

Dave, I took this off a remote Hawaiian Island. It is hair algae. I showed it to the Governor of Hawaii and he decided not to change the water in the Pacific or tweek it. This was on the same reef. The spotted moray in the center didn't seem to mind. And neither did this guy.

I just bought a garden eel because I don't remember ever having one. I vaguely remember having one many many years ago but It could have been a garter snake a piece of rope or a dream. The thing is about a foot long and a quarter inch wide. I am not sure if I should go by that 2" of fish for...

Dave, that discussion could take longer than I have left to live as I am getting old, but I never "Battle" anything. Everything that pops up in a tank is natural and there are natural ways to deal with them. My tank gets occasional algae and cyano too. The algae is only a little because I have...

Yesterday it snowed here in New York a little and I decided to buy a new pair of snow boots. I have my good snow boots that I used to work in but I just wanted to replace my pair that I wear to shovel snow or throw out the garbage. Something easy to slip on and off with no laces. My wife...

I also heard that about Supermodels and I have dove with a few Supermodels, chased those Godzilla Larval right away. :cool: I don't know what kind of silicone they used then but it probably gave you cancer if you lived in California. If you live in Arizona, New York or France, you will be fine.

I have never re sealed the tank, but it is only about 39 or 40 years old.

OK now we have the "hopefully" immune fish in there and we are feeding it the proper foods. Now we can buy another one and do the same thing. But we must "always" feed the correct foods with living bacteria. It is OK if we go on vacation for a week to have someone come over and feed them...

In My Opinion, how I feel a reef tank could be run to last over forty years with "Almost" no problems. First of all this will not be for Noobs as I realize most things printed for this hobby are. There are many other people besides Noobs and if many Noobs tried these methods, they would fail...

A couple of weeks ago I went to the VA to see if I have PTSD. I found out today, that I do. OK, no big deal, I got out of Nam fifty years ago and now they tell me this. They interviewed me for 3 hours and it came from this battle I was in that I forgot most of thankfully. But anyway: Last...

I got another one of these yesterday from my favorite LFS in Westbury. But for some reason they only get one at a time so I have to go back all the time to get more (Andy get me more. I want more) I want about ten or fifteen of them because they are just so cool and I want them to spawn, not...

I am happy to report the water cooled LED fixture has worked "almost" flawlessly. I did have to replace two (I think) LEDs but I did get them from an old fixture and I don't know how old it was but I know many of the LEDs on it didn't work. I still have a bunch of them left over and they are...

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I make more to sell. These will go on display in an art show for a week in the spring, then I am not sure what I will do with them. I am on a hunt to find more materials to build something else

Finished. The gate valve turns it on