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i had shoulder operation #5 today. I hope he used some quality toggle bolts and not from home depot. nerve blockers are great so no pain yet, but I know what it feels when it wears off. but it is a real man pain and not a girly man pain......besides I got plenty of pain pills. sorry about...

I just made some delicious stuffed calamari for dinner that we will have over linguini and clams tonight. I had too many tentacles left over and didn't want to throw them away so I chopped some of it up for my fish. I generally don't feed squid to my fish as I feel clams are much better but my...

If I could catch this wrasse I would give him away as he has gotten a little big for my tank. He is about 6". I am talking about the striped one, not the spotted leopard.

It's a good thing I just looked at the pump to check for leaks. It is making to mush foam that it almost filled up my five gallon bucket that it goes into. Now that it is broken in I have to adjust it way down. To make these modifications I turned off my ozone generator, of course that doesn't...

I couldn't help myself. I had to take this pump off to clean it and of course one of the threaded studs that hold the impeller housing cracked. I fixed it but while I had the thing off I found in my workshop a much larger pump that I got a few years ago when a LFS here went out of business and...

I will not change the skimmer, but I need to re-look the valve. I want many more tiny bubbles.

I really need to re-design my DIY venture valve in my DIY skimmer. The skimmer used to have 3 air pumps running it because it is about 4' tall and the venturi isn't strong enough to pull air down that far so the air pumps push water into the valve. This worked well for many years but I had to...

Today is my 43rd wedding anniversary. I thought it was 44 but my wife corrected me. It doesn't seem like a day over 42 years. I am taking her out to one of the best restaurants in New York. We are also friends with the owner.

It will take a little more than a pint. :ohnoes:

Thank you. If they would let me, I would do it myself because by now, I probably can if they just do something about my screaming. :wink_new:

In a few weeks I am going to have some surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff and torn bicep. This is the fourth time I tore this rotator cuff on my left arm and I think I had it done twice on my right arm. (I also had maybe 5 knee surgeries) But these are Man surgeries and not Sissy surgeries so...

Thank you.

We made it back to her house in an hour and this time went through the Lincoln tunnel. But it took almost as long to drive the mile from the tunnel to her house as it did to go the 70 miles from Sesame place to the tunnel. I still have our Grand Son Teddy to take but maybe a doctor can put me...

This weekend my Wife and I took our Grand Daughter to Sesame Place in Pennsylvania which is about 100 miles from our house on Long Island. We had to pick up Greta in Downtown Manhattan where she lives. So we leave our house on Friday way before rush hour at 1:30 in the afternoon. (Greta is...

This mushroom has been in my tank for years. I don't even remember how many years because it grew from another mushroom which grew from another one. Yesterday I noticed it had all but disappeared for no apparent cause. One minute it is there, the next it is gone. There is still a little piece of...

I will wait for the other one to go as they are the same age. He is also slowing down and is near the end of his life. I may get another pair of them or something else just to shake it up. I am surprised those bangai's have such a short lifespan. I would not have believed it if I didn't read...

Yesterday I had to euthanize my female bangai cardinal. She was at the end of her life and could no longer swim. I saw this coming for a couple of months and she lived out her life happy and healthy. They only live 3 or 4 years. Her mate is also near his end. The pair stopped spawning and...

Tank is doing well, everything is happy and healthy. Cleaning the algae scrubber every couple of weeks is a pain and a little time consuming. The water cooled LED lights are still functioning as I expected. Clingfish and bangai cardinals seem happy. The biggest feeder is by far the copperband...

I have too many bristleworms and too many big bristleworms. They are not normally a problem unless they crawl into bed with you but they are a problem to certain invertebrates. Especially ones that shed like crabs and shrimp. I also have lost baby clams to them many times. My large arrow crab...

Thanks, I also have a wonderful skimmer :dance: