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In 1976 I was still living in my apartment and the tank was 40 gallons. I had that copperband, French Angel and a Moorish Idol in a 40 gallon

This is the first page of my log book. I also found a book that I started writing at that time. I was listing the fish that I kept and wrote a page or so for each fish. The pictures were drawings that I did at the time. It's a little out dated now. Remember this was before just about anyone...

While doing some cleaning up in my workshop I came across my fish tank logs from 1974 until the 90s. I listed what I paid for fish, how much they cost, where I bought them and how long they lived. When I get time I will scan some of it and post some of it. This was way before computers so it is...

If I put much of it from the Long Island Sound in the reef I would also have brown water. I pour off the loose stuff that floats in the water column a few times, then just use the heavier stuff with the larger particles that sinks and doesn't float around. See that stuff under the mussels...

You take those amphipod covered rocks and swish them in a bucket of water. The amphipods get dizzy and fall off. Then you find a nice beach to relax on and have a beer. (or coffee)

Your wish is my command. First my Grand Daughter points to where the amphipods are. Then I go there and collect. Video, turn up the sound as these were taken with an underwater camera.

I just bot back from a great day of boating. Those are my favorite kind of days. It was low tide so of course I went collecting. Amphipods are much more numerous last month but I got a nice haul. Maybe a few hundred but I didn't count them. I also collected some mud (for the bacteria) and...

Remember, if you are the type of person that quarantines everything, you can't put stuff from the sea in your tank because your fish don't have much of a functioning immune system. You can't quarantine that stuff. You need to be running a natural tank to add all that stuff. There are...

:eek: Don't boil anything. Remember, your fish came from the sea, and they probably came from a place where the water was much dirtier than where you collected that seaweed. I have been collecting things for my reef since it was started many moons ago. No problems yet. Here is a video of...

Just collect it and throw it in your tank. Your tangs will love you for it. That nonsense about collecting water and stuff far offshore is ridiculous.

Today I am making a typhoon in my tank using a diatom filter. I do this once or twice a year to stir up the gravel as much as I can right down to the UG filter plates. The fish seem to like it but the corals always look mad, they will get over it. In my tank this needs to be done as I run...

This morning I helped my Sicilian neighbor, (who was born in Sicily) to put up his 20' flagpole and put the American Flag on it. Many Americans don't even have a flagpole so I am truly honored to have such good American neighbors. :grin:

Yes, that engine runs my nano :eek:

I soaked the tiny pump for my worms in bleach and I noticed that the hole in the magnet is large and egg shaped. This happens all the time with those cheap pumps and it can be fixed, at least for a while by putting shrink tubing over the shaft. That takes up the space and the pump will run for...

Today I finally got a chance to take care of my tank. I cleaned the glass and immediately noticed one of my newer gorgonians fell on top of a large mushroom and most of the gorg croaked. That is not a big deal as it happens all the time. Gorgonians are tall and top heavy so if you don't glue...

Last night when I came home after my Mother n Law's wake I noticed an awful smell. I went downstairs and looked at the tank, and it looked fine, but in my workshop I found the problem. My live blackworm tank reeked. Yesterday for a split second the power went off, but the small pump in the...

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Sorry to hear about it MadReefer. This was very weird and I am still looking at Frank here, but he won't sing any more. The batteries in him were the original batteries, I am surprised they lasted so long. Unless he was waiting for the right time.

My Mother n law died yesterday in a nursing home. She was 90 years old and she lived a good long life. Her last few weeks were, unfortunately wracked with pain and suffering so now it is a blessing and she is at rest. Judy was a big Frank Sinatra fan and she would always listen to his records...

I changed one of my seawater circulating pumps this morning. Now it is nice and quiet again. This of course is the engine with the pump removed. It covers those two holes in the block. Now I can get on with some collecting again.