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  1. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I just ordered 10 more 3 watt LEDs and a driver. The next time I go to the hardware store or HD I will get another 5' aluminum square channel and just build the thing. My reef now only has 36 LEDs and the tank is 6' long so it is way under lit. This will increase it to 46 LEDs which is still...
  2. Paul B

    Long spine urchin

    This guy has been in my reef so many years I have no idea when I got it. Never hurt anything, except me.
  3. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    The date on the Supermodel on the right is 1986 so she may be a Grand Mother Supermodel now. The one behind my band saw I took off the wall in a photo processing plant in about 1980 or so. I think it was an advertisement for make up or something.
  4. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I took a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZA8aJnkVJM&feature=youtu.be
  5. Paul B

    Conversation with my 2 1/2 year old Grand Daughter

    Oak-a-Nuts is very cool.
  6. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    The tank cleared up nicely after the 2 typhoons. I didn't even lost the bluestripe pipefish as I usually do. Maybe they took a trip when I did it. I may still do it again if I get time before boating season because I cant hit all the places because the corals are larger than they used to be...
  7. Paul B

    Conversation with my 2 1/2 year old Grand Daughter

    Conversation between my 2 1/2 year old Grand Daughter Greta and my Daughter (her Mother) "Does God have a dog?" "I'm not sure. Probably, because he invented dogs so he probably likes them and has a bunch. If I meet him one day, I'll ask him." "Can I come?" "Someday. But maybe not with me."...
  8. Paul B

    I like to keep slightly harder fish

    That noise is the fans on my LED light fixture that I built. But it does sound like an old 16MM film camera which I still have by the way. Why, are they out of style now?
  9. Paul B

    I just realized my reef is 44 years old this month.

    Like this http://www.saltwatersmarts.com/diy-target-feeder-mandarinfish-pipefish-2804/
  10. Paul B

    I like to keep slightly harder fish

    I keep a few offer, more unusual fish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISZ7-483Scw&feature=youtu.be
  11. Paul B

    I just realized my reef is 44 years old this month.

    I picked up another shrimpfish today. I can't stand it, they are just to cool. They had two of them and one was dead. Although the dead one was very cheap, I took the still alive one. I am sure in a few days he will be in fighting shape in my tank. Yes, I know these are not shrimpfish. I...
  12. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I got one filter going great and made another typhoon because you can't have to many typhoons. This is s a good one as I can't see the back of my tank so I know I am sucking out a couple of years worth of muck. I think the diatom will last for the entire cleaning. I repaired the bag, stopped...
  13. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    My workbench looks like a diatom re-design factory. The XL is on the left, I think I have two more units stored away somewhere in various stages of disassembly. It is odd, that the motors are the same but the large XL unit on the left has a much smaller impeller. I never figured that out. I...
  14. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I thought you couldn't stir a DSB or you will be cursed and spend the rest of eternity in the fusion zone.
  15. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Doing some much needed maintenance. Once a year or so I stir up the gravel as good as I can all the way down to the reverse UG filter. This typhoon makes a mess and the pipefish are making nasty faces at me as I normally lose my bluestripe pipefish when I do this, but I am going slow and...
  16. Paul B

    I just realized my reef is 44 years old this month.

    I am not sure about that, but it is the oldest tank in my house. But I am the oldest thing in my house. I will try to light those candles underwater. Maybe the nitrate will help them burn
  17. Paul B

    Feed your fish

    I think I write somewhere between Tolstoy, Hemmingway and Dr, Seuss so the book is between "War and Peace", "old Man and the Sea", and "Horton Hears a Who". I hope to get a Pulitzer and an EMMY but will settle for a slice of Pizza Dance This book will make me rich beyond my wildest...
  18. Paul B

    I just realized my reef is 44 years old this month.

    I forgot all about it. It just cycled
  19. Paul B

    Feed your fish

    I can't either
  20. Paul B

    Feed your fish

    I think I can keep a moorish Idol indefinately now but my tank is not big enough so I won't be getting another one. Oddly enough, Idols were one of the first fish available in the 70s. I don't keep worms in the fridge, I built a worm keeper. I wrote this article about them...
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