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It works in all areas and out east thats how we would do it. Once we hade two bushels of live crabs and we put them in my cousin's basement. It was cool there and there was a sand floor because he didn't pour the concrete yet. There was also no lights. The next day we went down there and the...

TanksNStuff, yes I did enjoy it. It sounds a lot like my life. Growing up on Long Island I spent many hours on muddy beaches and sand bars digging for clams. And crabbing either with the chicken leg or the four sided traps was my favorite thing to do, still is. It is such a shame that today kids...

Thats where I got my first saltwater fish.

:congratulatory: Not yet

Getting into this hobby was easy for me. My family owned a seafood business and I grew up playing with dead fish so it was natural for me to start a tank. Of course at 2 or 3 years old I needed a little help. On fridays my Dad would bring me to the Fulton Fish Market in Manhattan which was...

Today I think I will go to a new LFS that opened up near here. I have a choice of about 6 LFSs with in a few miles of my house but most of them always get the same old boreing, common things. How many yellow tangs, angelfish and triggers do we need? I want to get a male mandarin to date my...

I can't post a decent picture of that because, by design, you can't see those supports. It is hard to see in this (lousy) picture because it is dark under the rockwork but almost all of the main structure is off the bottom.

That is new. Iinstalled it a few months ago when I removed all the rock to re aquascape and do some cleaning. It is PVC pipe for the thick parts and acrylic rod for the circular part. Al of my reef is now supported by these "columns" or whatever you want to call them. Here are some of the...

I don't know how all of you guys top off your water but being I started this thread I will get into it a little the way I do it. I guess you figured out that I like to build and modify things. My top off system is totally automatic and I only have to touch it every year or so. I hung this...

I am running out of un orthodox things to post about but I think just about everything I do is unorthodox and when someone comes to look at my tank, they seem kind of surprised. Everyone notices the bottles. I like old coral encrusted bottles (and chains) Old rusty chains to me just remind me...

Over the years I think I did a few things that most people think is odd for some reason. To me my tank is supposed to be like a part of a reef or at least a part of the sea so I add whatever I find in the sea that I feel will either enhance the feeling or at least be interesting. We all know...

Rank does disappear after you retire but the guy was still a lot older than I am so it is a matter of respect no matter what his age.

Weinerdog, last night we sponsored a fund raiser for Multiple Sclerosis and the mayor or my town was there. He was also there at the Veteran's Day Cerimony. I told him about the Korean War Vet and he told me that he is just a crotchety old may with some issues. He may be but he is still a Vet...

Weinerdog, very nice post and thank you for your service. That is a long time to serve and I am honored to know you. I am also a proud Vet. I spent a year in the jungle of Viet Nam and Cambodia and I would do it all over again. I also miss my buddies who I served with. I lost many friends and...

Downbeach, thank you for posting that.

Today is again Veterans Day, the most important day of the year for all Americans. Lets thank the people we have now serving to protect us and the Veterans that went before them. A lot of guys gave all so we can be here talking about fish.

Unorthodox feeding methods Again, I thought everyone did this stuff. OK maybe not but it was always common sense to me. Like I said there was not always commercially available stuff to feed our animals. The hobby of keeping the animals started first, then the hobby about feeding and careing for...

The second unorthodox thing is chlorine bleach treatment of sea water. Don't do this. Don't do a lot of the things I do. I am not responsible for anything you do, so just take it for what it is, unorthodox. First of all let me say that I did not invent this, that was Robert Straughn "The...

Mad reefer, that is cool. Of course the baby most likely would have lived if you helped him hatch. But then again, maybe not. Most of us are not really fish or turtle doctors.

As I said, it usually fixes itself with no help (or holes in their head) from us. But then I would have nothing to write. :cry: