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  1. Paul B

    blange3's 180 upgrade

    So does that mean you will be putting bottles, chains, and cans in your tank with asphalt rocks, NYC water with associated mud and an occasional baby flounder?
  2. Paul B

    blange3's 180 upgrade

    I use this to feed blackworms and everything else. I don't know how you guys run a reef without one. I use it every day, many times a day for cleaning, feeding, blowing things, etc ;)
  3. Paul B

    blange3's 180 upgrade

    California Blackworms are not tubifex. Tubifex are thinner and are collected in drainage ditches, Blackworms are raised in ponds. I have been using them since the sixtees. A few weeks of feeding these and if all else is well, your fish should get into spawning condidtin, but only use them as a...
  4. Paul B

    Things we shouldn't keep - successes and failures.

    I just looked on my RC gallery, I don't have that picture of that sponge on there anymore. I have thousands of pictures so I don't really want to look for it but you will see the stuff on floating docks. This time of the year it will be just a brown coating. It gets larger when it warms up slightly
  5. Paul B

    Welcome To NJRC! Take a minute to introduce yourself

    OK another, I am partial to this guy, we are old friends ;D
  6. Paul B

    You can't run a tank that way!

    Mike, here is my newest watchman. Maybe he will turn color.
  7. Paul B

    DSB/RDSB? Think Again People

    As for that study (that I did not write) the last line states that DSBs of a shallower design work better and do not have the problem of the nitrates re entering the water column as ammonia to be re converted back to nitrates. Very deep beds run into that problem. My own personal study states...
  8. Paul B

    Things we shouldn't keep - successes and failures.

    Yes I do, I stick my hand in the water and rip them off the dock, then I stick them in a container in the freezer ;D They only grow about an inch high and they rip easily so you can't get all of it when you tear it from the dock but there are plenty of them. Do not collect the red tree sponges...
  9. Paul B

    Things we shouldn't keep - successes and failures.

    Very easy to collect. How about I tell you where they are, and you go and collect ;D
  10. Paul B

    Things we shouldn't keep - successes and failures.

    I spoke to Pedro about it and told him what type of sponges I collect. They are only found on floating docks just a few inches below the surface. They are light brown and look like the mushrooms you see on dead wood. They are very easy to rip off the docks by hand and they freeze well. I collect...
  11. Paul B

    Things we shouldn't keep - successes and failures.

    My Moorish Idol was five years old when I killer him in an accident while I was away. I have a few of them but before I bought the last one I went to Bora Bora to dive with them. I spent a week underwater following them (along with long nosed butterflies) I learned a few things that I diden't...
  12. Paul B

    You can't run a tank that way!

    Mike, after thinking about it I realize you may be correct about those gobies being Watchmans. The two that are spawning were never yellow in my tank but the third one that I have looks exactly like them, he was yellow as a baby. I remember he changed color in a very short while, like two weeks...
  13. Paul B

    UG Filters

    This picture was recently taken by my dive partner in the Caymans, see the white dots to the left of the nurse shark? They are fry and are all over a healthy reef. Fish snack on these all day. :P
  14. Paul B

    UG Filters

    Bill after using them for over forty years I would have seen a paracite by now ;D
  15. Paul B

    aquarium water testing .com results.

    Hey Boomer, how are you? Fancy meeting you here. I just got here yesterday. I saw this thread and since I had my water recently tested by a commecial lab I figured I would post it here. As you know my tank is 39 years old and some of that original water is still inthere so a lab tested it for...
  16. Paul B

    DSB/RDSB? Think Again People

    Sounds good but the oldest DSB I know about was 10 years old. Most of my fish are older than that and some are almost twice as old. Are there any 15 year old DSBs? If not, why not? What happened to them? They were invented about 20 years ago. I am interested in the process as to what goes wrong...
  17. Paul B

    DSB/RDSB? Think Again People

    It seems that so far the oldest DSB on here is 8 years. I know there are some older ones out there, anyone else?
  18. Paul B

    You can't run a tank that way!

    Reflections, I told Bill that he can post anything I have ever written, anywhere he likes. I get that a lot about things that can't be done. This fire clown in the center of the picture probably can't live for 15 years in a tank with a RUGF. He can't he is almost 17 ;). But I never told him that...
  19. Paul B

    UG Filters

    I don't know anything about that worm place, I just needed to show worms.
  20. Paul B

    UG Filters

    California Black worms (not tubifex) http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Live%20Food,%20Blackworms.htm
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