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Beautiful morning for a walk.

My Parsley caterpillars are starting to turn into beautiful butterflies.

I did test the nitrate in the Sound and it is 10. I didn't test for phosphates. The rocks at the shore are all covered in algae. We are also surrounded by farms.

I have a lot more hair algae in my tank now than I would like. It's from the Long Island Sound water that I collect and I can't collect it any more because of the nutrients from all the golf courses and farms around here. If I want to collect NSW now I have to travel almost an hour east to get...

Thank you Diana, I did have a little help. :D

Yesterday the "Honor Flight" organization invited me along with 50 other Veterans who came on the flight to Washington DC with me to a reunion where they honored us again with a big presentation and band. They read my Army Bio. as they did with everyone else. I didn't realize it but it was...

I have no idea. Some type of decorator crab. I have many things in my tank that I have no idea what they are. Of course, I also don't care. :cool:

I love this crab but I rarely can find him, so I took a picture on one of his rare forays in front of the tank.

I collected these caterpillars on my parsley plants and they are forming Chrysalis and will soon turn into big butterflies.

This red sponge is what I used to feed my Idol. He would practically jump out of the tank for this stuff. I took this yesterday off my friends floating wooden dock on Long Island New York. It only grows near the surface and I could never keep it alive in a tank but it freezes well. I would...

No, they don't eat pods. They need meaty food. I feed them pieces of clams and earthworms. I have to target feed them or they are to stupid and slow to find food on their own especially with 40 other hungry fish stealing their food as they are rather slow.

I got them for about half that. :D

Thats great Diana. I may ask you to read my first 10 pages just to get your opinion. I need someone who doesn't know my stories to get a real perspective as my friends and wife knows all of them by now. :)

Today I am staining my wood root table base. Here it is before the stain dried. It will lighten up when it's dry. I think. I just wanted to bring out the grain and not necessarily darken it. It used a lot of stain because it's rough and has a lot of limbs coming off of it. I still have to...

Nice piece, but I hope you have a really, really big tank. :cool:

Last night we went out with friends to a really nice restaurant that we occasionally go to about 15 minutes from my home. It is almost impossible to get in so we made reservations for 4:30. It was a Wednesday so we didn't think the place would get crowded. We ate in the garden which is really...

I am partial to 1955 Oldsmobiles but I was a mechanic for them in 1968 :cool:

How do you know I don't? :D Dave, I live on a 150 mile long Island. There is driftwood all over the place. Much of it is drift "telephone poles, driftwood pieces of docks and driftwood Oldsmobiles"