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I found out that scopas tang is 7 years old. The thing was in his sump and wasn't fed in 3 weeks because he ran out of food.

Yes, he certainly has HLLE but it looks like he has had it for a number of years. It's not only his epidermis but the underlying tissues. This is a stark contrast to my pristine looking fish. I don't care about the disease, they are just mush to big for my tank which was already over stocked.

Well I think this will be a test of my theory and my tank. My good "friend" is getting out of the hobby and he just came over with a bucket of fish and corals that I kind of had to take. He told me he had a "small" blue angelfish that I had to take with the corals because he didn't know what to...

Good Morning. I had shoulder surgery in February which went great but recently I have been getting there terrible pains in my arm near the surgery. Of course the surgeon said it's not his surgery so he sent me to a pain management doctor. She stuck a needle in my arm about 13 times and each...

I added silicate remover and tested the tank water. The reading went way down to almost not readable so hopefully the sponge that is taking over my tank will croak. I also tested my NSW and the reading is very high so I assume thats where my silicates came from. I have been using this stuff for...

Yesterday I took out my wife's bathtub so I could do the plumbing and electric for the new walk in, handicapped, jacuzzi tub. I had to promise our Daughter that I would get a contractor for this because she figures I am to old and should just watch someone else put it in. I did try. I hired a...

Good Mothers Day Morning. Yesterday in my town they arrested a bunch of Jibonies stealing catalytic converters from under cars. (they steal these things because they are filled with platinum coated pellets) They jack up a car and using a gas saw (a very loud gas saw) they cut the thing out...

My Ruby Red dragonette is pregnant again. You really can't stop healthy fish from spawning. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes: If I had the time and space I would raise these things and mandarins. Very easy fish as long as your tank is set up properly. :)

I just got this cool bathtub for my wife. It has a door for her to get in and it is very deep. There is a seat in it and a shower. It also has a UV light I guess so you don't get any ick. It has heat, bubbles and Jacuzzi jets Now I just have to break out the old tub and install the thing. It's...

I was looking through my Log book that I started in 1971. I won't publish the entire book because frankly I would probably be embarassed of some of the stupid things I did. :oops: At the beginning of my log book I started writing a book about the different fish and how to keep them. Remember at...

Good Morning. After my walk this morning my wife and I were eating breakfast and I had the TV on in the background. We have a Long Island news channel here and they talk about what is happening locally. They mentioned a murder in a town near here so we listened. Then they mentioned the street...

They make clay bricks that are almost perfect. They are dark red and you can get them with 3 or 4 holes in them. If you position some of these in a quarantine tank the fish take to them much better than plain white plastic. If you take some PVC elbows down to a real reef and place them on a...

Why do fish, and us have a lifespan? Why can't we live forever like Moses who was supposed to live 900 years. (I doubt he lived a day over 600) There is actually a reason we have a life span and none of us ever lived longer than 122 years and that was only one French woman who didn't have a...

Sponges are known to release compounds in reef water that stunts, kills and even induces bleaching in stony corals. Sure it’s probably no big deal to have a few small cute sponges in your reef tank and refugium. But a big population of sponges, mostly hiding where the sun don’t shine, and where...

2 or so years ago I built a DIY de-nitrate reactor just for fun. I didn't think it was actually going to do anything and it is behind my tank so I hardly ever even see the thing but today I am going to PT and I needed to kill an hour so I figured I would test the water coming out of it. I...

Sounds like a good idea. Besides this blue photosynthetic sponge I also have numerous sponges in the dark caves of which I have many. I guess if your tank lasts long enough it fills with all sorts of things we don't want. :eek2:

Diana thank you for that link. My sponge is pictured there and I knew it was photosynthetic. Unfortunately I put it in my tank years ago before I knew how invasive it was. Now it is here to stay and I am to old to take everything out of the tank to clear off sponge. I would have to just put...

I am slowly making a big change to my tank. I have so much blue encrusting sponge that I think it is either sucking nutrients out of my water or it is adding some sort of toxin. It is beautiful and looks like light blue montipora but you can't eliminate it. You can see a milky substance come out...

A visit to the doctor’s office here would go something like this. First thing in the morning you would call the doctor’s office and get elevator music with a recording that says "Your call is important to us, stay on the phone and your call will be answered by the next available operator". You...