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  1. Paul B

    Moving My 47 Year old Reef Tank. OMG

    I really need to add my skimmer because I have foam that looks like hot chocolate that was made with bad milk forming on the surface of my water. Being that there is no top on the tank and it is in my workshop where the door is open all day to the outside the tank is also collecting a bunch of...
  2. Paul B

    Moving My 47 Year old Reef Tank. OMG

    I think my diatoms are pretty much gone. Must have gotten bored. I am starting to get a nice growth of algae on the back glass which I think is pretty essential so things can start growing and grazing there. Now I can start to add smaller fish that can hunt there. My mandarin seems pretty fat...
  3. Paul B

    Moving My 47 Year old Reef Tank. OMG

    I took pictures of my tank and they are still in my phone which is right next to my sleeping wife and a sleeping wife is a wife that is not asking me to go shopping for a bunch of stuff that we don't need or want and will return next week. I will post the pictures when I can get my phone...
  4. Paul B

    Moving My 47 Year old Reef Tank. OMG

    My tank now is full of diatoms. I could say I am "Battling" them but they really just sit there and don't fight back. Normally I would like this as it is a challenge, but I don't have time now and the front glass looks like sheet metal 10 minutes after I clean it. This is from the Long Island...
  5. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    The trip to our Daughters was uneventful for the most part. Except that I really hate Manhattan. I was born in New York city (brooklyn) and worked in Manhattan all my life but after I retired I figured I would never even have to see it on TV any more. Then our Daughter married a guy who grew...
  6. Paul B

    Moving My 47 Year old Reef Tank. OMG

    I finally filled my tank up almost to the top, now it will be easier for the fish to jump out. I collected some water when we were watching fireworks on the beach. Everyone was looking up at the fireworks and didn't notice the Geezer in the water with a bucket. :rolleyes: I just had to strain...
  7. Paul B

    Moving My 47 Year old Reef Tank. OMG

    I got new lights but I discovered after I opened the box that they are made in China so at the first opportunity, I will junk them. But they are very bright. All my fish are straining to close their eyes and they don't realize they have no eyelids. so they are scrunching up their faces . The...
  8. Paul B

    Moving My 47 Year old Reef Tank. OMG

    My fish all had to get plastic surgery to make their face bigger to fit their smiles. They are so happy they poop in rainbow colors. The fireclowns are spawning so much they give me a headache and the water smells like eggs benedict. I have not fed my mandarin in a month and he is still in...
  9. Paul B

    Moving My 47 Year old Reef Tank. OMG

    I bought out all the electrical adapters from Home Depot so I am going to Lowes today. My extremely cool water cooled LED lighting system croaked. The room is so damp that the entire fixture was dripping with water and shorted the entire thing out. The LEDs on there have connections so close...
  10. Paul B

    Moving My 47 Year old Reef Tank. OMG

    I still have about fifty lbs of gravel I need to clean as it is sitting in vats of muddy water from my old tank. I also have the same amount of rocks sitting in that water that I will have to fit in somewhere (not all of it because I built some new rocks) The water level is still about 2" low...
  11. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I "built" that bottle and a few others to look like that..
  12. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    There are maybe 9. I am pretty sure I didn't add them all yet because much of my rock and gravel isn't in there yet. None of them are actually beer bottles. Most are antiques that I found while SCUBA diving the rest I built out of wine or perfume bottles.
  13. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I just checked my tank and the temp was about 70, the lights were also on for the last 2 or 3 nights and the water level is about 6" low. The fish and corals don't seem to mind and it is not something I did on purpose. I am just a little busy now with the move. Many people have had solutions...
  14. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I put a toilet bowl in my new workshop today and it is the type they use in Europe where it flushes out the back. Anyway I have installed dozens of toilet bowls and they are a no brainer. I got this thing from Amazon and it came in a nice box. I am sure the box costs much more then the fixture...
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