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Tank is doing well, everything is happy and healthy. Cleaning the algae scrubber every couple of weeks is a pain and a little time consuming. The water cooled LED lights are still functioning as I expected. Clingfish and bangai cardinals seem happy. The biggest feeder is by far the copperband...

I have too many bristleworms and too many big bristleworms. They are not normally a problem unless they crawl into bed with you but they are a problem to certain invertebrates. Especially ones that shed like crabs and shrimp. I also have lost baby clams to them many times. My large arrow crab...

Thanks, I also have a wonderful skimmer :dance:

No, he uses a skimmer, he told me

It does seem very short for a fish that size. Maybe that's why they have live young that are very large at birth.

I am happy to report I found my clingfish. No, not dead and dried up on the floor like a prune, but happy and healthy near the place he used to hang out. After I removed a large rock that he used to call home, I couldn't find him for over a week. But I fed the tank some clams today and he...

According to Wikipedia, Bangai cardinals only live one to two years in the sea and a little longer in captivity which I assume is the reason one of mine has the beginnings of cataracts. I have them longer than that and will hope for the best. Quote: Unlike many other species of marine fish...

Here are a couple of pictures the guy on my boat took during that storm. This must have been after the rain stopped.

My tank seems to be doing great, no problems that I can tell. I recently "spoke" to Albert Thiel who informed me that bangai cardinals in the sea only live 2 or 3 years old. (which seems pretty short for a fish that size) Mine are older than that and one seems to be getting cataracts so I...

I have only been out in a worse storm than this one and that was 30 years ago. We were near shore but I don't have the type of boat you can beach and the shore was all bulkheads, docks and rocks so I couldn't go there. Normally if it had been just me and my wife or my normal boating crowd, I...

I love this red seaweed. I can collect it fairly easily here in New York when it is dead low tide and I anchor near shore. To bad it doesn't last too long.

Yesterday my wife and I took out three other people for dinner on our boat. I told them at least five times that there were dangerous storms and squalls in the area and it would be better if I just took them (by boat) to the restaurant right near my marina so if a storm started they could wait...

Target feeding my Clingfish. I target feed everything. The clingfish takes a little time to chew.

Target feeding my Clingfish. I target feed everything. The clingfish takes a little time to chew.

I thought you said it here: Oh, never mind, I see you said you were adding a separate breaker. I thought you said a separate GFCI breaker. I am wrong, sorry.

You said you were adding a GFCI breaker!

If you are adding one GFCI "breaker" it will trip and turn off everything on that circuit no matter how you wire it. (Master electrician 40 years)

Someone asked me a question about how I keep my tank immune, and I responded with this: Actually my system always had an infusion of bacteria and mud. I am not sure the tiny percent of NSW I use is of any consequence. I have not even collected any in probably 8 months. I do add a little mud and...

I really need to clean my powerheads today as they have a bunch of growth on them which is impeding the flow. Flow is very important and I like to see the water sloshing all over the place. In the sea the water moves much faster than we can provide in a tank. I also need to scrape the algae...

I haven't seen my male arrow crab in a few days so I know he is under a rock someplace growing a new shell as he must have shed. I also noticed 4 or 5 places on one of my yellow wrasses where he had some parasites on his tail. I view this as a good thing because I want parasites in my tank...