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  1. Paul B

    Two Methodoligies to keep a reef tank

    That's good to hear. Most people just throw rocks at me. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
  2. Paul B

    Stocking thoughts

    We hang our stockings from the mantle of our fireplace before Christmas..... Oh, you mean fish..Never mind.
  3. Paul B

    Two Methodoligies to keep a reef tank

    There are actually two very different methodiologies to run a reef tank. I am not talking about dosers, controllers, bio pellets, etc. I am talking about either qurantining everything or not quarantining anything but keeping everything immune. There are advantages and dis-advantages of each...
  4. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I finally found a use for the waste water from RO/DI. It was looking me in the face for years and all of a sudden as I was looking at my worm tank I said. "Like Duh". I am wasting all this water and my blackworm tank is right under my RO unit. So now the waste water goes into the worm...
  5. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    My closest friend and dive partner, Richie Natoli just moved to Key Largo and here is a couple of pictures he sent me, Below water And above
  6. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Not if you have a feeder and fill it every day. :grin:
  7. Paul B

    What's santa bringing you this year?

    I already got it. :grin:
  8. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Some of my fish at their feeder.
  9. Paul B

    What's santa bringing you this year?

    Being that I am Santa, I do the bringing. (with a lot of help of course) :grin:
  10. Paul B

    Water cooled LED fixture

    A friend gave me fifty lenses for my new water cooled LED fixture. They made a big difference and now I don't go blind when I open the front of the tank. They also cut down on the scattered light that was going all over the place as I hate to see the back of the tank. I still need about 20...
  11. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Now that my water cooled light works I think I will build another one for my algae scrubber. I think this one will be an air cooled copper one because it will be to small for a water pump. I just need to buy a copper plate about 8" square and I am going to solder fins all over the back and add...
  12. Paul B

    Water cooled LED fixture

    Actually a member is sending me some lenses for this thing. That should double the output and put the light where I want it. I go blind when I open the top of the tank
  13. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Heart attack is the thing you need to say, but eventually we will all say that and no one will get in because we will all seemingly will be having heart attacks. :eek: We are all recovering, thanks.
  14. Paul B

    Why do so many people leave the hobby?

    I was there this year.
  15. Paul B

    Water cooled LED fixture

    I just installed the new water cooled lights and they work perfectly. They seem brighter than my old lights and they should be because there are almost twice as many LEDs. I am running them a few inches higher than the old fixture for a day so the corals have time to put on sunscreen. So far...
  16. Paul B

    Why do so many people leave the hobby?

    I think if there were no problems it wouldn't interest me and we would call it stamp collecting. :dance:
  17. Paul B

    Why do so many people leave the hobby?

    Why do so many people get out of the hobby? This hobby has been around for 44 years and yet you can count the number of tanks that are at least 20 years old on one hand. OK, maybe two, I didn't really count, but work with me. The vast majority of threads are very new tanks and the second...
  18. Paul B

    Water cooled LED fixture

    Completed heat exchanger. I am so glad I decided to build it rather than buy a car heater core. It was a fun build and a core would have been very heavy and over-kill as I don't need that much cooling. I am getting the stitches out of my hand tomorrow and if I get the time I need to drive to...
  19. Paul B

    My Christmas Cop-out

    I have 4 of those Star Showers and one for inside the house. They are sold out but I want to get 3 more. Love the things.
  20. Paul B

    Water cooled LED fixture

    The system is finished except for the acrylic splash guard and some bleeder valves to get the air out of the system. It is being tested on my bench to see first of all how it runs and second, how efficient the cooling system is. Here is the heat exchanger. I still need to put it in a...
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