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That diatom filter stalled and over heated before the job was done so I took it apart and cleaned the bearings. I also drilled large holes in the end plates of the motor and even drilled holes right through the brass bearings so I can put oil right on the armature shaft while it is running. So I...

I decided to do a little maintenance today but I have to do it very gently as bluestripe pipefish don't survive these typhoons. Every time I have done this I lost them and they are a breeding pair so I want to keep them. Once or twice a year my tank depends on stirring up the gravel all the...

I have to hold off on some UG filter maintenance for a couple of years as bluestriped pipefish don't survive typhoons. A couple of times a year I normally use my diatom filter to mix the gravel all the way down to the UG filter plate but every time I have done that, I lost the bluestripes. Their...

That's also what keeps me going :)

I am finally at the point in my life and the life of my reef tank where I know I can relax and nothing is going to happen. Well, I may become senile and the Earth may be invaded by aliens, global warming may disturb some polar bears and people will lost interest in Myley Cyrus, but besides that...

These suckers do eat a lot. They now compete with the coppperband which is the biggest eater by far. I still think the two pistol shrimp are spawning but I can't be sure, they just have that look on their eye stalks. Right now I have the pumps off because I always do that when I feed the...

According to my big boiler temperature on the wall, it looks like about 78 today.

If they get big, I have a plan to get them out. Not a very good plan but a plan none the less.

I got them here on the Island. They have a few of them but they guy told me they stay small, this site says they get up to 8" so I may soon have to get the fishing pole out. http://www.reefs2go.com/product/F-MISC-BANANA/Banana-Fish-pentapodus-nemurus.html I get all sorts of information about...

I got 2 bananna fish today, just because I can

In the summer I harvest them myself and eat most of them. In the winter I harvest them in a store. I also harvest oysters, but they are to good to give to my fish. When I get oysters, the fish eat cake.

I used to think it was so amazing that all corals would all grow those same little cement plugs on the bottom. Who would have thought. The lights just came on in my tank and I was looking for something un orthodox to write about in this thread, but all I see is the aluminum DIY LED light fixture...

I have some time to just look at my tank and I like to do that with the pumps off. All the fish come out, the crabs look around in astonishment, the brittle stars peek out and the pipefish get a chance to hunt without their prey flying all around them. Occasionally I see some sort of amphipod...

Yeah but corals are easy, how many people have a spawning clown gobi? As long as the gobi's are happy, the corals will grow someplace else. The fish don't really care how much they cost either.

I am not sure how long I will be able to keep acropora. My clown gobies spawn every two weeks but they only spawned on one of them. They destroyed it and there isn't much left of it and now they are spawning on the other larger one. Their eggs take up about an inch of tissue and it kills the...

I realize a lot of people have problems with mandarins and I designed a feeder for them to allow them to eat new born brine shrimp all day and that will certainly keep them alive but if you are stuck with a very skinny mandarin and you want to fatten him up quickly there is something else we can...

Clams, that is my home made food. Just clams.

Last night I collected some scurvy seaweeds, algae and muck from the side of a wooden dock on the south side of Long Island. It is now suspended in a net in my tank as I just want the bacteria and amphipods but not the slimy looking algae. This is another one of my methods that purists will...

I just collected some mud for the bacteria on the South Shore of Long Island. The water is 45 degrees and the mud is loaded with amphipods. I will dump them in my tank tomorrow.

I found my pipefish, alive and well watching TV in the back of the tank. I still have the pair of bluestripes and the dragon face. I think the bluestripes had a little argument and decided that they would spend some time apart, but now they look to be starting the spawning dance again so I...