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  1. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    About water changes, (from someplace else) I am not sure how much we need to check Molybdenum or wash water from Columbus underwear in our tanks but I think we are looking much to deeply into this and I also don't think we need to count the pods a wrasse eats for lunch. I think we need to look...
  2. Paul B

    Moving My 47 Year old Reef Tank. OMG

    Hello, is any body here? It's awefully quiet. We are going to the old neighborhood today and I will get to my LFS. I hope they have some interesting corals and fish as I need to fill this tank. We are going there to see out Doctors. My Doctor is a Supermodel so I really just go there to see...
  3. Paul B

    Moving My 47 Year old Reef Tank. OMG

    I finally rinsed the rest:D of my gravel in fresh water to remove the bleach and added it to my reef. I didn't add all the rocks yet. But at least the gravel is up to the level it was in my last tank. I also turned on the Reverse UG filter just for kicks. You know no matter how much you...
  4. Paul B

    Moving My 47 Year old Reef Tank. OMG

    I plugged in the fan while I was holding it. The very first thing that happened, was that it tripped the breaker. :confused: That was one of the builders 15 amp GFCI breakers which is a silly, Sissy thing to have on a garage circuit. So I then held the fan and plugged it into one of the Real...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
  13. 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...
  14. 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...
  15. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I "built" that bottle and a few others to look like that..
  16. 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.
  17. 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...
  18. 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...
  19. Paul B

    Moving My 47 Year old Reef Tank. OMG

    I am trying to work on the tank but I am married and my wife has other plans. Today we are going shopping for Sissy stuff that we "need" so I have to make her happy even though I have a ton of things to do in my garage and workshop/man cave/ fish room. I can barely walk to the tank, half the...
  20. Paul B

    Moving My 47 Year old Reef Tank. OMG

    The tank is on the ground level and my condo is above it so until I get the elevator in, it is a hike to get up the stairs. A few weeks ago I had those 3 sets of shots in my knees. It is supposed to be some kind of Jell that takes up the place where meniscus used to be when I was 20. I think...
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