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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...

From my notes it looks like my tank had nothing but diseases but then I realized that I only wrote something in the log book when something happened, like a disease. I rarely wrote anything if nothing was happening as I have months in between logging anything. In the very beginning it was all...

The tank is still doing well. No problems, no diseases, no quaranting etc. I have lost some corals in the last couple of years. A couple of nice bubble corals and a bunch of acropora. I don't care about the acropora because that was the clown gobies that spawned all over it and killed it...

I had this guy in my tank for quite a while and he got pretty big. But he always looked sad so a few weeks ago I went on E Harmony/Crab.com and found him a date. When I first put her in I thought it was love at first sight because he "ran" right over to her. But it was really love at first...

LOL. I actually did taka a mechanical engineering course but I always printed fairly well. In grammar school we had to do something in large print, about an inch high and we had to do it freehand. They called my Mother into school because they thought I cheated and used a ruler. :grin...

I was just on my deck feeding my tomato plants when I noticed a wasp nest in my air conditioner. I didn't know if it was an old nest as I didn't see any wasps. So I (smartly) banged on the air conditioner and immediately got my answer. One of them, the meanest one I assume because he seemed...

This picture from probably 1979 or 80 shows the green dead corals that were transported from the tank in my old home and the new, bleached white ones must have been the new ones I bought to take up the extra space because this tank was much larger. I can see I was building my basement around the...