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My tank seems to be doing pretty good but I think it's time to stir up the gravel and suck everything out with a diatom filter. This is always an adventure because my diatom filters are put together with a little luck, spit and hope. I have one working and have been thinking of building my own...

To Update, I installed the new Split unit AC yesterday and now the house feels like Alaska again and my wife and I are wearing our parka's. I may turn on the heat to counteract the AC. My tank is doing well. The corals look fine, the "newer" fish such as the possum wrasse (maybe 2 or 3 years...

I use those film canisters for everything. The book is supposed to be out the end of the summer so I assume that is the end of next month. I want it out more than you do as I want to read it and still see if I agree with myself.

I went to feed the tank and I noticed that the light over the algae trough was out and the skimmer was dry as was the algae trough. OMG. That lightning strike that nuked my AC and the pump for my worms also killed the light over the trough and my rather ancient powerhead. The powerhead has...

Thats why I don't leave the thing on when we are out. But it's all good, in a few days I will put in a new unit. Have a great night.

Yesterday as i was sitting in my living room with the AC on I noticed that it was getting warmer. It was about 92 degrees out but the AC usually works fine. I installed this unit through the brick wall about 15 years ago because there was one there when I bought the house so I replaced it when...

Immunity, just a thought We don't "yet" have vaccines for fish but we have learned to use vaccines for ourselves. We are still in the dark ages when it comes to fish diseases with just as many problems with fish diseases now as we had in 1971 when the marine hobby started. Many people still...

Today it will be 94 degrees and of course I am going out in my boat. I will anchor off my favorite tide pool to do a little collecting but amphipod season is over. I was there last week and it was slim pickins for amphipods. Today I will just get some mud for the bacteria and copepods which...

I replaced the wrasse that jumped out with this candy cane wrasse. I like him and may get another one My Marine beta is doing great, hard to get a good picture because he stays in the shadows and wants to be an Enigma. The mandarin just does what mandarin's do and my...

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I lost another fish last night by jumping out. (the fish, not me) That makes about 5 fish this year alone. I covered the place they normally jump and only have one more area to screen. Unfortunately the healthier a fish is, the higher they can jump.

I took a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ysdngGagoU

From eating so much tuna steak, I can now swim really fast. Or it might be from this extra fin that grew out of my back that you can see in the top picture

Last night was the best fireworks display for me personally (since the By Centinial) We were anchored out in a bay in the Long Island Sound about 100 yards from the fireworks barge so they exploded over our heads. Our closest, life long friends were with us, But the best part is that from...

My wife worked at the same place for 28 years and yesterday was her last day. I don't know weather I should be happy or look for some TNT to blow my brains out. She doesn't have the interests like I do as I am busy from 5:30 in the morning to about 9 at night, then I watch TV. She also has MS...

I just came back from collecting 30 gallons of NSW and I would swear this stuff gets heavier every time I collect it. Normally I don't do much to it except heat it and add a little ASW because the salinity here in New York is low for some reason but it is very turbid with all sorts of black...

Thanks Saltkreep88. I added this marine Betta today. I took his picture while I was acclimating him because now that he is in my tank, I doubt I will ever see the entire fish again as they are hiders.

My montipora's are growing back nicely along with everything else. A good friend of mine is getting married so he took his tank down and gave me 4 wrasses including these beauties.

Today I went down to my boat to do some important stuff (relax). I noticed plenty of grass shrimp around the boat and I collected a bunch. After looking at the expression on their faces I could tell that they would rather stay in the marina than my tank so I said good bye and set them free...

I couldn't find my male bluestripe pipefish or my male ruby red dragonette for a week. I am not sure if they went on vacation together or just out for a bite to eat. But now their back, and with no explanation. They won't let me know where they were and I am sure I will never know.