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Last night we again took my boat to the Statue of Liberty as we do a couple of times every year. I still get teery when I get near her. It was a nice trip and we stopped for dinner at a sea side restaurant in Queens. These pictures are from last year but it is the same scene so just make...

Actual I was going to say that that projector is really only an 8MM and not a Super 8. Super 8s were very valuable because they were all owned by Supermodels or used to show movies of Supermodels. I don't have a Super 8 anymore and I am not sure which Supermodel took it. Ryan, life is what...

Here is my projector. I think it is the same one Columbus used to entertain his crew on his ride over here. The thing still works.

Yesterday I went downstairs to do something creative, I don't remember, maybe trim my ear or nose hair and I noticed the carpet around the tank was damp. The tank is in a closet and has sat in this spot, on this home made stand since 1979. I didn't think the tank was leaking because this has...

It's not Victoria's secret, but a secret none the less

I posted this someplace else and decided to put it here, because I like it. If you don't want to read it, I think Oprah is giving away free Cadillac's to homeless cats. I have killed so many fish that I probably have helped with the extinction. Why do you think we thought Coelacanth's were...

No equipment, just my hand. Here are some video's but they were taken with my SCUBA camera so put the sound all the way up or you can't hear it.

N,I started my tank with water from here and add mud, snails, seaweed and amphipods all summer long. I run a very natural tank that depends on the "wild" bacteria which is another reason I don't quarantine as that is IMO un-natural and I couldn't do it using my approach and system. This is...

Yesterday I went to my favorite tide pool with my boat and did some collecting. (as I always do) It is the beginning of amphipod season and I collected thousands or maybe millions of them. Right now they are in an open net in my tank so they can swim, (or crawl) out at their leisure. I add...

After about 16 years one of my fireclowns feels he must bond with an anemone. I don't have any anemones so he is using a very large (and expensive) Duncan for a host. The Duncan is not amused and has not opened in a couple of weeks. I would like to spear the fireclown but probably would miss...

So it's been a week and this is what I have so far. Some streaks. The blobs are pieces of algae that I stuck on there to "seed" it but it looks like I didn't need to do that. A am not sure why it is growing in those streaks but I assume in a few weeks the thing will be covered in algae. If...

That is true, but the cabinet the tank is in is wood and a fire hazard, and the basement that the cabinet is in is wood and most of the house that the basement is under is wood so everything is a fire hazard. That light is a low voltage LED so not much chance of burning anything.

I realize that but I do my own research through my own experiments and come to conclusions that way. All of mine also used plastic mesh. Fire is not a problem as the thing is always soaking wet as water is constantly flowing over it. I am trying the cotton as an experiment because of the...

The thing started to grow algae from the top down. I added some iron paper clips to the cloth to see if the algae grows faster in those places. It's a test

That is very cool although I wouldn't eat that. But I like it.

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This is the original experiment. This was a small sheet of cotton material draped over the algae trough. Water is not even pumped over it, it is just wet from one edge laying in the water flow inside the trough. I peeled algae from this to seed the new device. This grew in a few weeks.

Sorry double post

That is a Tee Shirt. I drilled a hole into the tube that feeds my Reverse UG filter but any small pump will work. The water just drips out the holes enough to wet the shirt and drip down into the tank. Algae grows like crazy on this material because there is no water to filter the light. I...

I have been experimenting with this concept and so far the small version grew an enormous amount of algae so I built one on a larger scale. It is basically just a cotton sheet suspended over my tank by an acrylic tube that has holes drilled in it which tank water drips through slowly flowing...