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I took a video of the thing working. The mandarins also hang out on it but they are afraid of me and run away as soon as I get near the tank. You can see the male mandarin to the left at the start but he leaves when he sees the camera because he got up on the wrong side of the tank today and...

I can take a video, or you can put your face near your monitor and move your head back and forth. Dance OK, I will try to do a video. Here is a video of the other feeder in that spot. I will put this one back when I get home.

The first batch of eggs hatched in the feeder and the pipefish and mandarins are all over it like a cheap suit. I love it. There is a dragon face pipe laying on the thing but he is white so hard to see, then there is a multi stripe pipe and the pregnant mandarin.

My bangai cardinals finally grew enough to do the mating dance but that is not an accomplishment with bangai's as they spawn like guppies and it is hard to have a pair of them not spawn. I will probably not try to raise the fry as I am never able to catch them. I built a new baby brine feeder...

Those little "in tank" brine shrimp hatcheries all work on the same principal and I have designed a few larger ones for my 100 gallon tank. It is simple to make such things, but I needed an automatic one that will also dispense the eggs into the device twice a day with no help from me, and keep...

Not only are they suitable, they are almost a necessity. Most pipefish will not eat dead food and it is silly to "teach" them to eat dead food unless you want to give them a piece of dead food every 5 minutes as they are supposed to eat. I cringe when I hear people are trying to feed pipefish...

To update my tank, all is well. The mandarins are still spawning, the 2 pipefish are doing nicely as is the possum wrasse. I would like to get a mate for him (or her) the copperband is gorgeous if not a little big. 2 bananafish are well but one has a little pop eye which I could cure in a...

Hatching is easy, don't be a sissy. Just build a hatchery and your seahorses will love you forever

You don't need something as elaborate for seahorses. I hatch shrimp and separate the eggs in this every day for my pipefish, it just doesn't do it automatically. I only need this when I go away for a while.

I often have to go out of town and with pipefish that only eat live newborn brine shrimp that is always a problem. I have a tank sitter that can feed the fish but I can't ask her to hatch brine shrimp every day and sit there while the pipefish eat for an hour so I designed this device which is...

Soon I will be going on a trip for a few days so I am working on an automatic brine shrimp hatchery to feed the pipes while I am gone. I have two designs I am working on and will use the best one, or both of them if they both work. The rest of the fish will be fine as they know how to open the...

My powerhead died so I put in one of my 40 year old pumps with a homemade strainer on it and it managed to eat one of my favorite multibanded pipefish. I hate when that happens. Now I screened the thing and tomorrow I will see if I can get another multibanded pipe. They are not easy to come...

My fish all seem to be doing very well except for the two bananafish. It is weird but they both have eye problems. One had pop eye in the left eye and one has it in the right eye. Fish can get along just fine with one eye and I could easily cure it if I could catch them, but that isn't going...

So I took the "Ladies" out for the moonlight cruise last night then dropped them off at my marina where they had dinner. It was Lobster night. I sat at the bar and ordered a hamburger. I wanted the Ahi Tuna burger but that was $22.00 so I went with the $18.00 hamburger. Yeah, I know. So the guy...

Here are some sights at the tide pool where I collect and just hang out. You kind of need a boat to get here and there is never anyone here. I have been going here for most of my life and I anchor just off here every weekend to party which is where we were an hour ago. Mud snails I could...

While they are checking my E Mail they could maybe answer some of them for me. My E mail may also confuse people as there is never anything important on there unless they want the recipe for linguini and clams or directions to a restaurant that serves clams on the half shell ;) I was a General...

I don't think so, I think they are Jibonies with devious minds. Like people who design car and boat engines. I was a mechanic for GM and I never hired anyone for anything but I constantly have to re-design all sorts of things for both the cars and boat because they just seem so stupidly...

The phone wasn't the problem, that was a Verizon upgrade and worked right away. They installed her aps and 200 pictures as well as her contacts. The problem was this Hot Spot thing that allows her lap top to work anyplace her cell phone works. It does not rely on wifi. We will try it out now on...

I don't care if it cost $10,000.00, I just want the stupid thing to work when I get it home without spending my retirement putzing with it.