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Bristle worms, a few years ago these things were a sign of doom. We thought they would eat our corals, fish, TVs and I Pods. Sometimes my reef is full of tiny ones and other times like now there are only a few giant ones. I just fed the tank with blackworms, mysis and pellets and I was...

This poor thing was sitting at a bus stop and she came up to my car and asked me if I could explain UG filters to her. Exactly

Lets talk about Undergravel filters, no really. Old technology? maybe but so is running water. When we got tired of going outside to pump water, we didn't stop using water . We invented faucets. OK not a great analogy. In the beginning of the aquarium hobby, which was right after WW2 we all kept...

Amphipods don't jump into a net, you have to lift porous looking rocks on the muddy beach at low tide. If the mud is too fine there will be hydrogen sulfide and nothing will live, but if you find the right rocks just above the water line at low tide you can get hundreds of them on one rock. It...

They all look like that. ;) Except for the really cool ones, they have tattoos

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I never had a problem with either of them. Here is a picture I took in Tahiti.

I have always had them and never had a problem with either one but some people report differently

Today I added a copperband and long nose butterfly. These have always been my favorite fish and I have always had them in my reef. The copperband is not in the greatest health, he has flukes and some wounds. It is not very easy getting a very healthy one of those. I knew that when I saw him but...

Here are some of the little suckers in my algae trough

I can take some pics but I need a little time to shut down the skimmer and get some ambition. They are small so I need to get in there with a macro and it is a tight space. Also, no algae grows near these polyps. :o

As I was looking at my algae trough tonight I noticed a bunch of hair algae in there which is what I want, but I also noticed about 2 dozen polyps. They are soft, I thought they would be hard because they look like little 3/8" buttons but I touched them and they are soft. They are at the...

They are always hard to seperate fromcrud, I also have to do that. A frayed rope works well but it needs to be in the water for a few weeks to get just right for them, they don't like new ropes. I am not going collecting for a few weeks. Where I go, it needs to be low tide and I can only go a...

The rope should be up against a wooden pier if possable, they love wood, I guess they eat the products of decomposition and the porous wood offers them excellent low income housing.

A frayed rope is the best. If it stays there a few weeks, it should be full of amphipods. The ropes hanging off my dock are loaded.

You don't ned seaweed, you need rocks. You need to lift rocks or better yet pieces of wood from a muddy beach. You should get millions. Or if you have access to a boat ramp or any area that has rocks, take a think rope and unravel a couple of feet of it. Put it in the water so it is on the rocks...

It would be harder to make a mast light from LEDs because a mast light must have 360 degree visability and LEDs are directional. I get them from "ModelTrainsSoftware.com". To make a mast light you would need about 8 or 10 of them and position them in a circle with the tops facing out. I will...

About a quarter of my rock is made from that Sakrete Mortor Mix and I never had any problems with pH. As a matter of fact, I never had to adjust it and it is perfect. Here are some more rock supports that are in the tank.

I like to keep my rocks off my substrait as much as posable but most of my rocks are large and heavy because I collected them in the sea. Much of my new rock is hollow PVC with cement coating it. I am soon going to re aquascape and I will keep the rocks lifted off the gravel with these...

Can you solder? That is the main thing. These LEDs are mounted in a thin piece of acrylic that I drilled holes in. The LEDs are glued in with GOOP as you can't use hot gun glue (it is too hot) The copper ring is there to give it stability so it does not break when I push it into the socket.