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I just looked on my RC gallery, I don't have that picture of that sponge on there anymore. I have thousands of pictures so I don't really want to look for it but you will see the stuff on floating docks. This time of the year it will be just a brown coating. It gets larger when it warms up slightly

OK another, I am partial to this guy, we are old friends ;D

Mike, here is my newest watchman. Maybe he will turn color.

As for that study (that I did not write) the last line states that DSBs of a shallower design work better and do not have the problem of the nitrates re entering the water column as ammonia to be re converted back to nitrates. Very deep beds run into that problem. My own personal study states...

Yes I do, I stick my hand in the water and rip them off the dock, then I stick them in a container in the freezer ;D They only grow about an inch high and they rip easily so you can't get all of it when you tear it from the dock but there are plenty of them. Do not collect the red tree sponges...

Very easy to collect. How about I tell you where they are, and you go and collect ;D

I spoke to Pedro about it and told him what type of sponges I collect. They are only found on floating docks just a few inches below the surface. They are light brown and look like the mushrooms you see on dead wood. They are very easy to rip off the docks by hand and they freeze well. I collect...

My Moorish Idol was five years old when I killer him in an accident while I was away. I have a few of them but before I bought the last one I went to Bora Bora to dive with them. I spent a week underwater following them (along with long nosed butterflies) I learned a few things that I diden't...

Mike, after thinking about it I realize you may be correct about those gobies being Watchmans. The two that are spawning were never yellow in my tank but the third one that I have looks exactly like them, he was yellow as a baby. I remember he changed color in a very short while, like two weeks...

This picture was recently taken by my dive partner in the Caymans, see the white dots to the left of the nurse shark? They are fry and are all over a healthy reef. Fish snack on these all day. :P

Bill after using them for over forty years I would have seen a paracite by now ;D

Hey Boomer, how are you? Fancy meeting you here. I just got here yesterday. I saw this thread and since I had my water recently tested by a commecial lab I figured I would post it here. As you know my tank is 39 years old and some of that original water is still inthere so a lab tested it for...

Sounds good but the oldest DSB I know about was 10 years old. Most of my fish are older than that and some are almost twice as old. Are there any 15 year old DSBs? If not, why not? What happened to them? They were invented about 20 years ago. I am interested in the process as to what goes wrong...

It seems that so far the oldest DSB on here is 8 years. I know there are some older ones out there, anyone else?

Reflections, I told Bill that he can post anything I have ever written, anywhere he likes. I get that a lot about things that can't be done. This fire clown in the center of the picture probably can't live for 15 years in a tank with a RUGF. He can't he is almost 17 ;). But I never told him that...

I don't know anything about that worm place, I just needed to show worms.

California Black worms (not tubifex) http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Live%20Food,%20Blackworms.htm

Here is the worm keeper I designed. You need shallow water and a constant flow over the worms. There is an airstone in the left tube which brings water up and over the worms. The right tube sends the water down. There are a few plastic screens formed into a circle to keep the worms from...

THose were my favorite years ;D Bill. Blackworms are not tubifex worms. Tell your LFS to go check a website. California Black worms are bred in ponds in California and other places, tubifex worms which are thinner come from drainage ditches. Just Google California Blackworms and you will see...

Reflections, guppies do not count. Even if they are acclimated to saltwater they are still fresh water fish and do not contain the proper oils. Mollies are also not saltwater fish even though they can live in saltwater. They are brackish but you need ocean living fish, fish that always live in...