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I just trimmed a bunch of sponge again. It slowly creeps up around the corals and I don't notice it as it is very sneaky.
It is also not that easy to trim as the fireclown keeps biting me and to cut the stuff where it is on rough rock is not simple. Then I reach in to tear it off but like...
I finished a new Steam Punk Lamp. This one is strictly Steam Punk and there are no gears or motors.
You push down the lever with the weight on the chain and it contacts a magnet on the top of the vintage telephone box lighting the lamp. The water valve handle dims it.
That is a temporary...
I finished a new Steam Punk Lamp. This one is strictly Steam Punk and there are no gears or motors.
You push down the lever with the weight on the chain and it contacts a magnet on the top of the vintage telephone box lighting the lamp. The water valve handle dims it.
That is a temporary...
I finally got my resin printer to print. All the problems were my fault. I had to upgrade my computer and remove a piece of plastic from under the printing platform that read:
"REMOVE BEFORE PRINTING"
like Duh. So I designed and printed this test gear. It won't be able to function as a...
I just fed my tank Clams, mysis, LRS and live whiteworms which I have aprox a million.
I honestly have no idea how people stay in this hobby without feeding live worms. I have been using worms since they were invented by probably Ralph Nader a long time ago.
Whiteworms stay alive in salt...
I feel by far the fish with the most personality are puffers, porcupine fish or this burrfish.
I collected this tiny guy here in New York in the Atlantic. He must have got caught up in the Gulf Stream and ended up here on a Long Island beach in a few feet of water.
He was fingernail size. I...
Another creature with personality is hermit crabs.
Many years ago my best friend and dive partner were diving here in New York with in the City limits where the visibility was probably 36". We were diving for lobsters and for them there is no need to see far because there is no swimming...
Why I find Tangs Boring.
Many fish such as copperband butterflies, puffers some wrasses etc. have a definite personality and if you look close you can see it in their actions and eyes. Yes their eyes have expressions, not like Angelina Jolie but it's there. :cool:
Tangs, being schooling fish...
Today my wife is going out with her friends for her Birthday. Maybe I will diatom filter my gravel and remove some cyano. Or go to a bar and get drop dead drunk.
No, I think I will diatom filter my tank and remove some Cyano. :cool:
I may. My last one, in this picture lived about 5 years which is a complete failure. Where I used to live I could collect a sponge on floating docks that my idol would practically jump out of the water for. It doesn't grow where I live now and that was my major food. If I can find it growing...
I think Copperbands are a little more delicate than most fish but I also think some of that has to do with quarantine. Some fish, like copperband butterflies, moorish Idols, mandarins, and some others do not take well to quarantine unless you can do it in a large well decorated tank filled with...