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I am not sure how long I will be able to keep acropora. My clown gobies spawn every two weeks but they only spawned on one of them. They destroyed it and there isn't much left of it and now they are spawning on the other larger one. Their eggs take up about an inch of tissue and it kills the...

I realize a lot of people have problems with mandarins and I designed a feeder for them to allow them to eat new born brine shrimp all day and that will certainly keep them alive but if you are stuck with a very skinny mandarin and you want to fatten him up quickly there is something else we can...

Clams, that is my home made food. Just clams.

Last night I collected some scurvy seaweeds, algae and muck from the side of a wooden dock on the south side of Long Island. It is now suspended in a net in my tank as I just want the bacteria and amphipods but not the slimy looking algae. This is another one of my methods that purists will...

I just collected some mud for the bacteria on the South Shore of Long Island. The water is 45 degrees and the mud is loaded with amphipods. I will dump them in my tank tomorrow.

I found my pipefish, alive and well watching TV in the back of the tank. I still have the pair of bluestripes and the dragon face. I think the bluestripes had a little argument and decided that they would spend some time apart, but now they look to be starting the spawning dance again so I...

Yes you do. Nothing gets by me in my 1 ounce Piko, Nano reef. But now that it has a lettuce macro algae problem and green water it is easy for something to slip by me. Yesterday I thought I saw a flounder go by.

It is big. My hands are just very big so it looks small. Tang police

Thank you. I write it in crayon on my monitor and this Supermodel comes in later and types what I wrote on the screen. I pay her in M&Ms. 3 of them lasts her two days.

Secretive animals we keep. In our tanks, especially if they have been set up for quite a while, besides the normal clownfish, tangs, wrasses and cardinals there is sometimes an entire universe of hidden animals that we rarely, if ever see. I am not talking about the tiny feather dusters or...

I think a murder has been committed in my tank. I can't find one of my bluestripe pipefish and one of my dragon faced pipefish. There are only two things that could have happened. One, my cat ate them, and I don't have a cat. And two, a crab grew very large and attacked them. I am going...

For a generator that you will use a couple of hours every couple of years you probably would not notice if you used Vaseline or mandarin slime in the thing

There was no tuning involved. I do find it easier to start the generator on gasoline then just close the gasoline valve and turn on the natural gas, but it runs fine either way. I don't remember exactly where I got the conversion kit but I just Googled "generator conversion kit". It was...

That's what I did. During Sandy it was hard to get gas. I had to siphon it out of my boat. The conversion kit was $200.00 and took about 15 minutes to install. The generator still also works with gasoline in case I want to take it someplace. Mine is 5,500 watts and runs my entire house. I have...

Last night I was watching TV (no Sissy reality shows or anything like that) and my reef is next to my couch. I looked over at the tank and got the horrors. The water had the same visibility as the East River that passes Manhattan. It was white with detritus. Then I noticed the problem. The...

It seems that there are some of the same corals I have in my tank. Some are encrusting and some are zinia's. Most of it is a thick jungle of tube worms that the water has a hard time getting through. I think I cleaned the thing out about a year ago, but I forget. I always like to see large...

I don't really have a refugium, but a lighted algae trough that is above my water. It is fed from the outflow of my skimmer (I don't have a sump) The purpose of it is to have a better place for algae to grow rather than in my tank itself and for the years that it has been installed, it has...

Here are the bluestripe pipefish at the feeder. And the possum wrasse sneaks by also.

It's only knees. In a few years I would like me to get some of those good, new knees. Maybe two of those aluminum jobs as I don't want those cheap wooden ones because we have termite problems here on Long Island. I found some pictures of my tank from 9 years ago.

Today I picked up a pair of bluestriped pipefish. I like to keep a pair of them in my tank but they have a short lifespan of only a few years and it is sometimes hard to find a pair together so when I see them, I buy them. These look a little young which is fine and they should start mating in...