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I have been hatching brine shrimp every day for over 20 years. I feed these to the tank every day mostly for the pipefish and small gobies but some of the corals eat them also. I also feed the fish and corals live blackworms almost every day.
I feed everything with this, I would never just put...
I do this about 4 times a year but being I don't run a DSB I get very agressive.
I put a restriction on the outflow hose of the diatom filter and turn it into a powerwasher. They I go over all of the rock surfaces (but not the corals) You would be amazed what comes out of live rock. Then I stir...
You should be wondering if artificial sea water works. NSW is like it says, natural, I like to call it real. The seas in the US are not as polluted as they used to be thanks to many new laws about dumping, sewage treatment and bilge emptying.
I do not use 100% NSW only because it is heavy. I...
That goes along with my reverse UG filter, NSW from Long Island and bacteria from the sea.
Of course my radical ideas may only let my tank last for 40 years, I will not know until it's birth day this March.
If you use cement on anything, I would age it for a few weeks in some saltwater before...
You don't need the area airated. just lit.
Macro algae does not work as much as well as nusience algae because the nuicence algae in the algae filter is what I am trying to eliminate from my display and if I grow hair algae in my trough it is using the exact nutrients that any hair algae in my...
Not much difference in the end result but my trough is in my main tank, it is just over the water. It is also free to operate being it uses the main tank lighting and the outflow from the skimmer. The water in my trough is also only a half inch deep and it is only a couple of inches from 300...
I was wondering what this slimy stuff was in my algae trough and of course, it's algae.
Slimy, long hair algae. The thing is doing it's job because there is absolutely no algae in my tank. just in the trough. Cool
It's just a shallow trough which is a PVC 2X4 sliced in half and placed over a tank with a small powerhead. The water enters the trough on the left and goes through some screens that the worms hang on to. The water goes into the tank where there is a small plastic container. The container is...
Speaking of anniversaries, last night I went to a very large wedding (just under 400 people) at the SeaPort in Manhattan.
But the wierd thing is that the couple got married in the same church that my 99 year old Mother was married and babtized in. Old Saint Patricks, She even went to the...
Today is our anniversary.
Wow 36, thats a big number, I guess I am old.
I am also lucky to still be married to my childhood sweetheart.
We met when she was 11 and I dated her older cousin. My wife is 6 years younger than I am.
We are somehow still best friends and hang out together all the...