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The general opinion is if something dies, there is something wrong. That is not always the case. Things can die for a few reasons not directly related to anything under our control and there is not always a need to add something or remove something. Fish die of old age as many of mine did...

I generally do know the test numbers which is why I rarely test, but a couple of corals croaked so I figured I would test. When I get a reading of 160 for the nitrate I knew the test kit was toast. And when got a new kit that read 90,I also knew that that was fantasy. I changed the water...

I got them done for the entire year.

I am not a big fan of testing the water every ten minutes as long as everything is living well, but last week I lost a couple of new torch corals so I figured I would test the water. I have a very old nitrate kit probably from Christopher Columbus test kit company so that is what I used. My...

That coil thing is now changed. There is now an inside coil and an outside coil. The entire thing fits inside that blue tube that gets sealed and just makes it look cool. The tank is running well but I surpassed the ability of the bacteria to process nitrates. It will be fine if I could stir...

I have a slight tank problem. Last week I bought a torch coral with a bunch of heads on it which is very cool as I have quite a few of them. Yesterday I noticed one head croaked, that is not supposed to happen so I broke down and tested the water for PO4 and nitrates. The two kits I have are...

I am selling both of these bridges in Brooklyn. PayPal is fine, pick up only. (I will also throw in the tug boat)

I got another torch today, I couldn't help myself

Just hanging out at his feeder.

Joe, I post this thread every year on 5 or 6 forums. Unfortunately, it only gets 3 or 4 comments. Thank you for your service. I am no longer in the military but I have a Coast Guard Captain's License which actually doesn't mean anything. :subdued:

I won't ask where is better but I have been all over the world and have not found a better place. America is it for me. :encouragement:

Remember the Veterans this Tuesday as they fought for us and made the US the best country on Earth. If you have an American Flag (it would be nice if all American's did) Tuesday would be a nice day to display it. Without Veterans, we would not have this hobby Dance

My pictures never come out well because I don't do photoshop so my pictures are what my tank looks like. I know many people "enhance" the colors of their corals because from many years of SCUBA diving I know what colors corals are and very few of them are neon, fluorescent colored. Some are...

Today a pipe connected to my hot water heater started leaking. I installed the thing five years ago but it decided to leak today. I would not have known except the water in my reef tank started to get low even though I have an ATO that is gravity fed. Under my hot water tank I installed a DIY...

I visited my Mother N Law today in a nursing home and I have always noticed this tank there. It is about 300 gallons, has some koi that must be about 5lbs each, a huge alligator catfish about 14" long, giant dino's, African Cichlids all swimming around a plastic coral reef.

I have been collecting pipefish in New York all my life but these seem different. A friend of mine collected these on the south shore of Long Island and he kept them in a bucket for over a month. He gave them to me because my tank is set up for pipefish already and he didn't think they would...

A friend of mine is giving me 4 local pipefish that he collected in the summer and has them in a bucket. He says they eat flake food which is something I have never seen before. I don't have a lot of luck with local pipefish but I will throw them in my tank and hope they get used to eating new...

Good luck catching them in there.

I just realized that I can't properly maintain my tank now that I have so many pipefish. Normally once a year I stir up the substrait where I can reach and suck out everything with a diatom filter but I can't do that with the pipefish, especially the blue stripe pipefish as they never live...