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We go to the south shore ocean beaches of Long Island at low tide and drag a 20' or 50' net through the grass flats. In my local tank you can see a pipefish in the center, a northern puffer near the bottom and a small butterfly under the rock to the right along with some shrimp. Every pull of...

] is sunscreen really that bad for the reef environment? I hope not, I lay in the water all week long with the stuff all over me :P

To change the water flow, you can just connect a few pumps to timers. I create typhoons every month or so with my diatom filter. I stir everything up. the fish love it.

See all of the tiny fry to the left of the nurse shark? They are all over the place on a healthy reef. This is what fish snack on all day. Whole, fresh fish, guts, skeleton and all. From the Cayman Islands

Every time I dive I think of all the ways I can make my tank more like the sea I get overwhelmed. First of all the sea is deep. Our animals know that they are in very shallow water and they would never venture into such shallow water if they had a choice. At the waters edge and in tide pools we...

Thanks Dave, it's surviving so far ;D

I don't know, I am on the NY coast 8)

I am going for tropicals on tuesday. There are lookdowns, puffers, filefish and butterflies

Today was an interesting day of boating and collecting. I went to my usual place at low tide, the tide pool goes under a road and on the other side there is a lake that spills over these 20' long walls ibnto this tide pool. At high tide the lake is almost the same height as the sea. Anyway these...

My bluestripped pipefish are again very pregnant. If I look close I can see the tiny stringy little babies stuck in his pouch under his belly. No I can't get a picture. Those things are impossable to photograph. They are always in a cave and usually in the back of the tank chasing the baby...

Actually they survive over a year. I throw the pregnant ones into my tank. The adults are too large for my fish to eat. If you have triggers, lionfish, groupers or eels, they are great food. They are interesting, free and plentyful so I always put a dozen or so in my reef.

They are all over my marina. I can collect a 5 gallon pail of them in a few minutes in a place near my boat in Port Washington. Thats five gallons without water, just shrimp. I use a 2 man net for that.

I just did one of the things that I love to do which I have mentioned before. I removed a bottle that I have not emptied in years and dumped it out in a flask to check out what is living in there. It is an entire eco system. There was a nice strand of seaweed growing right in the center like a...

The panels only work to reduce the bill. I still use power from the power company. When it is light out, the panels generate power. Not usually enough to supply all of my electricity needs but it saves about 1/3rd of my bill.