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This is the original experiment. This was a small sheet of cotton material draped over the algae trough. Water is not even pumped over it, it is just wet from one edge laying in the water flow inside the trough. I peeled algae from this to seed the new device. This grew in a few weeks.

Sorry double post

That is a Tee Shirt. I drilled a hole into the tube that feeds my Reverse UG filter but any small pump will work. The water just drips out the holes enough to wet the shirt and drip down into the tank. Algae grows like crazy on this material because there is no water to filter the light. I...

I have been experimenting with this concept and so far the small version grew an enormous amount of algae so I built one on a larger scale. It is basically just a cotton sheet suspended over my tank by an acrylic tube that has holes drilled in it which tank water drips through slowly flowing...

Today my wife and I did a little boating as we always do in the summer and I took the dinghy to shore to do a little collecting just before the storm rolled in. We just made it back in time but I managed to get a bucket full of amphipods. This is the first collecting of the year and I hope to...

Great story.

I have been called many things, some I can't repeat here and some involving my hair, or lack of. Dance I also just wrote a book. I am hoping to get a Pulitzer or at least a movie deal. I think Brad Pitt will play me. Him or Pee Wee Herman I am not sure yet. But the book has about 10 or 15...

Yes I do. I have been keeping and spawning mandarins for decades. I wrote this and a few more articles there about them. http://www.saltwatersmarts.com/diy-target-feeder-mandarinfish-pipefish-2804/

I spent about an hour on my tank today which is much more then I ever do. I decided to remove half of the screen in the algae trough because there was no algae growing just tubeworms and corals which completely filled the trough almost preventing the water from getting through. I had to pry up...

My wife and I took the boat out today for a nice quiet sail to dinner in a nice quiet restaurant on the bay. The clams were very quiet.

This last 6 days we babysat out 2 Grand Kids while our Daughter and husband went to a wedding in Mallorca Spain. Yeah, not to bad. We stayed at their CoOp in Manhattan for the first 3 days. They live on the 16th floor and out one side you see the Empire State Bldg and uptown and out the other...

I think so, no Sissy thermometers for me

Thats something I do every day as I don't do much to the tank. But I drink Grand Marnier. Dance

I use a 60 year old brass wall thermometer from a boiler in the Plaza Hotel. But I am sure you don't want to go that route. I put that brass bulb in a glass tube in the water. I can read it from across the street.

You could probably make one out of old 8 track tape cartridges or Barry Manilo LP record albums.

I think they should make "Man" Stores. No females allowed. (except for Supermodels that are just there to look at) We would buy whatever we wanted and throw it in shopping carts made out of diamond plate steel. Everything should have the price on it in big numbers written in a wide magic marker...

Nice story that I can relate to Mark. I don't have an X wife, still have the same one going on 42 years I think. I also have that nice blue store here but I have to pass 6 or 7 of the other ones to get there as they are much closer. But if I have the time, I always go there. Just so much...

Today I did something with my tank that I rarely do. I took some water to get tested for calcium and alkinity. I did that because many times people ask me those readings and al I can do is stutter and make up a story. But today I had it tested and the calcium is like 525, which is a little...

I am glad you enjoyed it. I try to remember mundane things that happen so I can post them because not much exciting stuff happens in my tank. The fish wake up, they eat, they poop and they sleep. Not much going on there. My wasp story was my favorite and I still read it occasionally. I also...