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The Benefits of Parasites. For much of my 60+ years of fish keeping, I have always wondered why we have so many problems with fish diseases, especially parasite-caused diseases. Today, in my Mailbox, I received a "Discover" magazine that I have been reading for decades. This month's issue...

Possum Wrasses. I'm going to try to list my fish, mostly for my benefit but I don't know what many of them are. 2 Fireclowns 3 Red Waspfish 7, 9 or 10 clown gobies, different colors. Green, Black, blue, yellow and gray 2 six line wrasses 2 Possum Wrasses. 1 some kind of red fish, maybe a...

These guys also "may" be spawning, but I can't find their nest. Or maybe they are just trying to see who has the best stripe.. :cool: These guys are also pretty old as one of them is from my last house and I have lived here for 6 years so one may be 10 or 12. When they are young, the look...

OOOOhhhhh NNooo. I have way to many fish. Soon they will have to take turns putting their heads in the water. :( I can't help it, if I see an interesting fish that I hardly, if ever see, I need it. OMG. I have hair algae but no hair on my head. All my fish look great and want to spawn, but I...

I'm pretty sure these guys are spawning.

This morning at almost sunrise I went down to the beach armed with a bucket to collect amphipods. I knew it would be a very low tide. But nothing. Not one amphipod where there should have been millions. This is scary because after the amphipods are gone, whose next? I did see many invasive...

Another beautiful morning. On Monday we will have a moon tide so I will go and collect amphipods.

At my age and after 34 surgeries including a new aluminum knee and shoulder, I wouldn't be able to tell which body is the only one hurting. :oops:

I have an idea for a TV show. Instead of the NEWS stations telling you the forecast for the weather today and tomorrow, I think I would like to make a station that tells you yesterday and last weeks weather. This way, no one can complain because it will always be correct. :cool:

Beautiful morning for a walk.

My Parsley caterpillars are starting to turn into beautiful butterflies.

I did test the nitrate in the Sound and it is 10. I didn't test for phosphates. The rocks at the shore are all covered in algae. We are also surrounded by farms.

I have a lot more hair algae in my tank now than I would like. It's from the Long Island Sound water that I collect and I can't collect it any more because of the nutrients from all the golf courses and farms around here. If I want to collect NSW now I have to travel almost an hour east to get...

Thank you Diana, I did have a little help. :D

Yesterday the "Honor Flight" organization invited me along with 50 other Veterans who came on the flight to Washington DC with me to a reunion where they honored us again with a big presentation and band. They read my Army Bio. as they did with everyone else. I didn't realize it but it was...

I have no idea. Some type of decorator crab. I have many things in my tank that I have no idea what they are. Of course, I also don't care. :cool:

I love this crab but I rarely can find him, so I took a picture on one of his rare forays in front of the tank.

I collected these caterpillars on my parsley plants and they are forming Chrysalis and will soon turn into big butterflies.

This red sponge is what I used to feed my Idol. He would practically jump out of the tank for this stuff. I took this yesterday off my friends floating wooden dock on Long Island New York. It only grows near the surface and I could never keep it alive in a tank but it freezes well. I would...