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  1. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    These guys I got for about 25 or 30 bucks. The place south of him about 8 miles charges $90.00 for them. Hippo tangs are also about $25.00 while other stores in the neighborhood charge $75.00 These guys are between 8 and 14 bucks. When he has them. He is slim on corals. Not much to...
  2. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    It's in Coram Long Island. He has no phone. Yeah, I know. https://www.facebook.com/p/Aqua-Hut-100063591390236/
  3. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I have been going to this guy for 50 years. He is my age and does get interesting stuff, most of it he sells for practically free. I hope he never goes out of business. I don't think I would pay $80.00 for Hippo tangs and Copperbands. He sells them for$25.00 or $30.00
  4. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    We are having a bunch of company for dinner tonight so I have been cooking and baking all day. I am making Manhattan clam chowder for the people who like (and asked) for that. The other couple don't eat sea food, (must be Communists) so we are making them meatloaf. I also baked 2 loaves of...
  5. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Yesterday I went to my favorite 50 year old LFS. When I got there he was running out to Home Depot. He had a flood. This place is so old and there is always so much water on the floor I am not sure how he knew he had a leak unless he saw a couple of lipstick tangs swimming between his feet...
  6. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    It has an adjustable "bulkhead" inside that can be raised or lowered and being it is on the outflow of the skimmer, the water in this device sets the height of the water in the skimmer. I just need to wait for the acrylic solvent to dry.
  7. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    OOOOoohhhhhhNNNNNNooooooo.......I was "playing" behind my reef tank putting a 5 gallon office water cooler bottle (empty) on a shelf. It fell off into my 5' skimmer. Instant flood. OMG, I thought the skimmer broke as water was spurting out really fast. It is the DIY acrylic chamber that is...
  8. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Maybe I should read it again. I forgot what I wrote :p The first printing was in color but I understand the new ones with the picture of the copperband on the cover is black and white. I don't know why because I asked for color and I don't know how to change it. :confused:
  9. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    So this year I am changing the way I donate the money from my book to the MS society. I used to wait until I got $500.00, then I would donate that. But I can't figure out Amazons web site so I will just wait until the end of the year when they send me the W2 form for my taxes. I just got it and...
  10. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    A film crew from Long Island News 12 is coming here on February 17th to film the meeting of me and Cathleen. I don't know when it will air yet. :cool: Maybe they will want to make a movie. Brad Pitt can play me and Scarlet Johansen can play Cathleen the girl who sent me the Christmas card...
  11. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Nice view of the back of my tank and my impeccable electrical work. :oops: That orange bucket has a DIY leak detector for my DIY skimmer (not likely) There is a "probe" in the bucket connected to the GFCI outlet so if it gets wet, it turns off the power to the pump that feeds the skimmer. I use...
  12. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    The Long Island News station called me a little while ago to tell me they are going to air my story of the "girl" who sent me a Christmas card in Viet Nam in 1970. She lives in New Jersey (near you guys) and as soon as she can get here, they will send a film crew here. She is an executive and...
  13. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I did my walk this morning which may have been a mistake. All the YouTube video's I see (and we all know that the doctors on YouTube are the best) They say walking is the best thing for back pain. It hurts at first but you have to work through the pain and it will get better. "Better" is a...
  14. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    MadReefer, I am trying very hard to stay out of a hospital as my wife needs me. (for everything) But I know some back surgery is in my near future. Especially if I want to do things like walk and sit. I have an appointment tomorrow for a physical but he is only a GP so won't be an expert on...
  15. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Good morning. I didn't go walking this morning like I normally do and it has nothing to do with the ice covered ground and 22 degree temperatures. Last night around 5:00 my back went totally out. I am not sure who it went out with but I wish it would go out again and stay out. Again I couldn't...
  16. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    On another note, and more exciting for me, I just got a call from a Local Long Island News station. They may want to do a story on me and that 10 year old woman that wrote me a Christmas card while I was in Viet Nam 55 years ago. They want to film the meeting of the two of us because I didn't...
  17. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Thats correct Diana. Millenniums don't now what real snow is. Yesterday they predicted this "Blizzard" here. They salted the streets and brought out the big plows. We got about 1/16th of an inch of "snow" and they made a big deal out of it. This was me in about 1972 making a ton of...
  18. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    My back needs to get better because I just received a letter asking me If I wanted to be Honored for my service in Viet Nam with a bunch of other Veterans from WW2 and Korea. They will fly us to Washington DC on what is called an Honor Flight, where we will tour the WW2, Korea and Viet Nam...
  19. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    OMG Diana. You made so many enemies by saying "SnowMan". After all, there are Snow Ladies, Snow Females, Snow Women and probably Snow Taylor Swifts. :D The Hair on those Snow females is probably made of linguine because snow hair may be difficult to make unless you put "product" in it but...
  20. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    We got about an eighth of an inch of snow this morning. They will probably close the airports and call out the national Guard or the Boy Scouts. :)
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