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Good Morning. After my walk this morning my wife and I were eating breakfast and I had the TV on in the background. We have a Long Island news channel here and they talk about what is happening locally. They mentioned a murder in a town near here so we listened. Then they mentioned the street...

They make clay bricks that are almost perfect. They are dark red and you can get them with 3 or 4 holes in them. If you position some of these in a quarantine tank the fish take to them much better than plain white plastic. If you take some PVC elbows down to a real reef and place them on a...

Why do fish, and us have a lifespan? Why can't we live forever like Moses who was supposed to live 900 years. (I doubt he lived a day over 600) There is actually a reason we have a life span and none of us ever lived longer than 122 years and that was only one French woman who didn't have a...

Sponges are known to release compounds in reef water that stunts, kills and even induces bleaching in stony corals. Sure it’s probably no big deal to have a few small cute sponges in your reef tank and refugium. But a big population of sponges, mostly hiding where the sun don’t shine, and where...

2 or so years ago I built a DIY de-nitrate reactor just for fun. I didn't think it was actually going to do anything and it is behind my tank so I hardly ever even see the thing but today I am going to PT and I needed to kill an hour so I figured I would test the water coming out of it. I...

Sounds like a good idea. Besides this blue photosynthetic sponge I also have numerous sponges in the dark caves of which I have many. I guess if your tank lasts long enough it fills with all sorts of things we don't want. :eek2:

Diana thank you for that link. My sponge is pictured there and I knew it was photosynthetic. Unfortunately I put it in my tank years ago before I knew how invasive it was. Now it is here to stay and I am to old to take everything out of the tank to clear off sponge. I would have to just put...

I am slowly making a big change to my tank. I have so much blue encrusting sponge that I think it is either sucking nutrients out of my water or it is adding some sort of toxin. It is beautiful and looks like light blue montipora but you can't eliminate it. You can see a milky substance come out...

A visit to the doctor’s office here would go something like this. First thing in the morning you would call the doctor’s office and get elevator music with a recording that says "Your call is important to us, stay on the phone and your call will be answered by the next available operator". You...

And another one: (I am obviously bored while I am waiting for an appointment for my PT appointment for a silly shoulder operation) So this morning I was going to make a nice breakfast for My wife and our best friends next door. I forgot it is Friday and we normally go out for breakfast. I...

I have a story about side effects from 2 years ago: WE had a "little" scare yesterday and this morning. Yesterday my wife and I took a walk and about 5 minutes into the walk I started to get itchy. Like all over. I felt like I had fire ants doing the macarana all over me and also in places I...

That is scary Diana. My Grand Son also takes a similar medication which has some of those side effects. I hope your son is alright. My problem, and it isn't that big of a problem and just one symptom of an aging construction worker is that I have what they called "degenerative disk disease"...

Since my shoulder surgery I have been getting severe pain in my arm where he operated. I also had it before the operation so I don't think it is from that. But the surgeon fish said it could have assabated it. So he gave me two prescriptions to take while I wait the two weeks until I see him. I...

No snowflakes walking in the rain. Just as I like it :biggrin:

Hello Diana. How are you? Greta was an absolute Doll and we love it when she is here. We didn't get her brother because he isn't such a Dolland a little hard to handle alone. Greta helps and listens with no argument. They will all be here for Easter. :biggrin: Yesterday was a little...

I did a 5K walk this morning for MS. I am the good looking one. :rolleyes:

Minimalist aquascape allows you to see the fish but I know fish, and they hate that. I think I have between 25-35 fish and I rarely see more than 5 or 6 of them unless I sit and watch for a while. ( i just turned around and saw 11 of them just to make a liar out of me) I am going to try to...

Yesterday I did a lot of cooking. I had plenty of clams left over from the Linguine and clams a couple of days ago that I made for good neighbors, so I made a gallon of Manhattan clam chowder. (yes, many of my meals revolve around clams) I also made 2 loaves of rosemary, olive oil Italian...

Thank you Reefsandrotts. I appreciate it. :D Today is National Viet Nam War Veterans Day https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/national-vietnam-war-veterans-day-history

I think my large Janss Pipefish may have gone to the big plumbing supply in the sky. I haven't seen him in a few days and he normally sticks out his snout at feeding time. If he is gone, he has had a good run because he was about 7 years old and I think that is about that lifespan for that...