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Paulie, so sorry to hear this as I consider you a friend. I still have those chitens you sent me and they are living and smiling right in the front of my tank.
As you know my wife has MS and one of the symptoms is extreme pain. She takes medical Marijuana. It's a pain to get approved for it...
Paulie the sand here came from meteorites quite a few years ago and Bigfoot ran all over it making it smaller, then Jeeps and Subaro's finished the job so the stuff is not for fish tanks but you can make glass out of it.
The sand in the tropics was made mostly by parrotfish who bite off pieces...
I am fairly sure I will never start up a new tank. If my tank ever crashed now, I would probably leave the hobby as I have been in it since the 50s and I think that is long enough. My wife and I would do some more traveling and maybe buy another house in the tropics someplace. Maybe open up a...
You absolutely can "not" use sand from New Jersey and it has nothing to do with oils, gas, hypodermic needles, coppertone etc. The silica sand there is much to fine. Just forget about it. I have tried it multiple times, don't do it. No good. Not gonna happen.
You will be generating hydrogen...
I am turning our guest bedroom into a gym for my wife and it will have a Murphy bed in there in case Murphy comes over. I did the electrical and Cable work this morning and I will hopefully paint tomorrow.
So now to relax I gave my whiteworms a bath. I really don't like to start new cultures...
My friend took that video while we were trimming sponges. He focused on those few stars that he could see spawning but there are thousands of them. He also took another video of the rest of the tank and those things are in every nook.
An old tank, due to brittle stars and bristle worms really...
It's raining so I figured I would "play" with my tank a little. A gorgonian in the front grew much to large and I already cut a lot off of it but it is growing into the front glass and starting to cover an acropora that I have been babying for a year and it is growing well.
To move this gorg I...
Today we are having old friends over and I decided to wash and wax the floors in my workshop/Man cave and garage.
So I vacuum the floor, then wash it, then mop it. Then mop it two more times to get up any dirt.
Then I do the same to my garage which is epoxy coated.
I get the wax and start...
Pondering again
This morning like most mornings I took a walk to watch the sunrise and ponder the universe.
I really like to ponder and early in the morning there is no one out. I mean out of the almost 300 houses here in this development, I never see anyone at that time of the morning.
I am...