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Njtiget, thanks for posting. You are correct she can see Tom Sellic on TV but she can look at me every day. :rolleyes: My test kits are so old they came in wooden boxes. Wood is the stuff we make trees out of. The instructions read to keep in a cool chariot. I can't get some of the reagents...

Some thoughts about the hobby. Now it is boating season so I have little time for my tank. Sometimes I get home after the tank lights go out so the fish go to sleep without dinner. They get over it. Sometimes I can't change water for 3, 4 or 5 months, I never got a bad text from my fish as...

I would leave them open but I don't think it matters. If you want to use NSW right away, the same day, just check the temp and salinity and dump it in. If you want to store it, you may see stuff settling. That is normal and is dead bacteria and possibly plankton. The water may get cloudy for...

I know I keep saying my bangai cardinal is dying of old age but he is still with me. As a matter of fact, his cataracts cleared up and he is livelier than ever and he eats much more than he ever did. I think he is having a mid life, or end of life crisis as he looks like a teenager. I can't...

Diana, I take a little of the mud, maybe a few tablespoons and "shoot" it around my tank with a baster. I also shoot some into my UG filter and behind the rocks. Sometimes I just take a cup of it and put it in a small container on my gravel for a few days then remove it as I just want the...

This morning I came downstairs and looked at my tank and all of a sudden, the tank lights went out. I walked around the back of the tank in the closet, and the lights came back on. I stated looking at the fish and the lights went out. 15 seconds later, they came back on and I walked around the...

I started building a steampunk porcupine fish. I am not sure how this will come out. I also ordered another 1920's telephone call box exactly like this one. But I am not sure exactly what I am going to build out of it as nothing hit me yet.

I collected a bunch more amphipods and mud yesterday as I was exploring the muddy tide pool. There are thousands of baby horseshoe crabs but the mud there is shoe sucking mud and you sink up to your knees and lose your shoes. I am surprised the crabs like it. It's places like that which keeps...

I hope everyone had a great Fourth of July. We celebrated America's birthday from our boat as we usually do with good friends that we have had since high school. Anchored in Port Washington we could see the fireworks from New York Harbor, The Bronx and Connecticut as well as over our heads in...

That's a garden eel.

Happy Birthday America. :dance:

Tomorrow I am going for acupuncture. I have a very Manly degenerative disk and if you live long enough and do more than carry protest signs and text, you may also get these old people things. Anyway almost all of your nerves go right next to your disks which were actually a mistake when they...

It seems that some of my fish are living longer than they are supposed to, at least longer than I thought they were supposed to live. I don't keep records or remember most of the birthdays of the Supermodels but I seem to have my male pipefish for quite a long time. I think he outlived 2 or 3...

Thanks. The blue eyed one has brass teeth. I had to cut each one individually out of a sheet of brass, very time consuming as the thing has a lot of very tine teeth and I cut myself numerous times inserting them. I wanted teeth that were wider at the bottom and come to a very sharp point...

New SteamPunk "light thing" angler fish is completed. Now I need to know which one people feel is nicer so I can keep it, the other one will be sold at the art show. I can't decide. I am designing a porcupine fish but am still having some difficulties with the design.

I just had to do it today. I had to glue some corals back. I had 5 large pieces of montipora laying on the gravel and every hour, a crab or fish would turn them over so they were in the dark. For a couple of weeks I would just turn them over so they had light but I got tired of that and I had...

How is the new one coming along? It is 3/4s finished. I still need to finish wiring it, install the "nuclear Reactor and the base. Here it is next to the finished one.

I don't remember it but if there were no Supermodels, I can't imagine who wrote it. :)

So I went to my boat today and the first thing I notice is that the grass shrimp are swarming all over the place. That's great but I don't have time to collect shrimp. I open the engine hatch and spend a few minutes trying to figure how to bend myself down there in a position where I can...

I just came home from collecting in my favorite tide pool. I collected 55,372 amphipods give or take five. I dumped them in my tan with the associated mud, sticks, seaweed, snails, worms, barnacles and Godzilla larvae. Probably 73 diseases in there also. But my fish think they died and went...