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This has nothing to do with quarantine, if you keep the fish for it's entire, natural lifespan, quarantined or not, you have succeeded. If the fish dies before that from anything else, we failed. That copperband in the picture is still in my tank. I don't remember when I got her but she is...

I just finished having breakfast with my wife. I made her egg whites and I had steel cut oatmeal, but who cares. I was thinking about what our fish goes through before we get them. It goes something like this: The fish, lets say it's a copperband butterfly is swimming around the reef...

This one is about half completed. You can see the tubes light up. The crank mechanism was originally inside the box and it was used in 1920 as a telephone call box. It had a phone on top and when you cranked it, the bell would ring at a switchboard somewhere and you told the operator who you...

I am all excited now because my boat is in the water and in a week or so I will start to go collecting. I want to get a new influx of bacteria in my tank and I need to go about a mile from my marina for that. The water under my boat, although teeming with life is not a good place to collect as...

I just baked a bunch of corn muffins and while they are cooling I thought of something. (Yes I like to bake and do other things, But only Manly things, shoot me) I was looking at some threads and I realize there is something that goes on in our tanks that is never discussed. Cycles. If you keep...

Those four anthias look much better now after about 5 weeks in the tank. You can't see it in the video, but their tails now are longer and pointier and two of them are tipped with a fluorescent orange. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNErRoboN_o

Good advice. I also may stand in the corner painting a can of Campbell soup. Or eating it. :confused:

No, because he lives near this one. :)

Mark. Thanks, but no need to advertise. They are all going in an art show here in New York. I was invited by an artist to display them there for one month in August. There people can buy or bid on them. Many people want to buy them now and I didn't show them yet. The art show will be on...

This one is about 3/4 done. The small tube will have a red light in it and there will be some sort of dimmer knob on the front. It may also have a cage around the bulb.

That blue striped wrasse is fine, he just got a little headache. But I had to go away this past weekend to speak about pollution and I found one of my yellow wrasses decided to jump out. I am not sure if he was imitating the striped one but he didn't fare to well. Unfortunately, very healthy...

Thanks, all the bulbs have that same wound filament. I just didn't install the dimmer on the bulbs in the glass yet. It is nice when they are very dim and the filiments show up.

I just finished this one and like all the others, this is my favorite and the most difficult to build. The base is a telephone box from 1940. The vintage radio tuner on the right turns on the lights in the glass. The light on top has it's own switch. The "tube" on top has a red LED in it to...

I am very excited about this one, about half finished. This picture doesn't yet have the lights on it but it will have three. I found this phone box Circa 1940 on Etsy. I actually bought three different ones and will get some more. I have almost all of the parts and will finish it this week. The...

Today as I was feeding the fish, this guy, the stripped wrasse got so excited, he jumped out of the tank, hit me in the nose and fell on the floor. Then as I was trying to catch him he slid under the couch. I moved the couch and shoved him into a plastic container, but before I threw him back...

We as aquarists normally feed our fish something that we can buy commercially. We normally buy some food that has a nice picture of a healthy, colorful fish on the package. I also use some commercially available food but besides that I feed something else at every meal. Most commercial frozen...

Thank you. :D

Thanks, it's still going and so am I :D

I took another video that shows the four new Anthius.

I went back to the store last night and bought the two remaining Queen Anthius. They were eating new born brine in their acclimating container and as soon as I put them in, 15 minutes later, they were all hanging out together and telling stories about their time in the store.