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  1. Paul B

    We went to Sesame Place

    This weekend my Wife and I took our Grand Daughter to Sesame Place in Pennsylvania which is about 100 miles from our house on Long Island. We had to pick up Greta in Downtown Manhattan where she lives. So we leave our house on Friday way before rush hour at 1:30 in the afternoon. (Greta is...
  2. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    This mushroom has been in my tank for years. I don't even remember how many years because it grew from another mushroom which grew from another one. Yesterday I noticed it had all but disappeared for no apparent cause. One minute it is there, the next it is gone. There is still a little piece of...
  3. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I will wait for the other one to go as they are the same age. He is also slowing down and is near the end of his life. I may get another pair of them or something else just to shake it up. I am surprised those bangai's have such a short lifespan. I would not have believed it if I didn't read...
  4. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Yesterday I had to euthanize my female bangai cardinal. She was at the end of her life and could no longer swim. I saw this coming for a couple of months and she lived out her life happy and healthy. They only live 3 or 4 years. Her mate is also near his end. The pair stopped spawning and...
  5. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Tank is doing well, everything is happy and healthy. Cleaning the algae scrubber every couple of weeks is a pain and a little time consuming. The water cooled LED lights are still functioning as I expected. Clingfish and bangai cardinals seem happy. The biggest feeder is by far the copperband...
  6. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I have too many bristleworms and too many big bristleworms. They are not normally a problem unless they crawl into bed with you but they are a problem to certain invertebrates. Especially ones that shed like crabs and shrimp. I also have lost baby clams to them many times. My large arrow crab...
  7. Paul B

    Fish Pee Vital to Health of Reefs

    Thanks, I also have a wonderful skimmer :dance:
  8. Paul B

    Fish Pee Vital to Health of Reefs

    No, he uses a skimmer, he told me
  9. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    It does seem very short for a fish that size. Maybe that's why they have live young that are very large at birth.
  10. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I am happy to report I found my clingfish. No, not dead and dried up on the floor like a prune, but happy and healthy near the place he used to hang out. After I removed a large rock that he used to call home, I couldn't find him for over a week. But I fed the tank some clams today and he...
  11. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    According to Wikipedia, Bangai cardinals only live one to two years in the sea and a little longer in captivity which I assume is the reason one of mine has the beginnings of cataracts. I have them longer than that and will hope for the best. Quote: Unlike many other species of marine fish...
  12. Paul B

    We got hit in a squall in my boat last night

    Here are a couple of pictures the guy on my boat took during that storm. This must have been after the rain stopped.
  13. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    My tank seems to be doing great, no problems that I can tell. I recently "spoke" to Albert Thiel who informed me that bangai cardinals in the sea only live 2 or 3 years old. (which seems pretty short for a fish that size) Mine are older than that and one seems to be getting cataracts so I...
  14. Paul B

    We got hit in a squall in my boat last night

    I have only been out in a worse storm than this one and that was 30 years ago. We were near shore but I don't have the type of boat you can beach and the shore was all bulkheads, docks and rocks so I couldn't go there. Normally if it had been just me and my wife or my normal boating crowd, I...
  15. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    I love this red seaweed. I can collect it fairly easily here in New York when it is dead low tide and I anchor near shore. To bad it doesn't last too long.
  16. Paul B

    We got hit in a squall in my boat last night

    Yesterday my wife and I took out three other people for dinner on our boat. I told them at least five times that there were dangerous storms and squalls in the area and it would be better if I just took them (by boat) to the restaurant right near my marina so if a storm started they could wait...
  17. Paul B

    Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

    Target feeding my Clingfish. I target feed everything. The clingfish takes a little time to chew.
  18. Paul B

    Target feeding my clingfish

    Target feeding my Clingfish. I target feed everything. The clingfish takes a little time to chew.
  19. Paul B

    GFCI question

    I thought you said it here: Oh, never mind, I see you said you were adding a separate breaker. I thought you said a separate GFCI breaker. I am wrong, sorry.
  20. Paul B

    GFCI question

    You said you were adding a GFCI breaker!
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