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If you are adding one GFCI "breaker" it will trip and turn off everything on that circuit no matter how you wire it. (Master electrician 40 years)

Someone asked me a question about how I keep my tank immune, and I responded with this: Actually my system always had an infusion of bacteria and mud. I am not sure the tiny percent of NSW I use is of any consequence. I have not even collected any in probably 8 months. I do add a little mud and...

I really need to clean my powerheads today as they have a bunch of growth on them which is impeding the flow. Flow is very important and I like to see the water sloshing all over the place. In the sea the water moves much faster than we can provide in a tank. I also need to scrape the algae...

I haven't seen my male arrow crab in a few days so I know he is under a rock someplace growing a new shell as he must have shed. I also noticed 4 or 5 places on one of my yellow wrasses where he had some parasites on his tail. I view this as a good thing because I want parasites in my tank...

From my notes it looks like my tank had nothing but diseases but then I realized that I only wrote something in the log book when something happened, like a disease. I rarely wrote anything if nothing was happening as I have months in between logging anything. In the very beginning it was all...

The tank is still doing well. No problems, no diseases, no quaranting etc. I have lost some corals in the last couple of years. A couple of nice bubble corals and a bunch of acropora. I don't care about the acropora because that was the clown gobies that spawned all over it and killed it...

I had this guy in my tank for quite a while and he got pretty big. But he always looked sad so a few weeks ago I went on E Harmony/Crab.com and found him a date. When I first put her in I thought it was love at first sight because he "ran" right over to her. But it was really love at first...

LOL. I actually did taka a mechanical engineering course but I always printed fairly well. In grammar school we had to do something in large print, about an inch high and we had to do it freehand. They called my Mother into school because they thought I cheated and used a ruler. :grin...

I was just on my deck feeding my tomato plants when I noticed a wasp nest in my air conditioner. I didn't know if it was an old nest as I didn't see any wasps. So I (smartly) banged on the air conditioner and immediately got my answer. One of them, the meanest one I assume because he seemed...

This picture from probably 1979 or 80 shows the green dead corals that were transported from the tank in my old home and the new, bleached white ones must have been the new ones I bought to take up the extra space because this tank was much larger. I can see I was building my basement around the...

This is from the day I moved from Queens New York to New Hyde Park, Long Island. A trip of about 9 miles. I put the water and fish in 2 five gallon buckets for the trip and dumped it all back in in my new home. I still had not gotten the new 100 gallon tank here. I think it took me a few...

Here in New York Aquarium Stock company was a large store near the World Trade Center which was under construction then. They got salt water in 1971 when I got them. Blue devils, sergeant majors and dominoes' were the only fish then. This was my tank circa 1972

I think it is interesting. I read it and laugh at the medications I tried. I have not seen this book in decades. I probably used medications I was taking as there were absolutely no salt water fish medications. I think we may have had copper but that's it. The log is full of trial and errors...

In 1976 I was still living in my apartment and the tank was 40 gallons. I had that copperband, French Angel and a Moorish Idol in a 40 gallon

This is the first page of my log book. I also found a book that I started writing at that time. I was listing the fish that I kept and wrote a page or so for each fish. The pictures were drawings that I did at the time. It's a little out dated now. Remember this was before just about anyone...

While doing some cleaning up in my workshop I came across my fish tank logs from 1974 until the 90s. I listed what I paid for fish, how much they cost, where I bought them and how long they lived. When I get time I will scan some of it and post some of it. This was way before computers so it is...

If I put much of it from the Long Island Sound in the reef I would also have brown water. I pour off the loose stuff that floats in the water column a few times, then just use the heavier stuff with the larger particles that sinks and doesn't float around. See that stuff under the mussels...

You take those amphipod covered rocks and swish them in a bucket of water. The amphipods get dizzy and fall off. Then you find a nice beach to relax on and have a beer. (or coffee)

Your wish is my command. First my Grand Daughter points to where the amphipods are. Then I go there and collect. Video, turn up the sound as these were taken with an underwater camera.

I just bot back from a great day of boating. Those are my favorite kind of days. It was low tide so of course I went collecting. Amphipods are much more numerous last month but I got a nice haul. Maybe a few hundred but I didn't count them. I also collected some mud (for the bacteria) and...