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After riding the crowded subways in Manhattan for 40 years, I am sure I have licked the hand rails a few times because sometimes they are so crowded that your face is pushed up against them and you can't move. I think many in this hobby are thinking as we did in the 70s, but I feel we need to...

I took this from my boat, the World Trade Center used to be just to the right of the Freedom Tower This of course is the fountain where one tower stood. (It was pouring rain here) I worked on the construction of the World Trade Center in the 70s

Saltcreep, I would imagine Prizapro will kill all bacteria, but I am guessing. Mark, you are missing my point. I agree with you that you should not put a new fish into a "healthy" population of fish. But your definition of healthy is different than mine. My definition of healthy is when fish...

That is a tough question and I am not sure I have the answer. My fish keep their immunity because I don't quarantine anything and feed live or frozen foods exclusively along with the bacteria they have on and in them. If you have a tank where everything was quarantined for a long time and you...

I have been thinking about this for seven or eight years and finally, through scientific research and my experimentation I think I have figured out something that may change the way we run aquariums. For many years I have been feeding live blackworms, live amphipods and live new born brine...

Yesterday on 9/11. my Daughter took this picture from her Manhattan window. I also went by there on my boat.

The book has been finished for a while and hopefully will be out in a couple of weeks. At least thats what the publisher tells me. Believe me I want it out more then you. I am not sure whats taking so long, I think they want to make a movie from it and they are trying to get Brad Pitt to play...

I took a picture

Yes they will. I picked up a used one today from my friend's LFS. I traded him for some brine shrimp eggs.

Oh No. My UGF pump died. This is the fourth one of these I have that croaked. You can fix them up to a point but eventually the seal where the wire enters the thing gets porous and although it will work in air. I don't really need a fan, I need a pump and when I put it in my tank it trips...

In case anyone is from Oregon or Wisconsin and has never seen how muscles look at low tide in a tide pool. This is where I collect amphipods, shrimp, mud, blue claw crabs (for dinner) and other things. But no Supermodels, they don't go there.

My tank seems to be doing pretty good but I think it's time to stir up the gravel and suck everything out with a diatom filter. This is always an adventure because my diatom filters are put together with a little luck, spit and hope. I have one working and have been thinking of building my own...

To Update, I installed the new Split unit AC yesterday and now the house feels like Alaska again and my wife and I are wearing our parka's. I may turn on the heat to counteract the AC. My tank is doing well. The corals look fine, the "newer" fish such as the possum wrasse (maybe 2 or 3 years...

I use those film canisters for everything. The book is supposed to be out the end of the summer so I assume that is the end of next month. I want it out more than you do as I want to read it and still see if I agree with myself.

I went to feed the tank and I noticed that the light over the algae trough was out and the skimmer was dry as was the algae trough. OMG. That lightning strike that nuked my AC and the pump for my worms also killed the light over the trough and my rather ancient powerhead. The powerhead has...

Thats why I don't leave the thing on when we are out. But it's all good, in a few days I will put in a new unit. Have a great night.

Yesterday as i was sitting in my living room with the AC on I noticed that it was getting warmer. It was about 92 degrees out but the AC usually works fine. I installed this unit through the brick wall about 15 years ago because there was one there when I bought the house so I replaced it when...

Immunity, just a thought We don't "yet" have vaccines for fish but we have learned to use vaccines for ourselves. We are still in the dark ages when it comes to fish diseases with just as many problems with fish diseases now as we had in 1971 when the marine hobby started. Many people still...

Today it will be 94 degrees and of course I am going out in my boat. I will anchor off my favorite tide pool to do a little collecting but amphipod season is over. I was there last week and it was slim pickins for amphipods. Today I will just get some mud for the bacteria and copepods which...

I replaced the wrasse that jumped out with this candy cane wrasse. I like him and may get another one My Marine beta is doing great, hard to get a good picture because he stays in the shadows and wants to be an Enigma. The mandarin just does what mandarin's do and my...