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After about 16 years one of my fireclowns feels he must bond with an anemone. I don't have any anemones so he is using a very large (and expensive) Duncan for a host. The Duncan is not amused and has not opened in a couple of weeks. I would like to spear the fireclown but probably would miss...

So it's been a week and this is what I have so far. Some streaks. The blobs are pieces of algae that I stuck on there to "seed" it but it looks like I didn't need to do that. A am not sure why it is growing in those streaks but I assume in a few weeks the thing will be covered in algae. If...

That is true, but the cabinet the tank is in is wood and a fire hazard, and the basement that the cabinet is in is wood and most of the house that the basement is under is wood so everything is a fire hazard. That light is a low voltage LED so not much chance of burning anything.

I realize that but I do my own research through my own experiments and come to conclusions that way. All of mine also used plastic mesh. Fire is not a problem as the thing is always soaking wet as water is constantly flowing over it. I am trying the cotton as an experiment because of the...

The thing started to grow algae from the top down. I added some iron paper clips to the cloth to see if the algae grows faster in those places. It's a test

That is very cool although I wouldn't eat that. But I like it.

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This is the original experiment. This was a small sheet of cotton material draped over the algae trough. Water is not even pumped over it, it is just wet from one edge laying in the water flow inside the trough. I peeled algae from this to seed the new device. This grew in a few weeks.

Sorry double post

That is a Tee Shirt. I drilled a hole into the tube that feeds my Reverse UG filter but any small pump will work. The water just drips out the holes enough to wet the shirt and drip down into the tank. Algae grows like crazy on this material because there is no water to filter the light. I...

I have been experimenting with this concept and so far the small version grew an enormous amount of algae so I built one on a larger scale. It is basically just a cotton sheet suspended over my tank by an acrylic tube that has holes drilled in it which tank water drips through slowly flowing...

Today my wife and I did a little boating as we always do in the summer and I took the dinghy to shore to do a little collecting just before the storm rolled in. We just made it back in time but I managed to get a bucket full of amphipods. This is the first collecting of the year and I hope to...

Great story.

I have been called many things, some I can't repeat here and some involving my hair, or lack of. Dance I also just wrote a book. I am hoping to get a Pulitzer or at least a movie deal. I think Brad Pitt will play me. Him or Pee Wee Herman I am not sure yet. But the book has about 10 or 15...

Yes I do. I have been keeping and spawning mandarins for decades. I wrote this and a few more articles there about them. http://www.saltwatersmarts.com/diy-target-feeder-mandarinfish-pipefish-2804/

I spent about an hour on my tank today which is much more then I ever do. I decided to remove half of the screen in the algae trough because there was no algae growing just tubeworms and corals which completely filled the trough almost preventing the water from getting through. I had to pry up...

My wife and I took the boat out today for a nice quiet sail to dinner in a nice quiet restaurant on the bay. The clams were very quiet.

This last 6 days we babysat out 2 Grand Kids while our Daughter and husband went to a wedding in Mallorca Spain. Yeah, not to bad. We stayed at their CoOp in Manhattan for the first 3 days. They live on the 16th floor and out one side you see the Empire State Bldg and uptown and out the other...

I think so, no Sissy thermometers for me

Thats something I do every day as I don't do much to the tank. But I drink Grand Marnier. Dance