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Old age is exciting because I can't wait to see what hurts tomorrow. The hip thing went away like most things do. The MRI showed the muscle was filled up with water and he said I sprained it. That is another thing that is so cool, that you can sprain a muscle and not remember doing anything...

I got this one a few years ago when he was the size of a quarter. Now he is about 4" long. I have always had at least one copperband in my tank and have been keeping them since the 70s. Here is a video of him stealing new born brine shrimp from the mandarin feeder And another one eating his...

I don't see any more blotches, maybe I had cataracts . Mine says hello to yours

Feeder video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsGrL9nxJPs&feature=youtu.be

Bunker are awfully greasy and I think that would make quite a mess. I think they would be better food for seals and whales as they could eat the entire fish at once. If you could collect new borm menhaden, that would be great but for some reason I never saw tiny ones. Maybe this year I will...

Saltkreep88, whole krill I would think is an excellent food for fish that could eat them as they are quite big. Krill are like 1 1/2" or so. I think those small shrimp sold as krill would also be good but remember, the smaller the creature, the more of it's mass will be shell and not a real...

I also supplement my clams and worms with frozen Mysis but I wouldn't use them exclusively. Mysis are good as they are a whole food but they have a small problem. Their shell is not made of calcium and is not digestible so it is wasted. Much of those frozen Mysis is shell so I only use them...

So many posts are about fish dying and this is a shame. Most of the fish we keep should live at least ten years and many 15 or 20 years with the exception of small gobies, pipefish and seahorses as their life span is only a few years. Fish should also almost "never" get sick with anything. No...

This week my bluestripe pipefish and ruby red dragonette are pregnant.

This acro grew from a 1/2" piece to a foot across ion a couple of years. The dead parts are where the clown gobies spawn on it. They have no compassion or care what things cost.

No, that's it. There is quite a bit of SPS already in there and it has been a few years since I built that fixture. It seems like only the elkhorn was complaining about not having enough light. The acropora's montipora's and 5 or 6 others have no problems. I realize they are easy corals...

I wasn't crazy about my DIY light fixture because I bought a staghorn coral and it croaked. I needed more light. So I took the thing apart, as shown here I built another strip of LEDs on an aluminum square and bolted it on. I also built a new fan housing to accommodate the new wiring And...

I may well be past dementia already but that copperband doesn't look to well to me. But maybe it is blotches in my eyes :stung:

I thought that was to wash the fish off. What else could it be for. It's cellulose, or plastic. The worms die in about 10 seconds so once they realize they are food, they eat them as soon as they hit the water. But that fish doesn't look to good. What are all those blotches on it or is that...

The normally don't and if did, it won't keep them alive. Neither will flakes.

I got an emergency appointment this morning with a real Doctor. I could have gotten an appointment yesterday with a witch doctor but he texted to tell me he ran out of chicken bones so I went to a real bone guy who went to high school and everything. I am not a Noob when it comes to joint...

Happy Easer to you also.

Yesterday I went swimming like I do a few times a week for exercise and a few hours later I get this sharp pain in the my hip joint. So I figure I am old and you are supposed to get pains. If you don't have a variety of pains, you didn't work hard enough all your life. So last night it woke...

That new 5' LED strip I built with the 12 LEDs on it gets hot so I don't leave it on all day. I temporarily mounted it to my existing LED fixture but still need to remove the entire fixture and make a new fan housing which incorporates this new strip into it. Right now, there is no air flow...

My car rattles were the stabilizer links (stupid, stupid, stupid) I tightened them and didn't think they were the problem, but I was stupid. I don't know how I let that go by. Some people even suggested that to me. But sometimes I am just stupid. The stabilizer bar links are the easiest and...