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I just came home from crabbing in the rain all morning and I collected 15 gallons of water so it is a great day so far, and no flats, yet.

So this morning I figured I would fix the GFCI DIY leak detector while the cleaning girl is here. I "carefully" crawled partially under the tank and installed a new Home made leak detector and pump shut off. That only takes 10 minutes as it is made out of a film container and a couple of...

After being an electrician for 40 years I am used to shocks and they just serve to keep me awake. I did not see any Supermodels today but as I was getting shocked I was thinking that if I were to die here under my fish tank, I hope my wife cares about me enough to have my ashes scattered over a...

It started out as a great day. Last night we went out to dinner on the boat with friends and today I was going to start bringing stuff home from the boat and get ready for winter. I go past my reef tank and notice that it is very quiet. I don't hear the pumps but the lights are on. The GFI...

OMG my Ozonizer croaked. This is about the third or fourth one I have had. I have parts from other ones but it is not the electronics but the reaction chamber. I will try to build another one but they make those very delicate and I am not sure if I can make one. If not, I will have to get a...

Next week I plan on collecting some water as I have no idea when I changed it last so I am sure it is due. I have some fake seawater here but I have not put in any real water since last year and I really need to do that. I did add thousands of amphipods and quite a bit of mud but before it...

Sissies. Dance

Today my wife and I picked to start our fall cleaning. I do the finished basement where my reef is. I wash all the walls, baseboards, floors. Remove anything on the walls and clean that. take everything out of the closets and clean them, remove ceiling light diffusers and clean those etc. Anyway...

Yesterday I bought a new car and I am touching up a little scratch on the one I am returning and I am waiting for the putty to dry. So I am "forced" to sit here and look at my tank for a little while. Of course while I am watching my tank, they are watching me, especially those beady little...

1:30 this morning I got up and had a thought. Maybe these tube worms also eat paracites. I have no idea, but my tank is never bothered by paracites even if I put ich infested fish in. I also don't have the equipment to see if this is true but it would be a great boon to this hobby if we could...

An update on my tank. Dam the thing looks healthy. I don't know why and I can't remember the last time I changed water but I will have to get to that soon just so people don't start yelling at me. I hate when they do that. I can't stop my mandarins from spawning and I think the rest of the...

I was out in my boat with a younger cousin going to a seafood restaurant in the Bronx that specializes in my favorite food. Clams on the half shell. And they sell them for $6.00 a dozen which is a third what my marina charges for them. So I get half way there and like most days, my boat is the...

I got them as babies about a year apart. They were wild caught

Every year I take my wife and some of her friends on a nice boat ride and we come back in moonlight. This year I took them to the Statue of Liberty. It was one of the Lady's birthdays and she really enjoyed it. I have gone there on my boat many times but with the price of fuel now I can't...

I don't remember who got me that shirt. Probably a Supermodel :D

If I raise any it would be in the winter as I don't have time. But we have been traveling a little lately and you need to be around to raise salt water fish. They are more time consuming than this guy.

I never raised mandarins although I have raised plenty of other fish. Now it's some one else's turn. I could never catch them in this tank and I don't have the time to raise them. All my paired fish spawn all the time so it would be a full time job.

Yes but don't let her hear you say that, she is very vain

Every few weeks my pair of mandarins spawn and every time they do, I say to myself, Self, I don't think a fish could get any more pregnant than her. But every month, just when I think she is going to explode, she spawns. I used to think she was egg bound but she always pulls through and has...

That's my copperband's favorite brand, as you can tell by the smile on his face.