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Today it was a beautiful day so my wife, I and another friend went out on my boat. We anchored where I usually do right off a tide pool in the Long Island Sound. I took my dinghy to the tide pool to do a little collecting and it is now officially amphipod season. I go here almost every week...

I am not big into ties. I think maybe I wore two ties in the last 3 years and that was to much.

Maiden vovage, worked like a charm

I don't know, but it can beat eggs great.

So for Father's day my Daughter asked me what I needed. Last year I lost the lower unit to my tiny outboard that powers my dinghy so I asked her to get me one of those. I received it yesterday and it looks cool. My old one was 1 1/2hp and it was just about powerful enough for the two man...

One of my banana fish has a very severe case of Pop eye and if I could catch him, I could cure him in 5 seconds but he doesn't believe me and as soon as I approach the tank with a hypodermic needle, he hides. Go figure. It is healing and now most of the gas bubble has migrated to his forehead...

Some of my ideas are pretty cool, especially my cooler, or chiller. It runs by evaporation and uses as much electricity as a Supermodel while she is eating an M&M

How do you guys keep tanks without this stuff. The little helicopter thing with the floats is the top of the surface skimmer. The top of the thing can move up and down with the surface of the water and the floats, or film containers keep it at just the correct height to only skim the surface...

One of my clown gobies disappeared which is a relief. She probably died of old age or just retired as she laid eggs every week for a couple of years and between her and her boy friend killed a large acropora by covering it with eggs. I think that was their intention all along. I am not going to...

I figured out another reason why I hate to change water even though I made it much easier with pumps so I don't carry any water or do almost anything physical. I roll a 30 gallon container near the tank and using a large siphon hose with a strainer on it, I suck out about 25 gallons of water...

I just got back from the south shore where I was at my friends house on the water. I picked up a load of amphipod infested seaweeds which I just put in a live bearer trap hanging in my reef. In a couple of days I will remove most of the seaweed which will die in the tank. I just want the...

My wife just had surgery for two cysts on her back. She was in a lot of pain and the five hour surgery went well. Now she has two titanium ground rods in her lower spine. It could have been worse, she doesn't have Pop Eye or anything. Today I visited her in the hospital. She is in a large...

The last time I went away my pipefish were fine, I think they were glad to get rid of me. But those were bluestripes and they are better at hunting pods. The three I have now may be in trouble if I leave as my tank sitter is not going to hatch brine shrimp or deal with worms. I may just have...

These are two multi banded and one dragon face pipefish eating new born brine shrimp that they get a few times a day. Video Here are stills of them

Unfortunately for the fast growing Montipora, the torch corals grow faster and sting them to death very quickly. Oh Well he should have grown the other way.

The tank now has 3 pipefish in it. I can't find the pair of bluestripes but I am fairly certain the Korilia powerhead ate them before I found the problem and corrected it. Now that that is fixed, I would like to get another pair of them. I doubled my production of new born brine shrimp because...

OK, well if there is nothing on, you can watch this video of my pipefish eating newborn brine shrimp. Then when you get tired of that, you can watch my dragon faced pipefish eating the same thing Then if there is still nothing on, you can watch my 2 pistol shrimp. Or just watch them all...

This is something I have not seen before with pipefish. The copperband seeks out this pipefish and they stay together while the pipefish inspects and eats irritations or maybe parasites that I can't see off the copperband. They have been together for 15 minutes so far and the copperband seems...

Thanks, I am trying like crazy to get some more, but no one has them and I am surrounded by LFSs

I can't believe how stupid I am. Well, yes I can. I have been having a problem losing pipefish for a long time and I couldn't figure out why. But I did now and I should have realized it which is driving me crazy because I usually see these potential problems. The problem started a couple of...