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Gogol you like bottles, I got them all over the place, it's more like a New York dump biotope :o Tazmaniancowboy, I don't get any mess when I turn on pumps. Maybe the tank is not old enough ::)

Do you guys ever turn off your pumps? That is my favorite time to watch my fish. I turn off the pumps to feed and sometimes I leave them off for an hour or two just to watch the "creatures" come out. You see tiny brittle star arms and spaghetti worms waving in the still water. Then you see...

Here is the shrimp hatchery

I have been hatching brine shrimp every day for over 20 years. I feed these to the tank every day mostly for the pipefish and small gobies but some of the corals eat them also. I also feed the fish and corals live blackworms almost every day. I feed everything with this, I would never just put...

I do this about 4 times a year but being I don't run a DSB I get very agressive. I put a restriction on the outflow hose of the diatom filter and turn it into a powerwasher. They I go over all of the rock surfaces (but not the corals) You would be amazed what comes out of live rock. Then I stir...

You should be wondering if artificial sea water works. NSW is like it says, natural, I like to call it real. The seas in the US are not as polluted as they used to be thanks to many new laws about dumping, sewage treatment and bilge emptying. I do not use 100% NSW only because it is heavy. I...

That goes along with my reverse UG filter, NSW from Long Island and bacteria from the sea. Of course my radical ideas may only let my tank last for 40 years, I will not know until it's birth day this March. If you use cement on anything, I would age it for a few weeks in some saltwater before...

You don't need the area airated. just lit. Macro algae does not work as much as well as nusience algae because the nuicence algae in the algae filter is what I am trying to eliminate from my display and if I grow hair algae in my trough it is using the exact nutrients that any hair algae in my...

Well thank you Wendy, I actually feel great and don't consider myself old. I think I do more now than I did years ago.

Thats it

Not much difference in the end result but my trough is in my main tank, it is just over the water. It is also free to operate being it uses the main tank lighting and the outflow from the skimmer. The water in my trough is also only a half inch deep and it is only a couple of inches from 300...

Yes it is. You can even see a little sliver of white in my full tank shot. I need to raise it a little one of these days.

I was wondering what this slimy stuff was in my algae trough and of course, it's algae. Slimy, long hair algae. The thing is doing it's job because there is absolutely no algae in my tank. just in the trough. Cool

It's just a shallow trough which is a PVC 2X4 sliced in half and placed over a tank with a small powerhead. The water enters the trough on the left and goes through some screens that the worms hang on to. The water goes into the tank where there is a small plastic container. The container is...

Speaking of anniversaries, last night I went to a very large wedding (just under 400 people) at the SeaPort in Manhattan. But the wierd thing is that the couple got married in the same church that my 99 year old Mother was married and babtized in. Old Saint Patricks, She even went to the...

I would like to dive in there

Ok you are right, I am missing the 1. I was 13 when I married her

Excuse me! I got married when I was 3

Blange, you must be old

Thanks guys and congrats to you too. How could I resist this? I think she was 18 here when I married her