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Hurtback my problem is also not enough time. I retired 19 months ago and have been busier than when I worked. I may have to go back to work so I can take a day off 8)

I collected a bunch of them last week along with one threadfin lookdown and a really beautiful boxfish. I am going again next week for tropicals and blueclaw crabs for dinner 8)

Very simple, use "regular Clorox" and water. All of my rock, which I collected I bleached in the hotel room before I brought it on the plane. No live rock was used in those days. The bleach will oxidize all of the dead organisms which are still in that ereock then after air drying, all of the...

I completed the boiler installation yesterday and it is busy making hot water. The thing is very quiet, I can't even hear it and there is no waste heat. You could sit on the thing and it does not even get warm. Even the PVC vent pipe barely gets over room temperature. I am very happy with it so...

We collected this guy also

It is illegal to take lobsters after they lay the eggs and they are hangong on the female but the eggs are inside the lobster before they lay them and you don't know that until you cut open the lobster. Those are fine to take.

The last time I went to Ocean City was great. I was surfing and I broke my collar bone and tore the bursa and rotator cuff. I got to be out of work for a few months which for me was always a good thing. I just think of it as a vacation with pain but I will take a vacation no matter what comes...

Hey Qwik, crab roe is fine. I think fish roe would be better with more oil but I doubt it makes that much difference. Don't feed that stuff as a staple meal though. Only a few times a week if you can. The more fish oil you can get into fish, the healthier they will be.

I don't want to give you guys too many ideas all at once. I need to save some for my old age when I start pushing my RUGF on everyone. But then no tanks will ever crash and I like having the oldest tank on these forums ;D

Here is a picture of the box fish we collected a few days ago. It is in my un lit, un filtered Long Island Sound tank which has raw NSW in it which is kind of green. I took the picture through a jewelers loupe but the fish never stops and is only a half inch long, the glass is also filthy. It is...

Nick, I also removed my old cast iron boiler myself. I broke it up with a large sledge hammer and brought it to the scrap iron dealer. It was 1000 pounds. I got $30.00 in scrap ;D Replacing it in the summer is the way to do it but I tested it yesterday when it was just about 100 degrees outside...

No but same efficiency same rebate and about a thousand less. I bought a Crown high efficiency boiler. I will also get a rebate on that and a tax break so it should be just about free. The Government is all screwed up now and I don't think they even know how much they are giving away on rebates...

As I posted in October I installed Solar electric on my home and I would like to report the results being it is almost 100 degrees here in NY today. I can access my electric bills for a year and I am happy to say that I have been saving about $110.00 a month in electric costs. My bill this month...

I use RO water for top offs and usually ASW for changes but I add about 50 gallons of NSW every year. I would use 100% NSW if it were not so heavy. I really don't like ASW and would not use it if I didn't have to. I only change about 20% of my water maybe five times a year. I do add bacteria in...

Steve I mix everything. I am in Long Island so it would be a long drive for you but I am sure there are places in Jersey that have sand flats at low tide.

See the tiny butterfly in this picture from last year's catch. Many of them are much smaller

We go to the south shore ocean beaches of Long Island at low tide and drag a 20' or 50' net through the grass flats. In my local tank you can see a pipefish in the center, a northern puffer near the bottom and a small butterfly under the rock to the right along with some shrimp. Every pull of...

] is sunscreen really that bad for the reef environment? I hope not, I lay in the water all week long with the stuff all over me :P

To change the water flow, you can just connect a few pumps to timers. I create typhoons every month or so with my diatom filter. I stir everything up. the fish love it.

See all of the tiny fry to the left of the nurse shark? They are all over the place on a healthy reef. This is what fish snack on all day. Whole, fresh fish, guts, skeleton and all. From the Cayman Islands