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Sounds great! Whats an FTS?

Phyl, the screen is plastic window screen from any hardware store. I first sanded it by putting it on a table and using medium sandpaper on it to roughin it up a little. Then I mix a little Sakrete mortar mix and smear it on. Very little sticks but it makes algae grow much faster. The fence post...

I don't think too many people use an algae trough, I know a lot of people use lighted refugiums though. The Idea of the trough is that it is free to operate and almost free to build. It is basically a place for algae to grow which has bettter growing conditions that your tank. I use a 4" PVC...

Hurtback, that was probably me. I have always collected seahorses. I collected about a dozen last year on the south shore of LI. I don't have any now but you are correct, for every seahorse you collect you get two dozen pipefish. I collected this pair, the female is transfering the eggs to the...

I use that type of net all the time, I love the thing

Mike, nice, I still have some of those dead corals. That tank I showed is still running, that is my reef now, I just transfered it all into a 100 gallon tank. I still collect that stuff ;D But do you know why they originally put slate bottoms on tanks? Those tanks came out in the 1800s, people...

Maybe you should tell NASA about those bags, instead of expensive space suits, they could send us to Mars with one of those bags on our head. ;D

And I haven't changed a bit in those 30 some odd years, especially my watch and hair ::)

Maybe instead of a tank, we should put our reefs in one of those bags :-\ Rod Serling from the Twilight Zone diden't own that company, did he?

Mike, you mean a picture like this one from about 72? I never used canned tuna buit I have fed fresh tuna. I have fed a lot of things including Plaster of Paris but again, for another thread. Mike, Old school is better and it never crashes. ;D

Beer cans, I have very good luck keeping beer cans in my tank. The bottles have a longer lifespan and are easier to care for but I find beer cans to be particulary disease free and cheap. Copperband butterflies also tend to like beer cans better than soda bottles. ???

Wow, I diden't know you were discussing the greatest skimmer ever made. I would have put my 5' model into the discussion. Of course, it's the greatest skimmer ever made and it cost about eight bucks. It was built by Urchin Searchin Enterprise which is my company. ;D I hope you are keeping those...

When will you be adding a beer can? ;D How are you keeping the worms alive?

I can leave if you like. I am on my fifth or sixth diatom, how do people keep a reef without one? I don't know 8)

I have been running ozone 24/7 for about 35 years in the skimmer in the same tank with no carbon. There is no ozone smell and I am quite sure all of the ozone is being used up in the skimmer. I have used UV in the past and find it very useful in a goldfish pond but useless in a tank

Blange, this sounds like a ploy to get me to type all night ;D I am diatoming my tank now so I have time to rant but we just had a 20 or so page thread on this subject that you are well aware of. ;) But while we are on the subject, I like it when I read a post and it says, "my tank just cycled...

How come you guys can get away with just typing one line and I have to go on forever? Can't you ask me a yes or no question? ;D SurfnTurf, thanks for that bacterial lecture on U Tube, I really enjoyed it. Mad Reefer, I do put a little of that mud right in the container where it gets pumped...

My dive partner recently took this picture in the Caymans. I told him I needed a picture of fry. See the white dots to the left of the nurse shark? Those are fry and is what fish snack on all day. They are all over the place.

I did it again, I wrote a page and somehow lost it. I will try again in a shorter version. Fish in the sea do not eat flakes, pellets, clams, squid, beef heart, angel formula, mysis, or brine shrimp. Fish in the sea eat fish, and a lot of them. Fish, unlike us need massive quantities of the...

My meaning of course was to inform newbees to NOT do some of the things I do. As I said my tank is an experiment and I have lost plenty of animals in the fifty + years I have been doing this. You should quarantine and you may not want to put mud in your tank. These are my ideas and plenty of...