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Bill after using them for over forty years I would have seen a paracite by now ;D

Hey Boomer, how are you? Fancy meeting you here. I just got here yesterday. I saw this thread and since I had my water recently tested by a commecial lab I figured I would post it here. As you know my tank is 39 years old and some of that original water is still inthere so a lab tested it for...

Sounds good but the oldest DSB I know about was 10 years old. Most of my fish are older than that and some are almost twice as old. Are there any 15 year old DSBs? If not, why not? What happened to them? They were invented about 20 years ago. I am interested in the process as to what goes wrong...

It seems that so far the oldest DSB on here is 8 years. I know there are some older ones out there, anyone else?

Reflections, I told Bill that he can post anything I have ever written, anywhere he likes. I get that a lot about things that can't be done. This fire clown in the center of the picture probably can't live for 15 years in a tank with a RUGF. He can't he is almost 17 ;). But I never told him that...

I don't know anything about that worm place, I just needed to show worms.

California Black worms (not tubifex) http://aqualandpetsplus.com/Live%20Food,%20Blackworms.htm

Here is the worm keeper I designed. You need shallow water and a constant flow over the worms. There is an airstone in the left tube which brings water up and over the worms. The right tube sends the water down. There are a few plastic screens formed into a circle to keep the worms from...

THose were my favorite years ;D Bill. Blackworms are not tubifex worms. Tell your LFS to go check a website. California Black worms are bred in ponds in California and other places, tubifex worms which are thinner come from drainage ditches. Just Google California Blackworms and you will see...

Reflections, guppies do not count. Even if they are acclimated to saltwater they are still fresh water fish and do not contain the proper oils. Mollies are also not saltwater fish even though they can live in saltwater. They are brackish but you need ocean living fish, fish that always live in...

Blange, I still have those books and many more. I even have my old TFHs from 1969 and Marine Fish magazines from 1972, they were in Black and white. I have been keeping fish from the fiftees, the early fiftees. :-\ As for feeding techniques, it is posted a few times on RC so I will just try to...

How do you edit anything? I have some mistakes and spelling errors.

That dolomite gravel has been in the tank over 40 years. It has never been replaced and has only been cleaned by stirring up twice. The UG plates were lifter after 25 years because I was curious as to what it looked like under there. In some of the pictures you can see what looks like cyano on...

This bluestripped pipefish on the right are hard to get a picture of. They are always on the move, are very skinny and stay in the shadows. They have been spawning for a couple of years.

There are five of these brackish bumblebee gobies in there as an experiment. They are not spawning yet

If you look close, you can see that worm sticking out of the coral, laying eggs

Here is that large fat gobi tending her eggs.

These two hermits are over ten years old and are also spawning

These guys have been spawning for years

This pair is also spawning but I can't find the eggs