Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer

[Paul B]

My tank is doing great except now I have to clean the glass every day and I could do it twice a day if I felt ambitious. If I left it for 5 days it would be the same as looking through the left front fender of a vintage Ford Thunderbird.

It doesn't bother me and is just because there is so much life in the tank. This is a sign of health.

When I feed the fish, like I just did there are tentacles virtually evrywhere. I have sponges encrusting on every exposed surface and wriggling out of the edges of those sponges are nothing but tentacles. Probably spagheti worms. If I lift the edge of a sponge, the real estate is covered in bristle worms.

Brittle stars completely cover any area next to the glass like behind the thermometer, heaters or any rocks that touch the glass.
Any small part of exposed rock is filled with pores and out of every pore is an arm of "something".

If I turn off the pumps, multitudes of creatures leave the gravel and rocks to swim to the surface and suck up anything they can find in the surface film.
I can also usually see tiny new born clownfish there.

The back glass is covered in a film of algae, cyano and coraline algae which is crawling with snails, small worms, amphipods and asternia stars.

The pipefish hunt there and are always smiling.

These are things that all make up health and come from feeding things like clams that exude clam juice which is just tiny particles of clam in "juice". Sponges live on this stuff as do all the other beginnings of the food chain.

To keep pipefish, mandarins, bleenies and other small fish this stuff makes it much easier as I don't really have to feed those fish.
View through the back of my tank. Those are sponges

 

[Paul B]

Our town of Suffolk topped 30,000 cases of the virus yesterday. Lucky us.

Lets pray they come up with a vaccine quickly, I know the best minds all over the world are working on it.

Everybody here knows someone with the virus and unfortunately most of us know someone who died.

I heard that last night at my friend Sue's house neighbors went there and meticulously cut the grass, trimmed the bushes, planted flowers all over the place and hung a huge American Flag (I think it was from Sue's Dads casket) near the top of their house. They must have gotten a bucket truck because their house is two storied and very high.
Maybe the fire dept or police helped with that.

Sue is so overwhelmed at the love we all have for her and Tommy. He was very well loved.

I just saw the pictures, the entire house and property is covered in flags and flowers with a huge Flag hanging over the street from telephone poles.

 

[Paul B]

We just came back from the cemetery. All we could do was follow the hearse in, it went one way and we went the other.
They didn't even remove the casket so we just parked for a while, talked 6' apart, cried a little and left.

 

[Paulie 069]

My tank is doing great except now I have to clean the glass every day and I could do it twice a day if I felt ambitious. If I left it for 5 days it would be the same as looking through the left front fender of a vintage Ford Thunderbird.

It doesn't bother me and is just because there is so much life in the tank. This is a sign of health.

When I feed the fish, like I just did there are tentacles virtually evrywhere. I have sponges encrusting on every exposed surface and wriggling out of the edges of those sponges are nothing but tentacles. Probably spagheti worms. If I lift the edge of a sponge, the real estate is covered in bristle worms.

Brittle stars completely cover any area next to the glass like behind the thermometer, heaters or any rocks that touch the glass.
Any small part of exposed rock is filled with pores and out of every pore is an arm of "something".

If I turn off the pumps, multitudes of creatures leave the gravel and rocks to swim to the surface and suck up anything they can find in the surface film.
I can also usually see tiny new born clownfish there.

The back glass is covered in a film of algae, cyano and coraline algae which is crawling with snails, small worms, amphipods and asternia stars.

The pipefish hunt there and are always smiling.

These are things that all make up health and come from feeding things like clams that exude clam juice which is just tiny particles of clam in "juice". Sponges live on this stuff as do all the other beginnings of the food chain.

To keep pipefish, mandarins, bleenies and other small fish this stuff makes it much easier as I don't really have to feed those fish.
View through the back of my tank. Those are sponges

I love looking at ur tank,,it’s so alive with life and movement. The bottom of the ocean in a glass box (kinda gives a person a GOD complex)

 

[Paulie 069]

The best motivational speeches for life in general that I have ever heard By a Navy Seal Admiral, It's long, maybe 20 minutes, but worth it. Paulie, you may appreciate this

Admiral McRaven Leaves the Audience SPEECHLESS | One of the Best Motivational Speeches

Dude if anyone watches this video and doesn’t (at one point) get a lump in their throat,, then they must be dead inside.
I can’t wait to have my daughter watch this video
Thanks for another day with a smile n hope Paul

 

[Paulie 069]

Rough way to start ur day brother,, in our thoughts

 

[Paulie 069]

Our town of Suffolk topped 30,000 cases of the virus yesterday. Lucky us.

Lets pray they come up with a vaccine quickly, I know the best minds all over the world are working on it.

Everybody here knows someone with the virus and unfortunately most of us know someone who died.

I heard that last night at my friend Sue's house neighbors went there and meticulously cut the grass, trimmed the bushes, planted flowers all over the place and hung a huge American Flag (I think it was from Sue's Dads casket) near the top of their house. They must have gotten a bucket truck because their house is two storied and very high.
Maybe the fire dept or police helped with that.

Sue is so overwhelmed at the love we all have for her and Tommy. He was very well loved.

I just saw the pictures, the entire house and property is covered in flags and flowers with a huge Flag hanging over the street from telephone poles.

That is awesome of those people that did that for her,, just shows how good a man he must of been,, and also that there is still good people out there and the world might not be so crappy at the moment

 

[Paulie 069]

That is awesome of those people that did that for her,, just shows how good a man he must of been,, and also that there is still good people out there and the world might not be so crappy at the moment

I had my 22yr old daughter watch that video she loved it so much she sent it to her sorority sisters to view

 

[Paul B]

Thats great all young people and especially Snowflakes should watch it.
I saw it 3 times. Those are the kind of people we need for this country, doers, not complainers.

Of course I was no Navy Seal but after basic training I felt like I could do anything, and physically I probably could.

 

[Paulie 069]

Thats great all young people and especially Snowflakes should watch it.
I saw it 3 times. Those are the kind of people we need for this country, doers, not complainers.

Of course I was no Navy Seal but after basic training I felt like I could do anything, and physically I probably could.

I felt same way after basic training also, I did real well there that they made me a squad leader,, I was in charge of 13 people
And I was only 16yrs old when I went thru basic/ they kicked me out right after basic when they realized I was a minor.
Always wondered how my life would of been like if I was allowed to stay

 

[Paul B]

I devised this almost 90 degree angle needle to inject aiptasia. It has an 18" tube where I can push the plunger to inject the little devils

 

[Paul B]

 

[diana a]

that is sooo cute

 

[Paul B]

Prototype of new model of aiptasia injector. It has an 18" tube on it and I can change the needle by just sliding it out.
It is shown here full of Luguls Iodine which is something I am testing in the thing. So far the aiptasia have a nice red tinge but I am not sure if they will croak or love the stuff and do the macarana.

I also want to try metheline blue. I don't care if that kills them, but how cool will they look?

I already tried hydrogen peroxide and I think that has aiptasia vitamins in it.
I know battery acid or boiling, almost anything will work, but I am having fun

 

[Paul B]

Rosie the Riveter from WW2 fame and posters died this week at the age of 95.

She really was a riveter building corsair planes for the war. She didn't go to college to help build planes. A real American.
I have her poster up in my house.

Rosalind Walter, who inspired ‘Rosie the Riveter’ song, dies at 95

Rosalind Walter, who was the inspiration for the “Rosie the Riveter” song during World War II and later one of PBS’s biggest benefactors, died this week at age 95. Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist remembers a life well-lived.

www.today.com

 

[Paul B]

For some reason the weather was beautiful here today. 72 degrees and sunny so after I washed my car (again) my wife and myself took a walk down the stairs to the beach.

On the way down I noticed that the water was absolutely perfect and clearer than I have ever seen it. You can't tell from that lousy picture but about 50 yards out I can see the rocks on the sea floor. It was like the Caribbean.

As soon as I got home I packed up my collecting stuff and headed down to a beach where I could back up almost to the water to collect.

I backed up, threw the pump into the sea. Started filling vats.

And it started raining.

You really can't catch a break. How does the rain know when I will be collecting water.

But it wasn't like Noah's flood so I finished collecting and have 40 gallons.
I almost don't have to filter it and could probably get by with just straining out the chopped up seaweed and discarded copies of my book but I figured I will break out the diatom filter for this and before I clean the thing I will just throw it in my tank because I know my fish just love it when I diatom filter the water.

Usually I do it once or twice a year but now with almost nothing to do, I do it all the time just to see the bubbles.

The alk was 6 and the temp is 52 so I may have to heat it a little.

 

[Paulie 069]

For some reason the weather was beautiful here today. 72 degrees and sunny so after I washed my car (again) my wife and myself took a walk down the stairs to the beach.

On the way down I noticed that the water was absolutely perfect and clearer than I have ever seen it. You can't tell from that lousy picture but about 50 yards out I can see the rocks on the sea floor. It was like the Caribbean.

As soon as I got home I packed up my collecting stuff and headed down to a beach where I could back up almost to the water to collect.

I backed up, threw the pump into the sea. Started filling vats.

And it started raining.

You really can't catch a break. How does the rain know when I will be collecting water.

But it wasn't like Noah's flood so I finished collecting and have 40 gallons.
I almost don't have to filter it and could probably get by with just straining out the chopped up seaweed and discarded copies of my book but I figured I will break out the diatom filter for this and before I clean the thing I will just throw it in my tank because I know my fish just love it when I diatom filter the water.

Usually I do it once or twice a year but now with almost nothing to do, I do it all the time just to see the bubbles.

The alk was 6 and the temp is 52 so I may have to heat it a little.

I’m jealous, I’m out of NSW and had to use RODI this week,, I’m hoping my buddy will take me out this week so I can grab 100gal

 

[Paul B]

Where is your boat?

 

[Paulie 069]

Where is your boat?

Will be ready in five more days we’re getting killed with deliveries to get parts for the boat everything is late Should’ve been back in the water 2 1/2 weeks ago but such is life I feel my problems are very small compared to the problems that are going on around me

 

[Paulie 069]

Will be ready in five more days we’re getting killed with deliveries to get parts for the boat everything is late Should’ve been back in the water 2 1/2 weeks ago but such is life I feel my problems are very small compared to the problems that are going on around me

But going on week number 11 without a paycheck certainly sucks