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Tank birthday and I'm a Geezer
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It's quite obvious, you need a larger tank, and use the current one as a sump or refugium. (grin)OOOOhhhhh NNooo. I have way to many fish. Soon they will have to take turns putting their heads in the water.
I can't help it, if I see an interesting fish that I hardly, if ever see, I need it.
OMG. I have hair algae but no hair on my head. All my fish look great and want to spawn, but I can't use any more fish.
My corals don't look as good, I think they are jealous of all the fish and don't want to stand up in their full glory. I need a bigger tank so I need a bigger house but I'm to old to get one.
I am going on my beach walk now so I hope I don't find a baby swordfish or horseshoe crab because I know I will put them in my tank.
Paul B
NJRC Member
These guys also "may" be spawning, but I can't find their nest. Or maybe they are just trying to see who has the best stripe..
These guys are also pretty old as one of them is from my last house and I have lived here for 6 years so one may be 10 or 12.
When they are young, the look like this as this is the same fish
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These guys are also pretty old as one of them is from my last house and I have lived here for 6 years so one may be 10 or 12.
When they are young, the look like this as this is the same fish
Paul B
NJRC Member
Possum Wrasses.
I'm going to try to list my fish, mostly for my benefit but I don't know what many of them are.
2 Fireclowns
3 Red Waspfish
7, 9 or 10 clown gobies, different colors. Green, Black, blue, yellow and gray
2 six line wrasses
2 Possum Wrasses.
1 some kind of red fish, maybe a cardinal, I have no idea and don't remember buying it
1 Hippo Tang
1 Other tang, it will come to me. Tamini, or something like that.
1 Chalk Bass
2 Bangai Cardinals
2 Sunburst Anthius
3 Neon Gobies
3 Hectors gobies
1 Black something
1 Filefish
2 Blue stripe pipefish
2 Watchman Gobies
2 Mandarins
1 Red Scooter Dragonette
1 Perchlet
2-3- 4 or 8 small bleenies
2 Possum Wrasses
1 Long Nose Hawkfish
1 Ruby Red dragonette
So about 50 fish. I'm sure I missed one of two.
I'm going to try to list my fish, mostly for my benefit but I don't know what many of them are.
2 Fireclowns
3 Red Waspfish
7, 9 or 10 clown gobies, different colors. Green, Black, blue, yellow and gray
2 six line wrasses
2 Possum Wrasses.
1 some kind of red fish, maybe a cardinal, I have no idea and don't remember buying it
1 Hippo Tang
1 Other tang, it will come to me. Tamini, or something like that.
1 Chalk Bass
2 Bangai Cardinals
2 Sunburst Anthius
3 Neon Gobies
3 Hectors gobies
1 Black something
1 Filefish
2 Blue stripe pipefish
2 Watchman Gobies
2 Mandarins
1 Red Scooter Dragonette
1 Perchlet
2-3- 4 or 8 small bleenies
2 Possum Wrasses
1 Long Nose Hawkfish
1 Ruby Red dragonette
So about 50 fish. I'm sure I missed one of two.
Paul B
NJRC Member
Yesterday we took our yearly trip about 77 miles to Arthur Ave. In the Bronx. It is the only Italian neighborhood left in New York and maybe the east coast. Our Daughter graduated from Fordham University so we used to go there often as it is walking distance from there.
We went with 8 friends and ate the best food you can get in the US. (If you like real Italian food) There are oyster bars on the sidewalk which of course I couldn't pass up. The markets make olive oil so you can get real olive oil, something that you really can't get anywhere in the US. The stuff we can buy here, even at fifty bucks a gallon is cut with a lot of cheap oils. Maybe Sunoco oil. :LOL:
There is a huge difference and if you have ever been to Italy you can tell right away.
The Barrotta, buffalo mozzarella is made with whipped cream, right out of a cow and set to mingle for a week. The olive oil you put on bread had 7 vegetables in it plus a little honey.
I had the best linguine and clams I have had since last year when I went there, even better than my own because I can't get the ingredients here. Not even in Little Italy in Manhattan any more. We started with octopus salad and pizza that most Americans would not recognize as pizza. The stuff we buy here is not made in Italy. We get American Pizza here just like our Chinese food would not be recognized in China.
It's also topped with meats that I can't spell in English.
Most places have no menu and only take cash. .
I bought some $15.00 cigars that the guy who has been there for 40 years makes in front of you. He doesn't speak a word of English. He has barrels of tobacco leaves and a huge press. I myself don't smoke them but many years ago I did. I give them to friends who do.
I bought 6 pounds of home made pasta that they make while you wait. We will give much of it to friends.
We also stocked up on home made sausage, hot and sweet along with brasiole and other Italian meats. The sausages they make in front of you.
We also never pass up Madonia bakery and stocked up on olive bread. It's only baked there and you can't get anything similar here. We will have it for breakfast today after I come back from my walk.
I really love that place, as you may be able to tell.
We went with 8 friends and ate the best food you can get in the US. (If you like real Italian food) There are oyster bars on the sidewalk which of course I couldn't pass up. The markets make olive oil so you can get real olive oil, something that you really can't get anywhere in the US. The stuff we can buy here, even at fifty bucks a gallon is cut with a lot of cheap oils. Maybe Sunoco oil. :LOL:
There is a huge difference and if you have ever been to Italy you can tell right away.
The Barrotta, buffalo mozzarella is made with whipped cream, right out of a cow and set to mingle for a week. The olive oil you put on bread had 7 vegetables in it plus a little honey.
I had the best linguine and clams I have had since last year when I went there, even better than my own because I can't get the ingredients here. Not even in Little Italy in Manhattan any more. We started with octopus salad and pizza that most Americans would not recognize as pizza. The stuff we buy here is not made in Italy. We get American Pizza here just like our Chinese food would not be recognized in China.
It's also topped with meats that I can't spell in English.
Most places have no menu and only take cash. .
I bought some $15.00 cigars that the guy who has been there for 40 years makes in front of you. He doesn't speak a word of English. He has barrels of tobacco leaves and a huge press. I myself don't smoke them but many years ago I did. I give them to friends who do.
I bought 6 pounds of home made pasta that they make while you wait. We will give much of it to friends.
We also stocked up on home made sausage, hot and sweet along with brasiole and other Italian meats. The sausages they make in front of you.
We also never pass up Madonia bakery and stocked up on olive bread. It's only baked there and you can't get anything similar here. We will have it for breakfast today after I come back from my walk.
I really love that place, as you may be able to tell.
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I use to go there around this time of year and buy cheese, bread, home pasta / ravioli, etc. easily drop a few hundred food shopping and then a bite to eat. I also had other people ask me to pickup stuff for them.
was much fun but haven't gone in a few years for obvious treasons.
was much fun but haven't gone in a few years for obvious treasons.
Paul B
NJRC Member
OOOOOohhhhhNNNooooo. CRASH.................
........No..not my reef, that would be silly and I run a reverse undergravel filter so it's state of the art.
My worm culture.
I have 2 white worm cultures and they are many years old. I have them in a cooler that you plug in like a picnic cooler. You can even plug it into a car.
I dropped the plug the other day and didn't realize it wasn't fully plugged into the thing and OMG, a heat wave and dead, really, really stinky worms.
One good and weird thing is that out of the 2 containers I have in the cooler, only one crashed and turned into smelly, worm mush. The other one is fine, kind of.
I will just put in more soil in the crashed one. I already cleaned it and the cooler with bleach, and I will add worms from the good culture.
........No..not my reef, that would be silly and I run a reverse undergravel filter so it's state of the art.
My worm culture.
I have 2 white worm cultures and they are many years old. I have them in a cooler that you plug in like a picnic cooler. You can even plug it into a car.
I dropped the plug the other day and didn't realize it wasn't fully plugged into the thing and OMG, a heat wave and dead, really, really stinky worms.
One good and weird thing is that out of the 2 containers I have in the cooler, only one crashed and turned into smelly, worm mush. The other one is fine, kind of.
I will just put in more soil in the crashed one. I already cleaned it and the cooler with bleach, and I will add worms from the good culture.
mickeysreef <*))))<
NJRC Member
Mine crashed a while back and I haven't tried to replace them. Actually sold the wine fridge they were in. Cooler sounds like a much better idea though. Compacter... I know, no such word.OOOOOohhhhhNNNooooo. CRASH.................
........No..not my reef, that would be silly and I run a reverse undergravel filter so it's state of the art.
My worm culture.
I have 2 white worm cultures and they are many years old. I have them in a cooler that you plug in like a picnic cooler. You can even plug it into a car.
I dropped the plug the other day and didn't realize it wasn't fully plugged into the thing and OMG, a heat wave and dead, really, really stinky worms.
One good and weird thing is that out of the 2 containers I have in the cooler, only one crashed and turned into smelly, worm mush. The other one is fine, kind of.
I will just put in more soil in the crashed one. I already cleaned it and the cooler with bleach, and I will add worms from the good culture.
Paul B
NJRC Member
I still have one culture going, (I think). I will see in an hour or so. If they are still alive. I will add half of them to a new culture.
In my still alive culture, there are thousands of worms but I didn't actually count them.
My fish depend on these things at least once a week for gut bacteria and one of the reasons my fish are immune.
In my still alive culture, there are thousands of worms but I didn't actually count them.
My fish depend on these things at least once a week for gut bacteria and one of the reasons my fish are immune.
