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  1. Paul B

    Surprise, free soft corals

    Here are some more "corals" that I found growing in my algae trough. Now I find them scattered in my reef. I like them.
  2. Paul B

    Hurricane Irene

    This is around the corner from my house
  3. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

  4. Paul B

    Bristle worms

    Krish, cool pictures
  5. Paul B

    Hurricane Irene

    We are fine, very little damage to my house. I just went to my boat which is about 5 miles away and there are only a handful of homes here with power. They pulled my boat out of the water just before the storm. It will go back in on tuesday.
  6. Paul B

    Hurricane Irene

    I live on Long Island and we just drove around and here is my block. We live in an area called the Oaks and this is why. I know the South Shore got flooded and many people have a lot of damage. About a third of the streets are blocked with down, still alive wires and trees. Thank God that of...
  7. Paul B

    Bristle worms

    Bristle worms, a few years ago these things were a sign of doom. We thought they would eat our corals, fish, TVs and I Pods. Sometimes my reef is full of tiny ones and other times like now there are only a few giant ones. I just fed the tank with blackworms, mysis and pellets and I was...
  8. Paul B

    Lets talk UG filters

    Krish, you are not giving yourself enough credit. :rolleyes::rolleyes:
  9. Paul B

    Lets talk UG filters

    Lets talk about Undergravel filters, no really. Old technology? maybe but so is running water. When we got tired of going outside to pump water, we didn't stop using water . We invented faucets. OK not a great analogy. In the beginning of the aquarium hobby, which was right after WW2 we all...
  10. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    Today I added a copperband and long nose butterfly. These have always been my favorite fish. The copperband is not in the greatest health, he has flukes and some wounds. It is not very easy getting a very healthy one of those. I knew that when I saw him but I got a deal I couldn't refuse...
  11. Paul B

    Surprise, free soft corals

    Here are some of the little suckers in my algae trough
  12. Paul B

    Surprise, free soft corals

    As I was looking at my algae trough tonight I noticed a bunch of hair algae in there which is what I want, but I also noticed about 2 dozen polyps. They are soft, I thought they would be hard because they look like little 3/8" buttons but I touched them and they are soft. They are at the...
  13. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    My tank now is much too clean. Next week I need to go collecting for worms and amphipods. I will also add some mud for bacteria. I was at my collecting place today but I had a boat full of company so I didn't collect anything. But I really don't like it this pristine.
  14. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    Now that I gave away the dragon wrasse one of this pair stays in the front now. Ever since I had that wrase both of them would hide in the back. I noticed after I removed all the rocks that one of this pair is missing. I am not sure how long watchmans live but this pair I got as babies and I...
  15. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    Thanks, most of the fish I have are hiders. The large watchman gobi stays in the caves as do the two fireclowns. The clown gobi's rest in the gonopora's, the tiny pipefish like the back, the algae bleenies are looking for algae, but there is none right now so they are sulking. The mandarin is...
  16. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    I finished in just 4 hours. I didn't lift the UG plates because the gravel was not that dirty. I was surprised. I took out everything except about 3" of water, then I stirred that up and dumped it out. Then I added some of the clean water that I removed, stirred that up and dumped it out...
  17. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    I will be doing this cleaning/aquascaping job tomorrow, monday. I have vats all over the house along with tanks and mixed up water. 2 diatom filters are standing by for after I remove all the corals, fish, rocks, bristleworms, Loch Ness Monsters etc. I will remove all the water except about...
  18. Paul B

    Base for Live Rock

    I am attached to my gravel. It has been with me for about 45 years. It is just cycled. :faint2: These are more rock supports in my tank now
  19. Paul B

    Base for Live Rock

    I like to keep my rocks off my substrait as much as posable but most of my rocks are large and heavy because I collected them in the sea. Much of my new rock is hollow PVC with cement coating it. I am soon going to re aquascape and I will keep the rocks lifted off the gravel with these...
  20. Paul B

    Other uses for LEDs

    Here is another one
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