Search results

Reef Aquarium & Tank Building Forum

Help Support Reef Aquarium & Tank Building Forum:

  1. Paul B

    Gobi near the end of his life

    He died at 7:00pm tonight. I just watched him take his last breath. Then I autopsed his gills to see if I could find any paracites because that is the best way to tell if you have any in your tank. He had the gills of a teenager, who never smoke. His gills were in perfect shape and I could not...
  2. Paul B

    Gobi near the end of his life

    I thought I would document the life of one of my favorite fish. This gobi has been with me for I think about 12 years. When I got him he looked like the first picture. Yellow and skinny. As he grew a little I bought another one and they became inseperable. After a few months, they turned...
  3. Paul B

    Swimming decorator crab

    I just looked at the tank (behind me) and this decorator crab is swimming at the surface. No he is not dead. How cool is that? He can do that because he covered himself with bubble algae, which is filled with air. :cool: This is what he looks like hanging on to something like he is supposed...
  4. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    I'm still on a quest to take a decent video but I am not there yet. Here I tried with the pumps off. I am going to keep trying. These new camera's have so many settings on them that it could take a half an hour just to set the thing the way you want it. But they still come out kind of lousy...
  5. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    I think I have too many animals in my tank now and I need to stop adding things. I also realize that In all these pages I don't think I ever mentioned what is in the tank. I am going to try to list the animals but not the corals because I can't remember names to save my life. I now have a...
  6. Paul B

    Feeding Stations

    I took a short video of the thing working.
  7. Paul B

    I took a Video

    It's a Canon SX20. I think I figured out what the problem is with the focus. The LEDs and the water movement screws it all up. I think if I shut off the pumps and made it more bluer, it would come out good. There is a lot of shimmer and I think that is what the problem is, that and I don't...
  8. Paul B

    I took a Video

    Thanks IPisces, I am learning on this camera. I never took a video with it so I tried again with the focus locked. It doesn't get me as dizzy
  9. Paul B

    I took a Video

    It's a little out of focus and it gives me a headache but it is what it is. I also notice that I dimmed the white lights so it was more blue and the fish went to sleep. :peep:
  10. Paul B

    Feeding Stations

    I built the thing mainly for this young skinny female mandarin. Up unitl now she has been afraid to go on top of it and would just suck up the shrimp around the edges but now she hangs out on top of it and sucks out dozens of shrimp. I need her to grow a little so she can mate.
  11. Paul B

    Feeding Stations

    Yes, I hatch them in here. This also seperates the shells. I have been hatching and feeding these for decades.
  12. Paul B

    Feeding Stations

    I love this stuff. I modified it a little by adding a better funnel on the top so I can just pour in the baby brine and I added a tiny hole at the bend at the bottom of the acrylic so the air comes out of the tube before it goes in the feeder container. I also sealed a couple of lead weights...
  13. Paul B

    Feeding Stations

    Thanks Tod, I built the thing in a few minutes.
  14. Paul B

    Feeding Stations

    All fish in the sea know how to find their food and in a tank it is even easier for them. The problem is that in the sea Mother Nature supplies food all day, every day. We as humans have other lives and usually don't want to feed our fish continousely. At least I don't. Also some fish are...
  15. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    Keeping SPS with no reactors :smokin:
  16. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    This white "snot" in the center of this picture is my decorator crab. I love those guys. There are a lot of different types but I like these skinny ones.
  17. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    Thank You Guerry. It was very Happy
  18. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    The test plugs are done and soaking in fresh water. One has iron and one is just cement. In a few days I will put them in my algae trough. I am really hoping the iron sintered one grows more algae, if it does I will line the entire bottom of the trough in the stuff in the hope that it will...
  19. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    I noticed that I have this wierd bubble algae growing only on my cement rocks. Randy gave me an Idea and suggested that it "may" be the iron that is attracting the algae to the cement. It could be another chemical in cement but I will try iron first. I made a slab of cement about 6 square inches...
  20. Paul B

    Facinating occurance

    The screen is in this trough which is mounted above the tank and to the rear. It uses the return water from the skimmer to work.
Back
Top