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  1. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    Today I think I will go to a new LFS that opened up near here. I have a choice of about 6 LFSs with in a few miles of my house but most of them always get the same old boreing, common things. How many yellow tangs, angelfish and triggers do we need? I want to get a male mandarin to date my...
  2. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    For some reason freshwater fish can live a long time and spawn even on a diet of oatmeal.
  3. Paul B

    How life has changed

    I just read a thread I started in 2006 and I would like to start it again and see how other people's life has changed in a few decades. I myself was born in the 40s. The very late 40s. :D Television was invented two years before I was born and there were only 2 shows on. We were lucky to have...
  4. Paul B

    Poll: What is the longest time frame you have had a single fish live for?

    I now have a fireclown for 16 or 17 years, My oldest fish was an 18 year old cusk eel that died in an accident. I have had a figure eight puffer in salt water for 12 years and one of my first fish was a percula clown. He was 12. That was in the 70s.
  5. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    Krish, I didn't say everyone. I was replying to the statement that because of technology we can keep fish longer. (or something like that) I actually think I do keep fish for their normal lifespan. Like you I almost never lose a fish to natural causes. They do have accidents where something...
  6. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    I don't know how all of you guys top off your water but being I started this thread I will get into it a little the way I do it. I guess you figured out that I like to build and modify things. My top off system is totally automatic and I only have to touch it every year or so. I hung this...
  7. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    I agree with you big time Scoot. To me this is just a way of life and I never lived a day of my life without a fish tank of some kind so I mistakenly assume that all people think this way, but of course I am way off with that. The vast majority of hobbiests leave the hobby after a few years...
  8. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    Scoot, I would never take anything the wrong way. It's a fish site. :spider:I named "this" thread unorthodox because IMO, most of the members of these forums are young and never heard of some of these things. It is only un orthodox to them. :confused: I just thought it would be interesting to...
  9. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    I am running out of un orthodox things to post about but I think just about everything I do is unorthodox and when someone comes to look at my tank, they seem kind of surprised. Everyone notices the bottles. I like old coral encrusted bottles (and chains) Old rusty chains to me just remind me...
  10. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    Over the years I think I did a few things that most people think is odd for some reason. To me my tank is supposed to be like a part of a reef or at least a part of the sea so I add whatever I find in the sea that I feel will either enhance the feeling or at least be interesting. We all know...
  11. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    Today I had to clean out my algae trough as the water in it was almost overflowing. It grew so much brown hair algae that it was clogged. As I was doing that I noticed this acropora and I would swear the thing grew an inch in a month. It is hard to tell and I can't find a picture of it older...
  12. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    Pacu's will eat anything. Even SPAM
  13. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    Actually quite a few fresh water fish eat fruit and bananas in the wild. In some tropical places banana trees grow near the water and when the bananas fall in the water fish eat them. I saw this in Viet Nam so I figured I would try it. Bananas are healthy and soft and they stay together in...
  14. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    Unorthodox feeding methods Again, I thought everyone did this stuff. OK maybe not but it was always common sense to me. Like I said there was not always commercially available stuff to feed our animals. The hobby of keeping the animals started first, then the hobby about feeding and careing...
  15. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    Todd, post them
  16. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    The second unorthodox thing is chlorine bleach treatment of sea water. :confused: Don't do this. Don't do a lot of the things I do. I am not responsible for anything you do, so just take it for what it is, unorthodox. First of all let me say that I did not invent this, that was Robert...
  17. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    Remember I am not saying for anyone to do these things. I do them, but I do a lot of things that a lot of people won't do. My first saltwater fish was a figure 8 puffer. Yes, I know they are brackish but I never told him that and I kept him in salt water. Anwyay after a few years he got a...
  18. Paul B

    Unorthodox ways to do things

    I thought it would be interesting to talk about some of the odder things some of us do that is not the norm. Thanks to computers and the internet much of this hobby has become a cookie cutter endeavour and many people do the same things the same way. :nerd: I started way before the internet so...
  19. Paul B

    Tuft of hair algae

    Thank you. Algae is a friend of mine and if it all disappears I know the tank is in trouble.
  20. Paul B

    Tuft of hair algae

    Hair algae is something that scares a lot of people and for good reason. I only have one place in my reef where I grow it on purpose. This was a string that I had tied to a coral that was at one time suspended from above the tank. I cut the string and let it unravel. It grew this tuft of hair...
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