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  1. Paul B

    Wedding anniversary

    This week is my 38th wedding anniversary and I am almost out of ideas for gifts for my wife. :rolleyes: We have gone on many trips to off the wall places, I took her around Manhattan on a helocopter, we did the horse and buggy thing through Central Park a few times, ate at the top of the Trade...
  2. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    The larger one is about 17 and he just threatens the fish that get too close to his bottle. He did chase two long nose butterflies out of the tank. The smaller one is only about 5 or 6 and they used to spawn, now they just argue, like a lot of marriages. :kiss:
  3. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    Just taking pictures
  4. Paul B

    Biodiversity

    No, but they did remove some of the particulate matter. Of course it was then converted into ammonia by the animals and then into nitrate by the bacteria. I just think the more creatures that pop up by themselves, the better. To an extent. All this life is just a healthy sign
  5. Paul B

    Biodiversity

    Here is a picture of the inside of my "in tank" surface skimmer. I don't have a sump and this thing skims the surface to remove the thin film that accumulates there. It also functions as a overflow as It feeds my HOB protein skimmer. This is a view from inside after I removed the bottom. It...
  6. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    They are clear and hard to see.
  7. Paul B

    Tank turned 41 years old

    I am very happy with the way my tank is running now. It has gone through many cycles over the years and now the LPS, SPS and fish all seem very healthy and there are no problems that I can see. These cycles usually only last a year or so and then something or other changes and either the LPS...
  8. Paul B

    Biodiversity

    Yesterday I was looking at this guy who was resting in a hole. Suddenly I noticed there was something in there with him. I took my flashlight (that I keep next to the tank) and peered in. It was a huge bristle worm wrapped around the bleeny. At first I thought the fish was dying and the worm...
  9. Paul B

    Live stock from ocean? Ok to add into aquarium?

    I have local snails, anemones, worms, shrimp and thousands of amphipods in my reef and I have been adding them for 40 years with no problem. Here in NY the water is cold so a lot of the local stuff like hermit crabs will not live but where you are the water is much warmer and should be no problem.
  10. Paul B

    No love for hermits?

    This pair was in my reef for 13 years until they recently died, probably of old age. I never had a problem with them and find them facinating. They may kill snails, so keep hermits and no snails. There smarter anyway. Mine used to text me when they were hungry.
  11. Paul B

    Biodiversity

    I don't know how many of these local mud snails and grass shrimp are in my reef but I dropped two pellets in this spot and with in 5 minutes there are 8 mud snails and 3 grass shrimp here fighting for lunch. The tank is 6' long so they came from long distances to get here.
  12. Paul B

    Biodiversity

    It's raining and I feel like rambling. Biodiversity. I am facinated by this. I also think it is a cool word. But for us aquarists it is restricted to marine animals, some good (for our tanks) and some bad (for our tanks). All animals are good for something, at least they think so. Even...
  13. Paul B

    Boat Wedding

    I deleted some pictures, I am not sure the wedding party wants their pictures published
  14. Paul B

    Boat Wedding

    Yes they are, the last picture is me and my bride of 38 years.
  15. Paul B

    Boat Wedding

    As a Captain today I re married my closest two friends on our boat. Actually we had 6 boats tied together and I performed the cerimony. It was their 40th anniversary and they wanted to renew their vows. It was a goof, I was dressed like Captain Steubing from the Love Boat and I am not really...
  16. Paul B

    Surprise, free soft corals

    Herefishyfishy I have seen the form of bubble coral on the site you posted many times in the sea. The locals think that if you squash them, you get stung but that does not happen. But I liked to throw them at the locals anyway and watch them run. I am not sure what type these are but I will...
  17. Paul B

    Surprise, free soft corals

    There is a chance it is one of those species but not the one you mentioned. It seems that some types are very invasive and will cover everything in the tank. Thats probably the one I have. Anyway, I can't find a picture of anything like it on the sites of bubble algae. Bob Goemans talks about...
  18. Paul B

    Surprise, free soft corals

    Or watermelon polyps
  19. Paul B

    Surprise, free soft corals

    No, no purple clove polyps, these things have no tentacles, they are round
  20. Paul B

    Surprise, free soft corals

    They are the same in both pictures. They are about 1/4" and I have no idea what they are. I am not sure if they are local NY stuff or tropical
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