Tank birthday, 47+ years

[cancun]

Atoll, she got a brace for her leg today and she is feeling really bad. They take a mold of your leg and custom make the thing, The thing goes from under her foot all the way up her leg as far as it can go. She can't wear it under clothes as it is big and bulky. My wife was athlete and this is not working well for her. MS sucks.

So sorry for your wife! I am praying for her! MS is horrible. I wouldn't wish that on anybody!

 

[Paulie069]

So sorry for your wife! I am praying for her! MS is horrible. I wouldn't wish that on anybody!

Here is a couple of pictures of my tank one with no blue light and one with,anyway that Tank is 100% ocean water. Before anybody says anything about past posts yes for the past month I have been mixing RODI water with my ocean water because I was running low I also went out and got myself a water making system for emergencies have nothing totally against it I just have a preference. I was able to get myself almost 100 gallons of ocean water last weekend there was an opportunity to take a boat ride while the weather permitted so I jumped at the chance. First thing I did switch out 20 gallons two days later another 20 this morning another 20 so now my tank should be 100% ocean water

 

[cancun]

Here is a couple of pictures of my tank one with no blue light and one with,anyway that Tank is 100% ocean water. Before anybody says anything about past posts yes for the past month I have been mixing RODI water with my ocean water because I was running low I also went out and got myself a water making system for emergencies have nothing totally against it I just have a preference. I was able to get myself almost 100 gallons of ocean water last weekend there was an opportunity to take a boat ride while the weather permitted so I jumped at the chance. First thing I did switch out 20 gallons two days later another 20 this morning another 20 so now my tank should be 100% ocean water

Nice! What does the SG run on fresh ocean water where you collect?

 

[Paulie069]

Nice! What does the SG run on fresh ocean water where you collect?

SG???

 

[Paulie069]

SG???

Unless you mean sump everything is ocean water 55 gallon main tank 20 gallon sump 75 gallon ocean water total

 

[cancun]

SG???

Sorry specific gravity.... wondering what was the salinity of the water you collected? I know Paul had said close to shore it can be pretty low.

 

[Paul B]

I think she means salinity.

 

[Paul B]

Anything like snails or shrimp or other CUC things in your tank also??

Yes, I have many hermit crabs, an arrow crab, a pistol shrimp, big decorator crab and a lot of snails and green crabs, I forget what they are called but I got a dozen.

 

[cancun]

I think she means salinity.

Yeah salinity.... because I found it interesting that when you (Paul) were collecting water from the shore the salinity was around 1.014 or something like that.

 

[Paulie069]

Sorry specific gravity.... wondering what was the salinity of the water you collected? I know Paul had said close to shore it can be pretty low.

OK I gotcha like I said I collect far from Shoreline nowhere closer 10 miles my salinity is 1025

 

[cancun]

OK I gotcha like I said I collect far from Shoreline nowhere closer 10 miles my salinity is 1025

That's cool....so you don't have to add more salt to raise salinity....just heat up the nsw and dump it?

 

[Paulie069]

That's cool....so you don't have to add more salt to raise salinity....just heat up the nsw and dump it?

Pretty much that’s about it the only other step I take is each bucket is poured into another bucket through a very fine strainer did you get any chunky crap that could be in there out hopefully

 

[Paulie069]

Pretty much that’s about it the only other step I take is each bucket is poured into another bucket through a very fine strainer did you get any chunky crap that could be in there out hopefully

This is 12 full buckets on arrayed/ 6 at a time,, run on a timer kicks in 3x a day for 2hrs,, every two days I take top layer n switch with bottom try keep everything on a rotation

 

[cancun]

This is 12 full buckets on arrayed/ 6 at a time,, run on a timer kicks in 3x a day for 2hrs,, every two days I take top layer n switch with bottom try keep everything on a rotation

Wow! I need to move to the ocean!

 

[Paul B]

Paulie, that seems like a lot of water for a few seahorses. :D
I use 12 gallon buckets but I can't really pick them up any more and they don't even have handles on them. I back up to the ocean and pump water into them with a bilge pump. Then I back my car up to my garage and pump the water into 20 gallon vats.

I take a plastic 5 gallon container and fill it with hot water, then float that in the vats to heat the water.
(there is a picture in my book that I know you have :rolleyes:)

I only change water 4 or 5 times a year. :cool:

You get nice clean ocean water which is fantastic. My boat is in Peconic which is a bay fed by a river so the water there is no good at all so I collect in the eastern Sound which is 23 miles across so it is the same as the Atlantic.

But I have to filter it because I collect at the shore and it is filled with chopped up seaweed, worms, bikini tops and sand.

 

[Paulie069]

Here is a couple of pictures of my tank one with no blue light and one with,anyway that Tank is 100% ocean water. Before anybody says anything about past posts yes for the past month I have been mixing RODI water with my ocean water because I was running low I also went out and got myself a water making system for emergencies have nothing totally against it I just have a preference. I was able to get myself almost 100 gallons of ocean water last weekend there was an opportunity to take a boat ride while the weather permitted so I jumped at the chance. First thing I did switch out 20 gallons two days later another 20 this morning another 20 so now my tank should be 100% ocean water

Here is a post that Morortrendz posted on njreefers site. I had no idea I was doing it because my main focus is always on my seahorses

 

[Paul B]

My fish eating some live white worms.

 

[Wen]

My fish eating some live white worms.

Hope you don’t mind me asking, any sighting of the new copperband?

 

[atoll]

Another of my real characters, my male Fiji damsel guarding the eggs in a barnacle shell.

Want to try and steal my eggs? Are you feeling lucky punk?

 

[Paul B]

My new copperband is swimming in the front now but still not eating. I also notice he has a blank look on his face which is not a good sign.

OK, if you stopped laughing, I am actually serious. Eventually, and if there is a little something wrong with you, maybe PTSD you can tell by the expression on a fishes face almost what they are thinking and mine seems drugged and maybe he was.

I doubt this fish will ever eat and I think he was drugged when he was collected or soon afterward. He also may have been in to strong a dose of some kind of meds that these wholesalers ship fish in.

He is not focusing. A healthy copperband will be looking closely at things for worms. Their eyes will aim slightly forward and you can tell they are thinking about something. This one is not focusing and I can tell he is swimming without thought.
Shoot me. :p