Tank birthday, 47+ years

[atoll]

Am trying to catch my 8" foxface that I have had quite sometime as I don't want such big fish in my tank. It will go back to the LFS to trade. I can tell them it's never seen any medication or been QTd and is in perfect health since I bought it so that is a few plus points in it's favour. Not sure I want to give it back to the LFS here as they might want to feed it poison which no fish needs.

 

[atoll]

Am trying to catch my 8" foxface that I have had quite sometime as I don't want such big fish in my tank. It will go back to the LFS to trade. I can tell them it's never seen any medication or been QTd and is in perfect health since I bought it so that is a few plus points in it's favour. Not sure I want to give it back to the LFS here as they might want to feed it poison which no fish needs.

He's camera shy.

 

[Paul B]

Very cool. I caught a large fish in my tank with a hook.

 

[Paul B]

I couldn't move back my hammer coral so I just broke it. Now I have 4 pieces of it which started out as a tiny frag.

Here is my new filefish

 

[atoll]

Used a hook and line to catch a large engineer goby many years ago. It was either that or strip the tank down.

 

[Paul B]

I can't believe it, just now I saw a gecko goby in my tank. I haven't seen that fish in 6 or 8 months. I may have two of them. I bought two of them about 5 years ago and it is a fish that stays well hidden and I have never seen the entire fish. I only get a very quick flash of a tail when I shoot some worms near his cave in the back of the tank.
They are a beautiful fish, but no one knows.

 

[Paul B]

For the last week or two I was a little disappointed because I couldn't find any of my randalls gobi's and one of my Bangai cardinals.
I was just working behind the tank and found them both. They are pregnant and fine. So this week I found my Gecko gobi, 2 randalls gobi's and my bangai cardinal. My tank had a lot of caves and hiding places so it is very hard to find certain types of fish.

 

[Paul B]

I don't know why they can't make these things last longer. I just had to replace the fan on the left. I don't know how long it wasn't working but you can see that it is much cleaner then the one on the right so maybe it never worked.
I have a few of these broken lights so I have a nice supply of fans.

I had to add a new fan but also the wiring to the fan didn't work so I just had to splice the new fan to the old one.
It's not a big deal but shouldn't happen.

 

[atoll]

Copper Grrrrrr. Common and so necessary,mind you the YT looks very thin to start off with. Poor fish and a lot of money down the drain. My bet is it will be a goner unfortunately.

 

[Paul B]

This post was from 2016 and I decided to put it on here again because I ran out of things to write and I don't feel creative enough to make something up and besides, this is a true story.

So I had an appointment today with a Supermodel from the Veterans Administration. They are seeing if I have PTSD. I don't think so but I went anyway because she is a Supermodel.

She spoke to me for 45 minutes and asked me things from when I was born. I was born on Christmas Day so I probably was not paying much attention to my birth as I wanted to open my presents. Then I grew up, worked, made money, cut cars up with a torch yada yada yada. Got drafted and al that. She asked me what I did in the army before I went to Nam. I told her the Jeep story.

I am sure that story is on here someplace but I am bored now so I will tell it again. If you are bored, don't read this because there are no fish in it.

I was in Colorado, beautiful State but they have a lot of open spaces and the military owns much of it. We were supposed to play war games so this lieutenant says to me, load these two miles of wire on the back of the Jeep and we are going to lay it out to someplace that I never figured out. It was freezing cold and looked like it was going to snow.
Army Jeeps have no roof and army clothes are not very warm. So we drive out in the dark into the wilderness laying out this wire. It starts snowing. In Colorado it could snow 2' in an hour.

An hour later I am covered in 2' of snow in this Jeep and we have no idea where we are. General Patten says to me that he is going to climb on top of this little mountain to see if he sees any lights.
I said, good Idea because we are gonna die.

He leaves and I hear "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
I was a kid from New York so I don't know if that is a wolf, coyote, Bigfoot or a chip monk.
I grab my rifle, the rifle with no bullets and I climb on to the Jeep hood. I held the gun by the barrel waiting for Chip and Dale to attack me.

I hear the Lieutenant coming back. he has a 45, with no bullets and says he has no Idea where we are.
I say, how about this, I will walk in front of the Jeep and pick up the wire as I go so we can either find our way back or die of frostbite and Bigfoot bites.
That's what we did and that's how I came to be here today looking at my fish.

My next session with the Supermodel we will talk about my time in Nam and maybe I will tell her another story.

 

[Chrisfish]

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That was supposed to be for the ladies. Are any of you Ladies?

I am

 

[Paul B]

Yes Chris I know. I also know you are a Supermodel Lady fish tank owner and friend. My favorite kind of person.

Chris was nice enough to send me some helpful stuff for my wife who has been in quite a bit of pain lately. But much better now.

Most people on here want to send me Anthrax or arsenic in the form of vitamins for me to take.

 

[atoll]

Yes Chris I know. I also know you are a Supermodel Lady fish tank owner and friend. My favorite kind of person.

Chris was nice enough to send me some helpful stuff for my wife who has been in quite a bit of pain lately. But much better now.

Most people on here want to send me Anthrax or arsenic in the form of vitamins for me to take.

Noooo.paul they want to send you copper...much worse than arsenic.

 

[MrsBugmaster]

For the last week or two I was a little disappointed because I couldn't find any of my randalls gobi's and one of my Bangai cardinals.
I was just working behind the tank and found them both. They are pregnant and fine. So this week I found my Gecko gobi, 2 randalls gobi's and my bangai cardinal. My tank had a lot of caves and hiding places so it is very hard to find certain types of fish.

When you said you were working behind the tank my first thought was you found them dried up on the floor. Glad they are ok!

 

[atoll]

Bought this purple Gorgonian for a discount yesterday as it wasn't doing so well in the LFS. I doubt they were feeding it as they should and the polyps weren't coming out. Like you @Paul B I like a challenge, some you win one you loose. Today the polyps emerged so I fed it and will do 3 times a day and fingers crossed it will thrive like my golden Gorgonian I bought from the same shop a few weeks ago. I don't think the purple is photosynthetic hence the feeding like my golden Gorgonian.

 

[Paul B]

Unfortunately those are not photosynthetic so may only live a few months, but maybe you have a secret and can keep them forever.

 

[Chrisfish]

Yes Chris I know. I also know you are a Supermodel Lady fish tank owner and friend. My favorite kind of person.

Chris was nice enough to send me some helpful stuff for my wife who has been in quite a bit of pain lately. But much better now.

Most people on here want to send me Anthrax or arsenic in the form of vitamins for me to take.

Hey Paul
You know never send you that stuff !!! But Maybe one of my fruitcakes you can use as a door stop! Lol

 

[atoll]

Unfortunately those are not photosynthetic so may only live a few months, but maybe you have a secret and can keep them forever.

Yeah I am aware Paul. So far the golden is doing really well on 2 or 3 feedings a day. You never know maybe both will continue to survive and prosper, we shall see.

 

[Jekyl]

Yes Chris I know. I also know you are a Supermodel Lady fish tank owner and friend. My favorite kind of person.

Chris was nice enough to send me some helpful stuff for my wife who has been in quite a bit of pain lately. But much better now.

Most people on here want to send me Anthrax or arsenic in the form of vitamins for me to take.

Ever try CBD? I have a relative with MS that swears by it now.

 

[Paul B]

Ever try CBD? I have a relative with MS that swears by it now.

My wife has a prescription for it and takes baths in the stuff. It can put you to sleep but does nothing for the pain. I soak my feet in it.

Chris, I love fruitcake, and even know quite a few fruitcakes.