Tank birthday, 47+ years

[Paul B]

This morning was one of my best beach walks in the 7 years I have been living here. I can't believe I never see anyone at that time watching the sunrise. You can't do it at 2:00 PM.

I get that many people have to work, I also did that for over 50 years but the retired people should really get out and see this at least once when the sea is angry.

There is a big storm off the east coast now and it is bringing in a lot of flotsam and jetson which is garbage and stuff that washes off boats. I am on the North Shore but the south shore is getting hit very hard.

I think this is a paddle boat under the sand

Of course there is plenty of seaweeds I could have collected, but I already have too much and it doesn't live long in a tropical tank.

 

[smitten with ocean life]

beautiful!!

 

[vlangel]

I love the first 2 pics. They should be in a calendar but undoubtedly seeing firsthand was indescribable!

 

[Paul B]

I love the first 2 pics. They should be in a calendar but undoubtedly seeing firsthand was indescribable!

That's why I walk on the beach every morning to look at that. It never fails to impress me.

My winter walk pictures look more like this because they remove the bottom stairs in the winter or the waves would destroy them.

 

[Paul B]

After the big storm yesterday, the beach was loaded with all kinds of seaweeds. I found this huge piece of Codium and it had a holdfast. That is important because normally I find it just floating and it is hard to glue to anything because the glue kills that area and the stuff floats around.

I didn't have anything to put it in so I placed it in a hole in this thing which I have no idea what it is but probably an alien artifact.

It will probably wash away by tomorrow but I was 2 miles from home and I didn't want it to dry out by the time I got home.

Luckily, at the stairs I take back I found another, smaller one with a holdfast so I dipped that one in the surf and brought it home and threw it in my tank. I will take a picture when the lights come on.

 

[Paul B]

Does anyone know what this "Chicken" looking thing is? I know there are some farmers here.

Yesterday afternoon we went to a Pizza party behind a farm stand where this Italian "girl" maybe 40ish who is a chef invited us for brick oven, wood fired pizza. They had a couple of singers and maybe 50 people showed up. It was a nice time but there were peacocks, goats and this bird walking around.

What is it? Maybe a grouse, but I have no idea what a grouse is unless it has fins and gills.

 

[MikeyZo]

I still wanna know what that crashed alien cargo ship really is.

I took the kids to Sunken Meadow on Tuesday and the seaweed was everywhere, a lot with holdfasts. I think a lot got kicked up by Erin, I’ve never seen so much in the water


And I think that’s a Guinneafowl…

 

[ScottJ]

Guinea Fowl would be my guess also.

 

[Paul B]

Yep, thats it. . That is good to know, not that I will ever see another one. They must be good swimmers to get here from Africa.

Guinea fowl (/ˈɡɪnifaʊl/) (or guineahen) are birds of the family Numididae in the order Galliformes. They are endemic to Africa and rank among the oldest of the gallinaceous birds. Phylogenetically, they branched off from the core Galliformes after the Cracidae (chachalacas, guans, and curassows) and before the Odontophoridae (New World quail).

 

[MikeyZo]

And they are delicious

 

[Paul B]

Nothing exciting on my beach walk this morning.

I came back and made my wife her favorite breakfast. Home grown tomatoes on Guacamole with home grown parsley with bananas and local blueberries on Daves Killer Bread. (I generally don't eat this)

 

[MikeyZo]

That looks delicious. I’d eat that with a steak on the side lol

And don’t say there was nothing interesting on your walk. I guess you missed the UFO you caught!

 

[Paul B]

This Long Nose I have had a short while. Maybe 2 or 3 months, and because he is so small, I need to make sure he gets enough to eat because their mouth is so small. The normal food I feed every day is LRS food with some earthworms or chopped clams.

Small fish like this with such small mouths need tiny, soft foods. Small Copperbands have the same issues.
These juvenile fish should be fed a couple of times a day, which is why I am sure to feed at least a few live white worms every morning.

He eats more and faster than the rest of my fish, so it's no problem. Many people have problems with these types of fish because they either feed them the wrong things or don't feed them anything they can easily eat, like live worms.

I have had quite a few of these and copper bands over the years since the 70s, and I feel that is the problem with these. They are big feeders and, unfortunately, were designed with tiny mouths, so on the reefs, they need to constantly feed.

These are easy fish to keep; we just need to be able to meet their needs. Dry foods, pellets, and God Forbid, freeze-dried won't do it long term, even if they will eat such things, which most of them won't.

 

[Paul B]

I went fishing today with 2 friends. Between the 3 of us we caught about 70 porgies.

I also caught this "huge" shark. We almost had to get a bigger boat.

 

[MikeyZo]

 

[Paul B]

We are having a few friends over tonight to help eat the 70 porgies we caught this week, along with the remains of the 70 or so we caught a few weeks ago. I am up to my neck in porgies.

I will start cooking them now.

This is Capt. Rachael, who cleaned the fish.



The time before it was Milinda who cleaned them.



Those party boats always have a mate onboard to clean the fish.
That Huge shark we threw back.

 

[Paul B]

This time of the year the beach is littered in seaweeds. I have many in my tank which won't last long but codium seems to last the longest. Tomorrow on my walk I will pick up a large piece if I can get a nice one with a holdfast.

The stuff IMO looks nice as long as it lasts.




This shot may be 30 years old and I can see I had codium in the tank then.

 

[vlangel]

I love codium and always have some in my tank. Mine is a FL specie so it actually grows and propagates in my tank. Between the codium and gracilaria hayi, I can feed heavy and not have to worry about the nutrients skyrocketing. I only do about 3 water changes a year now too.

 

[Paul B]

High tide on beach this morning. I had to time the waves to walk past the bulkhead.

 

[vlangel]

High tide on beach this morning. I had to time the waves to walk past the bulkhead.

So beautiful!