Tank birthday, 47+ years

Rybren · Dec 12, 2017

Paul B said:

Ingenious as always Paul.

Sea MunnKey · Dec 12, 2017

There's always a smart Paul ... ;)

Paul B · Dec 12, 2017

OK I will try to post some fish stuff. Nothing happened in my tank today. The pipefish are still spawning, the fireclowns are spawning, the cardinals are spawning, the mandarins are spawning and the copperband is looking at them because he is jealous that he has no one to spawn with. He tried to spawn with the urchin and his insurance didn't cover the aftermath.
Everything looks happy and are doing the macarana. I tested the water............Maybe 6 months ago. I forget. The water cooled lights are doing what lights are supposed to do.
I don't know what to say. I wish my perchlet, whatever it is thing would get acne so I had something to post. 2 or 3 pods died of old age but thats about it.
I woud like to say I was battling something but I think I won all the battles. I would even be happy if I found a hitchhiker, even a duck billed platypus, but I got nothing. Sorry.
I better talk about lights, elevators, Santa Claus or global warming as I am at a loss. :cool:

He still looks good, if only he would sneeze, something. :rolleyes:

Paul B · Dec 12, 2017

OK, I found something. A large montipora is bleaching and most of it died. I knew I could come up wit something. :D

norfolkgarden · Dec 12, 2017

Beautiful fish! How often is he out?

Paul B · Dec 12, 2017

He is out all the time, until curfew.
I just noticed something else. I shouldn't have looked at my tank. One of my bluestripe pipefish is not swimming exactly like he should be. I looked at him closer and someone took a bite out of the middle of him. There isn't much meat on a bluestripe in the first place so I know he needs a chiropractor. The other one is fine. The only fish that doesn't like the male bluestripe is the Janss pipefish and he has a smirk on his face. He once bit the tail off this bluestripe. If he is alive in the morning he will make it. He is very old for a bluestripe pipefish and way past his lifespan so I am not sure how he will fare.
If he croaks, I won't get another one until after I move. It will be one less fish to catch.

Chasmodes · Dec 13, 2017

I didn't realize pipefish were that aggressive. Learn something every day. Those blue stripe pipefish are strikingly beautiful.

Paul B · Dec 13, 2017

They are probably my favorite fish, if not my smallest. That injured guy is still kicking. I hatched extra shrimp and he is eating like this is his last meal. I can tell he has some nerve damage but it doesn't look infected. If his insurance covered it, I would get him an MRI. Him and all my fish have a great immune system so I feel he will recover. That is if the Janss pipefish leaves him alone. I don't really have any aggressive fish except for an old fireclown but I have never saw him attack the bluestripes. But I have seen the Janss pipefish go after him a number of times. It's a good thing none of them have teeth or he would have been bitten in half which wouldn't take much.

Paul B · Dec 13, 2017

How times have changed.
I was just reading a Sharper Image Catalog and now they sell so many things that we didn't have when I was a kid. Did you ever look through one of those catalogs?
We used to play this game where you got a ball and you threw it at the other person to see if you could hit him. Now I see they got this thing where each of you get this stick looking thing and you can shoot real lightning bolts at each other.
They also have this little drone helocopter thing that you can fly right into your neighbors window and see what they are having for dinner. I would imagine the thing can also steal a drumstick right off their table. How much fun would that be! I am sure your neighbors would really like that.
Then you can walk around with this virtual reality thing on your head so you never have to visit the real world. You can have a virtual reality girlfriend, go to a virtual movie, drive a virtual car and I would imagine you could eat all your meals virtually. I amnot sure if it comes with a virtual doctor for when you starve to death. There is even a program where you can watch yourself watching a virtually reality show of yourself doing nothing.
There is virtual ping pong where you hit a ball of light. That seems really good for your muscle tone and overall fitness. I mean you probably have to change the batteries every so often and if you lift a lot of those AA batteries it can get exhausting.
Of course they have a few radios that you can listen to in your shower. Like, how long do you stand in the shower, are you really that filthy that you can't miss one version of Lady GaGa's Papparazi.
There is this Hover board thing that costs $300.00 and it goes 3 1/2mph. Isn't that walking speed? Why would anybody spend $300.00 to go as fast as you can walk? Maybe it's me!
I don't know how many nose hair clippers there are but apparently this is very important. Just last night I woke up from a dream where I was on a tropical Island sipping a Pina Colada with all 12 apostles, Leonardo DiVinci and 2 of the Radio City Rockettes and I realized I didn't clip my nose hairs. Today these things are so powerful that you can put it up your nose and it will clip your ear hairs at the same time. You can't make this stuff up.
Oh this is something I can't live without, right here on page 25. For just $100.00 you can order your own personalized bobble head doll, with your head on it. Wow, how great would that be. You stop at a light and your head nods up and down like you are some sort of an alien nerd weirdo. I can't wait to order that. I wonder if I can get one with hair on it.
This can save you some time, There is this Lady's hair drier that is so powerful that if you open your window while you are using it, it will melt up to 6" of snow on your sidewalk. I am not kidding.
Some of the things seem to stretch the truth just a little like this car vacuum that is so powerful you need to wear earplugs, not because of the noise, but because it may pull the wax right out of your ears and God Forbid if you are wearing earings, or worse, a nose ring.
I really can't see much value in this one. You hang this thing over your toilet bowl, and it lights up the water. I won't comment on that as I don't want to go there and if I saw that in someone's house, I would go to the bathroom in their neighbors house. Wierd.
But my absolute favorite if this refrigerator for a lonely bachelor who wants to feel he is married. Every time you pass it, it says,
"HEY LAZY, THROW OUT THE GARBAGE. TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES. DON'T DRINK OUT OF THE MILK CONTAINER. TAKE OUT THE DOG. FILL MY CAR WITH GAS. RUB MY FEET. GET ME A BEER".
These are all things you can buy now. We didn't have toys and stuff like this when I was a Kid. I remember asking my Dad once to get me a toy and he came out with a piece of wood, a couple of nails and a hammer. I played with that until I got married. Now I can get rid of that talking refrigerator.

I guess I should have put this in the Lounge

Chasmodes · Dec 13, 2017

Paul, you crack me up. But, I know what you mean. My wife just bought this thing that turns things on and off on demand. I guess it is called an Echo Dot. She also got another accessory to it. I'm like, can't we just flip the light switch on and off like we do now and save that money instead of a virtual person (Alexa) doing it? Maybe it does other cool stuff, I don't know. I guess it is like a voice activated clapper (which I didn't get either).

Paul B · Dec 13, 2017

Remember when there was no remote for the TV and you had to get up. Wow, that was a chore. Then when you changed the channel you had to adjust the antenna and turn that dial behind the channel changer to get the picture to where you could make it out. When color TV came out you had to adjust the color on each channel and most channels didn't even have color TV.
Today you could live your entire life sitting on your couch and not get up for anything. How boring it has become.

Chasmodes · Dec 13, 2017

I remember those days. In fact, I was my family's remote, although my Mom used to chide me for laying too close to the TV, she never objected when my Dad used to tell me to change the channel (and fix the rabbit ears).

Sea MunnKey · Dec 13, 2017

Hey Paul .... did you purchase the bluestripe pipefish as wild ones? I'm not into fish too much but after seeing your bluestripe pipefish, I may have second thoughts now. I want a pair.

Thanks

Paul B · Dec 13, 2017

Yes they were wild. I don't think anyone raises them. Mine spawn all the time but the fry look like this ---------> . <--------

Paul B · Dec 14, 2017

My bitten up bluestripe pipefish seems completely healed. He has a scar that goes through his beautiful blues tripe so now his bluestripe looks like Morse Code but I think he feels well and keeps (stupidly) taunting the much larger Janss Pipefish who has absolutely no sense of humor.
Fish in spawning mode heal very quickly. He hasn't resumed spawning yet and I am not sure if his mate thinks he is a wimp for losing the fight but if I look close, I can see him smiling.