Tank birthday, 47+ years

[Paul B]

I love it. Actually I started to do that on my last PT Cruiser. :D

 

[Paul B]

I finished installing my brakes today. It was a beautiful day so I decided to do them outside in the sun instead of in my garage. I took off the wheels and of course it started to rain....Hard. It's a good thing I am a Veteran and the rain doesn't bother me.....Much. :confused:

I also started a new whiteworm culture in a larger plastic container. I am taking dirt and worms from my years old, stinky culture and drowning them so I can eliminate the tiny white bugs as they float. Then I rinse the worms and dirt in a coarse net and throw them into the new container nice and fresh. These things multiply very fast and I have thousands of them, not that I counted them. If anyone wants a culture and lives near me, I will give them to you. No, I don't ship them as you can get them on line if you want them. :cool:

 

[Crabs McJones]

I finished installing my brakes today. It was a beautiful day so I decided to do them outside in the sun instead of in my garage. I took off the wheels and of course it started to rain....Hard. It's a good thing I am a Veteran and the rain doesn't bother me.....Much. :confused:

I also started a new whiteworm culture in a larger plastic container. I am taking dirt and worms from my years old, stinky culture and drowning them so I can eliminate the tiny white bugs as they float. Then I rinse the worms and dirt in a coarse net and throw them into the new container nice and fresh. These things multiply very fast and I have thousands of them, not that I counted them. If anyone wants a culture and lives near me, I will give them to you. No, I don't ship them as you can get them on line if you want them. :cool:

From one mechanic to another, nothing beats a good brake job on a sunny warm day :)

 

[Paul B]

Nothing beats anything on a sunny day. I was a mechanic for GM in the 60s when Toronado first came out. It was the first American front wheel drive car and it was expensive, powerful and heavy. Especially the front which is why it had 4 shocks in the back as there wasn't enough weight there. It was basically a Cadillac with different sheet metal.

I actually enjoyed putting on the brakes (before it rained) I actually like working on my car. I used to like it much more before they invented computers and you could change everything on a car without working for NASA.
Now we never have to replace ball joints, exhaust pipes, carbs, tie rod ends etc. :rolleyes:

 

[Crabs McJones]

Nothing beats anything on a sunny day. I was a mechanic for GM in the 60s when Toronado first came out. It was the first American front wheel drive car and it was expensive, powerful and heavy. Especially the front which is why it had 4 shocks in the back as there wasn't enough weight there. It was basically a Cadillac with different sheet metal.

I actually enjoyed putting on the brakes (before it rained) I actually like working on my car. I used to like it much more before they invented computers and you could change everything on a car without working for NASA.
Now we never have to replace ball joints, exhaust pipes, carbs, tie rod ends etc. :rolleyes:

Oh wow, I'm a parts guy for GM :) But I do all my own work. Ive rebuild engines, transmissions, ect... Mostly my own vehicles and relatives vehicles. But I agree, everything being computerized just makes it so much more difficult...and expensive! o_O

 

[Gareth elliott]

Storm must have started down here. Woke me up at 4am when everything started beeping from losing power lol.

Water must have got into my outdoor electric when i got home from the work went to use my power mitre and there is no power in either shed or any outside lighting.

 

[Paul B]

When I was a mechanic for Oldsmobile I was able to take customers cars home on the weekend to try them out to see if they had rattles or stalled. In those days we were real Men and spent our time looking for girls, like real men did for 4 million years. Now Sissy, men just text or go on sites like "Desperate, Girly Man looking for a date.com". Then you have to write about yourself, things like "I have more degrees than a thermometer and my Dad finances me because I don't know how to work. But I can text really fast".

Anyway, many weekends I had a new 442 or Toronado which was one of the most expensive cars at the time and most cars were American. We wouldn't think of riding, mush less buying a foreign car. :cool:

I also did pretty well with the girls in those days. I didn't always look like this you know!!!!! :eek:

Then I met my wife at a wedding. She was 12 and I was 18 so of course I didn't go out with her, or even talk to her that I remember, but I went out with her older cousin.
I was not a Perv. :rolleyes:

When I was a little kid cars didn't have air conditioning but it just came out. I was at my much older cousins house out on Long Island (where I live now but it was desolate then with a few small towns)

When we would drive past a pretty girl he would say "Close all the windows and smile".

It was like 100 degrees but we rolled up the windows and smiled like we had AC to impress the girl. We were covered in sweat. Of course we never impressed anyone. :confused:

 

[Paul B]

I have two little watchman gobies (I think one is a watch girl) and I got both of them as babies. One I had about 6 months and the other one which was very small I got about a month ago. They became instant "friends" and live in the same hole. I am not sure how they spend their time in there but they hang out together when they are out and the larger one who I think is the male (although I am not sure if it is PC to call him that) he kind of looks out for "her". They hunt together and eat together. Now they seem to be much more than friends and will mate and spawn soon. If I can find a shrimp to live with them and clean house I will get one. My last one croaked as they only live about 7 years.
Watchmans spawn all the time as my last ones did. Here she is with her eggs.

 

[Paul B]

Just now I threw in (after a little acclimation) a hippo tang and a coral. He is just starting to come out and play with the other fish. There is plenty of algae on the back glass to nibble on. Hopefully he will live 15 years and hopefully, I will too. :cool:

 

[Paul B]

I took a picture. The 2 SPS corals at the top center are new.

 

[Paul B]

I just remembered a story and the rare times I remember something I want to post them. I know I posted this on here probably near the beginning of last century so if you heard it go and watch "Naked and Afraid".
I think tonight they are hunting newts with spears.

I was in Kings Cross in Sydney Australia on R&R from Nam in 1970 and I just got off the plane. I went on a double decker bus (which I had never seen before) and I went to the top and looked out the front window. I turned around and saw that there were mainly girls on the bus (in those days everyone was in the war) They all had mini skirts on which was new to me because I just spent 10 months in the jungle and when I got drafted not many girls wore them. All I saw in those ten months was monkeys, and some of them were starting to look good. Anyway, that doesn't matter. Well, to me it did. I saw this pretty girl in the front of the bus and she smiled so I sat down next to her. I would have sat next to her even if she threw a flounder and tire iron at me, but whatever. :p
She is for another story (which I also posted on here someplace. ) Anyway she gave me directions to my hotel even though I had a map. I was on this busy intersection trying to figure out where I was and these two guys older come up to me. One guy says something to me that sounded like "Hey Chap, woud, you % mind if & yu heped, guy $ street ##. Or something like that. I said "What!? He said it again a little slower. I could barely make out that he wanted me to help this blind guy across the street. (You Aussies speak funny) So I took the guys arm and I am standing there waiting for the light to turn green.

After a while I noticed that there was no light. No YIELD, no STOP, no CAUTION, no NOTHING. The cars were zooming all over the place with no spaces in between for me to cross, especially with a blind guy. :confused:

So the guy mutters to me, "Whats the matter Chap?" I said, How do you cross the street? Now I come from New York so I know what traffic looks like, but here we have traffic lights and everything.
He said "Oh No Problem Chap" and he lifts his cane and drags me into the street. I covered my eyes and got ready to scream in pain as we walked. I opened my eyes and noticed that the cars were going around us, on the sidewalk, in front and in back of us. They didn't slow down, they just kind of barely missed us. :eek:

We make it to the other side and the guy thanks me and walks off. Now I take out my map to see where I am.

Another blind guy comes over to me and he wants me to cross him back across the street. The same thing happens and now I am on the wrong side of the street looking for a blind guy to get be back to the other side.

There was a "Lighthouse" blind people school, or social club on the corner so everyone, but me was blind.
You can't make this stuff up. :)

 

[Paul B]

I have a problem with flatworms. There are so many flatworms that they are laying on top of each other and the bottom ones don't like that. That is not my problem. In some places they are so thick that I can't see the gravel. That is also not the problem.
The problem is that I like to name things and I am running out of names. :rolleyes:

 

[Gareth elliott]

I think you need a wrasse to eat the flatworms and name him.

I vote Caliburn, but i am also partial to Authurian names. No idea why [emoji849]

 

[Hal3134]

Yeppers. I didn't know I had flatworms in my old tank until my sixline died.

 

[Paul B]

I named them all Nancy Pelosi starting with Nancy Pelosi #1, Pelosi #2, Nancy Pelosi #3 etc. Then I went to Nancy Pelosi A, Nancy Pelosi B etc. Then I have Nancy Pelosi, red, Nancy Pelosi Green etc.

I had a six line wrasse, now with so many flatworms he is a 16 line wrasse. :eek:

 

[73_Travelall]

You're a real hoot old-timer, and thank you for your service 'Nam especially

 

[Streetcred]

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[Streetcred]

Congratulations, Paul ... magnificent achievement. I'm also an 'old boy' in my 60's and have been at this hobby since about 1990. My original 3' morphed into a 5' and then in 1996 the current 10' 500g. Still some original LR and sps in the current display. The MH is replaced with GHL Leds now and the tank is run on a Profilux computer.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Ive heard of birthdays. this is beyond that and in its' manner- an honor and adventure. I would love to hear of some of the occupants you have had throughout the years !!
This is surely A . . . . . . . . .

 

[KevD]

Congratulations Paul on your reefs milestone. Lol on your transportation method of live rock. Hope you have many more happy reefing years.