Tank birthday, 55+ years

[atoll]

Brew, I am so glad you sometimes read my posts. Historically Mods or Staff members don't read what I write for fear I will say something so politically, religious, sexist, not PC or just to far out there to be in the public domain. It could happen because I am old but my friend Moses is older.

A fact: Did you now that Moses was the first one to download tablets from the cloud. :rolleyes:

For instance, I used to mix clams and worms with plaster of Paris and feed it to my reef. Yes i did.

I also like to use bricks under my rocks or feed frozen bananas to moorish Idols. Maybe they think it's a sponge, but they eat it.
I started my tank by adding garden soil. :cool:

All those must have been better than tuffa rock we used to use Paul.

 

[atoll]

My copperband muscling in on the open muscle I feed daily.

 

[Paul B]

Almost finished "electronic Steam Punk"

 

[atoll]

Almost finished "electronic Steam Punk"

A miniature time machine Paul back to the future. Love it.

 

[DanConnor]

Hey Paul- is that Codium in the picture on the previous page? If so- how does that do for you?

 

[Paul B]

Yes it is. It only lives a few months but it's free so who cares. :cool:

 

[Mortie31]

Almost finished "electronic Steam Punk"

Very cool

 

[Rybren]

Awesome Paul.

 

[Fudsey]

Nice job on the lamp Paul ! !

 

[qnguyen]

Amazing. I was born in the same year that you started your tank. Your tank may outlive me!

Thank you for your service in Vietnam. My dad was a field surgeon for the South. He spent his lifetime treating vets as a spinal cord surgeon. He is now retired from the VA, but I owe him and guys like you for the life that I have today.

 

[Paul B]

qnguyen, your dad was a Hero. Thank you very much. :)

 

[Paul B]

Just finished my "Money Machine"

 

[Awesome Dennis]

Must have been China made tools, American made tools would have spit out Benjamin’s ! Hahahaha

 

[Paul B]

Actually all of those tools are American. I don't have any Chinese hand tools. :p

 

[Matt Carden]

I'm with you a 100%! I do the same routine every time I get any fish as per what you've already been doing for centuries :p

I don't check salinity or temperature just temp acclimate 10 minutes then poor a coffee cup of tank water in bag wait 10 more minutes then dump. I am not as old as your tank but I haven't lost any fish this way either.

 

[Matt Carden]

I have a question in line with your no quarantine stance. Do you dip corals, acclimate or just drop in tank?

 

[Paul B]

Drop in tank. I never dipped, quarantined or read bed time stories to anything. But I do acclimate for ten minutes or so.

 

[ingchr1]

All those must have been better than tuffa rock we used to use Paul.

I setup a quarantine/observation tank with some tuffa and crushed coral from my last tank. I fiquered the fish would like it better than a PVC pipe.

Been lugging that stuff around for the past twenty years. The tank was fish only with reverse flow undergravel. Still lugging around the tank as well. A 55 gallon All-glass, it's currently sitting in the garage.

Keeping the quarantine/observation tank up is no longer an option (really don't have room for it), so my next fish will be going straight into the display.

Currently fishless, so I'm not sure what it achieved anyway.

 

[Paul B]

Those fish look a little lonely.

 

[Sea MunnKey]

That Blue sponge has ben one of my 'elusive" Must Have for quite a while ...