Tank birthday, 55+ years

[Freenow54]

So I am curious as to what business . Would it have been a fish Medications Convention ? Let you in on a little secret The vests are just so They can find the bodies Easier

 

[tbrown]

So I am curious as to what business . Would it have been a fish Medications Convention ? Let you in on a little secret The vests are just so They can find the bodies Easier

I could totally see Paul speaking at a Fish Medication convention.

And then:

 

[Paul B]

I could totally see Paul speaking at a Fish Medication convention.

And then:

Yeah, That could happen.

 

[Paul B]

Why is mine and Freenow's avatar upside down?

 

[tripdad]

April Fools Joke by admins?

 

[albano]

Why is mine and Freenow's avatar upside down?

April Fools

 

[tbrown]

Why is mine and Freenow's avatar upside down?

Everyone's are.

 

[Freenow54]

Your still on the aircraft turn your laptop over or take it back

 

[Freenow54]

Also you could have pressed the " Rotate " button by mistake. yah i know what you are thinking

 

[Paul B]

Must be very similar to the airlines in the UK then Paul like the one this guy Mick Miller flow on. A great Liverpool comedian.

Atoll, that guys good. His first two jokes are about Americans. I think some King Jokes should have been in there, or do they get put in the torture chamber for that?

 

[Paul B]

April Fools Joke by admins?

Your still on the aircraft turn your laptop over or take it back

I just stood on my head.

 

[Paul B]

As I was sitting here enjoying a tuna fish sandwich with a side of shrimp cocktail, I was thinking about a thread I saw yesterday about how to euthanize a fish. Now I have been keeping fish since trillobites were the best clean-up crew, so I certainly don't want to see fish suffer, but I wonder how this tuna was euthanized or these shrimp.

Did they carefully put it in a small container, play soft music and dose it with clove oil? I really don't know. Those shrimp too. How did they meet their end?

Being of Italian descent, on Christmas, it is our custom to have at least 7 different kinds of seafood for dinner. Last Christmas we had over twenty. Does that make us bad? Of course, we never eat fish in view of my tank, as that would be like cannibalism, and my fish may get the horrors.

My family owned a seafood market, and on Fridays, my Dad would bring me down to the Fulton Fish Market in lower Manhattan to buy the seafood for his store. It is amazing that those tons of fish that were unceremoniously dumped on the sidewalk were then moved around with snow shovels. Were they all euthanized? I wonder where they got the time.

And how much clove oil were they using?

In those days there were also huge sea turtles still alive on their backs. Now I know they were just pets as no one I know would hurt a beautiful sea turtle.

Every day I feed my fish live blackworms, clams and mysis. I am not sure if each one of those worms has feelings or thinks about it's family just before it gets eaten.

The millions of mysis also. Do they have more civil rights than the new born brine shrimp I feed my mandarins. Is there a brine shrimp rights group? How about the goldfish we sometimes feed to our moray eels? Do they have fewer rights than, say, a lionfish or tang? What if we fed tiny tangs to large goldfish? Would that be OK?

If we were to cycle a tank with a live fish or shrimp, we would get yelled at from everyone, but it seems to be perfectly fine to cycle a tank with a fish or shrimp that suffocated on the deck of a ship. I wonder about that. I also wonder about the leather belt I am wearing. How did they remove that strip of skin from that cow without him noticing?

Many people dip corals in insecticide before they put them in their tanks to kill "pests". I am sure those "pests" think of us as pests and, worse, murderers. If those "pests" were larger and cuter, we would keep them as pets and try to kill the corals they were living on.

Just one of the things I think about.

 

[Freenow54]

I swear the coral dip is Lysol. I don't know if its still made . At the very least I am sure there is pine oil in it

 

[Freenow54]

Now I am Banned for Being too Awesome. It took all this time for someone to recognize me

 

[atoll]

Atoll, that guys good. His first two jokes are about Americans. I think some King Jokes should have been in there, or do they get put in the torture chamber for that?

He told those joke before Charlie became king. He aims jokes at all including his home city people of Liverpool. This is one. BTW scouse or scousers are what people from Liverpool are called. Am a Scouser.

 

[twentyleagues]

As I was sitting here enjoying a tuna fish sandwich with a side of shrimp cocktail, I was thinking about a thread I saw yesterday about how to euthanize a fish. Now I have been keeping fish since trillobites were the best clean-up crew, so I certainly don't want to see fish suffer, but I wonder how this tuna was euthanized or these shrimp.

Did they carefully put it in a small container, play soft music and dose it with clove oil? I really don't know. Those shrimp too. How did they meet their end?

Being of Italian descent, on Christmas, it is our custom to have at least 7 different kinds of seafood for dinner. Last Christmas we had over twenty. Does that make us bad? Of course, we never eat fish in view of my tank, as that would be like cannibalism, and my fish may get the horrors.

My family owned a seafood market, and on Fridays, my Dad would bring me down to the Fulton Fish Market in lower Manhattan to buy the seafood for his store. It is amazing that those tons of fish that were unceremoniously dumped on the sidewalk were then moved around with snow shovels. Were they all euthanized? I wonder where they got the time.

And how much clove oil were they using?

In those days there were also huge sea turtles still alive on their backs. Now I know they were just pets as no one I know would hurt a beautiful sea turtle.

Every day I feed my fish live blackworms, clams and mysis. I am not sure if each one of those worms has feelings or thinks about it's family just before it gets eaten.

The millions of mysis also. Do they have more civil rights than the new born brine shrimp I feed my mandarins. Is there a brine shrimp rights group? How about the goldfish we sometimes feed to our moray eels? Do they have fewer rights than, say, a lionfish or tang? What if we fed tiny tangs to large goldfish? Would that be OK?

If we were to cycle a tank with a live fish or shrimp, we would get yelled at from everyone, but it seems to be perfectly fine to cycle a tank with a fish or shrimp that suffocated on the deck of a ship. I wonder about that. I also wonder about the leather belt I am wearing. How did they remove that strip of skin from that cow without him noticing?

Many people dip corals in insecticide before they put them in their tanks to kill "pests". I am sure those "pests" think of us as pests and, worse, murderers. If those "pests" were larger and cuter, we would keep them as pets and try to kill the corals they were living on.

Just one of the things I think about.

This reminds me of something Denis Leary used to go on about during his tours.
Activist "dont eat the tuna!" Leary "why?" Activist "because dolphins are getting caught in the nets" Leary " what about the tuna?" Activist "explicit the tuna they are not cute" Edited for length and to make it family friendly-ish. There was also some stuff on otters, cows, and a few others.

 

[Paul B]

My morning walk was un-eventful, dull and raining so I didn't take a picture.

If you want to see what it looked like, just look at this picture from last year, but before you do, smear "Vaseline" on your screen and spray sea water from your reef on it.

Thats what it looked like today.

 

[Paul B]

I first joined this forum in 2011. I see I posted this then:

I am in my 60s now so I also don't know how long I will have, but I hope to get the tank to 50

Now I think my tank is 55 years old. (it could be 54, I am not that good at math )

Now I will say that I will call it a big success if it lasts another 45 years when it will be 100 years old.

Of course, many people will still say I am lucky because I don't quarantine. But I doubt I will hear them

 

[Paul B]

This urchin was as big as a ping Pong Ball when I got it a couple of years ago. My last one croaked after about 10 years.

Now this one is almost 11" wide.....Or tall,,,,, depending on how you are looking at it.

 

[Paul B]

I took a picture.