almost 35 year old reef pictures

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by jason2459
He's always posting pics of his tank. This was the last one he posted.

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[ddinox64]

Ha ha haaa. That looks like the beaches around here in California.

[jason2459]

Paul did you have anything to do with planning how my city treats their water?


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Stage 1 is an aeration treatment. Stage 2 slaked lime is used to soften the water. Stage 4 is a sand and gravel filtration (UGF anyone?). Would be intersting to see how the gravel filtration is setup. UGF or RUGF?

[Paul B]

I love that picture

I don't use that gallery anymore and I actually even forgot about it. I use Photobucket so I would imagine anything in my gallery would be over a year old, but most of the latest pictures I posted are new.
Now I have to take new pictures.

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by Paul B
I love that picture

I don't use that gallery anymore and I actually even forgot about it. I use Photobucket so I would imagine anything in my gallery would be over a year old, but most of the latest pictures I posted are new.
Now I have to take new pictures.

that's a nice shot---a big improvement from the pic you posted from the early 1970's

There is no fish left in the freezer. My son, grandson and I are headed up to the trout pond to morrow morning to refill it. They like that trout---I don't it tastes funny--I think they feed it dog food.

Later in the day I am heading up to a friends house on Lake Erie---we will go out and catch some bass and perch---they taste great.
I wrap them in foil with butter and cook them on the barbeque. The backbone on the perch pops right out if done this way so you don't have to fillet them.

[jason2459]

I've never been a big trout fan, fresh or saltwater trout. Mud eaters. They are easy to find when I was out fishing as all you had to look for was a circular area all stirred up with muddy water you were sure to find some trout there. For freshwater fish one of my favorite so far is fresh caught Walleye. Love going to the rivers and catching that. I throw back the catfish, trout, and sometimes the bass. Bass is okay but if I have a bunch of walleye already I throw the bass back.

Seafood is so much better I think. I was very spoiled living in the Keys. Being able to get true fresh seafood that never saw ice bins, freezers, or dry ice. That just ruins it for me. Red snapper is really good and one of my favorites. Not a big fan of grouper anymore. Yellow-fin tuna is awesome, can be a nice steak or a nice light fillet. Dolphin is just okay and is freaking everywhere as the fish of the day. Down there the fish of the day is almost always either dolphin or grouper. Seems like everywhere else even in the Midwest "Mahi Mahi" is on the menu if they offer seafood. Nothing beats diving down and hand picking some lobsters off the reef and coming home to eat them. To bad queen conch was over fished in the 70-80's in Florida because cutting them out and cutting them up raw in a spicy salad is really good. I took a vacation once, for close to a year that is, in the Bahamas and pretty much lived right on the beach. I had to figure out what I wanted to do for a living as I was half way through college. Thought it might be good to get away for a weekend. I was young and the Bahamas was only a 30m plane trip or 4 hour boat ride away. Took a trip over there and kind of lost track of time.

I made friends with some conch fishermen and would dive down to catch a bunch of them in the morning, Then we'd be at the piers and docks of different resorts by lunch time selling fresh conch salad to tourists. I got really good at cutting them out and slicing them up. Funny thing is no one at all commented about eating it raw and we'd always hear about how good it was and got tons of repeat business. Do that here in the states when people aren't on vacation and you know people would complain and refuse to eat it if it's not cooked.

Always miss being to able go and catch my own food by hand like that. I prefer that over regular cast line fishing any day. Crabs, muscles, lobsters, conchs... etc. Good thing for my aquarium the critters in there are to small because I do love inverts, watching them and eating them.

I totally forget the entire reason for this post so I will stop now before complete depression sets in.

[ddinox64]

Whatever type of fish that is(big eye?) It always makes me think of cartoons.
Of course you have to take new pictures. Have to prove there really is a 40 year old sand bed, I mean reef tank.

[jason2459]

That would be his 80 year old Tomato clown I believe. Now I'm really hungry.

[Paul B]

Good thing for my aquarium the critters in there are to small because I do love inverts, watching them and eating them.

It's the only way to live, I personally never ordered a steak in a restaurant in my life. I lobstered for years. Yesterday I had a nice rare tuna steak with raw oysters.
My wife had linguini with squid and mussels. We ate on the dock at the marina. I will be bringing home boat stuff today, it's getting cold.
We only eat saltwater fish. I need the salt water oils like I give my fish.
Trout is also not my favorite.

[Paul B]

But it's a good thing I tested my salinity. My bubble coral was shrinking so I figured I would test the salinity, which I hardly ever do unless I am changing water. I think I could have kept kissing gouramies in there. It was practically fresh water.
I had to ad a lot of salt. Now I don't have enough fake salt left to change the water so I will suppliment it with some real water. I need to go to the boat today anyway.

[Paul B]

Now this is a very cool picture of the fish corner of my workshop.
The big blue thing hanging is the RO/DI water tank. It is high because it siphons to the tank above the ceiling about 30' away.
You can just make out the acrylic DI resins to the left of the blue bucket. There is a homemade float switch in the bucket which shuts off the electric valve to the RO.
The 15 gallon tank is filled with tropical and some local critters I collected in the Atlantic including a few butterflies and that boxfish/puffer/burfish whatever it is.
The long thin horizontal white thing is my new worm keeper which I just built 10 minutes ago. It is the Mother of all worm keepers. The small worm keeper is the acrylic one below it. On the 15 gallon tank is the black and yellow brine shrimp hatchery.

Yes, I know, everything is very neat just like the pictures many of you guys post

[Aquarist007]

Yes, I know, everything is very neat just like the pictures many of you guys post

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very cool shop---and it does look organized



Good day fishing--freezer now has trout and perch in there again

[Paul B]

Thats the fish corner, the rest of the shop is, well, not much neater. I have parts of inventions all over the place that I can't part with. You never know when you need a part for something.
There is one to the left of my DI chamber on the shelf. I will find something to build from it. I still have my wet dry also.

[ddinox64]

So you say your car can fly if ou put that in the gas tank huh?

That B after your name Paul wouldn't stand for Brainard would it?
As in Professor Brainard?

[Paul B]

I am a professor of nothing
All of my ideas came from outer space, none of them came from higher education.

I always tell people that I was an electrician for 40 years, if I had gone to college I would have been an electrical engineer working twice the hours for half the wages.

Or been a retired anylitical chemist like Waterkeeper (whatever that is)

Of course if you get to my age there are courses you are compelled to take wheather you want to or not.
Here in NY there is a degree I could have gotten from life experiences. They give credits for certain things, I turned it down because, well, I think it's stupid. I know what I know and don't care if any one else knows it.

For example, some of the courses I had to take were
General Motors Auto mechanic course
United States Army Armor Course
Army Leadership course,
Sargeant school
Army radio repair school.
Pole climbing school. (that will come in handy )
Weapons school
Electrician school (7 years)
High voltage course
SCUBA certification
advanced SCUBA certification
Certification with Paris Hilton
Ship Capt. school.

These mostly useless courses count as college credits.
Now I can climb a pole and SCUBA dive while driving a tank and
wiring a light on top of a Howitzer.
It may come in handy, you never know.

[Little Lucy 27]

W O W !!! Nice tank!
and this thread is 5 years old??

Hello Paul...I just sat here for hours reading through all of the posts...my oh my...funny timing..I had a 100 gallon tank back in the 90s and there, even then, was not a lot of info on the internet yet..I had UG and a Fluval canister and never had a crash or anything. Of course the most I had "special" were a couple of anemones and a clown..some tangs..a Lionfish and a few assorted goodies...OH and the $40 Tridachnea Clam that the tangs ate for dinner...lol..I am now setting up a 75 and have been researching for months..you have to have this and you have to do that and you have to spend a fortune...I have this tank sitting with UG and a bucket of crushed coral beside it and was actually rinsing Home Depot sand about to go with the DSB...THANK YOU!!! haha I am gonna go with what I know and knew 15 years ago...I kept scratching my head thinking..."but it worked before"...I really like your "outside the box" thinking and clever ingenuity..
Question...reverse flow...did you buy special powerheads to fit? mine (I have 4-5 around here) don't wanna stay..I'll have to Gerry rig something..and since you have two PH running the UG what did you do with the exttra holes...just cover them up? Mine are all poked out with the uplift tubes attached (used ) would it be counterproductive to have air in two and PH reverse flow in the other two holes?

[Paul B]

Lucy it is such a pleasure to hear from such an intelligent person. I know you are smart because you remember that UG filters work and they never crash.
In all of these pages there must be a description of it somewhere.
My UG filter had 6 tubes going into it. I removed three of the tubes so I have one tube for each of the three plates. I don't remember what I pluged the holes with but I know I plugged them with something. You can even put screens over them and cover them with gravel.
I use 1 pump for my RUGF. I installed a plastic canister over to one side of the tank just above the water and connected the three UG tubes to the bottom of it. There is 1 powerhead in the tank which pumps water into the container so each tube gets 150 GPH. Try not to go any faster. Less is better.
And filter that water somehow before you pump it under the gravel like with a sponge or some other way

I had a 100 gallon tank back in the 90s and there, even then, was not a lot of info on the internet yet

I didn't think we even had an internet in the 90s

would it be counterproductive to have air in two and PH reverse flow in the other two holes?

Yes it would, don't do that. The water would just flow under the plates and out the other side.

and this thread is 5 years old??

I didn't even realize that myself.

you have to have this and you have to do that and you have to spend a fortune...

That happens a lot in this hobby. But all of the people spending all of that money don't have a RUGF so don't tell them

This is my UG filter container. It is an old HOB filter. The thing is fed by that tube going into the left side and 3 tubes come out the bottom.
The fan that is precariousely hanging is my very expensive chiller, it is also a death trap

[WaterKeeper]

I'm the only one with a doctorate is DSB.

[cloak]

What?

[Paul B]

What?

Yes....What?

I'm the only one with a doctorate is DSB.

I say again....What?

Was your thesis for your doctorate on DSBs,
I know it wasn't on writing sentences

[jterrell]

GIRLS, girls... your both pretty!

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by WaterKeeper
I'm the only one with a doctorate is DSB.

Do you mean a DSBSc?

I believe you get those by signing a form and 20 bucks in Ohio just like you can get an 18 wheeler licence.

[Aquarist007]

Originally posted by jterrell
GIRLS, girls... your both pretty!

+1 on pretty ugly

[jterrell]

Originally posted by capn_hylinur
+1 on pretty ugly

[jason2459]

Paul you may want to clarify that's 150gph total going into the green contraption behind the death trap in the back. Then splits up to three lift tubes for around 50gph each. One lift tube per plate.