almost 35 year old reef pictures - Page 34

Paul B · 08/22/2009, 09:24 AM

Because of the humidity here in NY this week I can't get one MH light on in my tank. The GFI keeps tripping. I need to go out on my boat so I threw a flashlight into the tank. The corals have to fend for themselves until I get back.

ddinox64 · 08/22/2009, 10:29 AM

Humidity is up here in Ca. today too. Feels good like Hawaii, not quite Texas.

I did a water test today for something to do this while looking at my tank with lights off this morning. First test since I set it up a few weeks ago. Algae is coming in nice and my two tangs are looking fat and healthy.

Paul B · 08/23/2009, 04:42 AM

I got the humidity down from 95 to 50. It cost a lot in electricity but I can now turn on the lights and cut the vines growing from the ceiling. I really don't like de-humidifers because they eliminate moisture and make heat, a lot of it. It is 90 something degrees here and this thing makes it much hotter.
But Hey, it's dry.

But it will be a great boating day. I will bring a net as usual and collect some pods and what not but in two weeks I am going back to the south shore to get some more blue claw crabs for dinner and hopefully some lookdowns which I probably will not eat (unless I get hungry on the way home)
The last time I went collecting I spilled a lot of saltwater in the back of my car. I have a nice car and not a piece of junk so it bothered me. There was also a lot of grass shrimp in the water. The next day those shrimp made their presence knows. Those little clear non descript shrimp stink like hell when they croak, especially if you have enough of them. I thought I cleaned all of them out but apparently a few got away. I took out the seats and shampooed the carpets.

Paul B · 08/23/2009, 04:42 AM

I got the humidity down from 95 to 50. It cost a lot in electricity but I can now turn on the lights and cut the vines growing from the ceiling. I really don't like de-humidifers because they eliminate moisture and make heat, a lot of it. It is 90 something degrees here and this thing makes it much hotter.
But Hey, it's dry.

But it will be a great boating day. I will bring a net as usual and collect some pods and what not but in two weeks I am going back to the south shore to get some more blue claw crabs for dinner and hopefully some lookdowns which I probably will not eat (unless I get hungry on the way home)
The last time I went collecting I spilled a lot of saltwater in the back of my car. I have a nice car and not a piece of junk so it bothered me. There was also a lot of grass shrimp in the water. The next day those shrimp made their presence knows. Those little clear non descript shrimp stink like hell when they croak, especially if you have enough of them. I thought I cleaned all of them out but apparently a few got away. I took out the seats and shampooed the carpets.

Aquarist007 · 08/23/2009, 08:24 AM

With carrying alot of salt water etc for clients now I find I need to leave the trunk open for a few hours after I have cleaned up--that really helps. Its not so much shrimp like you but bacteria in some used water, the python etc etc.
But, yes I had to shampoo my wife's car once when I used it---she has the better car for transporting stuff with the hatch back.

ddinox64 · 08/23/2009, 10:54 AM

Wish I was able to post pictures. My little Blue Tang found himself a nice big barnicle to sleep in since I moved some things around. Until then he would find a place that just his face would fit in looking like an Ostrich with his head in the sand.

Emerald crab came up dead. I think I may have smashed him. Want me to send it to you Paul for an appitizer?

Paul B · 08/23/2009, 05:08 PM

Sounds delicious but I just came back from boating and am full of oysters and clams already so you can just send it to WK to feed the creatures in his DSB

conorwynne · 08/25/2009, 02:07 AM

I'm back from Holidays and no, nothing died. Sweet. In fact, even the baby mollies have grown in the fuge. I have a strange love for them, I like them more than any other fish in my tank, and they cost €0.00 :-)

Corals look good too, they have all grown and or coloured up.
Next year I'm taking a three week holiday, or maybe 4...?

The automagic systems were a kalkwasser jobby (Tunze calcium dispensor) connected to my flawless Tunze ATO. And an automagic feeder. Everything really looked well when I came in the door. Mind you I couldn't see in the front glass through the coraline growth!

I was thinking of you (Paul) when snorkling in the Mediteranean sea, I was looking around for pods everywhere, but they are impossible to find. I did find huge shoals of "tang like" fish, no idea what they were though as I couldn't catch them. I gathered some sea grasses and other algae for my fuge, but couldn't bring them on the plane. Damn stupid air rules....
Next year I'm buying a harpoon at the start of the holiday, as one weeks fishing with it would pay for it! I was litterally swimming with my dinner...

Lastly :
Sunfish caught off Donegal coast.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...253194855.html

Paul B · 08/25/2009, 04:10 AM

The Mediteranian is too clean to collect pods, I tried also.
You really need a nice muddy beach which are lacking in the Mediteranian. Thats a good thing if you just want to swim though.
I tried to rent a boat there to sail around Sicily but it would have been cheaper to buy one

Almost no one there has a decent boat and if they do, they are American. They are not big on boating and if you go there a day after beach season, you will not find one person on the beach in all of Europe. It's like the water just dries up and goes somewhere else.
You will not even find a person on the beach wakling a dog, reading a newspaper, nothing. It's wierd.
I can go to Coney Island beach in a snow storm and find people there running, playing, reading a book, collecting pods, something

conorwynne · 08/25/2009, 04:40 AM

I was in Saint Tropez mostly (think Cannes & Monaco), and you wanna see the boats there. OMG, all owned by the rich and super rich. Sure a mooring costs €1million per year in some parts! Tons of boats bigger than my house and gardens combined. Crazy money. I was looking at apartment / villa prices and comparing them to boat prices, yes it is well cheaper to buy a house than a boat!

I only saw one American boat though, most were French or Dutch flagged. It's obviously different in Sicily -- I've never been, bit too hot for me. The Cote d'Azur daily temps were 26C at 8am, 30C at midday, and anything up to 36C at 5PM. The water temp in the Med was the same as our reefs -- 24C to 26C, I'm sure it's cooler further out to sea.

As for the beaches, well they reminded me of Sardines in a can.
I didn't mind as I don't do the sunbathing thing, I just snorkled all day long with my kids. Then drank fine wines all night with the catch of the day. The more I swam the more I questioned why we worry about temp swings. I noticed sudden drops in temp in small distances, meters like. I don't know if I shall bother heating the next water change... The fish and corals must be used to it from nature.

I'm off to Tenerife in October for holiday 2.0. Looking forward to snorkling in the Atlantic this time round. I'll check for pods and report back :-)

ddinox64 · 08/25/2009, 12:35 PM

Watched a show not that long ago about a Culpera taking over the Mediteranian. The scientists were blaming some Oceanography museum there somewhere for dumping it in the waters.

Dominican Republic was the same way with water temps. Even when snorkling in Hawaii. Be nice and comforable one second and burr cold the next. Like someone just dumped ice water on you.

WaterKeeper · 08/25/2009, 12:51 PM

It is illegal to even have Caulerpa in Ca. for the same reason.

mr.wilson · 08/25/2009, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ddinox64
Watched a show not that long ago about a Culpera taking over the Mediteranian. The scientists were blaming some Oceanography museum there somewhere for dumping it in the waters.

Dominican Republic was the same way with water temps. Even when snorkling in Hawaii. Be nice and comforable one second and burr cold the next. Like someone just dumped ice water on you.

It was Caulerpa taxifolia adjacent to the Monaco Aquarium.

mr.wilson · 08/25/2009, 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by WaterKeeper
It is illegal to even have Caulerpa in Ca. for the same reason.

If they outlaw algae, only outlaws will have algae.

WaterKeeper · 08/25/2009, 01:25 PM

Let em have it.

ddinox64 · 08/25/2009, 02:08 PM

If it weren't for algae. My tank would be empty.

WaterKeeper · 08/25/2009, 02:22 PM

That's the spirit and when guests come over you show them your aquatic greenhouse and botanical garden.

conorwynne · 08/25/2009, 03:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mr.wilson
It was Caulerpa taxifolia adjacent to the Monaco Aquarium.

I didn't see that calurpa where I was, but I did see tons of native algaes, the sea grasses were cool, but I only saw them in one location.

The last place (a few km's down the road) had what looked like bubble caulerpa. Nowhere did algaes take over any areas, and I was chatting to a local who said due to lower pollution levels, there are far less algaes (and urchins) than when he was a kid.

I suspect they ate all the urchins, or is that just the Italians that eat them..? Betcha it was the French, as they eat litterally anythng that moves, and make it taste good too. :-)

It was you Paul wasn't it? Hungry *&%"£$ :-)

Paul B · 08/25/2009, 03:53 PM

UMMMM urchins, Umi, delicious. I want an urchin and oyster sandwidch.

I have so much mercury in me I could get a job as a thermometer

ddinox64 · 08/25/2009, 05:14 PM

All my rocks look like Chia Pets in there.

Oooh........Just had an Idea with some GSP. He he heeeee.

Alaska_Phil · 08/25/2009, 08:19 PM

Well, you saw what my tank looked like a couple months ago.

Phil

jason2459 · 08/25/2009, 08:36 PM

Chia Pet? My tank resembles a chia monster right now. lol

Paul B · 08/26/2009, 04:23 AM

In the past I have had people think I had a lettuce farm.
The animals were the healthiest then

The algae will disappear leaving a perfectly healthy tank. Be a man, love algae.

Aquarist007 · 08/26/2009, 10:00 AM

I appear to have lost and anthias---I had the pair of them for almost 4 years. Saturday they were both doing fine--lots of colour activity and feeding on the mysis shrimp.
This is the first fish I have lost in a couple of years---strange

Any thoughts?

Rybren · 08/26/2009, 10:34 AM

These mysterious fish disapearances are annoying, aren't they? I always look on the floor first to see if they went carpet surfing.

I had a lawnmower blenny go missing on me a couple of weeks ago. He looked healthy and was eating well then one day he was gone. There was no sign of him on the floor or area surrounding the tank. Guess the CUC cleaned him up.

On another note, I haven't seen the bumblebees in a few days. They're so small and could be anywhere (including someone's stomach)

08/22/2009, 09:24 AM	#826
Paul B Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Long Island NY Posts: 15,549	Because of the humidity here in NY this week I can't get one MH light on in my tank. The GFI keeps tripping. I need to go out on my boat so I threw a flashlight into the tank. The corals have to fend for themselves until I get back. __________________ I used to get shocked when I put my hand in my tank. Then the electric eel went dead. Current Tank Info: 100 gal reef set up in 1971

08/23/2009, 04:42 AM	#828
Paul B Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Long Island NY Posts: 15,549	I got the humidity down from 95 to 50. It cost a lot in electricity but I can now turn on the lights and cut the vines growing from the ceiling. I really don't like de-humidifers because they eliminate moisture and make heat, a lot of it. It is 90 something degrees here and this thing makes it much hotter. But Hey, it's dry. But it will be a great boating day. I will bring a net as usual and collect some pods and what not but in two weeks I am going back to the south shore to get some more blue claw crabs for dinner and hopefully some lookdowns which I probably will not eat (unless I get hungry on the way home) The last time I went collecting I spilled a lot of saltwater in the back of my car. I have a nice car and not a piece of junk so it bothered me. There was also a lot of grass shrimp in the water. The next day those shrimp made their presence knows. Those little clear non descript shrimp stink like hell when they croak, especially if you have enough of them. I thought I cleaned all of them out but apparently a few got away. I took out the seats and shampooed the carpets. __________________ I used to get shocked when I put my hand in my tank. Then the electric eel went dead. Current Tank Info: 100 gal reef set up in 1971

08/23/2009, 04:42 AM	#829
Paul B Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Long Island NY Posts: 15,549	I got the humidity down from 95 to 50. It cost a lot in electricity but I can now turn on the lights and cut the vines growing from the ceiling. I really don't like de-humidifers because they eliminate moisture and make heat, a lot of it. It is 90 something degrees here and this thing makes it much hotter. But Hey, it's dry. But it will be a great boating day. I will bring a net as usual and collect some pods and what not but in two weeks I am going back to the south shore to get some more blue claw crabs for dinner and hopefully some lookdowns which I probably will not eat (unless I get hungry on the way home) The last time I went collecting I spilled a lot of saltwater in the back of my car. I have a nice car and not a piece of junk so it bothered me. There was also a lot of grass shrimp in the water. The next day those shrimp made their presence knows. Those little clear non descript shrimp stink like hell when they croak, especially if you have enough of them. I thought I cleaned all of them out but apparently a few got away. I took out the seats and shampooed the carpets. __________________ I used to get shocked when I put my hand in my tank. Then the electric eel went dead. Current Tank Info: 100 gal reef set up in 1971

08/23/2009, 08:24 AM	#830
Aquarist007 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hamilton, Canada Posts: 28,240 Blog Entries: 1	With carrying alot of salt water etc for clients now I find I need to leave the trunk open for a few hours after I have cleaned up--that really helps. Its not so much shrimp like you but bacteria in some used water, the python etc etc. But, yes I had to shampoo my wife's car once when I used it---she has the better car for transporting stuff with the hatch back. __________________ I prefer my substrates stirred but not shaken Current Tank Info: 150gal long mixed reef, 90gal sump, 60 gal refugium with 200 lbs live rock

08/23/2009, 05:08 PM	#832
Paul B Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Long Island NY Posts: 15,549	Sounds delicious but I just came back from boating and am full of oysters and clams already so you can just send it to WK to feed the creatures in his DSB __________________ I used to get shocked when I put my hand in my tank. Then the electric eel went dead. Current Tank Info: 100 gal reef set up in 1971

08/22/2009, 10:29 AM	#827
ddinox64 Moved On Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Ca. Posts: 1,327	Humidity is up here in Ca. today too. Feels good like Hawaii, not quite Texas. I did a water test today for something to do this while looking at my tank with lights off this morning. First test since I set it up a few weeks ago. Algae is coming in nice and my two tangs are looking fat and healthy.

08/23/2009, 10:54 AM	#831
ddinox64 Moved On Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Ca. Posts: 1,327	Wish I was able to post pictures. My little Blue Tang found himself a nice big barnicle to sleep in since I moved some things around. Until then he would find a place that just his face would fit in looking like an Ostrich with his head in the sand. Emerald crab came up dead. I think I may have smashed him. Want me to send it to you Paul for an appitizer?

08/25/2009, 02:07 AM	#833
conorwynne Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 433	I'm back from Holidays and no, nothing died. Sweet. In fact, even the baby mollies have grown in the fuge. I have a strange love for them, I like them more than any other fish in my tank, and they cost €0.00 :-) Corals look good too, they have all grown and or coloured up. Next year I'm taking a three week holiday, or maybe 4...? The automagic systems were a kalkwasser jobby (Tunze calcium dispensor) connected to my flawless Tunze ATO. And an automagic feeder. Everything really looked well when I came in the door. Mind you I couldn't see in the front glass through the coraline growth! I was thinking of you (Paul) when snorkling in the Mediteranean sea, I was looking around for pods everywhere, but they are impossible to find. I did find huge shoals of "tang like" fish, no idea what they were though as I couldn't catch them. I gathered some sea grasses and other algae for my fuge, but couldn't bring them on the plane. Damn stupid air rules.... Next year I'm buying a harpoon at the start of the holiday, as one weeks fishing with it would pay for it! I was litterally swimming with my dinner... Lastly : Sunfish caught off Donegal coast. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...253194855.html __________________ New tank (468L or 120G) has salt and rock, just add coral and fish! Current Tank Info: New tank in progress....

08/25/2009, 04:10 AM	#834
Paul B Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Long Island NY Posts: 15,549	The Mediteranian is too clean to collect pods, I tried also. You really need a nice muddy beach which are lacking in the Mediteranian. Thats a good thing if you just want to swim though. I tried to rent a boat there to sail around Sicily but it would have been cheaper to buy one Almost no one there has a decent boat and if they do, they are American. They are not big on boating and if you go there a day after beach season, you will not find one person on the beach in all of Europe. It's like the water just dries up and goes somewhere else. You will not even find a person on the beach wakling a dog, reading a newspaper, nothing. It's wierd. I can go to Coney Island beach in a snow storm and find people there running, playing, reading a book, collecting pods, something __________________ I used to get shocked when I put my hand in my tank. Then the electric eel went dead. Current Tank Info: 100 gal reef set up in 1971

08/25/2009, 04:40 AM	#835
conorwynne Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 433	I was in Saint Tropez mostly (think Cannes & Monaco), and you wanna see the boats there. OMG, all owned by the rich and super rich. Sure a mooring costs €1million per year in some parts! Tons of boats bigger than my house and gardens combined. Crazy money. I was looking at apartment / villa prices and comparing them to boat prices, yes it is well cheaper to buy a house than a boat! I only saw one American boat though, most were French or Dutch flagged. It's obviously different in Sicily -- I've never been, bit too hot for me. The Cote d'Azur daily temps were 26C at 8am, 30C at midday, and anything up to 36C at 5PM. The water temp in the Med was the same as our reefs -- 24C to 26C, I'm sure it's cooler further out to sea. As for the beaches, well they reminded me of Sardines in a can. I didn't mind as I don't do the sunbathing thing, I just snorkled all day long with my kids. Then drank fine wines all night with the catch of the day. The more I swam the more I questioned why we worry about temp swings. I noticed sudden drops in temp in small distances, meters like. I don't know if I shall bother heating the next water change... The fish and corals must be used to it from nature. I'm off to Tenerife in October for holiday 2.0. Looking forward to snorkling in the Atlantic this time round. I'll check for pods and report back :-) __________________ New tank (468L or 120G) has salt and rock, just add coral and fish! Current Tank Info: New tank in progress....

08/25/2009, 12:35 PM	#836
ddinox64 Moved On Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Ca. Posts: 1,327	Watched a show not that long ago about a Culpera taking over the Mediteranian. The scientists were blaming some Oceanography museum there somewhere for dumping it in the waters. Dominican Republic was the same way with water temps. Even when snorkling in Hawaii. Be nice and comforable one second and burr cold the next. Like someone just dumped ice water on you.

08/25/2009, 12:51 PM	#837
WaterKeeper Bogus Information Expert Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 16,147	It is illegal to even have Caulerpa in Ca. for the same reason. __________________ "Leading the information hungry reefer down the road to starvation" Tom Current Tank Info: 130 Now out of service and a 29

08/25/2009, 01:25 PM	#840
WaterKeeper Bogus Information Expert Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 16,147	Let em have it. __________________ "Leading the information hungry reefer down the road to starvation" Tom Current Tank Info: 130 Now out of service and a 29

08/25/2009, 02:08 PM	#841
ddinox64 Moved On Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Ca. Posts: 1,327	If it weren't for algae. My tank would be empty.

08/25/2009, 02:22 PM	#842
WaterKeeper Bogus Information Expert Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 16,147	That's the spirit and when guests come over you show them your aquatic greenhouse and botanical garden. __________________ "Leading the information hungry reefer down the road to starvation" Tom Current Tank Info: 130 Now out of service and a 29

08/25/2009, 03:53 PM	#844
Paul B Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Long Island NY Posts: 15,549	UMMMM urchins, Umi, delicious. I want an urchin and oyster sandwidch. I have so much mercury in me I could get a job as a thermometer __________________ I used to get shocked when I put my hand in my tank. Then the electric eel went dead. Current Tank Info: 100 gal reef set up in 1971

08/25/2009, 05:14 PM	#845
ddinox64 Moved On Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Ca. Posts: 1,327	All my rocks look like Chia Pets in there. Oooh........Just had an Idea with some GSP. He he heeeee.

08/25/2009, 08:19 PM	#846
Alaska_Phil Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: North Pole Posts: 986	Well, you saw what my tank looked like a couple months ago. Phil __________________ Don't be afraid to fall - if you're not falling down once in a while, you're not trying anything new and probably not having much fun. Current Tank Info: 50 gal mixed reef, 65 gal freshwater planted.

08/25/2009, 08:36 PM	#847
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Chia Pet? My tank resembles a chia monster right now. lol __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

08/26/2009, 04:23 AM	#848
Paul B Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Long Island NY Posts: 15,549	In the past I have had people think I had a lettuce farm. The animals were the healthiest then The algae will disappear leaving a perfectly healthy tank. Be a man, love algae. __________________ I used to get shocked when I put my hand in my tank. Then the electric eel went dead. Current Tank Info: 100 gal reef set up in 1971

08/26/2009, 10:00 AM	#849
Aquarist007 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hamilton, Canada Posts: 28,240 Blog Entries: 1	I appear to have lost and anthias---I had the pair of them for almost 4 years. Saturday they were both doing fine--lots of colour activity and feeding on the mysis shrimp. This is the first fish I have lost in a couple of years---strange Any thoughts? __________________ I prefer my substrates stirred but not shaken Current Tank Info: 150gal long mixed reef, 90gal sump, 60 gal refugium with 200 lbs live rock

08/26/2009, 10:34 AM	#850
Rybren Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 1,642	These mysterious fish disapearances are annoying, aren't they? I always look on the floor first to see if they went carpet surfing. I had a lawnmower blenny go missing on me a couple of weeks ago. He looked healthy and was eating well then one day he was gone. There was no sign of him on the floor or area surrounding the tank. Guess the CUC cleaned him up. On another note, I haven't seen the bumblebees in a few days. They're so small and could be anywhere (including someone's stomach)