Tank birthday, 47+ years

[SauceyReef]

Thanks. My Fireclowns were not tank raised. I don't think they did that 34 years ago. I originally bought him because he was very young and I thought he was a flame Hawkfish.

Whoops I meant tank raised as in 30 years in your tank. Wild to think it could have been older than what you have had it with. I got the scoly 15 years ago at near the same size I had it the entire time. Makes me wonder how old it really was.

 

[Long Island Andy]

Long Island Andy, what are you doing here? I thought you left the hobby. How are you doing? I may give you a call.

Hi Paul I have a tank full of guppies, tank with a 6 baby Koi and a planted tank with a mix of friendly fish .
I follow your posts because I enjoy your stories. Still going to Don's every now and then let me know when your going , I babysit my 4 year old granddaughter but she likes the fish store I wonder where she got the fish gene from

 

[Paul B]

Andy, I go to Don almost every week as my wife's PT is not far from there. I will probably go next week but I can only spend a little while there because her PT is all the way on the south end of 112.

I will try to call you when I'm going.

Whats a guppy?

 

[Paul B]

OOOOOohhhhhNNNooooo.

Crash.........No..not my reef, that would be silly and I run a reverse undergravel filter so it's state of the art.

My worm culture.
I have 2 white worm cultures and they are many years old. I have them in a cooler that you plug in like a picnic cooler. You can even plug it into a car.

I dropped the plug the other day and didn't realize it wasn't fully plugged into the thing and OMG, a heat wave and dead, really, really stinky worms.

One good and weird thing is that out of the 2 containers I have in the cooler, only one crashed and turned into smelly, worm mush. The other one is fine, kind of.

I will just put in more soil in the crashed one. I already cleaned it and the cooler with bleach, and I will add worms from the good culture.

 

[Cthulukelele]

OOOOOohhhhhNNNooooo.

Crash.........No..not my reef, that would be silly and I run a reverse undergravel filter so it's state of the art.

My worm culture.
I have 2 white worm cultures and they are many years old. I have them in a cooler that you plug in like a picnic cooler. You can even plug it into a car.

I dropped the plug the other day and didn't realize it wasn't fully plugged into the thing and OMG, a heat wave and dead, really, really stinky worms.

One good and weird thing is that out of the 2 containers I have in the cooler, only one crashed and turned into smelly, worm mush. The other one is fine, kind of.

I will just put in more soil in the crashed one. I already cleaned it and the cooler with bleach, and I will add worms from the good culture.

How do you keep your worm culture from getting infested with fruit flies/gnats? I've had 2 colonies crash due to this.

 

[Paul B]

If you keep them cool, the fruit flies don't seem to hatch. But as soon as they warm up a little, they hatch.

Occasionally I flood my culture and stir it up. I then let the water in a slop sink pour over it very slowly until the water is clean.

Then I add some more soil to their container and pour the wet mud with the worms into a large mesh net and rinse it under running water, drain it and put it back in the box.

 

[Kmst80]

How do you keep your worm culture from getting infested with fruit flies/gnats? I've had 2 colonies crash due to this.

Agree with Paul, i keep mine in a barfridge with a inkbird regulating the temp between 14 and 18 degrees celsius.
I use straight pottingmix out of the bag, no fruitflies at all. I don't feed bread either, just greek yoghurt and they thrive.

 

[Paul B]

Today is our 51 st wedding anniversary. This was yesterday.

And this was 51 years ago. I haven't changed a bit.

 

[Jekyl]

buon anniversario!

 

[Paul B]

This guy is 34 and his mate is a couple of years younger. They have never been quarantined, medicated, spoken to, observed or anything else. And still spawning like bunnies.

 

[TangerineSpeedo]

Today is our 51 st wedding anniversary. This was yesterday.

And this was 51 years ago. I haven't changed a bit.

Congrats!
So... Are you standing on the curb in the photograph in 1973? I think I brought home two goldfish from the elementary school fair back then... (gateway to the slippery slope)

 

[Rybren]

Happy Anniversary to you two. Dale was a supermodel back then and she still is.

 

[Cthulukelele]

Congrats on your anniversary. Such a treasure to share so much of your life with someone else like that

 

[Paul B]

So... Are you standing on the curb in the photograph in 1973?

No, but I am behind her so it looks like she is taller than I am. But I used to be an inch or a little more taller than she was. Now after 75 years, I shrunk at least an inch. I wish I could get that inch back.

I was never a giant, most Sicilians aren't. I went to Sicily and I was a giant there as they are all short. I started out at 5'7". Not any more. Dale is 5'5".

Such a treasure to share so much of your life with someone else like that

Thank you. And we still like each other.

Dale was a supermodel back then and she still is.

Yes she was, and is.

 

[Paul B]

Last night, I took my Bride to one of our favorite seafood restaurants on the east end of Long Island.

It's not on the water, but over the water as the surf goes right under the place.

 

[GARRIGA]

Place not as important as the company kept

 

[Paul B]

Were you on reefcentral? If yes was your photo a bongo shrimp?

I'm not sure and don't remember what a Bongo shrimp is. But if it goes in a tank, I probably had one.

Andy, I went to Don yesterday but didn't know I was going there. I bought a 4" frogspawn coral for $50.00. He gives stuff away.

 

[Paul B]

I took a picture.

 

[427HISS]

How the heck am I going to read and,....retain, 492 pages, I'm 62 yrs old ???

 

[Kmst80]

How the heck am I going to read and,....retain, 492 pages, I'm 62 yrs old ???

Not quite as bad as War and Peace