Tank birthday, 47+ years

SauceyReef · Monday at 4:10 PM

Paul B said:
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 · Thursday at 11:03 AM

Paul B said:
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 · Thursday at 11:12 AM

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 · Thursday at 4:20 PM

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 · Thursday at 4:29 PM

Paul B said:
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 · Friday at 7:07 AM

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 · Friday at 7:32 AM

Cthulukelele said:
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.