Hello, Geezer coming back to this forum. Paul B

Paul B said:
Griss, I agree. Most of the time I can't see them either and it is just on this site. I am on 5 other sites and it is no problem but If I click on that "X" thing, it shows up. I know they told me my files are to large but I am to old to try how to fix that just for this site so I will just put up some pictures and if they don't work, just make believe you can see something that looks like what I am talking about. :oops:
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Hmmm, didn't know about clicking the X thing. Just tried it and the picture shows up, that's really weird.

I have found when taking pictures with my phone (iPhone) if I hold the phone upright, the pictures always load. If I turn the phone horizontal, I get the message that the file is too large.
 
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That pic is hosted on photohbucket and not here. I copied the link and tried to insert a photo with the image link function. I see the pic until I post the reply. Then I get the big X

This is what I get if I copy the link to Pauls little x
https://forums.reefcentral.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fhosting.photobucket.com%2Fd48eacaa-21ba-48d3-82e9-9ea69a1ff18b%2Fa2037d87-b2ec-45e5-a37d-36640b8b366e.jpg&hash=87ea9b32ea7be61067f40f82e456e672

This is the link I get from where Griss reposted it for me. He is seeing a picture hosted here.

This is the link I get when I am making a post and can see the pic. I am seeing a photo on photobucket

and the link to my big red x
https://forums.reefcentral.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fhosting.photobucket.com%2Fd48eacaa-21ba-48d3-82e9-9ea69a1ff18b%2Fa2037d87-b2ec-45e5-a37d-36640b8b366e.jpg&hash=87ea9b32ea7be61067f40f82e456e672

gee thaT IS SCREWY.
All the links work if you click on them. The pic opens in a new window.
The machines are working hard to make our lives better.
 
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So reading here and there, you tried 30 micron and 5 micron pleated filter inserts and the 5 worked the best?
I am seeing 1, 5, 20 and 30 micron in 24 inch pleated sediment filters.
 
As I said, now my tank is going through a really severe hair algae cycle. I wish I would get some hair on my head. :rolleyes:

I have been sucking it out with my DIY diatom filter without adding the diatom powder. Hopefully, in a few weeks it will all be out and the tank will be pristine again. :cool:

Thats all hair algae in the bottom and it is dying in droves. I could open a sod farm. :D
Algae in Diatom.jpg
 
Today I have been "prepping" for my very fun colonoscopy. I didn't eat since 5:00 yesterday and won't eat until about 12:00 noon tomorrow so I am a little hungry. :cool:

I think I am more tired than hungry because I can't sleep at all unless I take something to sleep so I take "Sleep Eze" almost every night which is just an antihistamine, but it is bright purple so I am not able to take it now. I could take my wife's medical Marijuana but being they will knock me out for this procedure I figure I may not wake up after the anesthesia and find my semi clothed pictures on Facebook. :astonished-face:

They won't allow you to go home by yourself so my wife will have to drive me and it's on a highway. Normally I don't let her drive on the highway because with her MS she uses a "Left Foot" gas pedal and has to use her left foot to brake but almost all my friends are in Florida to escape the cold.
(Bunch of Sissies)

So in an hour I have to drink the "Lemonade" and the exciting part will start. :sick:
 
I don't think most people do that for a hobby. :confounded-face: It's just something we do to keep our spouses happy.

Mine came our exquisite. No ich, velvet, urenema or any of those silly things so I don't have to drink Prizapro with hydrogen peroxide, tree stump remover or whatever many people do to their fish. :sick:

I got to the place a little early but they kept me in the waiting room for an hour anyway. Then I got all excited when they called me in. A girl came in and told me to take off all my clothes. The last time that happened I got married. She said, even my socks. I asked her if this was a colon doctor or a podiatrist. :oops:

She put me on a gurney with the paper gown and stuck oxygen in my nose and left me there for about 40 minutes where I fell asleep.

Then a Middle Eastern anesthesiologist woman came in and asked me a bunch of silly questions like if I use cocaine, LSD, Heroin, or crystal meth. I said, If I took those things I wouldn't need her to put me to sleep. :rolleyes:

So she took my left hand and stuck me 5 times looking for a vein. She couldn't find one, so she had to put a tourniquet on my wrist to quell the bleeding from all the holes. Then she tried on my right hand and found one.

I said, Good Night" and fell asleep. I don't know what happened in between, but I hope I don't see pictures of my naked but on YouTube. :rolleyes:

I hadn't eaten in 40 hours, so I was a little hungry. We ate on the way home, but I couldn't get my linguine or even oysters. We just went to a place on the way.

I don't have to go back for 10 years, so I will let the nursing home worry about that. :oops:
 
I just took off the reaction tube on my DIY skimmer to clean it and I decided to look down the thing from the top. Near the top was completely clogged with a thick, black mud/slime.
(If you can't see the pictures, click on the Xs



My skimmer is not built to take apart so I had to get a brush and bend it a little so I could stick it down the top. Of course, gobs of gunk fell into the skimmer forcing me to drain it. I did put a drain at the bottom. I drained out all the mud so it didn't get back in my tank and I looked down the skimmer from the top and saw the entire thing is filled with tiny, tube worms.

This is not necessarily a bad thing but it will slow the flow of water that is supposed to swirl up the entire five foot height.



I don't have time now but one of these days, I need to remove the thing which is not easy as it is bolted on the stand in the back.



But it is something I need to do soon. The last time I did it, It Hadn't been cleaned in many years, and I needed a broom handle to clear it of tube worms as it was completely full.
 
I have been so busy lately with my wife. We go to a doctor, PT, MRI, X Ray, CAT scan or strip club almost every day. OK, maybe we don't go to strip clubs every day. The last time I went to one was when they took me to one for my bachelor party 54 years ago. That girl must be about 80 now so she probably isn't a stripper any more. :rolleyes:

I seem to be in pretty good health and only go to doctors for shots of cortisone or hair transplants. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes: (They don't work)

Speaking about hair. I can't believe the amount of hair algae in my tank. I suck out about a pint of dry algae every day. It's like 2" long. Most people don't stay in the hobby long enough to get these cycles or use New York NSW from next to a farm and golf course. Thank God for my DIY diatom filter.



I have been using this one with the pleated cartridge in it, but I don't use the powder just to eliminate algae. It's a 5MG filter, which is plenty small to remove algae. All the corals (that are not covered in algae) seem very healthy, and the fish are really enjoying it, especially the smaller blennies and gobies, who lay in it like a comforter.

This has happened to this tank a few times since the 70s and it will clear up on it's own without me adding stupid things and the tank will be healthier than it has ever been.

My Hippo tang doesn't seem to like hair algae and I never fed them Nori but he is about the best looking Hippo I have ever seen and his skin looks like velvet. When Hippo Tangs are very healthy they get a reddish tinge on the top of their dorsal fin but I can't get a good picture. Hippo tangs get that in the sea.



My Tomini Tang also looks perfect with bright yellow fins. I can never get a picture of her as I think she doesn't like me and swims to the back when I get near the tank.

This is a very old picture from when she was a baby.

 
Yesterday I went to the clean but expensive LFS near my wife's doctor. I need to kill an hour when I take her there so I go to the LFS and look like I will buy something but I almost never do. He is too expensive and the fish in the dirty store look just as good but a third of the price.

The clean place had a copperband butterfly for $69.00 and it was full of fin fungus. I don't care about the fungus, but the other store sells them for $25.00 so it's a no brainer. Also Hippo tangs for about the same price and I also get those for about $20.00.

Of course they live over 10 years so I don't have to buy them too often. :D

None of the stores quarantine so I can buy whatever I want and throw the fish right in.
 
For people with a coating of green on their rock and they think they have an algae problem. I have been collecting this much every two days using my DIY diatom filter. I am using it without powder to remove this algae.

This came about because my last water change that I collected here in the sea in the Long Island Sound was full of fertilizer from all the farms and golf courses here.

I find it fascinating, and it will all disappear in a few weeks leaving the water in fantastic shape.
This is not the first time this has happened to me from using sea water at the wrong time of the year. :cool:
Hair algae in sink.jpg
 
I'm on a new kick now that I pursue in my little spare time. I made this Chartuterie board for cheese. I want to make a river table if I could find the time. I can't use another epoxy table because I already built two of them so this new one (If I ever build it) I will have to sell or give away.

Chartuterie board.jpg
 
My Bangai Cardinals had babies. Spawning Bangai Cardinals is not a big Whoop because they, (and all healthy fish) do this all the time. Bangai Cardinal babies are rather large as compared to most salt water fish but I didn't catch them. I could not catch anything in my tank unless I take the tank apart and that is not going to happen.

After 2 days I don't see any of the babies but I didn't think I would as, just like in the sea, they would have all been eaten.
(I will look close at some floating algae to see if I find any)

This picture is old and not the Cardinals I have now. Bangai's are one of the shortest lifespan fish we normally keep only living 3 4 or so years.

I am actually surprised these spawned because I got them as babies and they are not fully grown.

 
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