Hello, Geezer coming back to this forum. Paul B
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wvned
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Usually the water looks really cloudy until I remove my glasses.OOOhhhh NNNooooo. I just looked in my tank and virtually all the fish had spots..........
Then I cleaned my reading glasses, and all the spots went away.
my hippo tang had a really rough early life with the crash of my 425L, an emergency run in a bucket to the LFS for 2 weeks, back to my hospital tank, then into my back up nano tank, back into the hospital tank, back into my nano, then finally into her current M100 home. But she was a very small juvenile when I got her so she fit into those small emergency quarters. the downside was she would ONLY eat pellets for the longest time. Once I introduced other fish (my big ones being the foxface and the sailfin) suddenly she became more social and started taking to the random algae growing on the back wall of the tank, and even watches the foxface and sailfin eating nori strips. But the hippo really cracks me up, if she's by her self, she would just hide and waste away, if there are other fish she's very social and wants to see what everyone else is doing.
The Chromis think she's pretty cool and follow her whenever they can.
The Chromis think she's pretty cool and follow her whenever they can.
I have seen ick come and go, I have mixed feelings about it (mostly because I am naive) but I saw this hippo tang of mine one morning covered in salty ick spots and I thought I need to treat her immediately, this is bad. By the time my ick treatment arrived, it had cleared up. so i never did open up the treatment product.OOOhhhh NNNooooo. I just looked in my tank and virtually all the fish had spots..........
Then I cleaned my reading glasses, and all the spots went away.
wvned
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Usually the appearance of a disease in you tank is caused by something going wrong with the tank you haven't noticed. All of the diseases we encounter are faced by normal healthy fish and survived in the sea. Normal healthy fish in your tank can too. Clean water that moves and good food are your number one goals. If you dont fix whats wrong you will lose fish over and over again. This makes many people give up. It is what it is. Don't fixate on the diseases.
There will always be some fish that don't make it. Some seem to have nutritional requirements I never figured out. I think chromis groups fail because they pair off and spawn in the tank and then are worried to death trying to protect the eggs and eventually expire. I had beautiful groups of anthias that slowly died one at a time over a long period. I finally decided I would not live long enough to figure out some things and went a different way with other animals.
Paul B
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It's usually the treatment we give that kills the fish, not the disease we are trying to cure.
wvned
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The treatments are toxic and need to be used with skill to have any chance. It is doubly hard for a new person unsure of their skills.It's usually the treatment we give that kills the fish, not the disease we are trying to cure.
Paul B
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As we, or me anyway, get older, there are so many things that are not that important, interesting or needed anymore. For most of our lives we wanted or needed more money. Now I don't need more money and have enough. (much of my time now is spent taking care of my wife)
If you plan your life correctly from when you're young, you will be able to care for yourself and your spouse for as long as needed. (And No, I didn't inherit anything, I worked for every nickel I have)
For instance, I have little need to travel. We have been everywhere we wanted to go and now it is just too hard to travel to distant places so that money is not needed. We still take motor trips and sometimes Florida, But we are probably not going to Australia, or the Amalfi Coast of Italy right now.
We have two cars, Jeeps, that get us everywhere we want to go. I have no need to get a BMW, Massarotti or Jaguar. I am not the type of person to buy something to impress anyone and besides that, those cars are not American so I wouldn't have one even if someone gave one to me. I wouldn't take one anyway because I don't believe in something for nothing, so I don't play the lottery.
I also don't have a reef tank to impress anyone. Right now I could open up a produce stand for all the algae growing. I don't care, my fish don't care and Taylor Swift don't care.
The algae will leave like it always does. If you keep a natural tank and sometimes use NSW, everything in that NSW that you collect, will grow in your reef so if that bothers you, use ASW.
If you need a perfect tank, you have the wrong hobby. This is supposed to be fun so if you are fretting over these things or you allow your fish to keep getting sick, you may need a different hobby, just like if you keep running out of money, you need a different job besides a different hobby. There is money all over the place, you just need to be a little smarter, neater, nicer and energetic than the next person. I certainly don't believe in Welfare if you are young enough and healthy enough to work, welfare is to help people who "can't" take care of themselves.
In my job as a Commercial/ Industrial construction electrician foreman, when the industry was slow, my union made us take time off to allow everyone a chance to work. Sometimes it was a month and sometimes a year. I loved those times and usually doubled my income through side jobs. I would do anything including paint houses, pulling weeds, drive people to the airport etc.
No jobs were below me.
Life is easy and as we get older, it is health that is important, it's the only important thing.
I am also too old to argue and, on these forums, so many people want to argue with me about stupid things like why my fish don't get sick. I am tired of those arguments, especially from people with sick fish. If you feel that quarantining or medication is the way to go, do that.
We are supposed to be having fun, not arguing about the correct way to have fun. If treating fish is fun, do that.
Much of my money is spent on things to help my wife. I just bought a motorized chair and a couple of years ago I bought a motorized handicapped scooter for her. I am sure as time goes buy I will buy more of these types of things and it doesn't matter how much these things cost as long as they help my wife, even a little as my wife is my life which is why I married her over 50 years ago.
I try to keep myself healthy mainly so I can continue to care for my wife who has MS.
I get myself up at about 5:00 every morning, rain or shine so I can walk two miles. I don't particularly like doing that but if it helps me stay healthy, it's what I will do.
We also eat only healthy food, no fried or especially deep fried foods (except rarely, fried calamari because I just need that occasionally)
If you plan your life correctly from when you're young, you will be able to care for yourself and your spouse for as long as needed. (And No, I didn't inherit anything, I worked for every nickel I have)
For instance, I have little need to travel. We have been everywhere we wanted to go and now it is just too hard to travel to distant places so that money is not needed. We still take motor trips and sometimes Florida, But we are probably not going to Australia, or the Amalfi Coast of Italy right now.
We have two cars, Jeeps, that get us everywhere we want to go. I have no need to get a BMW, Massarotti or Jaguar. I am not the type of person to buy something to impress anyone and besides that, those cars are not American so I wouldn't have one even if someone gave one to me. I wouldn't take one anyway because I don't believe in something for nothing, so I don't play the lottery.
I also don't have a reef tank to impress anyone. Right now I could open up a produce stand for all the algae growing. I don't care, my fish don't care and Taylor Swift don't care.
The algae will leave like it always does. If you keep a natural tank and sometimes use NSW, everything in that NSW that you collect, will grow in your reef so if that bothers you, use ASW.
If you need a perfect tank, you have the wrong hobby. This is supposed to be fun so if you are fretting over these things or you allow your fish to keep getting sick, you may need a different hobby, just like if you keep running out of money, you need a different job besides a different hobby. There is money all over the place, you just need to be a little smarter, neater, nicer and energetic than the next person. I certainly don't believe in Welfare if you are young enough and healthy enough to work, welfare is to help people who "can't" take care of themselves.
In my job as a Commercial/ Industrial construction electrician foreman, when the industry was slow, my union made us take time off to allow everyone a chance to work. Sometimes it was a month and sometimes a year. I loved those times and usually doubled my income through side jobs. I would do anything including paint houses, pulling weeds, drive people to the airport etc.
No jobs were below me.
Life is easy and as we get older, it is health that is important, it's the only important thing.
I am also too old to argue and, on these forums, so many people want to argue with me about stupid things like why my fish don't get sick. I am tired of those arguments, especially from people with sick fish. If you feel that quarantining or medication is the way to go, do that.
We are supposed to be having fun, not arguing about the correct way to have fun. If treating fish is fun, do that.
Much of my money is spent on things to help my wife. I just bought a motorized chair and a couple of years ago I bought a motorized handicapped scooter for her. I am sure as time goes buy I will buy more of these types of things and it doesn't matter how much these things cost as long as they help my wife, even a little as my wife is my life which is why I married her over 50 years ago.
I try to keep myself healthy mainly so I can continue to care for my wife who has MS.
I get myself up at about 5:00 every morning, rain or shine so I can walk two miles. I don't particularly like doing that but if it helps me stay healthy, it's what I will do.
We also eat only healthy food, no fried or especially deep fried foods (except rarely, fried calamari because I just need that occasionally)
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Paul B
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Saturday is Flag Day so if you are a Patriot like I am, remember to fly your American Flag. I fly mine every day so it is easy for me and I just today ordered a new one. They get old and faded like I do so I bring the old ones to the American Legion, where they respectively recycle or destroy them. 
we already have ours up tooSaturday is Flag Day so if you are a Patriot like I am, remember to fly your American Flag. I fly mine every day so it is easy for me and I just today ordered a new one. They get old and faded like I do so I bring the old ones to the American Legion, where they respectively recycle or destroy them.
Paul B
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Good Morning. I didn't go walking this morning, My wife had a very hard time last night and I am just too tired. I woke up at 3:17 which seems to be my normal wake up time lately and it's hard to function with so little sleep. At that time I took some melatonin which usually allows me to sleep for 2 hours but for some reason it didn't work.
So I was laying in bed pondering the universe, thinking about amphipods and Supermodels, minding my own business and I got a charlie horse in my leg. If you never had one of those, they are probably the worst pain you could get other than maybe being eaten by a huge aiptasia that grew that size from living near Chernobyl Russia.
Sleep eludes me and if I don't take something to sleep, or if no body hits me in the head with a hammer, I am wasting my time closing my eyes.
I hear that is an old thing and I am old. I don't feel old so I often look at my birth certificate just to make sure. Sometimes after I shave I miss a couple of spots so my wife tells me I shave like an old person, then, I take out my birth certificate to show her that I am old so I can shave any way I like or not shave at all. 
Yesterday I worked on our handicapped elevator all day so I had to run up 3 flights of steps about 50 times. I built a new circuit board for the thing and was tweeking it to work.
By doing that, and from my morning walk I walked 11,000 steps (according to my phone) and went up and down 176 steps to the beach.
Now I would like to get 11,000 minutes of sleep, but I know that ain't gonna happen.
I really wanted to walk this morning because at this time, it is a full moon and a low moon tide. Perfect for amphipod hunting and I haven't found one this year. These full moon low tides at this time only happen a couple of times in the summer at this time and I am going to miss this one. Oh well, no amphipods for my tank.
So I was laying in bed pondering the universe, thinking about amphipods and Supermodels, minding my own business and I got a charlie horse in my leg. If you never had one of those, they are probably the worst pain you could get other than maybe being eaten by a huge aiptasia that grew that size from living near Chernobyl Russia.
Sleep eludes me and if I don't take something to sleep, or if no body hits me in the head with a hammer, I am wasting my time closing my eyes.
I hear that is an old thing and I am old.
I don't feel old so I often look at my birth certificate just to make sure. Sometimes after I shave I miss a couple of spots so my wife tells me I shave like an old person, then, I take out my birth certificate to show her that I am old so I can shave any way I like or not shave at all. Yesterday I worked on our handicapped elevator all day so I had to run up 3 flights of steps about 50 times. I built a new circuit board for the thing and was tweeking it to work.
By doing that, and from my morning walk I walked 11,000 steps (according to my phone) and went up and down 176 steps to the beach.
Now I would like to get 11,000 minutes of sleep, but I know that ain't gonna happen.
I really wanted to walk this morning because at this time, it is a full moon and a low moon tide. Perfect for amphipod hunting and I haven't found one this year. These full moon low tides at this time only happen a couple of times in the summer at this time and I am going to miss this one. Oh well, no amphipods for my tank.
Paul B
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On my beach walk this morning, I came across this rock configuration that was obviously erected by a creative Neanderthal 20,000 years ago. I am not sure how it lasted so long, and I'm also surprised that I have never seen it before, because I walk that section of the beach at least once or twice a week.
I think it's a representative of an Ich parasite because I'm sure Neanderthals had problems with ich and it was hard to see their fish through the sides of their rock tanks.
I think it's a representative of an Ich parasite because I'm sure Neanderthals had problems with ich and it was hard to see their fish through the sides of their rock tanks.
Paul B
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I have this Hippo a few years and he is one of the nicest Hippo's I have ever seen. Not a mark on him and he has never had nori. I never feed that to any of my fish because I never feed any dry foods to my fish. They eat live worms and LRS foods which is just a mix of seafoods.
I also sometimes feed clams, mussels and earthworms. Because of these foods that have living gut bacteria in them, I never get a sick fish or have to quarantine or medicate anything which is good because I haven't had any medications since Carter was President.
Make believe there is a picture of a Hippo there or click the X
I also sometimes feed clams, mussels and earthworms. Because of these foods that have living gut bacteria in them, I never get a sick fish or have to quarantine or medicate anything which is good because I haven't had any medications since Carter was President.
Make believe there is a picture of a Hippo there or click the X
Paul B
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Unfortunately, I have a big problem today. No, not my tank, that has an undergravel filter so nothing can go wrong. It's me. I have been kind of sick for the past week. I don't think it's anything important but I am coughing my brains out and can barely stand up. I also think I have a slight fever.
I'm not sure if I have diphtheria, black ich or Brooklynella and I am all out of Prizapro.
The main issue is I can't take care of my wife. She needs help even getting dressed and putting on her shoes. But when I bend down, I start coughing.
I have to take her to her doctor today which is going to be interesting but when she is done, I am taking myself to a "Doc in The Box". I need to get over this so I can take care of her and do things like throw out the garbage. I also have been kind of lax feeding my fish but they will have to get over it.
I'm not sure if I have diphtheria, black ich or Brooklynella and I am all out of Prizapro.
The main issue is I can't take care of my wife. She needs help even getting dressed and putting on her shoes. But when I bend down, I start coughing.
I have to take her to her doctor today which is going to be interesting but when she is done, I am taking myself to a "Doc in The Box". I need to get over this so I can take care of her and do things like throw out the garbage. I also have been kind of lax feeding my fish but they will have to get over it.
Paul B
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I went to a Doc in the Box yesterday and saw a "Doctor". At least the "Nurse" introduced him as a doctor but he was about as old as my Grand Son who is 11. He was wearing an "Osh Gosh Be Gosh" shirt and drinking his coffee from a "drinky cup" with a straw.
He looked in my mouth and nose and listened to my lungs for about 15 seconds and without even taking my temperature or blood pressure gave me a prescription for a nasal spray and some pills.
(He also gave me a script for a chest X Ray)
The nasal spray makes my nose run uncontrollable, so I have to wear a bib, and the pills have an antihistamine in them which he said is supposed to numb my lungs and throat, so I won't cough as much.
It did. I managed to walk this morning, which was a mistake because halfway through my walk I discovered that those pills also numb your brain, legs, arms, eyes and everything else you may need for daily things like living.
My wife will get up soon and I hope I can even see her through this stupor.
By the way, I'm still coughing, only now, I can't feel it.
He looked in my mouth and nose and listened to my lungs for about 15 seconds and without even taking my temperature or blood pressure gave me a prescription for a nasal spray and some pills.
(He also gave me a script for a chest X Ray)
The nasal spray makes my nose run uncontrollable, so I have to wear a bib, and the pills have an antihistamine in them which he said is supposed to numb my lungs and throat, so I won't cough as much.
It did. I managed to walk this morning, which was a mistake because halfway through my walk I discovered that those pills also numb your brain, legs, arms, eyes and everything else you may need for daily things like living.
My wife will get up soon and I hope I can even see her through this stupor.
By the way, I'm still coughing, only now, I can't feel it.
