How this Geezer did it in the beginning
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Sunshine252
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It's just plain old Nature Made Fish Oil from Walmart. Leave it to me to have fish that don't like the cheap stuff... LOL Thank you!
Peter Eichler
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Hey Paul,
Good to see you around the forums still!
Cheers,
Peter
Good to see you around the forums still!
Cheers,
Peter
Sunshine252
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I don't know, maybe they have a problem with Walmart.
Hmm... now that's a possiblity... let me go ask them... :lol2:
Ice Queen
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Good evening again Sir
I was taught that if you don't know the individual, you address them as Sir or Ma'am.
lol, old school thinking....
Thank you for responding to my questions. I actually never thought of soaking the dry food in fish oil, that makes for an interesting "must try"
And it is an excuse to go shopping lol
What do you use for lighting? I have ordered (yeah, don't have lots up here in general stock) some LED lights
Am very excited to see the difference....
And really, you used to bleach the corals? wow!!!
Thinking about that theory now and what we now know in terms of beneficial bacteria!
Would that almost make the tank in a constant cycle?
It must be absolutely amazing to be able to just and go and get water from the ocean for tank purposes.... To able to feed your tank fresh from the ocean. Even if I wanted to go to the fish market, where the fish are brought in packed in ice, I have to drive there and who know how old the fish truly is.
lol a fillet of pickerel sometimes can be $20 canadian....
Again, I truly enjoy reading your take on the hobby and look foreword to more writings...
I was taught that if you don't know the individual, you address them as Sir or Ma'am.
lol, old school thinking....
Thank you for responding to my questions. I actually never thought of soaking the dry food in fish oil, that makes for an interesting "must try"
And it is an excuse to go shopping lol
What do you use for lighting? I have ordered (yeah, don't have lots up here in general stock) some LED lights
Am very excited to see the difference....
And really, you used to bleach the corals? wow!!!
Thinking about that theory now and what we now know in terms of beneficial bacteria!
Would that almost make the tank in a constant cycle?
It must be absolutely amazing to be able to just and go and get water from the ocean for tank purposes.... To able to feed your tank fresh from the ocean. Even if I wanted to go to the fish market, where the fish are brought in packed in ice, I have to drive there and who know how old the fish truly is.
lol a fillet of pickerel sometimes can be $20 canadian....
Again, I truly enjoy reading your take on the hobby and look foreword to more writings...
Paul B
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Peter I don't plan of kicking the bucket just yet.
IMO the only lighting to use are LEDs. Compared to any other lights, LEDs are free.
I have used all other types from whale oil lamps to LEDs. Just go with them and don't let anybody show you charts, graphs or any other nonsence.
Soon all lights for everything will be LEDs.
It didn't matter, we didn't have test kits anyway and our nitrates were probably 80.
We also didn't keep corals so the nitrates didn't matter.:spin2:
I like to collect water here, on the Atlantic beaches. I just walk out, fill a bucket and dump it in my tank. There is a name I like to use for people who have access to NSW but are afraid to use it.
"Sissies" :smokin:
Or here, same beach, different season.
And I collect amphipods, shrimp, snails etc here in this tide pool. At high tide this water is 8' deep
And this has nothing to do with anything, but my Daughter just sent me this so I had to add it.
She must be saying OOh OOH, or maybe she pooped
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Paul B
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Micki, that beach is near the Hamptons. Billy Joel and Christie Brinkly live near there, but not together any more. :lol:
I go out there a lot and once about 20 years ago I stopped at a light in South Hampton and I saw the most beautiful girl get out of a Corvette next to me. She was very tall and her blond hair was blowing all over the place.
Of course it was Christie Brinkly who is the only girl I know as beautiful as my wife. :love2:
But I do collect water out there. If I see Christie, I hold in my stomach and flex my muscles. Never did me any good though. I wonder why. :sad2:
Billy Joel can get his own water.
I originally collected my water in the western Long Island Sound, not very good water, but the fish didn't seem to mind. I am not sure corals will live in it.
The water is very murky with a visability of about 2' so people feel it is polluted. It most likely is slightly polluted but the murkyness comes from the mud bottom unlike the Atlantic beaches which have a sand bottom and are very clear. The Sound was formed when a glacier came through thousands of years ago. The bottom of the Sound, and the shoreline around it is covered in large boulders which makes it good for lobstering. The Atlantic South Shore beaches of Long Island had almost no rocks so there are much different animals there.
If you take murky Long Island Sound water and let it settle, it becomes crystal clear. Most of the pollution is bacteria due to numerous water treatment plants in combination of 3 or 4 rivers that dump into it.
The Western Sound is fed from the East River which is not a river but an estuary that just transfers water from New York Harbor to the sound.
All rivers are fresh water and all empty into the sea.
All of the storm drains in NYC also empty into either the Hudson River of the East River so we do get all of that gunk from the streets into the Sound.
May not be great for coral but so far I have used it many times and so far I have not had any problems. Maybe that is why paracited don't seem to live in my reef. Could be. Maybe that Hot Dog water from all the push carts deters thaem. :idea:
THe Atlantic ocean beaches have almost perfect water and I can't see why people living along the shore don't use it.
I am going out in my boat today and will possably do some collecting but the amphipods seem to be gone this year. Replaced by Japanese Shore crabs that are an invasive species that have been around here for about 40 years but this year there is an explosion of them and their larvae are all over everything, nothing else is thriving so I can't collect amphipods. Hopefully next year they will cycle back to more managable levels.:headwalls::thumbdown
I go out there a lot and once about 20 years ago I stopped at a light in South Hampton and I saw the most beautiful girl get out of a Corvette next to me. She was very tall and her blond hair was blowing all over the place.
Of course it was Christie Brinkly who is the only girl I know as beautiful as my wife. :love2:
But I do collect water out there. If I see Christie, I hold in my stomach and flex my muscles. Never did me any good though. I wonder why. :sad2:
Billy Joel can get his own water.
I originally collected my water in the western Long Island Sound, not very good water, but the fish didn't seem to mind. I am not sure corals will live in it.
The water is very murky with a visability of about 2' so people feel it is polluted. It most likely is slightly polluted but the murkyness comes from the mud bottom unlike the Atlantic beaches which have a sand bottom and are very clear. The Sound was formed when a glacier came through thousands of years ago. The bottom of the Sound, and the shoreline around it is covered in large boulders which makes it good for lobstering. The Atlantic South Shore beaches of Long Island had almost no rocks so there are much different animals there.
If you take murky Long Island Sound water and let it settle, it becomes crystal clear. Most of the pollution is bacteria due to numerous water treatment plants in combination of 3 or 4 rivers that dump into it.
The Western Sound is fed from the East River which is not a river but an estuary that just transfers water from New York Harbor to the sound.
All rivers are fresh water and all empty into the sea.
All of the storm drains in NYC also empty into either the Hudson River of the East River so we do get all of that gunk from the streets into the Sound.
May not be great for coral but so far I have used it many times and so far I have not had any problems. Maybe that is why paracited don't seem to live in my reef. Could be. Maybe that Hot Dog water from all the push carts deters thaem. :idea:
THe Atlantic ocean beaches have almost perfect water and I can't see why people living along the shore don't use it.
I am going out in my boat today and will possably do some collecting but the amphipods seem to be gone this year. Replaced by Japanese Shore crabs that are an invasive species that have been around here for about 40 years but this year there is an explosion of them and their larvae are all over everything, nothing else is thriving so I can't collect amphipods. Hopefully next year they will cycle back to more managable levels.:headwalls::thumbdown
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Paul B
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Brooklyn Bridge, over the East River. (I am selling this if anyone wants it)
NY Harbor. That is Ellis Island to the far right where my Grand Parents came into the US in about 1900 along with almost everyone else at the time.
East River, In the center is Big Alice power plant that supplies Manhattan with some of the power it uses.
Tahiti. OK so this doesn't really go with this set of pictures but neither does my Grand Daughter.
That ship is the Windstar and the only cruise ship I go on any more. I do not like those mega ships that go to the Caribbean with 5,000 people. The Windstar carries about 140 people and there is a dive shop aboard. No kids under 21. I think I took this in Bora Bora
NY Harbor. That is Ellis Island to the far right where my Grand Parents came into the US in about 1900 along with almost everyone else at the time.
East River, In the center is Big Alice power plant that supplies Manhattan with some of the power it uses.
Tahiti. OK so this doesn't really go with this set of pictures but neither does my Grand Daughter.
That ship is the Windstar and the only cruise ship I go on any more. I do not like those mega ships that go to the Caribbean with 5,000 people. The Windstar carries about 140 people and there is a dive shop aboard. No kids under 21. I think I took this in Bora Bora
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Paul B
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I can't believe it, maybe it was because I didn't have on my Speedo :fun5:
I just got back from the gym where I swim. Me and a bunch of "mature" ladies. We are the only ones in there when the place opens in the morning.
They don't like it when I swim there because I am like a torpedo and leave a wake that splashes them :lol2:
This morning I noticed that my red scooter bleeny jumped out. I hate when they do that. Now I have to go and buy another one. He made it through a tiny crack in the front cover. I think he saw that picture of the Atlantic Ocean I left on my monitor today and went for it.
Bye Scoot
He's imortalized in this video with some of his friends, he was very popular.
I just got back from the gym where I swim. Me and a bunch of "mature" ladies. We are the only ones in there when the place opens in the morning.
They don't like it when I swim there because I am like a torpedo and leave a wake that splashes them :lol2:
This morning I noticed that my red scooter bleeny jumped out. I hate when they do that. Now I have to go and buy another one. He made it through a tiny crack in the front cover. I think he saw that picture of the Atlantic Ocean I left on my monitor today and went for it.
Bye Scoot
He's imortalized in this video with some of his friends, he was very popular.
Bummer...
Paul B
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Today I was speaking to a friend of mine about his experience in the Army so I have to put in one more Army story, sorry. You can always skip over it if you only like fish, invertabrate or Christie Brinkley stories.
I don't know how the army does it today but the first combat I was in in 70 was the worst day of my life and we lost about a third of our 100 men in a couple of hours. This is not about that.
But when it was over the Army sent us to what they called a 3 day stand down to "relieve our tensions".
It was in some rear area and they took all of our weapons away and put us in this huge fenced enclosure and pushed in trailers of hot beer.
There were Vietnamese girls behind high barbed wire baracades and they were screaming rock music through huge speakers. There was no place to sleep but the ground and no place to sit. It was nothing but fights and hot beer. Everyone was all hyped up from the previous battle so they figured we would get all our frustrations out. It was kind of like sitting on a quiet sofa listening to Dr. Phil, only different.
After the 3 days, they gave us new weapons and clean clothes.
Then we went to build another LZ and start all over, now that we were fresh and had no frustrations. :hmm3:
Ok that is the end of Army stories. (Until something else pops into my head)
Now back to fish. :wavehand:
That is how the army used to treat PTSD. It may be a little different now.
I don't know how the army does it today but the first combat I was in in 70 was the worst day of my life and we lost about a third of our 100 men in a couple of hours. This is not about that.
But when it was over the Army sent us to what they called a 3 day stand down to "relieve our tensions".
It was in some rear area and they took all of our weapons away and put us in this huge fenced enclosure and pushed in trailers of hot beer.
There were Vietnamese girls behind high barbed wire baracades and they were screaming rock music through huge speakers. There was no place to sleep but the ground and no place to sit. It was nothing but fights and hot beer. Everyone was all hyped up from the previous battle so they figured we would get all our frustrations out. It was kind of like sitting on a quiet sofa listening to Dr. Phil, only different.
After the 3 days, they gave us new weapons and clean clothes.
Then we went to build another LZ and start all over, now that we were fresh and had no frustrations. :hmm3:
Ok that is the end of Army stories. (Until something else pops into my head)
Now back to fish. :wavehand:
That is how the army used to treat PTSD. It may be a little different now.
your not allowed to now your a grandad :lol2:
Ice Queen
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Brooklyn Bridge, over the East River. (I am selling this if anyone wants it)
NY Harbor. That is Ellis Island to the far right where my Grand Parents came into the US in about 1900 along with almost everyone else at the time.
East River, In the center is Big Alice power plant that supplies Manhattan with some of the power it uses.
Tahiti. OK so this doesn't really go with this set of pictures but neither does my Grand Daughter.
That ship is the Windstar and the only cruise ship I go on any more. I do not like those mega ships that go to the Caribbean with 5,000 people. The Windstar carries about 140 people and there is a dive shop aboard. No kids under 21. I think I took this in Bora Bora
WoW!
Your granddaughter has the most beautiful eyes, going to have to watch out for those boys when she gets older!
So that is the Brooklyn Bridge, wow, that is an amazing piece of history!
Just like Manhattan Island....
I can't believe her colouring, it looks like it does in the movies lol.
Never have I seen a Boat like that in the last picture! It looks like something we would sell in a post card.
I love where I live, though I love seeing where others live.
But one question about the beach, that you are extremely lucky to look at everyday, is why is there a fence?
Its a beach.... what are they trying to keep in or out?
Just a stupid question lol
And sorry about the little guy that jumped, stupid fish thinking he's going for something better...?:worried:
Someone should start a thread about the things that they experience in this hobby due to where they live.....
For example, I have to drive 10-12 hours to look at the ocean, but I live in fields of gold (canola and wheat fields)....
Ice Queen
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Oh and PTSD-treated with drugs now
maybe some therapy...
I have a close friend who was in charge of a tank in Afganstan. They drove over a mine... Flipped the tank from the blow and were then shot upon by the other side...We are Canadian too btw. When I saw him a couple of months after the incident, I asked him, "what were you thinking about at that time?"
He said " Damn it, I spilled my bag of skittles"
Really?
I guess you army, marine, and air boys have an interesting sense of humour to deal with the :wild one:
My 11 year old son wants to join the army for a career....
maybe some therapy...
I have a close friend who was in charge of a tank in Afganstan. They drove over a mine... Flipped the tank from the blow and were then shot upon by the other side...We are Canadian too btw. When I saw him a couple of months after the incident, I asked him, "what were you thinking about at that time?"
He said " Damn it, I spilled my bag of skittles"
Really?
I guess you army, marine, and air boys have an interesting sense of humour to deal with the :wild one:
My 11 year old son wants to join the army for a career....
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