- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
Nemo, I have never been to a frag swap. I guess I won't be going. In April I spend most of my time working on my boat.
Thanks anyway.
Paul
Thanks anyway.
Paul
36 year old reef
- Thread starter Paul B
- Start date
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
I just got home from work and I am going to the hospital now. I will be there most of tonight and all day and night saturday and most of sunday. I guess I will find out soon.
Thanks for asking. I diden't hear anything today so I know she is still with me.
Paul
Thanks for asking. I diden't hear anything today so I know she is still with me.
Paul
scarf_ace1981
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- Location
- San Juan, PR
sorry to hear about your mother paul. my prayers and thoughts are w/ you and your family.
96 wow! my great grandmother past last year @ age 97.
96 wow! my great grandmother past last year @ age 97.
- Location
- Fresh Meadows
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
Thanks guys. Rhegaana I am glad you are enjoying them.
I just came back from the hospital. I was supposed to stay there until Sunday but my wife would not let me stay that long and she is babysitting my Mother all night tonight. I married a great girl 34 years ago.
My Mother does not look good today. She has a fever and is coughing a lot. I really don't know how she is holding on so long. In her prime she was 4'11" now she shrunk and is maybe 4'7". She is like a centerpiece on a table.
Take care guys and thanks.
Paul
PS my remaining fish are getting by on a couple of flakes every night. I will take care of the tank when this is all over
I just came back from the hospital. I was supposed to stay there until Sunday but my wife would not let me stay that long and she is babysitting my Mother all night tonight. I married a great girl 34 years ago.
My Mother does not look good today. She has a fever and is coughing a lot. I really don't know how she is holding on so long. In her prime she was 4'11" now she shrunk and is maybe 4'7". She is like a centerpiece on a table.
Take care guys and thanks.
Paul
PS my remaining fish are getting by on a couple of flakes every night. I will take care of the tank when this is all over
- Location
- Douglaston, NY
Hi Paul:
That's too bad since we won't get a chance to meet up with the "senior reef master" ;-). But I wish your mother the best of health under these difficult curcumstances.
Best regards
Anthony, aka Nemo
That's too bad since we won't get a chance to meet up with the "senior reef master" ;-). But I wish your mother the best of health under these difficult curcumstances.
Best regards
Anthony, aka Nemo
- Location
- Long Island - Nassau County
Paul im here if you need anything during these trying times. You have my number.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
Thanks Chris.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
She's not doing too well but she isn't in any pain. She is just fading mainly because she is old.
We are going to the hospice now to try to feed her.
Thanks guys.
Paul
We are going to the hospice now to try to feed her.
Thanks guys.
Paul
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
Thanks guys. She is supposed to be moved tonight to another facility. Unfortunately it does not have a good rating and I don't hear anything good about it. It is the only place that will take her because apparently nursing homes don't want to take you from hospice because they know you will not live long and they are afraid she will die before she gets medicade. It is very complicated but we had to move her to the first place that would take her. These places have no sense of humor even though they charge $12,000 a month which seems kind of high for a little oxygen and a bed.
I am just happy that she has no Idea about all this. She does look kind of cute though, pittyful but still cute.
On a lighter note I had some time to do some tank maintenance and it looks really good. I removed most of the rock and stirred up everything to suck it out with two large diatom filters. The moorish Idol really messed up the water. The last cleaning was three or four years ago and the one before that was 25 years ago. The moorish Idol contributed the same amount of detritus in 4 years that the rest of the fish did in 25.
My goal has always to have a reef with many small reef fish instead of a 7" moorish Idol. I did love that fish but my tank is way too small. The largest fish I want is a copperband. I have a baby hippo and I still have a very old fireclown and a couple of gobies.
I still want to do some lighting experiments and I have removed the glass from my MH fixtures. I also want to design a better way to get detritus out from under the RUGF. It wasen't too bad but I also had no way to clean it. There are literally hundreds of tiny brittle stars all over the place, no doubt because of all the food that went in to the moorish Idol.
Take care.
Paul
I am just happy that she has no Idea about all this. She does look kind of cute though, pittyful but still cute.
On a lighter note I had some time to do some tank maintenance and it looks really good. I removed most of the rock and stirred up everything to suck it out with two large diatom filters. The moorish Idol really messed up the water. The last cleaning was three or four years ago and the one before that was 25 years ago. The moorish Idol contributed the same amount of detritus in 4 years that the rest of the fish did in 25.
My goal has always to have a reef with many small reef fish instead of a 7" moorish Idol. I did love that fish but my tank is way too small. The largest fish I want is a copperband. I have a baby hippo and I still have a very old fireclown and a couple of gobies.
I still want to do some lighting experiments and I have removed the glass from my MH fixtures. I also want to design a better way to get detritus out from under the RUGF. It wasen't too bad but I also had no way to clean it. There are literally hundreds of tiny brittle stars all over the place, no doubt because of all the food that went in to the moorish Idol.
Take care.
Paul
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
It seems that my tank is again picking up some dirt and looking good again. I replaced most of the rock that I took out for the Idol and I used a lot of pieces that I built that I had no room for. There is still no algae to speak of but I hope a little grows soon.
(a little, not a forest) I am sure my town has been putting "stuff" in the water again which kills my corals. They use zinc orthophosphate which clogs my RO and screwed up my DI. The DI resins diden't even change color like they do when they are exhausted so I had to dump them and get some different resins and my RO clogged about a year early. This is the third time this happened to this tank and I really have to talk to someone in the water dept. to see what I can do about it. The last time, a few years ago even before I had RO I lost almost all of my corals to this chemical. This time, with the RO/DI I only lost a few but the rest shrunk. I may use a PVC pipe filled with carbon before the DI but I really need to talk to a chemist. RANDY COME BACK.
Anyway I like my new aquascaping and my fish are very healthy. I want to start breeding gobies and I have been collecting a few of different types. This was always my plan to have many gobies and bleenies with only one or two slightly larger fish like a copperband and hippo. It's not like there is a fish that I diden't have that I really feel the need to have. Well I diden't yet have a pinecone fish but that will have to wait.
I have some gobies that I have never seen before that I hope to breed. Right now I have two males and they seem straight so no pairing there.
I also need desperately to get to the water to do some collecting. There is almost nothing tiny crawling around, whatever they put in the water also affects those big time. There is usually uncountable "things" crawling around and I believe they are missing in many tanks which is a big reason a lot of tanks are not as healthy as they could be. We really need this stuff. I am
talking about the bacteria and animals found under rocks on a muddy beach. I have always used this stuff and if it were not for my water company I would have corals like oak trees.
I am still going to the nursing home almost every day to "babysit" my Mother and try to feed her
Take care and have a great day.
Paul:
(a little, not a forest) I am sure my town has been putting "stuff" in the water again which kills my corals. They use zinc orthophosphate which clogs my RO and screwed up my DI. The DI resins diden't even change color like they do when they are exhausted so I had to dump them and get some different resins and my RO clogged about a year early. This is the third time this happened to this tank and I really have to talk to someone in the water dept. to see what I can do about it. The last time, a few years ago even before I had RO I lost almost all of my corals to this chemical. This time, with the RO/DI I only lost a few but the rest shrunk. I may use a PVC pipe filled with carbon before the DI but I really need to talk to a chemist. RANDY COME BACK.
Anyway I like my new aquascaping and my fish are very healthy. I want to start breeding gobies and I have been collecting a few of different types. This was always my plan to have many gobies and bleenies with only one or two slightly larger fish like a copperband and hippo. It's not like there is a fish that I diden't have that I really feel the need to have. Well I diden't yet have a pinecone fish but that will have to wait.
I have some gobies that I have never seen before that I hope to breed. Right now I have two males and they seem straight so no pairing there.
I also need desperately to get to the water to do some collecting. There is almost nothing tiny crawling around, whatever they put in the water also affects those big time. There is usually uncountable "things" crawling around and I believe they are missing in many tanks which is a big reason a lot of tanks are not as healthy as they could be. We really need this stuff. I am
talking about the bacteria and animals found under rocks on a muddy beach. I have always used this stuff and if it were not for my water company I would have corals like oak trees.
I am still going to the nursing home almost every day to "babysit" my Mother and try to feed her
Take care and have a great day.
Paul:
Thanks for the update Paul. If you need some RO water give me a call and I can make some for you. It seems like you have everything under control. Glad to hear the tank is healthy. Best wishes to you and the family especially your mom.
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