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- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
Yes, Their medications effect their immune system so I am also very careful.
Tank Thread Tank reached 38 years old...in 2009!
- Thread starter Paul B
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- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
I am diatoming my tank again. Do I have to? No, I just did it last week. I am starring at the detritus particles going into the intake. This is as exciting as watching paint dry which I did this morning when I painted a wall.....Again.
My fish have no idea why I am doing this again and the tank is not dirty. It is just a total waste of time.
But it is an essential waste of time at a time when I have more time than I need. At this stage of the year I would be working on my boat. Of course it is still shrink wrapped and I can't get in it as that is not an essential part of life.
Well, for me it is but I can't leave my wife alone to long as she doesn't have the enormous amount of totally useless hobbies that I do.
She will just keep vacuuming until she makes a hole in the floor and my couch will fall into my garage. I installed a very powerful "whole house" vacuum that will suck out your ear wax from across the street.
I can take fish pictures, but I already have to many. I can wax my workshop floor, but I did that too. My car is very clean and if I put more wax on it I will slide off the seat.
I can spent my entire life in my workshop/Man cave as I am now but only because she is on the phone with one of her bored friends.
My fish have no idea why I am doing this again and the tank is not dirty. It is just a total waste of time.
But it is an essential waste of time at a time when I have more time than I need. At this stage of the year I would be working on my boat. Of course it is still shrink wrapped and I can't get in it as that is not an essential part of life.
Well, for me it is but I can't leave my wife alone to long as she doesn't have the enormous amount of totally useless hobbies that I do.
She will just keep vacuuming until she makes a hole in the floor and my couch will fall into my garage. I installed a very powerful "whole house" vacuum that will suck out your ear wax from across the street.
I can take fish pictures, but I already have to many. I can wax my workshop floor, but I did that too. My car is very clean and if I put more wax on it I will slide off the seat.
I can spent my entire life in my workshop/Man cave as I am now but only because she is on the phone with one of her bored friends.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
My good friend who is sick still has a fever and is very weak even though he tested negative. His wife is trying to get him to a doctor today to re test him and her as he obviously has something. I am very concerned for him and his wife, our closest friends for most of our life.
Here on Long Island we can't order food from a supermarket for curbside delivery because it is a 2 week wait just to order so I am going to have to go in person because I don't have enough Amphipods to eat and my fish are all hiding.
I know Larry from LRS foods eats his fish food but I am not in the mood for sushi today.
I may have to start fishing behind my house but I am not sure what I will catch there. In Know in the summer there is sea bass but now I think all we have is ducks and seagulls and I don't want to yell Fowl.
I made a nice breakfast this morning and my wife and I had it on the beach. But it was cold. So cold I saw a chicken with a cape-on.
Here on Long Island we can't order food from a supermarket for curbside delivery because it is a 2 week wait just to order so I am going to have to go in person because I don't have enough Amphipods to eat and my fish are all hiding.
I know Larry from LRS foods eats his fish food but I am not in the mood for sushi today.
I may have to start fishing behind my house but I am not sure what I will catch there. In Know in the summer there is sea bass but now I think all we have is ducks and seagulls and I don't want to yell Fowl.
I made a nice breakfast this morning and my wife and I had it on the beach. But it was cold. So cold I saw a chicken with a cape-on.
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- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
Although we live on a 120 mile long Island and I live on the east end, it is still about 45 minutes for us to go all the way out east on the North Fork of the Island where we live. WE just went out there and explored many beaches that I never knew were there. We had lunch on this one.
My wife can't walk on the sand so we had to stay on the pavement. Connecticut is probably 27 miles across from here.
Then we went to a Park at Orient Point right next to the Plum Island Ferry. I think Orient point is the most eastern part of the US beside Montauk Point which is on the South Fork of Long Island.
This is the road that goes to Orient Beach State park and that is Plum Island in the background where the Government did animal experiments with incurable diseases and all sorts of Nasty nerve poisons etc.
Now the Lab there is closed and they don't know what to do with the Island. Being what they did there, I don't want to live there but it is prime real estate and may be developed. (No Thanks)
Nelson DeMille wrote a book titled "Plum Island" about it.
This afternoon we are hosting an Anti Corona Virus party.
It will be outside in my driveway. The neighbors will all bring their own chairs, drinks, glasses and snacks. I provide the music.
We will all be at least 6' apart.
My wife can't walk on the sand so we had to stay on the pavement. Connecticut is probably 27 miles across from here.
Then we went to a Park at Orient Point right next to the Plum Island Ferry. I think Orient point is the most eastern part of the US beside Montauk Point which is on the South Fork of Long Island.
This is the road that goes to Orient Beach State park and that is Plum Island in the background where the Government did animal experiments with incurable diseases and all sorts of Nasty nerve poisons etc.
Now the Lab there is closed and they don't know what to do with the Island. Being what they did there, I don't want to live there but it is prime real estate and may be developed. (No Thanks)
Nelson DeMille wrote a book titled "Plum Island" about it.
This afternoon we are hosting an Anti Corona Virus party.
It will be outside in my driveway. The neighbors will all bring their own chairs, drinks, glasses and snacks. I provide the music.
We will all be at least 6' apart.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
Even at 29 years old, these fireclowns still lay eggs every 10 days or so. I don't know where they get the energy.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
My friend who is still very sick came back negative again for Corona Virus. He still has a fever for like 2 weeks, is hallucinating, can't get up and lost control of bodily functions.
His wife is going nuts but being he tests negative, they won't help him. He lives in Nassau New York which is the epicenter of the disease with more cases than anywhere in the country. I live just outside Nassau in Suffolk so we are probably second in the country.
His wife is going nuts but being he tests negative, they won't help him. He lives in Nassau New York which is the epicenter of the disease with more cases than anywhere in the country. I live just outside Nassau in Suffolk so we are probably second in the country.
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- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
On a brighter story, I noticed my last batch of Fireclown eggs hatched so with nothing else to do, I figured I would try to find some of them.
I turned off all the powerheads, I have 5 of them. And I looked closely at the film on the surface of the water.
After a while I saw one. A couple of seconds went by and I started to see more and more of them. Of course I can barely see them but there are quite a few all over the place.
I don't raise fish any more so they will become gorgonian food but thats just the way it is. Even if I wanted to raise them, I couldn't as I can't get rotifers now. Maybe in the future I will again raise some fish but now I have more pressing things to do and these guys spawn constantly. I don't even like Fireclowns as they are not that interesting even though thy are quite rare as I rarely see them anywhere.
I got the male 29 years ago as a baby and I thought it was a RedHawk fish because I never saw a Fireclown.
I turned off all the powerheads, I have 5 of them. And I looked closely at the film on the surface of the water.
After a while I saw one. A couple of seconds went by and I started to see more and more of them. Of course I can barely see them but there are quite a few all over the place.
I don't raise fish any more so they will become gorgonian food but thats just the way it is. Even if I wanted to raise them, I couldn't as I can't get rotifers now. Maybe in the future I will again raise some fish but now I have more pressing things to do and these guys spawn constantly. I don't even like Fireclowns as they are not that interesting even though thy are quite rare as I rarely see them anywhere.
I got the male 29 years ago as a baby and I thought it was a RedHawk fish because I never saw a Fireclown.
This sounds very serious, especially for an older fellow. If it were me, I would find one of those docs with a concierge practice and pay in full upfront whatever it takes for a home visit or an office visit.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
I doubt you can find a Doctor on Long Island that would be willing to see you now. They are all very busy with other things.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
I can't find any flatworms in my tank and a few months ago I had thousands. To get rid of them, I went out to dinner and had some Pino Noir. That was before this Pandemic of course.
Flatworms, like most things in this hobby get bored and disappear on their own even though many people like to throw Flatworm exit in their tanks. I don't know what that stuff is made out of but I would never put it in my tank.
I have two of these guys and they are not spawning so they must be both males or belong to a different political party as they can't seem to stand each other and never interact.
Flatworms, like most things in this hobby get bored and disappear on their own even though many people like to throw Flatworm exit in their tanks. I don't know what that stuff is made out of but I would never put it in my tank.
I have two of these guys and they are not spawning so they must be both males or belong to a different political party as they can't seem to stand each other and never interact.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
WE are still in a funk but getting back to fish. After I lost my copperband my tank is having a big aiptasia invasion.
Those things don't normally bother me but lately a lot of things are bothering me so I wanted to take it out on something and all I have that I am not particularly fond of are aiptasia.
I looked around and found one of my old prototypes of a majano wand. I plugged it in and I was surprised it worked.
I killed a bunch of them and it was gratifying. Some came back so I killed them again. Now I feel much better and hope some return so I can yet again kill them. (The thing is not designed to kill aiptasia so if you have those, don't buy one)
These guys are much more than friends but I am not sure where they are spawning or even how they spawn because I don't remember ever having Rainsford gobies spawning or ever having two of them but for a year they stood on complete opposite ends of the 6' tank. Now they hang out all the time
Those things don't normally bother me but lately a lot of things are bothering me so I wanted to take it out on something and all I have that I am not particularly fond of are aiptasia.
I looked around and found one of my old prototypes of a majano wand. I plugged it in and I was surprised it worked.
I killed a bunch of them and it was gratifying. Some came back so I killed them again. Now I feel much better and hope some return so I can yet again kill them. (The thing is not designed to kill aiptasia so if you have those, don't buy one)
These guys are much more than friends but I am not sure where they are spawning or even how they spawn because I don't remember ever having Rainsford gobies spawning or ever having two of them but for a year they stood on complete opposite ends of the 6' tank. Now they hang out all the time
I was just thinking the same thing about my aiptasia. I am starting to get annoyed because they are multiplying and getting huge! I tried the old method of lemon juice from a syringe but nothing. Now I think the pharmacist just thinks I do drugs...
I guess I have to resort to a new method soon before they take over the tank.
I guess I have to resort to a new method soon before they take over the tank.
- Location
- Ronkonkoma, NY
I have had a lot of luck with the matted file fish, they may take a awhile to get going but the one I have is a machine. I only have soft corals and he hasn't touched anything
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- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
Andy, I would get one but my really good fish supplier quit so I can't get anything.
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- Ronkonkoma, NY
Many fish deliveries are being affected by cut back on international flights
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
I don't think any stores are open in NY anyway even if they had fish. I still need a copperband, the last one I got from your friend was drugged, I think LSD,
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- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
WE had a "little" scare yesterday and this morning. Yesterday my wife and I took a walk and about 5 minutes into the walk I started to get itchy.
Like all over. I felt like I had fire ants doing the macarana all over me and also in places I didn't know I had.
Of course we walk up to this couple that we always wanted to make friends with and we were talking to them for like ten minutes. I was dying to scratch
"all over" but I didn't want these people to think I had cooties, amphipods or black ich.
The itchyness was unbearable and I know I was squirming so they may have thought I was a Mime, contortionist or Mick Jagger.
I put one foot on top of the other like I was resting my leg, but I was trying to scratch between my toes. It didn't work.
Eventually we left them and I told my wife "We have to go home".
She said Why! Whats the matter? Are you sick? With this virus around everyone is paranoid.
At home I told her what was going on and she insisted on inspecting me. I had this rash all over my body. I generally don't get rashes and I am not allergic to anything. So she rubs this stuff on me which was probably meat tenderizer and the itching subsided a "little".
I figured I would lay down. Yesterday we put this new blanket on the bed, right out of the package.
As I am laying there listening to Vintage Linda Ronstadt, I notice my tongue feels big. I have a big mouth but my tongue usually stays the same size.
My tongue was scraping against the teeth in back of my mouth and It seemed like I was having just a little trouble breathing. Just a little, not enough for me to call a SWAT team or "The Good Doctor" or even "Doctor Who " (it's an English thing, don't worry to much about it)
Now my Girly man emotions kick in and I am getting a touch worried.
I make the mistake of telling my wife who immediately goes into panic mode and wanted to give me CPR and get out the paddles.
She calls our Daughter in Vermont because her husband and Daughter have allergies to everything except air, and not all air.
She tells me to take Bennedril. All I have is our Grand Daughters Bennedril and she is 7. The largest does on the bottle was for a 10 year old so I take about two doses.
In ten minutes I am as Loopy as the people on Circ De Solei . I can't stand up so I go lay on the bed.
My tongue gets bigger. OOOOOooooooNNooooooo. I'm gonna die and Humble won't be able to come here to take my fish. But if he does he will quarantine them in tree stump remover and they will get nightmares.
I look up symptoms of Corona Virus and a big tongue. A rash are about the only things that the virus "doesn't " cause.
So We call my Doctor on the slim chance that he can see me. Here in New York nothing is open, you can't even open a clam.
But the nurse, who I know answered and she said, as long as you don't have Corona Virus symptoms, the Doctor will see you.
Of course If I had Corona Virus symptoms the doctor won't see me and I will have to go to a fortune teller or Lady GaGa concert.
I go there and the guy immediately sees the rash, takes blood, looks in my mouth, listens to my heart and lungs and doesn't have the slightest idea what is wrong with me but says he is getting a lot of patients now that have this from eating meat.
(I have learned that unless you have an arrow sticking out of your head or a crow bar stuck in your nether regions, they won't really know what the diagnosis is)
I almost never eat meat and didn't eat any in a week or so. He gives me a prescription for Prednisone.
Meantime Our Daughter is freeking out because she doesn't want me to go out of the house. It would be hard for the doctor to take blood through my computer screen unless I got really close to it and maybe stuck a USB cable in my arm.
So, I am still alive but the Bennedril is still making me walk like Uncle Festus from the Adams Family.
We think we figured it out. The new blanket my wife put on the bed was the only thing different we did. We bought it last year and one of my hobbies is removing those tags that say "Don't remove under penalty of the law"
So I am not sure where it came from.
Like all over. I felt like I had fire ants doing the macarana all over me and also in places I didn't know I had.
Of course we walk up to this couple that we always wanted to make friends with and we were talking to them for like ten minutes. I was dying to scratch
"all over" but I didn't want these people to think I had cooties, amphipods or black ich.
The itchyness was unbearable and I know I was squirming so they may have thought I was a Mime, contortionist or Mick Jagger.
I put one foot on top of the other like I was resting my leg, but I was trying to scratch between my toes. It didn't work.
Eventually we left them and I told my wife "We have to go home".
She said Why! Whats the matter? Are you sick? With this virus around everyone is paranoid.
At home I told her what was going on and she insisted on inspecting me. I had this rash all over my body. I generally don't get rashes and I am not allergic to anything. So she rubs this stuff on me which was probably meat tenderizer and the itching subsided a "little".
I figured I would lay down. Yesterday we put this new blanket on the bed, right out of the package.
As I am laying there listening to Vintage Linda Ronstadt, I notice my tongue feels big. I have a big mouth but my tongue usually stays the same size.
My tongue was scraping against the teeth in back of my mouth and It seemed like I was having just a little trouble breathing. Just a little, not enough for me to call a SWAT team or "The Good Doctor" or even "Doctor Who " (it's an English thing, don't worry to much about it)
Now my Girly man emotions kick in and I am getting a touch worried.
I make the mistake of telling my wife who immediately goes into panic mode and wanted to give me CPR and get out the paddles.
She calls our Daughter in Vermont because her husband and Daughter have allergies to everything except air, and not all air.
She tells me to take Bennedril. All I have is our Grand Daughters Bennedril and she is 7. The largest does on the bottle was for a 10 year old so I take about two doses.
In ten minutes I am as Loopy as the people on Circ De Solei . I can't stand up so I go lay on the bed.
My tongue gets bigger. OOOOOooooooNNooooooo. I'm gonna die and Humble won't be able to come here to take my fish. But if he does he will quarantine them in tree stump remover and they will get nightmares.
I look up symptoms of Corona Virus and a big tongue. A rash are about the only things that the virus "doesn't " cause.
So We call my Doctor on the slim chance that he can see me. Here in New York nothing is open, you can't even open a clam.
But the nurse, who I know answered and she said, as long as you don't have Corona Virus symptoms, the Doctor will see you.
Of course If I had Corona Virus symptoms the doctor won't see me and I will have to go to a fortune teller or Lady GaGa concert.
I go there and the guy immediately sees the rash, takes blood, looks in my mouth, listens to my heart and lungs and doesn't have the slightest idea what is wrong with me but says he is getting a lot of patients now that have this from eating meat.
(I have learned that unless you have an arrow sticking out of your head or a crow bar stuck in your nether regions, they won't really know what the diagnosis is)
I almost never eat meat and didn't eat any in a week or so. He gives me a prescription for Prednisone.
Meantime Our Daughter is freeking out because she doesn't want me to go out of the house. It would be hard for the doctor to take blood through my computer screen unless I got really close to it and maybe stuck a USB cable in my arm.
So, I am still alive but the Bennedril is still making me walk like Uncle Festus from the Adams Family.
We think we figured it out. The new blanket my wife put on the bed was the only thing different we did. We bought it last year and one of my hobbies is removing those tags that say "Don't remove under penalty of the law"
So I am not sure where it came from.
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- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
OMG This is getting really bad. My wife's friend died today from Corona virus and we still have a few other friends with it. I think we now have 28,000 cases here in Suffolk
So sorry to hear. I think we should dump the rest of the country in this area and see how they think opening back up sounds.
I want to get back to regular life just like the rest of us but not at the expense of people dying that don’t need to.
I hope everyone can continue to survive this lock down financially, physically, and mentally. This is an expensive area to line with a job, so for those not working or getting a pay check it is nearly impossible!
I want to get back to regular life just like the rest of us but not at the expense of people dying that don’t need to.
I hope everyone can continue to survive this lock down financially, physically, and mentally. This is an expensive area to line with a job, so for those not working or getting a pay check it is nearly impossible!
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