Tank Thread Tank reached 38 years old...in 2009!

[Tarazed]

Paul,

Is that sea ray a 270?

Gordon

 

[Paul B]

Yes it is Why?

They only made 2- 27 foot Searays with twin engines. This was one of them. This boat is the one in the Sea Ray catalog with the models on it.
They wouldn't let me have the models though. I couldn't even borrow them :tongue1:

 

[Paul B]

Lool who I found hiding in a rock. He is cool and is welcome here.

 

[Paul B]

Now he comes out to visit

 

[Deep Dive Coral]

Verry nice setup. Congrats on ur continued success.

 

[Paul B]

Thanks Camanuch, I am going to see if I can keep it going until I croak :tongue1:

 

[THEDLO]

hay Paul whos ur oldest fish?

 

[Paul B]

There have been accidents where I lost older fish like an 18 year old cusk eel but this fireclown is about 17 years old.
He would be my oldest living fish

 

[THEDLO]

nice! i hope to reach that with some of my guys! do u know where i can go to find the life span on fish?

 

[Domboski]

nice! i hope to reach that with some of my guys! do u know where i can go to find the life span on fish?

Right here: http://www.reefsmagazine.com/showthread.php?t=82591


Hey Paul, what's going on? We didn't go collecting this summer!

 

[Paul B]

Dom, I didn't go with anyone this year because my daughter got married 3 weeks ago and it screwed up my schedule. I still may make a trip but it would have to happen in the next two weeks. Do you want to come if I go?

 

[Domboski]

Dom, I didn't go with anyone this year because my daughter got married 3 weeks ago and it screwed up my schedule. I still may make a trip but it would have to happen in the next two weeks. Do you want to come if I go?

Congrats Paul! I'll come depending on when. Just let me know.

 

[Paul B]

I am having wierd occurances when I zap mojanos. It seems that I have more amphipods than I thought because whenever I zap a mojano, I see one or two amphipods running out of the holes near the mojano. But the wierd thing is that these stomatella, or shelless snails, seem to be atttracted to the zapper.
I didn't even know I had so many of these stomatella's but almost everywhere I zap, one of these "snails" comes practically running towards the commotion. They stop just before the mojano that is getting zapper and try to touch it with their antenna.
They don't like the feel of it as they pull back their antenna but they stay right there next to it and "hang out".
This happens about half the times I zap something.
I can't explain it. I am not sure if they are attracted to the electricity of the hydrogen gas.
Also those banded tentacles that you see sticking out of the holes which are mostly brittle stars, reach out to grab pieces of destroyed mojano. It seems that they only like to eat them after they are cooked as they never touch the living mojanos.
You can see a stomatella just under the chromis, he came out to "watch me zap a mojano right where he is

 

[Paul B]

Now there are so many of those astrea stars, stomatella snails, amphipods and tube worms that there is not much room left for water.
I have not looked close lately at the tank. Maybe I just won't look.

 

[Rickyrooz]

Great tank

 

[Paul B]

THanks,

 

[NYreefNoob]

paul u ever going to make it to one of the swaps ?

 

[Paul B]

I am not much of a swap person, I don't think I ever went to one.
They didn't have those years ago and I guess I never had the opportunity to go.
I was invited to speak once in California and DC and after I did my thing there was a swap.
I am also not a member of anything. I guess I am not a joiner. I don't belong to any aquarium organizations so I don't get invited.
My wife and I are in a large crowd of people we are great friends with all of our lives so most of our time is accounted for one way or another.
I am never around on weekends as I am always boating but one day I will get to one.

 

[NYreefNoob]

well seeing i am out of work at the moment you decide to go collecting id love to go with you

 

[Paul B]

OK if the weather holds out which it is not at the moment.