49 Year Old Tank

I noticed that I have this wierd bubble algae growing only on my cement rocks. Randy gave me an Idea and suggested that it "may" be the iron that is attracting the algae to the cement. It could be another chemical in cement but I will try iron first.
I made a slab of cement about 6 square inches and I ground up some nails with a grinder into the surface of the wet cement. I will let it cure for a week then put it in my algae trough. The trough is there to grow algae anyway and I want to see if I can enhance that ability with iron filings.
I want as much algae growing in the trough as can fit.
I love this stuff.
 
I think I have too many animals in my tank now and I need to stop adding things.
I also realize that In all these pages I don't think I ever mentioned what is in the tank.
I am going to try to list the animals but not the corals because I can't remember names to save my life.
I now have a copperband
2 fireclowns
a bluestriped pipefish
2 mandarins
an algae bleeny
a yellow wrasse
a rainsford gobi
2 unidentified red and yellow stripped cardinals
yellow clown gobi
4 various gobi's one is a watchman
and 4 chromis, two of them I got today and I never seen this type before. They are silver with a yellow horizontal stripe. Not extreamly great looking but If I never seen it before, I got to get it.
I don't know how many grass shrimp are in there, maybe a dozen and about the same with hermit crabs and mud snails. But there is a cool decorator crab and of course an arrow crab, you got to have an arrow crab.
I am sure I missed a few but thats all I can remember.
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I'm still on a quest to take a decent video but I am not there yet. Here I tried with the pumps off. I am going to keep trying. These new camera's have so many settings on them that it could take a half an hour just to set the thing the way you want it. But they still come out kind of lousy. I will get it some day.
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I need to change some water and do a little tank maintenance so I have to get creative. I am having problems cleaning the glass because even though I re-aquascaped a few weeks ago, the corals have again grew too much towards the front glass. When I can use both hands I need to remove some more rock to gain more room. (I just had shoulder surgery and am using one arm) I built a few more fake rocks that will cascade over the rockwork to hold some of the corals but even then, i need more room. Of course a larger tank would do it but I installed this one and built the house around it and i don't think I could even remove it.
in a few weeks the tank will be 41 years old :1:
 
hope the shoulder recovers, great to know its going 41yrs...

any progress on the thoughts of you doing that book?
 
How do you keep from getting the fish oil on you hands, its sooo smelly!
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I mark one end of the capsule with a magic marker and I stick in a needle. Then I gently squeeze it with a pliers on to some dry pellets. The mark is so I know for the next time which end the oil comes out from.
Besides that, wash your hands.;)

I take that oil myself every day.:p
 
Paul B said:
The book would be great to start now, but I am not sure where to start.:)
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at day 1, how about a auto-biographical journey of reef keeping
 
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