47 year old tank

[paul b]

Gatortailale, things are great.  My tank is (I think) 54 years old and all is well.  I eliminated a bunch of invasive, encrusting, photosynthetic sponge.  Just had a back operation and need another minor one.

 

I published another book, not about fish that is on Amazon.  It's about my time in the army and Vietnam.

 

My birthday is coming up Christmas day, and almost all is well.; 

 

[BowieReefer84]

Link to your books?

[paul b]

BowieReefer.  I wrote two books.  One is a reef book "The Avant-Garde Marine Aquarist".

 

100% of the profits go to MS research in my wife's name and I wrote a book about my time in the army and Vietnam where 100% of the profits go to "Wounded Warriors" or "Tunnels To Towers".

 

Amazon.com: The Avant-Garde Marine Aquarist: A 60-Year history of Fish Keeping eBook : baldassano, paul: Kindle Store

 

Amazon.com: From Brooklyn through Vietnam and back: A Soldier's Story of fun and disaster. eBook : Baldassano, Paul: Kindle Store

[paul b]

Today I got a little bored so I wanted to do a little tank maintenance.  For some reason my rock migrates closer to the front of the tank and being I built most of my rock, it is in big pieces so to move one, I have to remove a lot of smaller rocks.

 

I needed to move the entire reef structure on one side back so I could clean the front glass.  I have been noticing that this yellow sponge is growing everywhere.  But only in the dark.  It's visible here because that piece used to be turned over.

 

 

I don't think this stuff can take over the tank like that sponge from H-E-double hockey sticks that I got rid of a year ago and it is soft so I can remove it if I want and it is not photosynthetic, so it won't grow on the corals where the light is. 

 

It looks kind of nice.  The tank is cloudy here because when I was moving the rocks around, I had the diatom filter running and I stirred up everything.

 

This filter I built I don't normally use diatom powder in because it has a 5 micron cartridge which is small enough for general maintenance which is what I am doing now.