Good Morning!

vetteguy53081 · May 29, 2022

Three dinosaurs were out hunting for food when they came across a shiny lamp. One of them rubs it and a blue genie appears. “Hello, I am a genie! You each get one wish. What can I grant you?” “I wish for a large piece of meat, I’m hungry!” The first dinosaur says. And so a large piece of meat materialized. “I wish for an entire shower of meat!” The second dinosaur says. And the genie makes all different sorts of meat rain down from a small cloud about the dinosaur’s head. Not wanting to be outdone by his friends, the third dinosaur tries to think of something better. “I wish for a meatier shower!” And that explains it all.

dbowman5 · May 29, 2022

Good Morning! A somber Memorial Day to us all. Honor and remember, that is what we do when we support and protect what they gave us.

fishguy242 · May 29, 2022

good morning all...

Jeffcb · May 29, 2022

Good morning Reefers!

Have a blessed and wonderful day!!

Just John · May 30, 2022

Good morning! I guess I have not been around lately, but here I am. I hope you have all had a good weekend. No exciting news with me. I just wanted to say hi.

MrsBugmaster · May 30, 2022

Good morning.

WVNed · May 30, 2022

Good morning

dbowman5 · May 30, 2022

Good Morning! lunch approacheth, i am in ambush mode.

ReefGrammie · May 30, 2022

Good morning. Thanks to all who serve/have served.

Peace River · May 30, 2022

Always remember.

fishguy242 · May 30, 2022

good morning all...

Paul B · May 30, 2022

So I walked to the beach this morning and today is "Amphipod spawning day". This happens a couple of days a year and you have to be there at dead low tide on a calm day early in the morning so I only catch it every couple of years by accident.

I didn't have anything to collect in so I found a Gatoraid bottle and started to turn over the slippery rocks.
The very first rock yielded hundreds of amphipods so I knew I was going to get very lucky.........Well amphipod lucky anyway.

So I collected a few thousand amphipods along with a little sand for the bacteria. It all went in my tank and my fish will be smiling until Labor day.

Tomorrow morning I will go back at the same time with a bucket to see if I can get a few thousand more.

sp1187 · May 31, 2022

Good Morning Reefies

ReefGrammie · May 31, 2022

Good morning y'all. Had a great long weekend...back to reality today. Next project deadline is June 30th. What's after that?? Probably another project.

Have a great day.

Paul B · May 31, 2022

So this morning I again went hunting. Amphipod hunting. I was an hour late but the amphipods didn't seem to know what time it was and I still had 3 hours until high tide.

This time I went "armed" with a couple of buckets, one large one and a smaller one to scoop up the pods as they tried to sprint away. Most of the pods were much younger than I am and they thought they were faster, but I have wisdom on my side and managed to catch thousands of them and in many cases, their entire family including third cousins.

They are now in a container in my workshop calming down with a bubbler until I finish making myself and my wife some breakfast of home made bread that I baked yesterday and toasted this morning along with some farm eggs. We don't normally eat amphipods as they tend to get stuck in your teeth. It's also hard to hold them by their tail to stick them in your mouth.

I will put most of them in my tank after breakfast. I like to squirt them in the back or under my reverse under gravel filter so they don't get eaten as I want them to keep spawning and the fish get to occasionally hunt one as it tries to make an escape. I have some of them in there from a few years ago. Their offspring anyway.

I also will dump in the mud and seaweed I collected with them for the bacteria and maybe parasites.

Of course if you are the type of person who quarantines, medicates and goes to church to get your fish last rites if they die of uronoma, you can't do this.

If just one of the thousands of amphipods has a disease like Corona Virus and he happens to sneeze in your tank, you would have to vaccinate all of them. You may think finding an amphipod vein to put the needle in is the hard part, but it is not. The hard part is not getting alcohol in their eyes when you swab them. They hate that and don't like the "Visine" you would have to put in their eye to relieve the pain.