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.
Click on it to start the video

1) twist the round knob to movie.

2) point at tank

3) press and hold the shutter button.

4) release to end movie.



FWIW I returned to an old model airplane friend last october. I had not flown for 30 years. Gave his wife the camera setup for movie and told her to press the button. She pressed and the released and therefore only go 5 seconds before the flight.

my .02

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recent tanks (till 2009) 7 years- 10g FW leiden 7 yrs, 55g mixed reef 7, 2 yrs, 20g FW leiden, 10 g fw leiden , 29g mixed reef, current tank 55g leiden

That is a beautiful tank and quite an accomplishment. Very few people can say they do ANYTHING consistently for 40 years. Congratulations and thank you for sharing this accomplishment with us!

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75g lightly planted with 8 neon tetras, 7 black-skirt tetras, 7 Swartz' cories, 1 Bolivian ram, dozens of rcs, hundreds of mts, and four assassin snails.

Awesome job Paul, I can't seem to resist the urge to take my tank apart and start over every two years. How do you do it? Incredible!

Debisbooked, thank you. I am also married almost 40 years. Same woman too.

Regiampiero, I also take it apart occasionally to change things around, but I always put everything back in. It gets boring looking at the same aquascape all the time.

I don't remember when I took this but you can see the aquascape is much different.

3) press and hold the shutter button.

4) release to end movie.

She pressed and the released and therefore only go 5 seconds before the flight.

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I've never heard of a camera that you had to hold the button down the whole time. Usually it's press to record; press again to stop. You bought a silly camera and that's why you got 5 seconds of film.

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Yes, it is gravel on the bottom of glass. I have been doing it every other week or so, and there seems to be a lot of "junk" that comes out. I suppose I should carry on doing what i have been, since everything seems to be doing well.

I just added another pair of bluestripes. Here is the old, larger female with a new small male. There is also another small female.

It's been a little over a month since I installed this thing and I love it. My tank has 3 bluestrip pipefish, and two mandarins along with some small clown gobies and shrimp. They all hang around this thing for a few hours that it has shrimp in it. In this tank I really don't have to supliment their diet because there are plenty of pods but I like everything to spawn and the only way fish will spawn is by eating more food then they normally can and food with a high oil content such as new born brine shrimp are even better than pods.
Two of the pipefish are to young to spawn but I feel that in a couple of weeks they will be ready. Also my female mandarin is to young so this will fatten her up.
My copperband is a regular visitor here although he gets live worms every day.
It is just another thing for me to get facinated about.

Cheers to a tank twice my age.
It's absolutely beautiful.

This is so cool. My decorator crab found some hair algae growing right at the water's edge behind the top black rim of the tank. I didn't even notice it. He is hanging on to it and eating it like spaghetti. It is hard to tell but that top bubble coral is a reflection off the water surface so it is confusing.
He stuck bubble algae in to his shell that allowed him to float.
Not as dumb as he looks

This month my tank is 41 years old. I don't remember when I was 41 years old.

Happy birthday to your tank..looks great..

Rick

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Cool!!!!!

What i find so interesting is that for the last 8-9 years I have been posting there have been many experts exposing all the modern techniques then 5-6 years later the tank deterioriates and is torn down while other methods have come back into favor.


meanwhile paul b's tank has just been successful all these years.


Congratuations!!!!!!!!!

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recent tanks (till 2009) 7 years- 10g FW leiden 7 yrs, 55g mixed reef 7, 2 yrs, 20g FW leiden, 10 g fw leiden , 29g mixed reef, current tank 55g leiden

Some of those modern techniques leave much to be desired.
Some of the older technology which worked for decades like UG filters and gravel still work today which is the reason they worked for decades. People get a good feeling if they buy an expensive piece of technology and feel it will do wonders.
I also think people rely too much on commercially prepared foods when worms and clams are the cheapest and IMO, work the best.

worms and clams as in store bought.

Rick

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The clams and worms are store bought except for me in the summer when I collect the clams. The worms come from California.
These foods are not commercially prepared. They are not prepared, processed, frozen or packaged in any way.

I finally got that new DIY rock into the tank, but I had to remove about 15lbs of rock to do it and make a mess. I am still working with one arm so it was a little job.
You can see it on the right side of the tank, it starts to the left of the large gorgonian under the back of the bottle and arcs up and to the left. It was supposed to span over the rocks freestanding but I really don't have the room. Maybe if I remove most of the rock someday but it aint going to happen now. I had to move some large cement stands to the left side of the tank and I was able to return all the rock to the tank. It is still a little cloudy and the corals are not fully open but here it is.


This is the rock I put it. It is over a foot high



Then I did some work on the other side of the tank. That acropora is too close to the glass and I can't move it back so I ether have to frag it or do more major work.


Now I will have to make a bristle worm trap because every rock I move is loaded with them. I don't mind them but there is just too many. I will build something that collects a lot of them at once.

I had to re design slightly my algae trough. The LEDs I had over it just were not bright enough so I got a strip of LEDs that are about twice as bright. When I had MH lights the trough used to get the spill light but the LEDs are more directional so I had to add supplimental light to the trough because it was only growing red and brown algae. Now hopefully It will grow green hair algae. I also re designed the way the water enters the trough from the skimmer. I used to have unacceptable splashing that used to make salt creep all over the place. Now I have multiple layers of plastic screening around the skimmer outflow and now there is no splashing and no bubbling which burst and splash on the lights and rear wall.



This acropora has grown at least three times it's size in a year and I can't clean the glass in front of it any longer. Whenever I go near it I accidently break off pieces so I have frags of the thing all over the place. Now I am going to try to move it to a larger space and move the giant mushroom in that place to where the acropora is now. I wonder how many frags I am going to have because there is no room to move it so I have to lift it out of the tank to re locate it.

After moving this all over the tank, getting bit to death and breaking a few pieces off this and other corals, I realize there is no room for this acropora. I temporarilly put it on this rock but it is just about out of the water and not sitting well. When I get time I need to do a major rock move. Of course I just re-aquascaped and removed a bunch of rock, but it is time again.