9/08/09 Tropical Fish
It turns out that lots of tropical fish make their way up to Long Island on the Gulfstreem. If you know where to go you can catch them. Today I went down to pondquogue bridge to find them. I found them but wasn't able to catch any of them. They were too fast. I did find some other stuff though, they're in the tank now. The water is much clearer in the tank today, the sand filters got all the free floating stuff out from the bay water. I forgot to turn the chiller on but its on now and we'll see how good it works. That has been a concern, weather it will be strong enough.
9/11/09
The water temp came down around 73°. The pump of system 1 was leaking so I had to take it out and put in gasket sealer. That fixed that leak but then system 2 started leaking, while fixing that leak I turned the pump on with the valve closed and broke one of the lines. It turns out I forgot to glue it and the pressure pushed it apart. Water started to flow out of the tank because of a siphon. I pull the return pipes of the tank so the siphon would stop. I then glued it together and also put in a valve to stop siphoning in the future. I'll start it up Monday once the glue is dry. Its nice to have two systems so if one breaks the other maintains the tank.
9/28/09
Today I went to Pondquogue to catch some more fish. On a previous day I did catch one, but it died before we got it in the tank. I've tried to catch them multiple times now, maybe 3 or 4 trips. Today we finaly caught some, 2 spotfins and a blue-coronet fish. I'm going to bring them to ross tomorrow. I also met another guy from ATMW at Pondquoue, he said he works with chris and often collects things there: lionfish, blue damsles, cow fish.
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