Posts by sdeisen

well your definetly going to have everything the way you want it when all is said and done

thats awesome,, yeah growing up on the water down here i think i must have seen dozens over time, ususally small.. sometimes not so small

no we dont see many nice groupers where we normally hunt,, the first time i saw more than a couple legal grouper oon the same day locally was a week ago in ft. lauderdale, and in surprisingly shallow water.,, im still waiting to see the supposed "winter time mutton" flush

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I found these two, both stainless steel. I have no idea how the first one works. What do you think?

that first one would be awesome if iit worked, and the second ive seen before but i imagine ud have the same issue as thee quick link

:nono:not a good kayak spearfishing day

mariner-octopus are by far the coolest thing to have,, theyre smarter than most people i know,,
judah the tanks a 75 gallon its 48".. i used to have a couple but to be honest like having more than one tank u get this creepy bill nye the science guy image going and say good bye to ever gettin any chick with that going on,,. also im lookin at movin into a dorm within the next year so ill either have no tannk or jsut keep like a little 20 gallon

the bio load thing is fish obviosuly create crap and piss.. which initially is ammonia, then is broken down to nitrite and nitrate, and someetimes phosphates.. the result from all that is algea, limited coral health etc etc.. one fish only eats enough and breaks down enough to put a mminor strain on the tank.. i dont run filters.. the water jsut pours into a bin of rock and macroalgea which processes the waste. and the water is then pumped back into the tank

bioload indeed,, yeah don its a shame a lot of times people pay my work just to take it off there hands, let alone try to sell it.. when its time to go its jsut time to go,,

haha thanks guys, and yeah don but with 4 250 metal halides im sure you kept some nice stonies growin.. coral frags are super popular now.. people trade and sell and swap.. everyones one upping eachother

ive been procrastinating a while but heres some tank photos.. i got all kinds of excuses the glass had salt on it i havnt scraped algea blah blah blah
its not so aestethic like a lot of reef tanks but its a pretty goot representation of a realistic bottom setting i think,, a lot of local stuff and a few nonnatives mixed in (i cant help it i work in a marine aquarium shop)

the leopard wrasse wondering wtf is up with the camera, this is my only fish but hes a b.a and is considered very hard to keep alive (casue they usually wont eat) i have to feed him prawn eggs and other over the top garbage)

a gorgonian(sea fan) alot of you florida guys are probably used to seeing, and if your lucky seeing a hogfish down in it.. this requires a lot of food becasue it is not solely photosynthetic like a lot of the corals are

a hawaiian blue leg hermit crab (its an asshole and one of the few non local inhabitants of the tank)
next to him is a local hermit (one of the few local species of hermit that doesnt tear everything apart)

a porcelain crab,, in the camera its not easy to see but it has two nets instead of mandibles that it uses to filter feed from the open water, it eats basically what the seafan does. also it has a commensual relationship with the blue discosoma mushroom its sitting on. things avoid the mushroom and therefore it gets protection

briarium,, another local soft coral that is really common on south florida reefs

already guilty of that one, thanks dan

it is too biig, it let that nasty growth on the top of your neck protrude out,, i think it might be your head.
the working the seal of the hood loose momentrily thing works fine and my ears go right away,, its jsut a hastle with speargun in one hand and anchor in the other,, no big deal though,, a little inconvinence is alot better than holes in the sides i think

word, thanks

ditto to seaweed,, i used to get very frequent nosebleed, now not at all.. a lot of things get easier and less severe with frequent dives it seems like

yeah that has been my best option so far is just pushing a finger up around the mask and everything goes to normal,, it aint so bad,,
another question do most of yous guys wear ur mask over the hood or under,, id like to wear it over the hood but i always get leaks in the mask that way

i used to hate hoods but find myself wearing it more and more (but only in this time of coolesst water),,i still despise it for all the same reasons, it sets me out of sync with everything else, its constricting, it lets boats sneak up on ya, you cant hear ur comrades screamin at you(becasue of a nice fish or worse if something is wrong) etc, etc. but it really does keep ya warmer. one thing ive noticed though is that when ascending from 25 feet or deeper the hood sometimes sucks so tight that my ears wont equalize properly. ill reach the surface and all of a sudden hear like a huge whine in my ears as they decompress, at least i assume thats whats happpening. has anyone else experienced this? i dont want to compromise warmth by cutting holes in the ear areas

got in a little post-escuela afternoon session today (just needed to get in the water)
meade at 4ish-600
viz was 15ft with a nasty silty surface layer. saw lots of decent size porgies and dogs
didnt really spear jsut wanted to spend some good bottom time.
maybe a chance to hit it up tomorow before school in the a.m

hey im on topic really though does that guy and all his shark jaws impress you?

i guess im just a....

shes hot but i bet she doesnt shave

dan why are you glad the shark is gone?, and personally that guy seems like a tool to me,,