THE OFFICIAL ASK ALBERT THIEL THREAD

[Paul B]

I ordered a few orange spotted filefish from a LFS and 6 of them came in yesterday.

Of the 6, one was dead and the rest were in the process of getting last rites. If they are alive in a day or two, I will take two. Right now they are swimming up side down carrying a bible which makes me think twice about taking them as it wouldn't be prudent at this time.

[albertthiel]

I ordered a few orange spotted filefish from a LFS and 6 of them came in yesterday.

Of the 6, one was dead and the rest were in the process of getting last rites. If they are alive in a day or two, I will take two. Right now they are swimming up side down carrying a bible which makes me think twice about taking them as it wouldn't be prudent at this time.

 

Not a good sign.

 

Hope they make it

 

AT

[StinkyBunny]

Those guys don't ship well. There is someone captive breeding them Paul, maybe ORA or Sea and Reef? Je ne c'est pas.

[Paul B]

I read about the guy spawning them but I didn't know he was raising them. Interesting.

 

Yesterday I bought a new coral to put in the place where that mushroom disappeared. While gluing it in I found some of the mushroom. It multiplied into a bunch of quarter sized pieces which I also glued in because they were under rocks in the dark. Now I am going to have to many.

[StinkyBunny]

I had that happen too, though my leather corals was dead, when I broke the tank down to move it, it was in the back of the tank happy as a clam.

[albertthiel]

I read about the guy spawning them but I didn't know he was raising them. Interesting.

 

Yesterday I bought a new coral to put in the place where that mushroom disappeared. While gluing it in I found some of the mushroom. It multiplied into a bunch of quarter sized pieces which I also glued in because they were under rocks in the dark. Now I am going to have to many.

Yes .... that figures !!

 

???

[albertthiel]

Sorry for not having been very active on the forum, due to health reasons.... they are improving a little but not much

 

I' ll keep up posted

 

 

Albert

[RayWhisperer]

Sorry to hear that, Albert. Hope you get better soon!

[atoll]

Get well soon Albert.

[albertthiel]

Sorry to hear that, Albert. Hope you get better soon!

Thanks Ray

Get well soon Albert.

Thanks Les

 

Due to the nature of what is going on not sure how long it will take

 

I have a number of issues not the least of which is a loss of 40+ pounds in the last 10 or so weeks

 

AT

[StinkyBunny]

Heal quickly Albert.

[albertthiel]

Heal quickly Albert.

Thanks. I sure hope so. Will know more this Thursday after seein one of my many Dr.

 

AT

[Paul B]

Albert you need to get well fast. Maybe some blackworms will help. Us old guys need to keep going to teach these whippersnappers what not to do.

[albertthiel]

Albert you need to get well fast. Maybe some blackworms will help. Us old guys need to keep going to teach these whippersnappers what not to do.

Thanks Paul. Yes I agree and hope that the Dr's finally figure out what is going on.

 

It's been 3 months now and we still do not know !

 

Hopefully this coming week when I see my Dr's again, they will

 

Thanks for the good thoughts

 

Albert

[Paul B]

^{Albert, please keep us posted. We need you.}

[albertthiel]

^{Albert, please keep us posted. We need you.}

Will do for sure Paul.

 

Thanks for the kind words

 

Albert

[Paul B]

This weekend my Wife and I took our Grand Daughter to Sesame Place in Pennsylvania which is about 100 miles from our house on Long Island. We had to pick up Greta in Downtown Manhattan where she lives. So we leave our house on Friday way before rush hour at 1:30 in the afternoon. (Greta is four and we had to wait for her to get out of pre school)

So it is raining and we get Grata an hour late because we were stuck in traffic for 2 hours for the 20 mile ride from our house.

We go 3 blocks in Manhattan and stop in traffic. And when I mean "stop" I mean literally stop, for one hour and forty minutes on one block. We didn't move an inch in that time. People were barbecuing, changing their oil, Shaving and washing their clothes on the side of the street.

After that time, we finally move. A foot.

Yes, a foot. I get out and ask a Cop what the problem is. He says, "What problem, it is always like this". Seriously!

Another hour goes by we finally get into the Holland Tunnel which goes to Jersey.

The traffic was "moving" through the tunnel about as fast as a lettuce slug runs on ice or about 2 mph.

Now we spent about 5 hours "driving" and we are only a half a mile from Greta's house.

We get into New Jersey on the New Jersey Turnpike which is like a 10 lane highway and "cruse" along at about 5mph for most of the remainder of the trip.

We arrived there at 8:00pm.

7 1/2 hours in the car. To put that into perspective a few weeks ago we went to the Caribbean in 5 hours, Europe is just a little longer and we went to Hawaii in 16 hours which is on the other side of the earth (almost) Now I know why they don't let you install torpedoes in cars.

 

I worked in Manhattan for 40 years and hated every minute of it. I know people come from all over the world to see Manhattan and I am at a loss to know why. There is nothing there but buildings, filthy subways filled with rats and as I mentioned, traffic. I personally feel they should put a fence around it and burn it. After they relocate all the people of course.

 

So we stay the night in a hotel and the next day go to Sesame Place.

 

Yaaa. She is all excited in her Annie costume.

 

I crammed myself into all the rides with her and I did not exactly fit in any of them. My expression tells it all.

 

[RayWhisperer]

Lol! That expression.

 

Hey, you're a fantastic grandfather for doing that. Even if you had a RAF the entire time.

[albertthiel]

Well Paul that was quite an experience to say the least

 

But you made it and she was Happy ! That is the main thing

 

 

Albert

[StinkyBunny]

You know the only time I've ever been in the city was a breeze Paul. I was headed over to Long island to get a squat machine for lifting. So anyhoo, here I am in Manhattan in a Chevy crew cab long bed pick up, 25' of steel, because MapQuest forgot to mention one small detail of how to get to the Queens midtown tunnel. M calls the guy and I knew I was in trouble because he says "You're in the city?" "I don't go in the city." 20 minutes later with the help of a Chinese guy we were on our way. There was no traffic at all, none, other than cabs.

 

Long Island reminds me a lot of the Outer Banks back in the 70s and 80s.

[Paul B]

This guy was still living so I took him home. I will see what happens.

 

[albertthiel]

This guy was still living so I took him home. I will see what happens.

 

Hope he makes it !

 

AT

[Paul B]

In a few weeks I am going to have some surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff and torn bicep. This is the fourth time I tore this rotator cuff on my left arm and I think I had it done twice on my right arm.
(I also had maybe 5 knee surgeries) But these are Man surgeries and not Sissy surgeries so they don't bother me. I really enjoy the sleep too. (as well as the nurses)
I worked construction all my life and if you don't wear out your parts doing that, you didn't work hard enough.
I went to the surgeon today and told him to try to fix the thing this time so it stays fixed even if I pick up a heavy pint of beer. Maybe use some good toggle bolts that you don't get from Home Depot.
The recovery is three months after a month of physical therapy, which I kind of enjoy because the place I go has a couple of Supermodels working there.
Today I winterized my boat and put up the Halloween and Thanksgiving decorations around my house. My wife used to help me but she has MS so I do it myself. I put up a lot of decorations for all of the holidays. I just like my house looking good. Next week I will also winterize my sprinkler system because after this operation I won't be able to use my left arm so I want to get all of that stuff done you need two arms for.
Years ago I devised a method to winterize my boat using a shop vacuum. I disconnect the water hoses and suck out all the salt water using the vacuum. Then I installed a small bilge pump in a five gallon bucket and pump antifreeze through the engines and exhaust manifolds. I also use this to pump water through the air conditioner and water system for the sinks and showers.
I am also changing water in my reef because I only do that every 3 or 4 months anyway.

My neighbors will also snow blow for me so it all works out well.

[albertthiel]

Lots of surgery Paul but I am sure it will all go super well. Those Supermodels will make sure of it. Be well.

 

I am seeing 2 of my Dr's Thursday

 

Hopefully they will figure something out ... about time they did

 

Albert

[Paul B]

Albert take care of yourself. My surgeries are just silly and I am used to them. I hope you get good news from the docs