Paul B's thread

[Flame Angel]

There were to many tentacles because last week my wife used most of the bodies for a dish and I was only left with 6 bodies, that I stuffed and enough tentacles to fill a large pot. I was not frying them and I didn't need that many for the stuffing in my stuffed calamari so I had extra tentacles. I could have just saute'd them and made something but I have a house full of crabs, clams, oysters, shrimp and fish so I just had to many right now and my freezer is full.
I buy them all the time so I didn't want to store them.
But you are correct, they are the best part.

what you use for stuffing? Raw with olio? or Obviously not cooked in a good sauce.

 

[Paul B]

Italian breads crumbs, a lot of garlic, olive oil, a little hot pepper in oil that I put in a blender to chop very fine, tenticles, chopped. parsley. old bay seasoning, parmesian cheese and an egg to hold it all together.

I am Sicilian and my family had a sea food business for probably centuries

 

[Flame Angel]

Italian breads crumbs, a lot of garlic, olive oil, a little hot pepper in oil that I put in a blender to chop very fine, tenticles, chopped. parsley. old bay seasoning, parmesian cheese and an egg to hold it all together.

I am Sicilian and my family had a sea food business for probably centuries

I have been on Nutrisystem for the past seven weeks. I have lost 30#'s and you just made my mouth water.

I am lucky if I get squid once a year at Christmas time... seven fishes...

 

[Paul B]

That recipe is not on Nutrisystem. Last Christmas we had 17 different types of seafood. We count every year for some reason but that is a big tradition for us. Christmas is also my birthday.
We normally eat seafood almost every day and I don't think I ever ordered a steak in a restaurant in my life. I like it, but if they have seafood (and here on Long Island they all have seafood) I will get seafood.
Linguini and crabs at Thanksgiving. (yes we also had turkey)

 

[this is me]

Are those blue crabs? I love those. We stir fried them in tomato sauce too!

 

[Flame Angel]

Do you do an Italian turkey. Marinated in garlic, white vinegar, oregano?

 

[Paul B]

They are blue claw crabs. I catch them here on Long Island and freeze them until Thanksgiving and Christmas

Of course we make an Italian Turkey. What other kind would we make? I am not sure if the turkey is German, Irish or Russian, but he will end up Italian.
We use white vinegar to wash the floor. We use balsamic vinegar for eating

 

[Paul B]

Today I went to my favorite LFS because they were getting me some Caribbean gorgonians I wanted and a couple of porcelain crabs. I want a mate for mine. I got the 2 crabs, but they didn't look like porcelain crabs and were in a tank a little high for me to see. So now that I got them in my tank my porcelain crabs are really green crabs so I will never see them again.

They didn't get in my gorgonians either so I just took 3 small frags. I had to stick them on my sand because I can't glue them with one working arm. Normally I break off those silly frag plugs and glue the frag to a rock or bottle. I hate the way those frag plugs look as they kill the natural look of a tank.

I was supposed to get a couple of these to mate with mine.






As I was looking at the tank I saw one of these pop out of a frogspawn and I couldn't figure out where I got him. Then I remembered I bought him last week. It's great getting old.

 

[this is me]

Very cool Paul. I love those Porcelain crabs as well. I need to get some for my anemones.

 

[Paul B]

I don't have any anemones and they do just fine. But you do need to have a tank with a lot of food circulating. The foods I feed, mainly clams have a lot of juices and these crabs are filter feeders.

 

[Paul B]

Today I picked up a couple of corals. One is about 6" and the other two are small. I had to cut about 6" of my blue sponge so it has some light. I will give that away, hopefully someone wants it.

It isn't easy to glue frags because I am still in a sling and can't raise my arm. I got them in there, a little sloppy, but that's the way it is.

I can't find those two green crabs I accidently got and don't believe I will ever see them.

I ordered a new small LED light for my algae scrubber because the red water cooled one I built is just a little to Thick even though it is less than one inch thick water drips on it. I will use the one I bought while I design a thinner LED light.




Everything else is good except due to the drought in California, I am having a hard time getting blackworms. I still have some but I am rationing them.

 

[Paul B]

Today I went to my favorite LFS again. While there I say this beautiful lipstick tang and the way she was looking at me with those pouty lips, I almost went home with her. But then I thought, this thing will probably live for 20 years. At that time I will be in my 80s, probably senile, blind and have a weak bladder. How am I supposed to catch her then because I will want to give her away before I croak.

So I didn't buy her. Instead, I got another crab. He waltzed over to my existing crab, carefully put his arms around her, pulled her closer, and tried to rip her face off.

But now that they have been formally introduced, they settled down to share filter feeding next to each other.

 

[Paul B]

One of the pitfalls of having shoulder surgery is that it is difficult to do any tank maintenance that requires two hands. I can feed the tank, clean the glass and the skimmer cup but that's about it.

My algae scrubber is so full that the algae is sloughing off the thing and falling into the tank. In my set up, there is a pump in the tank that supplies water to the scrubber, then the water flows into a pipe that feeds my reverse undergravel filter.

The amount of algae is preventing the water from traveling into the UG filter as it is overflowing that pipe and going straight into the tank.

I can't raise my right are right now to clean it but I managed to clear some of the algae with a screwdriver.

I won't be able to reach up to it for a few weeks when my shoulder gets better so I will have to live with this for a while. It is not the end of the world, just a little annoyance.

This is an older picture of the scrubber.

 

[Jim Tansey]

Paul...........That's what wife's are for..

Jim

 

[Paul B]

First of all I would have to tell my wife we have a fish tank. Then I would have to lift her out of the tank after she falls in.
Then I would have to promise her a vacation in Tahiti

 

[Paul B]

A friend of mine on another forum had an Idea to use a shop vac to clean the scrubber. Great Idea. I did it in 2 minutes and the thing is almost brand new. I still have to take it apart eventually to clean the slot, but it's working perfectly.

 

[Paul B]

I just decided (possibly stupidly) to feed my corals yeast. I feed it to my worms and they are always smiling but now my tank is all cloudy from yeast. So either the tank will crash or It will make one heck of a salty loaf of bread.

When I get bored, I sometimes do stupid things.

 

[cilyjr]

Active yeast tank? You're likely the first to keep that

 

[STiTCH87]

You could always add brine shrimp. They'd eat the yeast very quickly.

 

[Paul B]

I don't think I am the first one to do that. Yeast is a great food for filter feeders and I do feed it to my worms and shrimp. The corals sucked out the yeast and the tank is crystal clear again. I am going to modify the yeast, add a couple of things and do it again. I am on a quest now and if I crash the tank, it has had a good run.