wayneb

A&J - check with mark to see if you can buddy up with him. I can pick up our orders and meet you at HEB on William Cannon/71 again.

wayne

I agree - both the Prof and Shane at Fishy Business have good quality live rock (both sponsors). Why not go with a mixture of dry rock (again Prof has a very good choice) and live rock. Should be cheaper. Come to the ARC meeting 22nd and hear Dave (prof) discuss 'rock', besides meeting with others of us.

wayneb

Forgot to mentioned that there is a map to all the LFS in the "resources".

Just checking to see if my FAQ entry and pictures went through okay.

wayneb

Figured I would post what I asked BSR and their reply for those interested:

Sir:

Have a question or two concerning setting up the RO/DI 5 stage system I bought from you earlier.

Plan on 3 containers - one 55 gal waste water, one 55 gal RO, and one 30 gal DI/saltwater mixing

barrel. My questions are:

Can I daisy chain 3 auto shut off valves & 1/4" check valves, 1 for each of the barrels? Also

when do you expect the auto top off system to be in stock?

When will the Shelf dry rock be expected to be in stock?

If we order out of stock items - will they ship when received or should we wait until catalog

shows items in stock?

Our group is planning on doing a BSR group buy with order placed by May 18th (May 24th?)

thanks, wayne britt

The Reply from BSR:

Wayne,

If you were to put a tee in and split your to product water lines to your two product water containers (ro water and salt mixing) the one auto shut off valve should kick in when both of the float valves go up. As far as daisy chaining another one in to go off when the waste water is full, I don't know to be perfectly honest. I have never heard of anyone trying this. At first glance it seems like it would work save for the fact that you will likely always have a full container of waste water and a half/third a container of the others because you will produce much more waste water then product water. To be completely honest though I don't know for a fact that it would work but I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't but I may be missing something.

No idea on the rock, sorry!

We don't think its ethical to sit on your money for products we don't have in stock and don't have an exact arrival date for. Those items will just go back up on the website when we have them in stock and can be ordered then :-) We carry over a thousand products so there is always something we won't have for a group buy but it's just a good excuse to start another one when the get back in stock!

Brandon

Bulk Reef Supply

Mark - have an email in to BSR with some questions. One of which concerns out of stock items (i.e. dry rock, auto top off system). My order right now

stands about $25.

Also can I be your postage buddy too? It got to be a routine with group buys that I hit Arby's for lunch then pick up my stuff. Hate to break a habit (lol).

wayne

Mark - I'm in. Just trying to figure what all I need/want.

wayne

Just got an email ad from BSR - looks as they're running specials on their RO/DI stuff.

wayneb

Think I got that part figured out. But give me the good ole days when you typed up a report, put it into a folder, and turned it in. LOL

wayne

Andrew: thanks, but I broke down and went to the Library and copied one. Will admit I like the web site you sent.

wayneb

Sounds good Liz, just remind me to remind you (I'm getting old too) LOL.

wayne

Liz, would be interested in buying a couple of small frags of the gorgorian.

wayneb

Sounds good, really looking forward to the trip.

wayne

Called Texas Parks and Wildlife today. Unless the lady was steering me wrong or misunderstood what I meant by 'collecting', she said I would need a saltwater fishing license.

Anyone know anything different? Also what should I bring to collect stuff? Again asking all you experience peoples.

wayneb

Wayne, Did you have additional text for your article? All I see are the 3 attachments.

LOL - and I was worried about the attachments going thru -

Will try and send everything thru again in a few days. Will be busy for awhile.

wayneb

Spent the morning surfing the web sites for the places C&B listed. Wife and I finally settled on the

Seaside Motel and made reservations for the 25-27th.. On the beach, but near enough to everything else, king size bed and reasonably

priced. Oh and free coffee.

wayneb

Although I'm giving serious thought to the Coroplast also, do have a couple of

questions concerning the paint. What type, brand is best for glass? Should it

be matte, semi-sheen, or shiny? Any special prep to the glass required besides

being a clean surface?

thanks,

wayneb

Think I finally got it figured out and have saved it to you'all for review.

Hopefully my charts went through okay also.

Been interesting.

wayneb

Any of the places offering group rates?

If not can anyone familiar with Port Aranasas offer ideas on

best places to stay.

wayneb

Curious on how the rock wall turned out and how it looks after a few months. Haven't seen any pictures posted.

Got all the materials to do one to hide my overflow in a 120g, but would like your post build opinions first on the

one you did for the 10 gal.

thanks,

wayneb

I need a jpg file of the Electron Periodic Table Chart for my FAQ entry.

I figured that one of you chem students/professors have access to one.

For some reason the free charts I can download off the web and add to

my fAQ do not copy over when I go to "'add record" to the FAQ. Nor can

I save them as jpg files so can not do an "click to attach file" to the FAQ.

my email is: [email protected]

figure that I would be able to save an attachment to my documents and

then try another "attach file".

Thanks in advance,

wayneb

Think I saw one yesterday at RCA. Give them a call to make sure.

wayneb

Thanks will give it a try.

wayneb

Have my FAQ ready for preliminary submission, however as it deals with "electrical safety" there is no subcategory under hardware that fits.

wayneb

Talk to Shawn at Fishy Business or the Prof at Epic Reefs - both are sponsors.

wayneb

Chad and Belinda,

If you don't mind a couple of old f**ts along, wife says it sounds good. Let us know the details. While I play in the sand and surf with a net, she said she would fish.

wayne and lynn