mojo

Nice Clint, are those blastos? I had an almost identical morph in my 1st tank (a 30g cube, if you remember ) but it died off after a few months and I haven't seen a similar colony since then. Hope this does well for you!

You need to change the light spectrum of your lamps, that coral looks too blue

Don't give up on it Clint, it still may turn out to be something special. If it looked good in the past, it may look good again in the future. It's not like you need the real estate in your tank just yet.

SOLD!

Please let me know how it works out for your brother-in-law Gabriel, I'm sure he'll be very happy!

I like your logic Clint, you're a smart man!

Wow, I can't believe this skimmer hasn't sold yet. I just did a search on RC and this skimmer is selling for $200 there.

I prefer to sell it locally and not ship it, but if someone doesn't jump on it soon I'm going to put it up on RC as well.

Thanks for commenting Gabriel, I thought it was a pretty good deal myself.

And if anyone wants to see this thing in action, go to Kingfish Aquariums. John uses this skimmer on his tank at the shop and it pulls out mucho gunk!

$140 (goes for $271 + shipping on MarineDepot).

Suitable for aquariums up to 75 gallons (although personally I wouldn't use it on anything larger than 40 or 50g, depending on how heavily it's stocked).

I won't be needing mine any more, as I'm moving into a 450g tank and this would be woefully undersized!!

The skimmer is in perfect condition, used only for 6 months. It has been cleaned with muriatic acid and is ready to use.

Please send me a pm if interested.

Mike

I agree ... you should upgrade to a Hammerhead. That Barracuda's clearly not going to cut it.

That sounds like a great plan, Clint! Hey, I've got an idea - why don't you ship that stupid skimmer back from where it came, and pick yourself up a nice Red Sea Prism skimmer. The 'shrooms will love it!

Geez, I didn't realize ARC was so uptight. And to think I almost posted that same photo of me but from the back side

Yep, great meeting all around. Too bad I was distracted by my daughter (the little blonde one), I had to bring her along to give mom a break. As a result I only heard bits and pieces of the talk and I regret not hearing the rest.

Brian and Christina - Great to see the tank again, I love what you've done with the lighting and I'll need to come back again with the PAR meter to get some new readings. Thanks again for being wonderful hosts to the club, and for letting Sidney play with your pets.

chrismunn - Nice to meet you too, bro. Thank your wife and daughter for playing with Sidney, she had a blast.

Marc - Thanks for providing us with such a thorough discussion on sumps. You do so much for the hobby, and we are fortunate to have again been taught by you.

James - You da man!

- Mike

I am almost positive I'll make it.

Mike

I really like the frag plugs, for all the reasons you mentioned.

I got mine from aquarium specialty

http://www.aquariumspecialty.com/catalog/p...roducts_id=1867

... but you can get them from any vendor that sells KZ products. If I recall correctly, Kingfish will be carrying KZ products near the end of the month.

Isn't that always the case, where our most prized corals tend to lag along while the others set an olympic pace? One of my favorite frags is a pink millepora with crazy blue and green highlights, and it's growing quite nicely. There's no photo of it here, as I didn't turn off the pumps and with the freakishly long polyps waving in the current it was difficult to focus. The duncans are indeed growing, albeit slowly. These pics don't show the extra heads that have developed, and the angle doesn't show the increased height either.

Here is was in November.

And a couple days ago.

OMG, these pictures are just incredible. Thank you all so much for sharing them with us!

Stephen, it's a rhomboid wrasse .

Here's the Hawaiian flame wrasse. See if you can find him in these photos.

This is the achilles tang. Don't worry about the spots you see, that's stuff blowing around the tank as I did not turn off pumps for any of these photos. There is absolutely no ich and he's gaining weight nicely. His color is as black as black can be.

Here's the full tank, all lights on.

Right side.

cali tort, 1/13/08

4/20/08 - still not yet dark blue, but getting much better

Beneath the toadstool you can see a new gorgonian.

In the background is the Leng Sy cap, looking mighty fine.

I got this acro frag from Austin Aqua Farms a while ago. Here it was on 1/13/08

4/20/08, sorry, different angle, but the same angle is above with the gorgonian.

I mentioned I've had some improved coloration recently. Here's what I mean. There's also been some growth, it seems .

Miyagi tort, 1/13/08

4/20/08

acro tenuis, 1/13/08

4/20/08

green slimer, 1/13/08

4/20/08

blue tip stag, 1/13/08

4/20/08

I picked up some frags yesterday from my office tank. Most of them will be shown in the following photos. I mounted most onto KZ frag plugs, which attach to weighted bases. They can be moved around the tank safely and without being blown around until a 'happy' spot is found, then the tops simply pull off of the bases for permanent mounting.

Here's a full tank shot, actinics only. I need to scrape the coralline off of the back.

And while we're in actinic mode, here is a cluster of new frags.

Acro turaki

birdsnest

milles (ORA rose and another one)

efflo

Lights all on. This ricordea is in my avatar and is the 2nd coral I ever purchased some 3 years ago. It only recently became happy in my tank since the change from the 30g cube.

more to follow ...

Great photos Gabriel, I can't wait to see everyone elses as there were photographers in force at the meeting. It was a great time, and I think I had a chance to talk with everyone there individually. We've got some cool people in our club! It was an honor to co-host this meeting with the Kingfish guys, and I look forward to seeing everyone again at future meetings. We'll have to do it again at the office in a year like you said, James. I'll see what I can do to make the parking more convenient next time - sorry about that!

Mike

Andrew, I got the reminder email, so I guess it's working. Looks like it will be a small crowd at the meeting though .

princer7 - Glad the operation went well, let me know about it when we meet on Saturday.

Mike

Here's a slight correction, but important. The tank is NOT in the Dell Children's Medical Center. It's in the medical office building adjacent to the hospital, called Strictly Pediatrics. The address is 1301 Barbara Jordan Blvd., and my office is Suite 400. The hospital doors never lock but the office building is secured over the weekend, which is why it won't be possible to keep the doors open. There is a covered parking garage sandwiched in between the hospital and the office building, and it's free on the weekend, so park in there. Nobody else will be around, so it will be easy for us to all find each other at the parking garage between the times James announced. Sorry for the somewhat rigid start time and lack of flexibility, but there's really no way to work around that. I'm looking forward to seeing everybody there!

Mike

Of course I didn't, Clint, I'm a classy guy. But when it's yours, you can cover it with 2x4's for all I care