lewisweil

Once again, our paths cross Lewis. I've got a beer fridge that I use to ferment lagers. I haven't brewed in a while, but if you want to use my fridge, let me know.

awesome. yeah try to make it out to the social tomorrow. (Caroline from Amazonia is supposed to be there so it is a guaranteed good time).

(man now I really want to find someone with a brew fridge I could horn in on)

yeah I don't think I can count on 8 weeks of winter. I do think it would almost be funny to go through all that effort just to make homebrewed lonestar.

THREAD DERAILED! Victoly is there a gif for derailings?

hmm maybe when it gets cold I can try it in my garage. I am guessing you need long stable low temps though.

This is going to sound stupid but I want to homebrew something similar to Lonestar. Is it a cream ale? I want to see what it tastes like when it is really fresh.

Welcome to the club! It's been interesting reading your posts so far. I saw the story about you on slashdot a while back and had no idea you were that guy, pretty cool!! I'm originally from Las Cruces (up the road from El Paso) and also went to A&M, class of '03. Nice to have another aggie in the group

That guy and this guy are the same guy! I had a lot of friends in Las Cruces. New Mexico has a special place in my heart.

edit: thanks and gig'em. FTAC of '05

Hi.

oh hey.

I don't think we can get cask conditioned by Thursday night. But I am already thinking about the brews that will be in the shop once the store opens.

Speaking of brews I went by Butterfly this evening and caught #gillmurray enjoying a tallboy. Is he even 21 in fish years?

Thanks y'all. Right now we are building out the greenhouses and I am building my seed stock. Eventually I'll sell my seaweed for people and fishes!

I have been informed there will be schwag from the mothership in houston.

7:30 until 10pm or so.

YEAH!

I've been here on-and-off for awhile but I've never introduced myself. I'm Lewis. I've been in Austin since 2006. I am originally from El Paso and went to school at A&M. I am a biologist in the biotech industry by day and active in fish and other stuff at night. I am buddies with the crew at Fish Gallery and I am helping them with community outreach while they get their new Austin location up and running. I run Austin Sea Veggies,a small culinary seaweed farm located at Agua Dulce farms. I also run Nerd Nite- Austin a speaker series, where I sneak in marine biology talks as often as I can.

Currently I actually don't have any tanks running other than my seaweed farm. I work on other peoples tanks and think and plan about aquariums and don't really have the energy to do them at home. Though that will probably change once the Austin Fish Gallery opens and I won't be able to help myself.

When I was a student at A&M i worked in bioaquatics taking care of their aquaria including their reef tanks and saltwater lab tanks. I have worked with sharks. My smallest tank was a 2liter reef in a bottle. My biggest was the sharks. I've also kept and bred freshwater fish and plants. I worked in a fish store as kid in high school. My earliest memories include aquariums. So long and short, I am a fish nerd.

Come say in person sometime. I'll be the next Fish Gallery social or at a Nerd Nite event.

Reminder: this week is our next Drink Like a Fish happy hour at 7:30pm at the Butterfly Bar. Come have a drink, meet Gill Murray and talk fish with us!

Never used seahares. I'll have to see if there is anything in the tank that would harass them.

I can't believe my predecessor from TAMU found this thread. I am pretty sure you trained me on the tank before you left.

Was Darcy there when you were working in BioAquatics?

A friend of mine wants to convert his tanks to LED and he wants day/night cycles. Are there any good LED systems that have that as a built in setting without having to use an external controller? I have not used any like that so I am unfamiliar.

Call Rhonda and have her let you in!

Woah. We'll have to have a reunion. Say hi to Duncan for me! I have probably heard stories about you.

I'll definitely be going b/cs more often. They haven't had a dedicated person on it for awhile. The new person has some work to do!

the tank at A&M? Next time I'm there I'll get pics. If you like pictures of turf algae that is 0_0

I signed up but never got my confirmation email.

edit: I'm in! nice pics!

She's good. I like to think I'm pretty good at aquascaping but I wouldn't have come up with that in a million years. If you do want a consult I know she would be down. She told me she wants to do another tank. PM me if you're down. She is an artist so she can do anything from sketches to the actual setup. I was pretty **** impressed when she showed up on Sunday morning and rolled up her sleeves to do the rockwork herself! I'd love to see the same principals done with saltwater.

loving these ideas. I'm going to get to take all the advice and assemble an algae hit squad. keep the ideas coming!

that is amazing. i just did a very minimalist tank. it's a freshwater tank, but I think it is cool and worth looking. pics are in the fish gallery forum. my friend designed it.

Personally I prefer minimalist tanks. Maximize the volume you have. Maybe it doesn't look perfect on day 1 but it will look amazing once the coral grow out. One of my favorite tanks just had three pieces of rock on the sandbed then they let the coral grow out and fill the water column. I wish I could remember where I saw it. I seem to remember that it a gorgonian tank. It was stunning.

Jake, make sure to bring some photos (duh). I want to see your skillz!

shibby...

sweet, I want to ask you about taking pics of tanks. cause I suck at it.

Photodude - please help him

Hi Sarah (or is it??). Remember forever that that was your first post!

shibby...

sweet, I want to ask you about taking pics of tanks. cause I suck at it.