JamesL

I found a leak in my HOB fuge, and needed to take it down for a while. Since I don't plan on setting it back up right away, I am going to give away a large clump of chaeto that was in it. It is probably roughly the size of a large softball (probably bigger).

I have it in some saltwater right now.

I am located in the Buda area if you are interested. Tomorrow (Sunday) my schedule is pretty full, but will be available Monday.

Free to whoever wants it. If you want to toss a frag my way, that is fine.

Thank you Ty for being such a great host! And thank you to your wife for letting us invade your house

I have not seen my porcelain crab feed the anemone. I have seen him eat the anemone slime when it sheds some off (yeah, great visual for a Friday morning breakfast). The clowns are good about taking large pieces of food to the anemone.

RIP to the skunk clown. Found him extremely dried out behind the tank today I had him around 4 to 5 years... not exactly sure what finally provoked him to jump out.

A few quick updates. After the Dome meeting, I started upping my feeding schedules for the tanks to every other day. Of course the fish and anemones where happy about it... but not sure my birds nest in this tank where. I left for a few days and came back to my green birds nest browned out. Some light reading suggested that too much nutrients in the water will cause this as the brown algae in the coral multiply to help handle it. So basically you have to starve SPS to make them pretty in color (silly colored sticks).

Other than that, I have not seen my pom pom crab, but that is not a surprise as he was tiny. But I also have not seen my two sexy shrimp. They normally where hanging around the front of the tank in the Kenya tree. I think they might goners... maybe the pistol shrimp go them, as they did hang around near one of his entrances.

Selling my wife's 13" 2009 MacBook Air, as she has replaced the computer. Specs shown in the screen shot.

The computer was recently re-imaged with Mavericks due to it not starting up. It now runs fine and is much peppier.

It also has been dropped twice, landing on each back corner. Gotta love the aluminum casing, as the computer/screen survived, just dented the corners. I brute forced the corners back into shape (see pictures) and the top opens/closes fine.

Asking $400 $300 OBO for it (check is OK if I know you, cash otherwise). Am located in Buda, so would prefer to meet up in Buda/Kyle/South Austin area.

As a bonus, will even through in the below pictured ultra retro (read as old) neoprene case

How about some color changing frog fish to go with the macro? Seems like you would have enough colors to make them happy.

Have it on my calendar and plan on coming with probably our 2 year old.

Vote for your favorite picture. Voting ends at midnight March 15th.

Group buy?

Evidently we only need to cut James' into parts, this guy's regenerated.

wow, you read quick and miss the first little apostrophe on that and you get a whole different concept.

Man, back only for a short time and Mike already wants to cut me

Obviously we remember you

100% about 4" above the water.

They are not easy to catch. The one I have is a bit more flat. It travels under the sand, but can jet back inside the rocks instantly.

You can come get the one out of my 75g.

Ah, the December Early Bird Page is gone now.

Here is the correct link: February Early Bird Tickets

I will correct the original post. Thanks for finding this!

Hey guys, I've got another new and aggravating problem. I tried to go to the ARC store to buy my C4 ticket, it says "you are not allowed to purchase that". What gives, cause I know that ain't right, LOL. That shows up when I go to the C4 page in news and updates, then try to click on the link to go to the ARC store. A little help, please?

At what point does it give you that error? When you try adding the ticket to the cart? Or when you try to check out?

Moving this out of Tank Builds and into Off Topic.

Most were taken at 20X and 40X power. Was too lazy to get the oil out for the 100X objective. Got a few cool video's that I might post later. I was using the very precise method of focusing, then holding my iPhone up to the eyepiece to take the picture LOL! If I play with it much more, I'll have to make an adapter to fit over the eyepiece as it was very hard to hold the phone exactly right to get the picture. But I had fun

As a long term experiment I'm going to put a slide in the tank for several weeks where I hope to get a bacterial mat and some coraline algae to grow on it. That will look pretty cool under the scope I think. Probably have to dig out some stains to see everything.

That is the same method I use for capturing pictures from my telescope!

I like the predatory tank idea. I have seen some cool ones at Fish Gallery and the Dome lately.

The Dome has BML's over some of their tanks.

Reef Crystals here (when I do water changes *cough*). Most of my saltwater career it has been Instant Ocean or Reef Crystals. I have dabbled in a few other brands due to sales, but always end up back at what I normally use.

The jelly one is cool!

Epoxy over the anemone has worked for me in the past. Doesn't help those that are on power cords though :-z

The next step is white balance correction (which will remove the blue's that a lot of lights introduce). You can either do it with the camera or post-process the picture.

On my Canon, when you move into the manual shooting modes, you can then select the focus point. You probably have that same ability.