Austinvines

(someone give me a hint on how I edit my previous post!) The first rock is pending but if I can't get it sold by Saturday, you are welcome to it. The small candy cane is available but the large is gone. Still have several "blowpops" left. Euphyllia is still available.

All PMs should have been responded to. Will be around today for easy pickup. Yuma and zoa rock is gone (nice meeting you Michelle).

Need to make room on my sand bed and want to share what I've got with you all. First is a multi zoa disk with 20+ polyps of "blow pop" zoas (purple centers w/ yellow mouths and long green skirts). It has a small green yuma on it and a few polyps each of a bright green zoa and a blueish zoa. $20 Yuma with four polyps and 20+ "blow pop". $30 Blow Pop rocks/disks with 20+ polyps each. $15 12+ head very bright green/yellow candy cane. $30 30+ head candy cane with colony of purple and colony of orange zoas. $50 3-4 heads of hybrid euphylia (from Ace's tank in SA) and blow pop colony. $25 Pics are a little blue but they all look great under the t5 and vho's I use. Everything grows pretty fast.

I posted to the zoanthid forum on RC asking about my very pretty (I think) zoas and a few weeks later got an email asking if they could use it for ReefSlides. I just took the picture with a Canon Digital ELPH point and shoot on the macro setting but it came out great. My lights are t-5 with VHO actinic and this is pretty close to WYSIWYG. Here is the link to the slide show. http://reefkeeping.com/joomla/index.php/current-issue/article/17-reefslides Here is the picture itself: Now if I could just figure out the best way of growing these out to where they would stick to the frag instead of the main colony I could share

My bday/father's day presents were a few gift certificates and the "go-ahead" from my lovely spouse on the nano wavebox from Tunze. It is on and functioning but it isn't pushing out the wave quite like I'd like and I wanted anyone's input on their experience. I have a 75g RR tank (48 x 18 x 22(?)). I wanted to put it in the back right corner but have some rock positioned there. It is now on the far left side of the tank, just next to the overflow. I cannot quite get the wave set right and have fiddled with the delay from none to "all the way" with not great results. Any ideas on the best way of tuning this?

Well darn! I guess I will just have to get $100 worth of snails then myself. Glad those zoas are doing you right. Which ones did you get? Dylan

I removed all the rock and did a full clean of my 75g and took inventory of my cleanup crew. It is pretty pathetic and I was turned on to reeftopia which looks to have some really good snails and crabs. I was wondering if anyone wanted to join with me to get free shipping or even a discount in a large-ish order. I suppose it could even be a group buy but since I have never handled one before, I am not sure I want to responsibility of 5+ peoples inverts. Dylan

Canopy has found a home.

I have an 4' Oceanic cherry stained oak canopy available. It is probably 5 years old has been modified some and is in need of TLC. PM me if interested. I'd trade it cheap.

Here is the an example of the yuma. I may be able to frag 1-2 polyps off which I would sell for $5 each.

I have some 10-30 polyp frags of these zoanthids I could bring to the meeting tomorrow if anyone is interested. I would ask $5-$15 per colony and have 3-4 total. I also have a rock with very green yumas with a purple base on it. It has at least 6 polyps on it and I would ask $20 for it.

All PMs responded too and may be out of frags if everyone gets what they asked for. I will update as necessary.

It was actually the evil sent mail folder

I I am paying more attention to my tank and things are really starting to grow (corals as well as cyano unfortunately). I have some zoanthids that could easily be fragged. I am interested in other colorful zoanthid species or LPS frags in trade. My camera isn't great and I am a total novice in using it but these are actually fairly close to how they look in my tank. If I end up selling them, I would guess around a dollar a polyp or around $20 for the big ones. These were sold to me as "blowpops" but don't look as vibrant in my tank as they did in the sales picture. I like the tie-dyed effect. This is actually the smaller "frag" of this green skirted, blue edged, cream centered zoas. They grow extremely fast in my tank. I have two frags this size which were growing next to some fire and ice that will be fragable soon. I live in Oak Hill and will be around this weekend if anyone is interested. Take care, Dylan

Cleaning out the sump and my chaeto filled almost a 5 gallon bucket. I am keeping about half so the other half is up for grabs before it heads out to the compost pile. Call me at 301-9733 if interested. I will keep it around until Sunday. I am in Oak Hill near north Circle C. Dylan

My cheato is dissolving! There are several possibilities as to why; from pouring alk buffer directly into the main ball, predation from a bristle worm that lives in the chunk of LR in the sump, or the reason that one of my ric's are shrinking to nothing but a mouth Whatever the reason, I need some more! If you can help out, I would appreciate it. I live in South Austin. Thanks Dylan

Hey Irish, I have a rock of nice white xenia with many, many stalks which is about 8" high when fully extended. My wife wants to see if I can walk some stalks off onto a rock to keep one or two but I'd be happy to let the rest go very cheaply if you are still interested.

I cannot get rid of the bubble algae so I am considering replacing the rock I have. Thanks!

Sorry I don't know of any personally but suspect you may have to make the drive to Austin. Bcoons on this board lives in Copperas Cove so he would know. Good luck and Welcome! Dylan

Whoa. Impressive. Most impressive... Hey brotha, could you spare a frag of those blastos(?) on your Longhorn Reef frontpage? That skimmer is insane! How tall is it? It looks about 4'. I bet the volume of the "nog" cup can be measured in multiple gallons. Again, amazing.

So how long do you have to find a house and where do you live in Lubbock now? I have a friend who teaches or is an administrator at the TSD and will ask her about tie ins with local districts. TSD is just south of downtown Austin so is right in the middle of Austin ISD. Just to the south and west of downtown you have Eanes ISD which is very highly rated and the houses are priced accordingly ($200/ft for late 70's construction/looks and it goes up from there for the nicer homes). Even further west you have Lake Travis ISD which is growing with young families but traffic getting into town cannot be fun. As for where to live or where not to live, it depends on what you are looking for. The burbs will have the most kids around, while neighborhoods near downtown that used to be undesirable are experiencing rapid gentrification with teardowns etc. If you are looking for Eanes, I have a realtor for you but homes start at 350k for unremodeled homes! confused2.gif Feel free to PM me, Dylan

Here is one for sale you may want to take a look at. She has it listed here too but this link has a picture. http://www.maast.org/index.php?name=PNphpB...56b931d12ecff85

I have the RK2 from Digital Aquatics and like it bunches. Small and very powerful with its customizations. The Aquacontroller Jr is another one about the same price with some differences in programming (I think it ends up being more once you make them comparable) and the rk2 is about to come out with a firmware update that will allow data logging which should be great.

Welcome Ben. So what kind of tank are you thinking of starting?

Amen to a playoff but it isn't going to happen this decade... Rutgers is good, I love their coach and heart, and anything can happen in a college game (see UT last weekend) but their conference is the weakest of the majors. If Rutgers makes it undefeated it will help the conversation for a playoff but their chances of playing in the title game are under 5%.