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I'm needing to make a canopy for this 40gal bowfront very soon. I'm looking for these among other things in Austin: 1) mogul socket and bracket 2) very reflective material used for the reflectors (has to be bendable by a normal human being). Any stores around sell these or anyone on the forum? I keep seeing cooling fans in canopies and I'm wondering how they are wired up? I'm looking for a very inexpensive way to set one up for this canopy I'm going to make. By the way I've already got the fan.

Yeah, it's my soli/efflo on my frags.org link. At the moment it is still small but plating, that is why I'm calling it a soli/efflo for the time being because I'm not sure which it is. When I bought it I bought it under the name of LE Acropora efflorescens. Who knows if it is really that or not but all I know is that it is one of my favorites! Here's a quick pic, you may have seen this photo in MAAST.org:

Thanks Robert, it is always cool to talk with you in person.

Robert it is not you who made me feel upset, seriously. I looked at the picture much more skeptically after the post you asked me about it. It does look a bit like digitata, that was when my tank was not growing things so well and it was growing maybe a 1/16" per month. Monday I will be at the school all day, and seriously I will give you a frag for free, no questions asked I'll keep my word. I sold Jonathan Mast a piece for $5 yesterday and I really should have gave him a piece for free but I gave him a bunch of other free frags. Sunday, tomorrow, I will also be available a little bit if that is better. I just had finals week this week, it's my senior semester, and I've been going crazy so I'm very sorry if I'm being extra sensitive.

By the way, that pic hammondegge posted a message or two ago corresponds to a A. yongei: http://www.frags.org/memberfragdetails.php?fid=3733 Or the person who posted the pic has their names wrong, if your saying formosa. Here's another on frags.org that is called "green slimer": http://www.frags.org/memberfragdetails.php?fid=4829 My piece is just like this one, when I look at both. When I bought it originally it was browned out, it has been getting greener and greener. Another on someone's website that they are calling 'green slimer", and it looks like the one I have: http://blog.captivereefing.com/2005/03/page/2/ Niether are a spitting image of each other but they have been called "green slimer," either correctly or incorrectly, and they are most likely growing in different conditions. I'm just going to go ahead and say it but I feel a bit dismissed, just trying to offer what I believe to be green slimer. disgust.gif Shoot I'll give frags of this guy away for free to Robert, even if it is greenslimer or not, but heck do I not know what I'm doing?

That is actually an pic I took in January. The main branch had fallen on it's side and kinda did a melt on rock growth mode. I feel kinda bad that you think I would steer you to buy a M. digitata instead of an A. yongei. I have no doubt that it is Acropora. Although, I've got some digitata. Here's a pic of tip growth, although blurry, I will take some more pics in a few days: Like I said I don't have actinics. The pic I have on frags is older and the tissue is not as green as it is now.

Are you talking about A. yongei? I've got some looking pretty good and growing very well! Check my link in my signature below, price can vary for good friends (in a good way). I don't have actinics on my system yet so I'm sure the color will get more crazy with more lighting. My tank will be at St. Edwards U for just a few more days and then I'm moving it to another place in Austin, a little more north. Just wanted to put that in because I thought I remembered you live close to St. Ed's and it would be easier for you.

That looks like some good stuff I will have to listen to, especially the power outage prep, if you know what I mean today and last night!

Found this pic at Reefer Madness and they are calling it a vermiculata: Nice piece, looks kinda like Mike's piece except for the green and yellow, but growth pattern looks similar. http://www.reefermadness.us/RMD04282018.htm

I saw a bucket that Carlos had at River City Aquatics, a few weeks ago.

What about peppermints hassling Christmas tree worms?

Good idea I might have to go in on a group order with you. I knew about that site and I believe Instar the guy we are talking about is affliated with them. By the way did you have to have all of your powerheads/etc off while you had them or were they smart and stay away from the pumps? That's not good that you've seen more aiptasia, that means the berghia were not entirely efficient unless you've gotten new pieces of rock that may have had them once your berghia population died off.

Well I did have a velvet nudi and it was eating well but made me extremely mad when I found it sucked into one of my tiny,tiny pumps that would never be able to suck something up but some how did. It seems like the most natural option to me at the moment for eradicating those orange nudi's. I know there is flatworm exit but I just don't feel myself trusting a chemical that will kill these guys and be reef-safe. I think my main focus for bringing this up is because I'm trying to wiggle out of buying a $$$ organism that doesn't ship well and may cost $40 to get shipped. Having it local is ideal for the buyer but I know it is not always possible.

That is one blue bugger!

What store are you referring to when you say we? Is Instar genuinely local, like Austin, or in Texas requiring a drive by either party?

Golden Teardrop Maxima:

Unless some of you know where I can get velvet and berghia nudibranchs dependably, in Austin, I think we should all start calling the shops and pushing them to carry some. If they start carrying them then newbies would have maybe less of a problem with getting them in thier tanks by buying from local LFS, and I've pretty much seen aiptasia or brown nudibranchs at all of our local shops so they need these guys as well.

Well, I was thinking my idea isn't that far from a frag bank, maybe. Just to have a main place to display pictures, info and stuff about the frags would be good. Making the site designs could maybe come through meetings or through someones great artistry. The fedex account I don't know if that would work but it would be cool. Those people that are big in the business started somewhere, I want to get some of our names on some corals like the big names!

Yeah, that sounds good. I didn't figure it would all work, I was just dreaming big. Lets start a frag bank!

Alright I just have an idea that I have to share. I just bought a coral frag from exoticreefs.us and it came to me, what if us Austinites in the Austin Reef Club could setup a store like that to sell frags online. Creating a reputation, a resource pool, and making an attractive website design and images, I believe, really can bring in some $$$. Fragfarmers, Reeffarmers, etc. sell pieces that draw attention by uniqueness and name. Selling individually may make it harder for other people to believe they are going to get what they ordered or something bad like that. Creating an official site could generate more confidence in a buyer rather than idividual sales. So, this is how I picture it: We create a link from the main entrance of Austin Reef Club and call it TexasFrags or Austinfrags, or something good. We put together a library of corals according to genus and species and then by name, or vis-versa. For each genus/species/name there would be a list of frag providers in Austin most likely from the Austin Reef Club. I don't know if it would work but maybe we could create a fedex account. Once someone in Texas or somewhere else in the world wants to buy a frag the specific frag provider would be notified. Then either a coordinator or the frag provider themself would then ship the coral via the fedex account. Payment would go directly to the frag provider or maybe through a treasurer. The tricky thing I just thought about would be consistency in frag quality from one frag provider to the next. I believe on way to get over that one would be to provide photos of the actual piece a buyer would recieve. There is a bunch I haven't thought about but I just had to post it. I think it would be fun, there could be meetings on new strains Austin Reef Club members come up with, ideas about sales and all kinds of things!