FarmerTy

We are so sorry for your loss Thomas! We as a community miss him very much and we are all better off for having known him. Let us know if you need anything at all during this difficult time! You have my number. -Ty

Thanks Victoly! I was able to get in touch with the family. They are hanging in there and are leaning on each other for support during this difficult time. I dropped off the food to them this afternoon and they will make good use of it. I confirmed the funeral service details with the family and Frances had it down perfectly. Details Time: 3:00-4:30pm Date: March 19th (Wednesday) Attire: Please wear a button up white shirt if possible Location: The service will be held at the Cook-Walden capital parks funeral home. Cook-Walden Funeral Home 14501 North IH 35 Pflugerville, TX 78660 For all those that are planning to attend, please post in this thread saying you are. They requested for us to bring white balloons to release at the end of the ceremony. I will pick up white balloons tomorrow for everyone planning to attend once I know the amount of people coming. Let me know if you have any other questions! Thanks, Ty

If someone is willing to spearhead the frag plug idea, and get me all the frag plugs, I'd be happy to get it to the family. I'd imagine this will take longer than tomorrow for the service so we can just give it to them when we receive all the donations and give them the cash and the frag plugs at the same time. Let me know if someone is willing to do that. Great idea Victoly!

Thank Mitch!

Thank you Viet-Tin. I'm going to PM you to coordinate dropping off the food to the family as well as the cash once we receive all the donations. Thank you!

For a community who by definition almost always has to take things painfully slow, this response developed beautifully and very quickly. Thanks for spearheading Ty. Well said my friend. Jeremy, I have added your words as I feel the family would be very happy to read it. Thank you for sharing.

Quick update, food will be ready in about 1-2 hrs and I will drop it by the house. I will also ask about funeral services and will update when I have any information. Thank you all!

Agreed. I talked to my mom and she said food and cash is best. So, I have already ordered the food. Plenty of stir fry noodles, fried rice, and egg rolls to feed a ton of family. About as much as I ordered for my rehearsal dinner for my wedding and that fed about 80+ people. Cost is $190, I will deduct from the donations and pay the rest myself. Any additional funds will be allocated to cash to be delivered to his family once everyone has donated. My mom said flowers are nice if the family is well off since they don't need money. But I feel that cash would be much useful right now for Tim's family because I'm sure he had his share of medical bills up to this point as well. Again, you can Paypal me at [email protected] and I will collect and distribute to his family. Thank you all for you generosity and compassion to Tim's family at this difficult time for them.

George, feel free to Paypal me. if we get an official fund started by El Jefe (Mframe), then I can transfer it to that one. Either way, 100% is going to his family to help with funeral expenses, food, etc...

Also, please PM if you have anything of his that you would like to get back to his famiily. I will offer to help keep his tank going until they decide what they want to do with it. I know his little brother keeps a tank too so I imagine he will continue to run the tank but if they just want to sell everything, I will offer assistance in selling his stuff. Thank you all for your kindness!

Hi everyone, I am going to drop by in the next few hours to the house and was going to bring a copy of this thread printed up as a token of the impact he had on this board. I may just cut out all the funeral service and customs stuff and just leave in the parts of us talking of our memories of him and his impact on this board. I will try to find out any funeral arrangement stuff I can for those that wish to attend and I will grab some flowers and some food to drop off for the family. Btw, I'm Vietnamese so just follow my lead so you don't have to worry about offending. Donations/contributions can be sent to [email protected] via Paypal (friends and family option) and I will make sure they all get to his family. Mike, if you want to setup something official for collection other than another board member, please feel free and I can transfer whatever has been sent to that fund instead. Thank you all for being so thoughtful and keeping his family in your prayers. -Ty

Nice! Are those tubbs blues? Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

This makes me very sad to hear. Tim was a good friend and was one of the main people who got me hooked on SPS. Probably 50% of my SPS came from him. I was just at his house 2 weeks ago to pick up some frag plugs and to get back the biopellets he borrowed from me. He looked a little thin but I just assumed by the way he was talking about it and his happy-go-lucky attitude when talking to him that he would be just fine. He was a good man and a great contributor to this forum. He will be sorely missed. A part of his legacy will always live on in my tank and those frags will be shared throughout our community. That way he will always live on and will be chasing those reefing dreams forever. Rest in peace my friend. If anybody has any details on his funeral service, please share as I would like to attend if it is open to the public. I will see if I can drop by his family and express our condolences and find out any information about the funeral services.

Big fan of mine. I can have restful, aiptasia free dreams these days! I hate mystery deaths! Sorry for your losses! Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

Copperbands have poor survival rates and are super sensitive. That might explain that one but the psuedochromis are rock steady, so I'm surprised on its death. Either way, sorry for the loss. For the copperband, I've heard they can die just from their sensitive fins being damaged with a net so if you can get one that hasn't been netted, that would be ideal. Also, they are super sensitive to copper medications for QT so something less harsh should be used before introduction into your main tank.

Getting back into that wall! I like it!

Wow! I was totally kidding but if you get that far already, that's amazing! Does a giant 29-year old wife count as a kid? Because I cooked dinner for her last night, tucked her into to bed, and gave her lunch money today for school. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

That tank is going to be AWESOME! Can't wait to see the progress of this build. I expect this to be ready for the April meeting at your house Kim! Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

Looks like ARC is getting spammed by a forum bot again!

Thanks for the heads up. I may "borrow" that idea myself!

Great looking tank. Always been a fan of the darker blue background. Don't be too surprised if my black background goes that way sometime in the near future.