Sierra Bravo

Who were the guys I circled under the BB goal?

58 minutes ago, Good Greef said:

It was the Forth Worth table then. Thx.

Deluxe Corals

https://www.deluxecorals.com/

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21 hours ago, Christyef said:

Had a good time. Thanks everyone for coming. Vendors, buyers, and just browsing! Good to see old friends and meet new ppl!

 

 

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I was ticked to find out someone had bought that piece. . . until I found out it was you!  Great buy!  🙂

That's the problem with having a TDS reading higher than zero in your water - you don't know exactly what it is comprised of.  Without a lab test it just means that your water contains unknown inorganic and/or organic matter that made it past the filter.

56 minutes ago, Guest Unlimited Color Corals said:

I can supply you with that whole pack minus the CAR's and WOW's... 

Thanks for responding  - I will send you a PM.  🙂

Actually - I can't since you are here as a guest.  Best way to message you?

I had to move my Fraghouse Corals Do-Si-Doe and that gave me a chance to take a close pic.  I actually "thought" I had sold this as a frag to someone, after having decided not to keep it. I don't know what the heck I ended up giving that person, but I ended up with the wrong one.  🙂

Sending a PM on the Bizarro.

As a matter of fact, I'll put this out there:  If anyone has any of these available I'd be interested.  Send me a PM:

Utter Chaos
Rastas
Magicians
Blondies
Oxides
Blue hornets
Candy apple reds
Oompa loompas
Fruit loops
Eagle eyes
Wows

2 hours ago, stoneroller said:

I haven't set up a frag tank at a swap in a few years. @Roy V, fellow Buda/Kyle reefer, loaned me his setup that holds about 100 frags. Thanks Roy. I plan on bringing a mix of SPS (mostly acros and a couple of months), LPS (chalices, euphyllia, and favia), and a few zoanthids if there is room. 

Go ahead and bring those zoas and euphyllias!  For a change, I'm looking for softies for my 10 gallon nano.  😁

Oregon Tort slowly getting larger.  🙂

21 minutes ago, mhart032 said:

They know better! I don't see ant runs in the chips from what I can tell. I sent the pics to.my glass guy and he asked how thick the front panel was. Said its not great, specially low iron glass (which I assume it was and told him it was) said better on the outside than on the inside. When they fix thicker window chips they have a device that does the work really. Pumps the resin in and cures it right away. But there isn't the same weight on regular 1/2-1" thick glass windows. He wouldn't trust it long term for sure. But.. he said the pane could be replaced and fixed pretty easily. But most won't warranty the rest of the tank but will the front pane. Might be less to fix then replace. 

I appreciate you asking about it for me.  Thanks!

2 minutes ago, KimP said:

I was wondering if the tank lights would work! That's amazing. It would be great if it did the trick. This is nightmare material for me. Over here I have 4 little boys running around my in wall tank that's mostly exposed on 4 sides 😬

I still don't know how it happened.  I tried the "Now, I'm not going to get mad.  I just want to know how it happened so I can prevent it from happening again.  If you know something, tell me. . .it's ok"  

Yeah, not happening. 

I am blown away by how well this resin worked once I got it cured.  I can't even find where the chip was.  I'm not ready to say I dodged a bullet yet though; I'm going to watch it a few days and see.

BTW - to get it to cure it dawned on me I had two very powerful UV lights right under my nose.  Well, right above my nose.  😋  I cranked the actinic channel up to 100% and with the boost it cured in no time. 

Before:

After cure:

After clean-up:

I've got the windshield repair kit going now, but I'm having trouble curing the resin without sunlight.  I have a UV flashlight but so far it's not doing the job.

I bought a stock tank from Tractor Supply, and have ordered a replacement tank (maybe) that should be here on Tuesday (maybe).  

Before starting the repair, I brought out a jeweler's loupe and re-examined the chip.  It appears to be a surface chip only, and what I'm seeing as a lateral line may not be a crack but just the shape of the chip.  I'll see how it looks if I get the resin to cure.  There's a small chance that I leave it as is. 

1 hour ago, KimP said:

I wouldn't know what to do either. Just wanted to say that really sucks. I'm glad you noticed it though. Any idea how they got there?

If I were to guess, I would say someone was carrying something by the tank and it was smacked going by.  The two chips are at the same level.  Of course no one knows anything about how they got there. . . 🤐

34 minutes ago, ShawnM said:

Are they on the inside or outside?


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Outside.  I'm going to do a windshield repair epoxy to stabilize it (hopefully) and I've decided I really need to change the tank.  With all my travel I just would not want to risk or worry about it spreading while I'm away.  It's either a controlled disaster or will be an unpredictable disaster, but a disaster either way. 

I just discovered two chips on the front of my 120 gallon in-wall tank and I'm extremely concerned. They are about 3" above the sandbed and " apart from one another. They the beginning of stress fracture lines starting.

Is there anything I can do to minimize the risk of this spreading until I can replace the tank??? I was wondering if a windshield repair kit epoxy would help?

I can't believe I'm even writing about having to tear down and re-do this tank. Any advice or thoughts on how to go about this would be greatly appreciated.

Chip 1

Chip 2

On the SA Reef Addicts Facebook group, some of the admins have organized a frag pack raffle to benefit a fellow reefkeeper in San Antonio that had much of his belongings destroyed when his home caught fire in the early morning.  There are a lot of really nice items up for grabs; certainly worth the drive down if you were to win. 

Raffle Link:  https://m.facebook.com/groups/376233776537588?view=permalink&id=399682334192732

News article:  https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/early-morning-fire-wipes-out-pagans-vehicles-santa-suits

Current Items (There are still more donations coming in for the raffle):

Innovative Marine Fusion Nano 10
ASD Glow in the Dark Acro
BC Flyy Me to the Blue Moon Humulis (mini colony)
Bird of Paradise (Seriatopora)
Blond Blue Eyes
Blue Sympodium
CB Flaming Phoenix Monti (large frag)
CB Maleficent Acro
Dino Eggs Monti
GB Buttmunchir Petroglyphs (mini colony)
JF Beach Bum Monti
JF Frost Maul Favia
JF Jack O Lantern Leptoseris
JF Orange Psammocora
Joker
Ked's Reds
King Midas'
Meteor Shower Cypahastrea
Neon Green Hairy Mushroom (opens very nice)
Orange Ricordea
Orange Setosa (bright)
Purple-tip Frogspawn
Radioactive Candy Cane (two heads)
Rastas
Scuba Steve Torch
Soft Green Hammer (large head)
Sunny Ds
Superman Rhodactis
UC Super Orange Leptoseris
WWC Jollopeno Acro (mini colony)
WWC Paletta Pink Tip Acro
WWC Paletta Tri-Color Acro (mini colony)
WWC Purple Monsters (mini colony)
WWC Purple Monsters (mini colony)
WWC Teal Sarmentosa (mini colony)

You've been quiet for a while.  Nice way to jump back in to the conversation - "Look what I got!".   🙂

I have a little live rock in the sump, but I use two of the 8"x8"x1" plates of MarinePure as well as a number of the 2x2" cubes.   I've placed the cubes in the bubble trap so that all the water is forced to move over/through them.  I've seen the plates and cubes deteriorate a bit in two years, but nothing that would make me worry.  I've even rinsed them out/cleaned off the sponges once during this time.  They've done a great job for me.

7 minutes ago, eddius-maximus said:

AGREED! It's a gorgeous disaster. My two big tank stresses: aiptasia and spongodes. And I can't just remove it. It has firmly become an integral part of the biggest piece of LR in my tank.

After the Apocalypse, the two living things remaining will be cockroaches and your montipora spongodes .  😋

31 minutes ago, eddius-maximus said:

I'm incredibly jealous of the shapes your spongodes is forming. Beautiful. Mine aspires to be a gigantic (12"+) flat dinner plate, taking over everything. 

I like the piece, but from a practicality standpoint, it's one of the worst livestock purchases I've made.  🙂  I don't know what I'm ultimately going to do with it.

I implemented a line feeding from the skimmer cup and increased media effectiveness from about 10 days to 4 weeks.  The supply line to the skimmer coming from the scrubber is bypassing the silencer and direct to the venturi inlet, which is why it's not connected in the pic (people were thinking I had connected the hoses wrong first time I posted this 😀 )