mFrame

Do you know if the watchman is male or female? Or how hard it is for them to pair?

I have a yellow in my cube that lost his shrimp a while back.

Not sure of the sex, and have never paired gobies with each other. Pairing up a goby and a shrimp is dead simple, they pretty much find each other within a day or two and start shacking up.

The tank is sold, so here's your chance to pick up some critters for your tank:

• two naked clowns (paired) and their 6"+ sebae anemone host - $75 - Fish Pending - Joshdmartin, Anemone Pending - Niko
  
• yellow watchman goby and tiger pistol shrimp pair (shrimp is HUGE) - $30 - Pending - BBReefer
  
• 1 anthias (eats frozen mysis and dry pellets, little piggy! - $20 - Pending - Victoly
  
• cabbage coral - $10 - Pending - Victoly
  
• mini-carpets:(1)4" green/white, 3 nickel sized ones (green/white) - $35 (will be very hard to get these off the live rock, so selling rock with them on it) - Pending - MxnSldr78
  
• live rock with various green/purple mushrooms - $15 - Pending - MxnSldr78
  
• various CUC (elephant slugs, hermits, emerald crab, porcelain crab, tiger cucumber) - Pending - RChavez
  
• all remaining live rock (not mentioned above) - $25 - Pending - MxnSldr78
  
• live sand - (asterinas, micro brittles)
  

Will post pics tonight

Paypal required to hold

* I'd like to do the break down and arrange all pickups on the same night this week. - **** Looks like Thursday night works best ****

Pics added: you can see the naked clowns (male has white cheeks), anthias (female), sebae anemone, and cabbage coral

With everything going on in June we forgot to do the RCA Quarterly Salt Buy, so we're running one now. Please vote for the type/quantity you want and follow it up with a post to let everyone know what you're getting.

*** Updated with pricing and quantity ***

$33.99/bucket for Coralife

$49.99/bucket for Red Sea Pro

We need at order of at least 10 buckets for coralife and 20 buckets for Red Sea in order to make.

Images were restored from the backup. We currently are working on the duplicate "Forums" and "Members" tabs at the top of the site.

Please let me know if you see any other issues.

Just wanted to provide a quick update. I inadvertently took down the website this morning while making backing up the site. Thanks to Andrew for all of his help bringing it back up. We're working on the missing images now and will do the best we can to restore them. I'll provide a status update here when done.

For future notice, we will update our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/AustinReefClub) if there is ever an issue with the club site, so go ahead and bookmark us there (and friend the club!) as a backup means of communication. Thanks,

Mike and the ARC staff

member: chippwalters

total weekend attendees: 1 (maybe 2, don't know at this time)

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Hi Chipp, some of the events you selected conflict: Aquarium tour and fish collecting Sat afternoon; and MAAST BBQ Dinner and ARC Bonfire. Just wanted to clarify for others planning their schedule that you might be able to do both but that you'll most likely miss part of each event if you're doing the other.

The Sapphire Aquatics Protein Skimmer is great and will fit the size space you're looking for. PM me if interested.

Tank sold, livestock going up for sale in livestock thread.

Please note the revised itenerary in the opening post and answer the following questions if you intend to go. Something like:

member: mframe

total weekend attendees: 3

(3) Participating in Build Your Own Breakfast Taco brunch on Saturday ($5pp)

( ) Texas State Aquarium & Tour

(2) Fishing/Crabbing collecting Saturday afternoon

( ) MAAST BBQ Dinner

( ) ARC Bonfire and seafood cookout ($10pp if you want to eat)

( ) Saturday night critter collecting

( ) Sunday morning brunch together

ARC Event T-shirts: (3) - 1 XL, 1 L, 1 M

ARC new club t-shirts (same logo, new dri-fit material): (3) - 1 XL, 1 L, 1 M

Event T-shirt design (back) - Approximately $15

Club t-shirt design - Approximately $20

Let's keep it friendly people. Glad the source was identified, but let's all be careful with electricity.

One taken.

Time to consider parting out. I'll be selling the tank and stand first, once they're sold I'll list livestock (I'm not selling livestock unless the tank sells).

$400 for the following: SOLD!

• 34g Solana Tank (small scratch front top left corner), Solana Stand, Solana skimmer and custom LED fixture
  
• Autotopoff setup (float valve, tubing, aqualifter, 5g shorty water jug)
  
• 2 Koralia powerheads
  
• Aquarium top screen
  

Neptune Systems Apex Jr (new in box, never used) - $130

Sapphire Aquatics Protein Skimmer - $45

Or take the whole thing with live rock, sand, and livestock in the Complete systems thread.

My two large Rose Bubbletip Anemones split last night to celebrate the birth of our country! I've got two healthy clones about 5-7" when extended. $80 each. (Paypal required to hold)

Here are pics of the actual clones (in the pic you can see the one on the right in the process of splitting from the one on the left)

As you can tell from the following picture, these open up huge when the lights were on (they're shrunken quite a bit in the clone shots due to them splitting and it being later at night). Here are pics of the mother and original clone (to the right) before this split:

In anticipation of my new larger tank, I'll be getting rid of my two smaller tanks (90g and 34g). First to go is the Solana.

Note this is a listing in the "Complete Systems" thread. Please do not make offers on parting out in this thread.

Please excuse the pics as the glass hasn't been cleaned recently. I had always intended to frost or tint the glass on the cabinet door to hide the contents but never got around to it, it would be very easy to do. The LED fixture has blue, royal blue, and white LEDs and all three are adjustable (this is one of the fixtures Timfish built at our March meeting).

Sale includes:

• 34g Solana Tank (small scratch front top left corner)
  
• Solana Stand
  
• Apex Jr (new in box, never used)
  
• Autotopoff setup (float valve, tubing, aqualifter, 5g shorty water jug)
  
• Custom LED fixture
  
• Solana skimmer and Saphire skimmer
  
• 2 powerheads
  
• Aquarium top screen
  

Includes live rock, sand, and the following livestock:

• 2 naked clowns (paired)
  
• 1 anthias
  
• 1 bangai cardinal
  
• 1 watchman goby/tiger pistol shrimp pair
  
• various cuc (elephant slugs, hermits, emerald crab, porcelain crab, tiger cucumber)
  
• 6" sebae anemone (hosted by clowns)
  
• cabbage coral
  
• mini-carpets (4 - 1 large, 3 small)
  
• various mushrooms on live rock
  

I definitely want an ato, just nervous about potential failures. Everyone says that all atos fail at some point. An overflowing tank and water damage would be enough for the wife to banish me from the hobby forever lol. I top off manually several times a day, and have my in laws top off twice a day when I leave town. It's about 65 total gallons of water includin the sump and fuge, and I only lose about 1/2 a gallon a day or less to evap.

On my 90g and my 34g I have ATOs by Autotopoff.com. I have 5g RO containers. Even if the ATO stuck on, my sump could handle the overflow and it wouldn't dilute my salinity enough to hurt anything. They are invaluable when I want to leave town for a few days....

Austin Reef Club Is proud to announce that it is now a member of MASNA.

• Educate our members with online and published material, the MACNA conference, and other sanctioned events
  
• Assist in forming and promoting the growth of clubs within the hobby while ensuring a sustainable future for the marine environment
  
• Support the efforts to eliminate abuses in collecting and transporting marine organisms through education, assistance and encouragement
  
• Encourage the ethical growth of the marine aquarium hobby and support captive breeding/propagation efforts
  

You can get black bird netting from Home Depot or Lowes in the garden section, really the only local options I've found.

My apologies Louis, the tour ran much longer than I think anyone anticipated. I know it's hard to keep staff sitting around waiting on a crowd that doesn't materialize. Let's try it again when we can make a field trip down minus the distractions that a SeaWorld family trip entails.

I just wanted to say thanks for everyone who participated. I couldn't have been prouder of our members and the turnout, all of you are what make the effort worthwhile and the club fun. Let's give a round or applause for the staff and all they did to make this happen! I've already heard back from SeaWorld about how much they enjoyed having us there. Evidently some other club events have been problematic, so they were taking a chance with us and they couldn't be happier with the result. They already want to start talking about next year's trip and how to do even more for us.

And yes, as Bige said, Mark Telzrow (the coral guy) came in on his day off just to be able to show us their setup. He said they are totally into reefkeepers and hobbyists and he really enjoyed it. He mentioned that he hopes to be at MACNA this year for anyone who wants to stop by and say hi.

We'll be hitting the water park before noon. See everyone at lunch!

Mike, are there still 2 extra tickets available?

We would love to stop by Elegant Reef after, I just can't rsvp for sure because the toddler might not last that long. If it's still on, and my son is doing well, we will definitely stop by.

Last two tickets sold.

A reminder, if you plan to go by Elegant Reef afterward please RSVP. If there aren't at least 10 of us going I've told Louis to skip the food. I'd hate for them to buy it for us and have nobody show up.

Please RSVP with a count if you plan to go. If we don't hit at least 10 people we'll probably cancel the bbq portion. I'd hate for Louis and the guys to buy food and then only have a handful of people show.

I had the same and put one of the large black pump filters (12"x3"x3") behind the teeth of my overflow. When the wave hits the overflow it is deflected by the filter and then trickles down the overflow rather than making the wave splash sound you describe.

Love the colors! What's the very hairy looking green fungia plate on the left?