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2012 meetings will be held the third Saturday of each month this year with a few exceptions. If you are still interested in hosting please PM our Meeting Coordinator dapettit.

Feb 18 - @ dapetti's discussing aquarium photography

Mar 17 - @ jakedoza's place discussing DIY LEDs with Timfish

Apr 21 - Frag Swap at the Castille Coral Ranch

May 19 - @ dshel1217's place with special guest Dr. Harry Miller

Jun 30 - ARC SeaWorld Trip!

Jul 27-29 - ARC Coast Trip!

Aug 18 - @ teresa's discussing the topic of nano tanks

Sep 15

Sep 22 - @ dapettit's -meet and greet your fellow club members. Lots of door prizes and reef-talk!

Oct 20 - fall Frag Swap!

Nov 17 - @ jakedoza's jake will demonstrate how to set up a webcam & how to access it remotely.

Dec 15 - @ River City Aquatics

I've got plenty in all sizes (nickel to very large). PM me and we can arrange a pickup.

Very cool! As impressive as it is though, I'm wondering how they keep their sand so clean.

Really glad to have you aboard. The fact that you're doing this as a family will make it fun and educational for everyone. Welcome!

Please try now and let us know if you still have an issue with it.

Figure there are a few members here who would appreciate this:

http://quelab.net/wordpress/1475/behold-quelabs-newest-tool/

Hey guys as an update, when you head down (especially if you leave ANY TIME after about 10am on Friday, or plan to arrive in Port A before midnight), make sure you check the ferry wait time here before proceeding to the ferry line: http://www.cityofpor...xdot/status.pdf

Recently they've had a couple ferrys out, and it has been gridlock trying to get into Port A on Fridays (talking ferry waits upwards of 2 hours).

If the wait is 45 min or more, I highly suggest driving around/ through Corpus into Port A.

Great tip, thanks for sharing!

Hey, what's the address for pick up? I get off around 8 and can go pick up tonight.

Check your PM's, I sent a message to all buyers.

Give me a shout, I have one you can use.

Glad you like it, and welcome back to the site! This is just another example of the fabulous work being done by our ARC Graphic Designer Kevin Babcock!

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.

Mike,

It would be helpful if you put time and date with the events. This would assist people with evaluating options.

I want to pipe in at this time and say that I am "stoked up" on "La bonne temps roulee".

Patrick

There's an itinerary in the first post that is being continually updated.

In fact, we've just updated the following items:

*** Revisions ***

Saturday Day - I need to know who (if any) want to attend the State Aquarium and tour, as a reservation has to be made in advance. My family has decided that after having done the SeaWorld tour we would rather just enjoy the beach and fish/collect on that Saturday afternoon.

Saturday Night - MAAST will be using the Beachgate meeting room for the BBQ dinner with speaker Paul Whitby of High Definition Corals. His topic will be pests in the marine aquarium and how to recognize and treat them. There is a cost of $25 to attend (MAAST has been generous enough to offer a discounted rate of $7.50 per adult (13+) for ARC Premium Members, or free for attendee and one guest if a MAAST charter member) . Please respond in this thread if you plan to attend (and total head count).

OR

ARC will be hosting an alternate bonfire on the beach. Our own subsea (Patrick) has offered to cook for us. The plan is that some of us will fish and crab Saturday afternoon. Assuming we catch enough, we'll cook what we catch at the bonfire. Assuming we don't, we'll augment our catch from the store and still cook at the bonfire, with cost being about $10 per person to eat at the bonfire. Who is interested in this option? Please respond in this thread if you plan to attend (and total head count).

I will also be ordering T-shirts, so please let me know if you're interested in the new club dri-fit tshirts or in the event t-shirts (limited number), shirts will be $20 each. I don't want to end up with extras, so please list quantities and sizes if you want them! They will be available in blue or kelly green with white printing.

All accounted for....See you all Thurs night.

Still one left...

I have a used AT&T 3g Iphone for sale. It is currently jailbroken but I can restore it to factory firmware. It comes with box/manual, usb cable + wall adapter, It is in good shape and works, and is currently setup to work with the pay-as-you go Straight Talk service (but can be used with AT&T or TMobile contract).

Asking $135

That's weird. It was showing the pics this morning.

Most likely an issue with the server downtime yesterday. We had to restore backups of the images so there was a window of time in which uploads were lost. You'll need to re-upload. Sorry!

tried to vote but I'd have to vote for each column.

Also I have an unopened redseapro, was going to start using pro but I have too many tanks for expensive salt ATM.

Poll fixed and prices updated.

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