caferacermike

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This is the good stuff. It's a medium tub, I think it's 1 pound. About $20-25 at the store. I've had it for about six months now and it's brand new, never opened, and was stored in the refrigerator. It's good for both salt and fresh. I kept many healthy fish and this was the only brand of pellet I bought for almost 10 years.

I have no fish and want to sell my 75g set up so I won't be buying anymore fish.

You all have read my disclaimer before, but here it is copy and pasted again..

Please read the disclaimer below before responding and please be able to comply with my very simple terms at the end.

I've offered items for free before and it's irritated others in the past. Let me be as absolutely transparent about this as I possibly can. I will not deliver, at least not for free. Sorry my free time is way too valuable. I work insane hours on a sporadic schedule as I work in a service related field doing fire protection, I absolutely cannot possibly plan around the fact that a pipe or head can burst or a fire can happen at any time of the day and I must be able to respond. My work area is a diameter of 200+ miles from my home, so yeah if I suddenly head to Fredricksburg, I might have to break plans in an instant. Basically my job, and customers, do come before me giving away some free items to fellow reefers. If that won't work for you, you can pay me my overtime hourly rate of $48 per hour and provide me with 4 weeks of paid vacation, match my contributions to my 401k, 7 paid sick days, 12 paid holidays, and great insurance for the wife and I. For that I will be at your beck and call. Instead, lets plan on me leaving the items on my front porch and you drive to Round Rock and pick them up when it is convenient for you.

Yes it has been picked up. You were second in line and number one came through.

PPU

Trash it is. Thanks for playing.

Brand new EfiSub, EfiMech, and EfiFix.

Basically the $100+ worth of crap you'd need to fill an Eheim 2217 canister.

Ages ago I had bought a 2260, about 5gallons and bought way more filter media than I would ever need. I'm done and am planning to clean my garage for yet another motorcycle to fit in there. I won't hold it for long, I'll toss it in the trash instead. This would also be great for using as a media in a wet/dry sump, or in a debris style sump such as I did but with live rock rubble. Tons of surface area for bacteria to grow in as well as not restrictive to flow. The bag has broken inside the box, due to age, but I will find an appropriate bag and pack it up for you.

Please send PM. Understand that I don't get my PM messages so I may be sporadic at getting back to you, but I will. Please leave a phone number.

Please read the disclaimer below before responding and please be able to comply with my very simple terms at the end.

I've offered items for free before and it's irritated others in the past. Let me be as absolutely transparent about this as I possibly can. I will not deliver, at least not for free. Sorry my free time is way too valuable. I work insane hours on a sporadic schedule as I work in a service related field doing fire protection, I absolutely cannot possibly plan around the fact that a pipe or head can burst or a fire can happen at any time of the day and I must be able to respond. My work area is a diameter of 200+ miles from my home, so yeah if I suddenly head to Fredricksburg, I might have to break plans in an instant. Basically my job, and customers, do come before me giving away some free items to fellow reefers. If that won't work for you, you can pay me my overtime hourly rate of $48 per hour and provide me with 4 weeks of paid vacation, match my contributions to my 401k, 7 paid sick days, 12 paid holidays, and great insurance for the wife and I. For that I will be at your beck and call. Instead, lets plan on me leaving the items on my front porch and you drive to Round Rock and pick them up when it is convenient for you.

Cleaning stuff and found a new replacement silicone tube for the BRS pumps and a digital timer. Free for the taking.

Pm'd. You've got to take it all though so I can drain and dry out the tnak.

It's simple work and shouldn't take long. If you haven't already done it, PM with some details and we can talk about it. I'm a pipefitter by trade.

If you want to buy a new ASM5000 pump for about $120, I'll give you my old Euroreef skimmer. The impeller got stuck in place and is now trash. The body is in great shape.

Some peeps just don't get it. I offered up my tnak to someone and they hit me back at midnight asking about it. So then I get back to them the next morning saying, just make a time and come see it. Today I got a reply asking about coming to see it at 11:40 and I says "yeah here's my address. If you are going to come out later please let me know". Still sitting here 2 hours later without a reply, or a visit.

My wife says I should play nicer and send pictures and such, try to sell it on them. Why? If peeps are just going to be flaky? I'm not actively selling my rig, but if someone on ARC asks for a nice rig, I'm going to offer it to them at a great price. You just need get off your arse and come make a deal. Is that so hard?

Courtesy is obviously dead. It hurts to think it's dead on forums were courtesy used to rule and make sweet deals. I guess my asking price goes up every 10 minutes I have to wait. I blew off some projects at noon I was considering attempting around the house thinking I was going to get a visit.

**** Chad, I know I don't log on much anymore but I get on here today only to see you air our dirty laundry about our deal. You make me out to look like a chump.

Geeze Mike,

Your a buddy of ours.

FYI guys, it wasn't Mike (caferacermike)

Whew! I was really hoping Mike was joking.

Would it surprise you if it was Mike though?

Well, based on his sense of humor, I could see that reply coming from him but would know it was a joke.

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Amazingly beautiful. And yes I was joking.

**** Chad, I know I don't log on much anymore but I get on here today only to see you air our dirty laundry about our deal. You make me out to look like a chump.

Bio I love that T head that I think you are talking about, the one at the park. The only thing for me is that they changed the lighting last year to these tiny green LED's and they don't bring in near the bait that they used to. Also can't see to tie knots like before, now I have to take a lantern. But yes the left side is the best. I found there is a reef of some sort out about 400' and once your cork passes over it, it will almost always sink with a huge gaff top on the other side. Sure it's just gaff top, but it's fishing. Have caught a few good shark there as well, however I try and get them back in the water as soon as possible. I have no desire to fillet shark caught at the pier.

Good to know.

I was hitting 50"+ blacks from about 200' out in Port Lavaca in early April each night about 9:00 using half crabs. Just a lot of fun. Straight catch and release for sure. We would land about 12 a night in the 3 hours or so it would stay hot on the bite and then when it quit we'd go inside. Cast out as far as you could with a 3 oz weight, my Penn Legion 7'6" is a little whippy to chunk a half crab far but it didn't matter at all. After about 20 minutes of sitting in my pier cart it would just bend over and bob around. I'd get over and set the hook and just hold on. That Penn Battle Cast 5000 would just strip line like crazy. Then as the line faded I'd steer the pole and the fish and let them know I was there and they would stop and be turned back. At that point it was reel line as fast as you could because they were charging at you. They would strip a couple hundred feet about 3 more times before landing them and then you had to coax them back into the water.

The only thing that sucked was the locals. They got all pissed off that we were letting them go. They could have cared less about slot limits that produce more fish for next year. The Vietnamese and Korean shrimpers kept coming over and saying, "anything that gets on my hook gets on my plate".

I've been trying to revive my crusty as fork 75 and my ER needs a pinwheel. For the cost of the new pump I should be able to just buy a nice second hand piece. I've been waiting for a long time for Absolutracer to reply to their for sale and have since decided to try my luck here.

Cash

Just got back from a 60 hour tuna slaughter. Was a blast. My buddy and I each caught our 3 limit yellows, each about 60lbs. Hundreds of pounds of black tuna, rainbow runners, grouper, tile fish, jacks, snapper, and more.

Jensens on Parmer is going to be about your best bet locally, and it's not a great bet. There is a second hand shop in Mustang Ridge that you could visit, but don't get excited on the way out there.

It's all about Roy's Bait and Tackle in Corpus. Seriously. They are all business. We can ride down there sometime and look for black drum and reds along Port A and Rockport. Was catching 65lb black drum in the spring.

I've been buying a ton of vintage Ocean City reels lately. I'm shooting for a 12/0 to 16/0 Senator or OC soon.

I've been spending a lot of time deep sea and bay fishing lately. We can drag the 20' Mako to Aransas if you want.

I sent a PM about the skimmer but never heard back. I'm cash in hand until one of my many other hobbies gets my attention first

Is free to Woods.

mFrame, I'm out. Yes the tnak is currently running and many LPS and my Tyree leather are looking great 2 weeks after the dosing. Tnak will be for sale soon. I just couldn't live with myself to sell it as a problem to someone else. As soon as I get the skimmer up and running and cut down some of the hair algae it will be for sale at a great price for someone looking to move up, or to join the hobby. Just installed a new RODI unit as well since I was topping off for a year with tap water.

Back in January I was putting my tnak back together after an auto top off melt down failure and somehow ended up with redworms. They took over my entire tnak and ruined the hobby for me. After smothering my corals and trying "natural" remedies I've finally decided the time has come to exit the hobby. I wanted to try and clean up the tnak before listing it for sale and had decided to heck with the hermits and snails I was trying to "save" by letting the flat worms take over every inch of space and dosed a flat worm exterminator into the tnak. 20 drops in the 75g and every one of them is now dead and gone. I have a 2 ounce or so bottle that doesn't even look like I touched it if someone wants to put it to use.

Disclaimer. I just wanted to clean my tnak, sterilize it basically. If you have lots of time, dose it very slowly, like 2 drops a day for a couple of weeks and it will rid your tnak of the pests. Me, I dosed in 1 day and that was that. I lost some corals from the pollution, they may have been weak from being smothered anyways. It killed all bristleworms in the tnak and my cucumbers. I let it sit for about an hour and the water was completely clouded out with worms and toxins. I then placed a bag of carbon in my sump and the next day the tnak was sparkly clear without any pests. Beware, this stuff works like magic but do it at your own risk.

Free.I paid $32 for it.

Want to get a replacement pump for my EuroReef skimmer. The Sedra is a direct replacement but I'm willing to try and plumb something else in place. Eheim pin wheel modded, Sicce PSK1000, Bubblemaster or what not.

Cash money offered.

That looks like fun.

I picked up a 20' Mako with Johnson 150 on the back a couple of months ago. I want to fish the open waters. I've got to wait for a chart plotter/fish finder to fall into my lap. I've picked up 4 down riggers and a whole lot of Penn 4/0 Senator 113 and 113H as well as a couple of really noce 1950's Ocean City 112C and 113D reels.

I like to play in Port Aransas but so far the boat has only seen Decker and Bastrop.

Gimme deal and I'll swing by Sunday.

Eheim pumps. Just gotta love the Eheim.

Having never even remotely done anything like building a website, I was able to put this up http://www.fishonguideservices.com . It took about 6 hours to build the basic website as you see it and a couple of hours of tweaking to get Richard happy. I used http://www.bluehost.com and the whole enchilada set me back about $180. That was for the domain name, 3 years of hosting, plus 2 different template lay out design sites with about a total of 300 prebuilt lay outs that you just copy paste until finished. They have their own technical forums and about 200 other tools to completely build a site from ground up if you don't want to use a template.

Check out Wix.com for another really nice host/tools/design page.

I think your first mistake was buying a domain name and not hosting it at the same place. The all in ones make it so easy. Now you've got to link your domain name to a host. It's not super complicated, just another kink in the pipeline that could sour over time. As in, if something goes down, or a kid hacks it for Anon points, you've got to figure out how to get it back up and what they messed with. Do note, if your site gets hacked, AKA "Kinged", then it is your responsibility to get it fixed. The Host won't help, or at least very little will be done. They look at it like "It's your site, your content, we just host it. You secure it." So at least with the AIO you don't have to worry about which server, or part of the site got hacked.

Google around for tips about rankings. It's easy to build a simple site and it''s easy to host. The difficult part is finding it later. The search engines don't find content that is not being ranked. It takes about 2-3 weeks for your site to even creep into Google Land. Blue Host offers free coupons for Google listings and offers discounts to help with getting your site noticed. If all you want is a site linked from a business card or email, then don't worry about the search engines. I did a little to help Richard get his site noticed but his business cards, word of mouth, and free koozies worked much better at getting his ranking up. Do search around for listing tips though as certain things matter more than others such as "key words" being within the first 25 words on the site. You link those key words with your online description and the crawlers will find it easier.

I'd be willing to help a little if you decide to do it on your own. Of course as a full disclaimer, I obviously have no idea what I'm doing but in a couple of hours you can have a site up and running.