caferacermike

Now that this thread has been split into it's own topic area I will say a few words and then no more about the subject ever. There are a lot of meetings held everyday, everywhere. It is not my duty, nor my job to search each and every club, business, scout troop, Red Apple Sale, Hill Country Cichlid association, Hill Country auto touring, Austin Road Runners Club, Austin Home brewers, Pist-on-broke, Moped Army, BMOA or any other meeting. Austin in general is full of clubs that will and do conflict with our own meetings, that is one of the many things that makes living in or near Austin so wonderful. Some members will be forced to decide if coming to an ARC or MAAST meeting is more important. Some will feel forced to decide if their green thumb gardeners club is more important. Some members will have a Birthday party on the same day. I rarely ever get a day off from work, about 3-4 a month, in fact I'm home sick with the flu today and they asked me to still come in. So by helping to put together a meeting I've now lost one of my free days that I could be rebuilding a motorcycle or flying my plane, or better yet doing a water change. I will not apologize for overlapping a meeting that I had no idea existed. If another club had expressed interest in extending their meeting to us they would/ should have made a thread or at least sent me a PM. If you somehow feel that the other clubs would/will resent me being the ARC meeting coordinator thereby not asking us, just ask me to step aside and offer your service to the club. It would be foolish and childish of any club to feel that any differences could not be put aside to put together a meeting, or at the very least invite members of this club to join in on their meeting. My personal thoughts on this subject are that there was no reason to bring this up other than in another thread. Mentioning, and or questioning the logic behind the meeting seems to only have derailed the kindness and hard work put in by those that are only trying to help give back. Personally I had to take a step back and ask myself why would I bother continue to attempt to coordinate meetings in the future if the intent will always be questioned. There were not just 1 or 2 replies questioning the event but 3. And in each reply a rebuttal was made that possibly the other meeting would somehow be greater than our meeting, which I am humble enough to say might be a worthwhile event to attend. But was it a necessary evil I ask? It has taken over 8 months to get ARC meetings back on track. I was somehow jumped in to this position like a gang initiation. Because I like our Admin as a friend as well as an online member, I accepted when he asked me to help out. I did not ask for this position, I did not overthrow anyone for the position, I do it strictly voluntarily. I ask that if anyone else feels that they could do a better job of asking members to host a party and to nail down a working date please feel free to take over.

I've heard a lot of good things about Elos. One thing I did hear was that they were another test kit repackaged and sold with far greater distribution than the original. Might be that the Lamotte test is the same?

Personally I say we leave it just like it is. Reason 1: Many of the members that had already committed to coming probably are not regular MAAST members, or like myself, could care less for MAAST and what they put together. Until someone told them to go to another meeting instead, they were more than happy to go to our meeting. Reason 2: Not every member will be heading to the MAAST meeting, it is a choice as to what meeting they attend. No choice is more right than the other. Calfo has attended several meetings within the area over the years and for all we know some had chosen to attend the ARC meeting based upon the fact that they've already seen a Calfo presentation. Reason 3: There might be several members that for whatever reason are not interested in making a trip to San Antonio but Cedar Park/Leander might be in their backyard. So the meeting might be smaller if many choose to attend the MAAST meeting, and that's fine by all of us. The only way I could see a conflict of interest here would have been if MAAST had invited ARC at all. Remember the old days when they'd start a thread inviting the good folks at ARC to join their events?

Thanks for keeping me in mind. I'd like a small clump of heads not mounted to a plug if possible.

Just to be spiteful. No honestly our meetings will be held whenever our gracious hosts offer to open their doors for us. I haven't participated at MAAST in over 5 months so I had/have no idea when their meetings are. Besides what is the point of bringing up another club's meetings? If our members want to go to the ARC meeting, let em. If our members want to go to the MAAST meeting, let em. If MAAST members want to come to the ARC meeting, let em. James has a very busy schedule and had expressed a desire to host a meeting early on but only when the weather would be good for hosting outside as his home is smaller and he wanted people to be able to choose between the living room and the back yard. March was decided upon and a few dates were vollied back and forth until James picked the 21st as his preferred date. I'd like to take this opportunity to once again thank James for offering to host a meeting for us and for picking a date that works well for him.

Kyle I have a bunch of chillers, I might be willing to part with one. We need to look at the one I've got in mind as it's been used for other purposes. I was able to get a lot of chillers once that were used to cool water in laboratory equipment. These sold for thousands of dollars but have since been replaced. We need to look at the fittings and such to make sure it is something you'd like. It might be a fixer upper on the outside, but the cooling works flawlessly. I just need to get down to South Austin to my other storage unit and pick it up.

That's what's fun about "common names" everyone I know would just call that Kryptonite candy cane or trumpet. The moon corals I've seen were in reference to favite brains with small compact heads. That coral is very easy to frag. You should be able to find individual, or groups of, heads with exposed skeleton near the base. You just nip it there with a pair of wire dykes or bone cutters. No need for healing time at all unless you tear some flesh. I'd be interested in trading cash for a frag when you get there.

higher electrical bill, but hardly noticeable. I'd think that the noise would drive you insane.

Oddysea is Jebo

It'd be great if you can post a pic of the coral or a link to a similar one so nobody confuses a common name. I believe you are referring to a brain coral like a favite with small heads tightly meshed together. If so the answer is yes. They do well if you cut them cleanly with a tile saw and then allow them to heal for several weeks in the tank they were doing well in before offering the frag. Chisels will work but can tear the tissue creating a delay in the healing process.

Welcome. There are many members that live around you, and of course many of them have the Army in common. I can remember off the top of my head that Jay-Roc lives in Killeen and posted pics of his great looking tank in the picture threads.

Years ago I had a friend that was bringing in the Jebo line of crap. When the units arrived they had no identification on the unit, on the box, nor instructions. The reason was simple. The manufacturer wanted the sellers to do all of the marketing, hence the cheap price. What he did was order a thousand metallic stickers with his brand name on them, printed a thousand 8x11 labels for the boxes and ordered 1,000 UL LISTED stickers from a Chinese distributor, and also printed out 1,000 instruction sheets with his company name address and phone number. In essence he sold junk under his name. He actually was able to take advantage of the controversy of Jebo units catching on fire. He countered that his products were superior in every way to Jebo products and that his were even "UL LISTED". It was a total scam and he was able to rake it in. Just try and remember, you get what you pay for. Generally it's just not worth it.

Yes but who wants 10 timers and all the cords necessary for them. Also a bunch of timers cannot control your PH level in your calcium reactor nor can they watch over your chiller/heater with double redundancy. Plus you'll only have "1" timer instead of 3 for your lighting needs. It also sucks if you lose power and have to reset all those timers. It was a well thought out idea if those are your needs. Everyone's needs will be different. As I don't care much for computer stuff, I still find it difficult to upload pictures from my camera and then add them to a post, I wanted a simple user friendly system and that is exactly what the Reef Keeper gives me. I'll add this as well, we can all agree that most of us look up to the guys at Kingfish, well they sold me the unit and recommended it based upon what I wanted in a controller. I doubt that they would have sold me junk, not to mention it's what they used to control the tanks in their shop. If you just absolutely cannot live without being notified every minute about what your tank is doing then this might not be the controller for you. If you want an easy to program, easy to interface instantly, easy to adjust, easy to read, and trouble free controller then this is the unit for you. Research X10 controllers and you'll quickly understand why I refused to choose any unit that uses them to turn my tank appliances on and off. They are beyond universal. They can be overwritten by TV remotes, garage door openers, etc.. To much chance for error. And yes it's been reported several times.

250 is perfect for 45g. I run 2x 250 on a 75g,

Gary and Terry are just as awesome or even awesomer since they took a chance and hired Hunter. Dome, Tek, and River City. The only shops to bother visiting while in town. There are others but I wouldn't waste my time at them if I was on a time schedule.

Sounds just like a John guest fitting to me. Your set up is just how I have mine. I got my connections at HDepot.

It will cycle but not as hard as a new tank. +1 for not reusing old water. Why use old water when you probably need a water change anyways. Not to mention you'll be stirring up all that crap that will pollute old water even more. Most healthy fish can handle a move. Contact Prof as he has absolutely gorgeous rock right now, I'd personally say it's the best I've ever seen. Also has hundreds of pounds of sand for sale. He just bought a used tank and needs to get rid of the extra.

I don't have one but I will help best I can. Water from the tank will enter through the tube that goes all the way to the bottom of the chamber. The exit will come out of the top. I believe Einlauf is your enter and Auslauf is your exit. The second picture is your bubble counter. This is where your CO2 enters. You will need a CO2 regulator with electronic solenoid, you did not mention if you had one, PH meter that connects to the solenoid, an external pump and a lot of 1/4" hard line tubing. You push water into the side with the TEE. Water will circulate through the media constantly via the Eheim pump on top. CO2 will enter through the bubble counter and will break down your aragonite media as needed. Your output side will need to be throttled back so it is about a drip coming out. The external pump will push water into the reactor so it does not run dry. Keep in mind that the 2 pumps are separate from each other. The Eheim pump basically only circulates water within the reactor. The Koralin unit does not have an extra chamber to distill the water before it enters the tank. The PH coming out of the unit can be as high as 12 so many people set up a second empty chamber that allows the PH to settle before dripping back into the tank. I've seen others mix it into the skimmer to help aerate it before it moves on to the tank. I don't know how much this helps you.

PM me a package price for one medium to large piece of each, please. I'd like to see if I could make it by Sunday after I leave Starfire's house.

Ooooh never mind. A quick $8 on Ebay, 2 hours for codes to appear in email, 2 minutes of upload, 1 hour of searching for missing Motorola driver, 5 more minutes and presto chango.... Brand spanking new Motorola i335 Boost phone changed into a brand spanking new Motorola i335 Nextel phone for a grande total of $62.11. Super not bad as Sprint/Nextel wanted $280 before tax on a replacement but they absolutely would not sell me the phone outright as the contract is in my companies name and I would have been unable to "commit" to another 2 year contract. Never ever settle...

Now see I absolutely wanted to stay away from a controller that needs to be programmed through a PC. I 100% wanted a controller that I could easily walk up to and make a simple change via a +/- button on a LED face. I wanted it to be that simple that anyone can do it. I've just spent 5 hours trying in vain to unlock a cell phone using software that was designed to do it simply. I absolutely do not want to interface my tank's controller to a PC and configure it to broadcast random bits of information into the air. I would absolutely hate the idea of getting a tank meltdown notice while at work, considering it only if I could actually program it to work, as my job would fire me if I told them I had to go home and tend to my tank. Honestly I'd rather not know until I got home. Oh and I have no idea on Earth what the hell an ethernet port is and how it affects shipping. I've been to Port Aransas a few times. Is it anything like that?

I believe that the Elite has all the extra high amperage plugs built in. I believe that my total was near $500 for my base unit, 2x expansion kits, and PH probe.

Any chance of building a proper frame for the screen material? Only costs about $15 and takes maybe 5 minutes to make a custom window screen. Then you'd have a rigid aluminum frame to attach to just about anything you'd like. I could help build the frame on Sunday.

What about on Ebay?

If I wasn't already moving 3 200g tanks tomorrow I'd offer to help. Attaching screen? Velcro tape.