FarmerTy

Thanks for the quick answers Dan! This is going to be very exciting! I wonder how much my old CaRX will go for!? Or my FarmerTy SPS pack I'm going to put together! I'll do a zoa one too but Pham will probably put me to shame with his zoa collection!

Thanks for setting this up Dan! Please do respond if coming so I know how many to expect as I will be catering in some delicious Vietnamese food for all to snack on. It also helps me figure out how I will stash everyone in the house as my fish room isn't the largest out there, so perhaps I can setup everyone in the living room instead if we're over a certain number. Also, please vote on which topic you'd like to listen to and I will make sure it'll be a good presentation. I'll get my laser pointer ready and prepare my slides. Unless we have enough interest, I'm going to vote that we don't do the auction at my place. If the turnout is anything like the last time (35+ people), I really won't have the room to setup tables with equipment and corals for sale unless people don't mind that it's all in the garage or outside. Anyways, I'm pretty excited to be hosting again! I hope I don't kill all my SPS before that time!

Some quick setup questions. -Will the auction be inside? -What should we bring? Table? -Who's the Secretary? -How are the bids recorded? Just a blank sheet in front of the item for people to fill in their bids? Anonymous? -When will the auction end? -For payment, if buyer paying with Paypal, how will the collection work through Secretary? Should the sellers leave their PayPal payment address with the Secretary? -Is it easiest to leave a picture of a coral for the auction or do people normally bag it and leave it out for the auction? Plan was to keep everything prebagged in a 5-gallon bucket and just print up a picture of the coral for the auctions.

It's either going to be an SPS dipping primer, how to keep SPS, or the Ins/Outs of a Calcium reactor. We can start a January monthly meeting thread when appropriate and can have people vote on which they want to see. [emoji4]

Oh, and I'll volunteer to host the January meeting if we have an opening.

Awesome! We've had really good turnouts the last 4 meetings (20+ people) when we actually had one scheduled. I'm glad you're running with this! I'll have some good stuff for the auctions... CaRX, Sicce Syncra 12 return pump, lots of corals, and maybe an awesome SPS frag pack or two. Looking forward to it!

Hey, someone has to call in the order and pick it up! There's work to that!

Oiy, I get busy with work and this is what happens to the thread!

That things is awesome! Looks almost fake... like a sock puppet or something!

Speaking of that! When I swapped skimmers last week and I was cleaning up my old one for the exchange, I was holding the pump in my hand and I felt something wiggling under my finger. I turned the pump around and it was the fattest bristleworm I'd ever seen! Not a single prick... I'm pretty surprised. Oh I don't know about there not being a single one..... You know, when I wrote that, I was thinking, I probably shouldn't use that word. Then I thought, wait, let's just see who will jump on it. Moth to a flame sir! [emoji16]

I got your bets down on the books. Grand prize will be all my dead acro colonies to the contestant with the closest guess.

Speaking of that! When I swapped skimmers last week and I was cleaning up my old one for the exchange, I was holding the pump in my hand and I felt something wiggling under my finger. I turned the pump around and it was the fattest bristleworm I'd ever seen! Not a single prick... I'm pretty surprised.

Nice! I'll broadcast the event live too so people can place their bets and have it as an interactive spectator sport as well.Oh no, he just fumbled the echinata colony. That's going to put him back a few yards!

Thank you sir! [emoji4]

I like to give everyone ammo first so when my whole tank crashes, everyone can get their, "I told you so" in. [emoji33]

Custom FarmerTy frag pack for one lucky person... sitting and healing in the sump! [emoji106]

I like all the negative space you have in the aquascape!

Step one, start removing all your colonies from the rocks! [emoji4]

Quiet you! Back in your grad school cave where you came out of!

Did you mean 3"?

There is no in-situ for AEFW so that really takes that out of the equation. Luckily at least, interceptor does knock out red bugs and black bugs and can be run in-situ at the loss of your pods and any crabs or shrimp you may have.Most of my colonies are actually not encrusted so removal and replacement will cost me under $40 in superglue and 2-part epoxy. What I do break I'll have my usual sandbed treasures sale and pay for the epoxy and superglue! Win win! [emoji4]

But I guess the possible downside of silicone is that a bump can also break the seal because it is a hardening sealant, which has some potential to then leak? Yes, the non-hardening sealant would work much better in that scenario but it would take a lot more than a bump to dislodge the silicone, from my experience. You'd have to give it a good scrape to remove it so a bump would have hardly any impact in my opinion.

For both being rated similarly, yes, it does perform better as far as skimmate production and even just darker skimmate. I mentioned it in another thread but I'm still a huge fan of the Skimz build quality and performance, I just think they have their ratings a tad higher than they should be. For CaRX, I've run both dosers and CaRX, though dosers for a much more limited time, and I will say that a perfectly calibrated CaRX in my opinion is way less work. With my old Korallin, I topped off media, recalibrated my pH probe, and swapped my CO2 cylinder every 6 months. That's 2x/year of maintenance for rock solid alk, Ca, and Mg levels... Not to mention probably many more trace elements as you are melting down old coral skeletons instead of just dosing straight calcium and alk like in a 2-part dosing systen.

Expose me to a chocolate stout and you'll watch all the OCD tendencies melt away... [emoji16]

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