albertareef

Definitely sad. Darcy texted the news to me on Saturday during Holly's sale and I forgot to pass it on in all the chaos. Nice that the next generation is picking up the torch to carry on the shop although it has to be rough to lose the founding influence. My condolences to the family and friends he leaves behind.

This is an interesting idea. I wonder if @TheClark or @Chief know of a way to add a location tag to the sponsor landing page so they could all be seen in one place.

Welcome! There are at least a few people on the forum that are up that way - including the Kelso crew. Hopefully you will be able to hook up with some of them.

Sorry to see this tank come down. Some of the most impressive euphyllia colonies I have seen. GLWS!

Sent you a PM.

What!!! So sorrry to see this come down. Tempted to buy it all and just save it for Sirena when she has more time. Also tempted to pick it up for all the extra goodies! A lot of that gear would be great on our max nano (waiting to get set up). Hmmm.

Nice looking tank! Seems like things are doing well for 4 months in. As nrc mentioned, a cleanup crew can make short work of a small fish if it happened to expire from other causes. Also, those are both “perches” so could have run afoul of your large bubble tip. In general, I would hesitate to add a mandarin to a relatively new tank as they are normall hesitant to take prepared food and rely on an indigenous pod population. If you weren’t supplementing with live pods (or have a well established refugium) it may well have starved 🙁 If you decide to replace him, try to find one already adapted to frozen food - you might have better luck.

That would be great! Practice your bagging skills...

Always a pleasure to help out and get a chance to see some familiar faces as well as meet some new folk. Lots of nice pieces went out the doors yesterday... not sure how many left with Bill😳

Welcome! Like the start you have going on that new tank - nice aquascaping. Good luck mapping out your coral - that is a challenge but also part of the fun.

Welcome back (again) Randall. Good to see you with another tank! Can’t wait to see this one shaped and filled with some choice pieces - as I am sure it will be (your daughter will no doubt choose wisely) 😁

Nice! Pretty impressive for straight off the phone. Looks like I need to make it out your way for some more frags 😁

Ha! Idle threats - just leave me some cookies... I won’t press my luck on the beer.

Trailermann just posted up a curve 7 for sale if the Vertex don’t work out.

Cookies! Well that seals the deal... and no, l’m not kidding 😄.

Like you will actually show up 😁

Sounds like a nice tank Ron. What are the dimensions on that - 36x24x24?

If I'm not mistaken, I think @wanareef might be the person you want to talk to in these parts. My apologies if I got that wrong...

Looking sharp Roy! How did you manage to get some pics without the Viamingi puppy front and center?

I noticed that as well and was curious how it happened. I would suspect that tapatalk interface had something to do with it as I haven't seen that crop up in other posts.

Should be interesting. I would worry that the tygon may start to compress/distort and not maintain even flow but will be will be curious to see.

Hey biggish - hope you decide to jump back in. We probably overlapped during my first stint with the club (just a member). The current makeup does seem to have a significant younger component - we even have a couple of high school folk who are pretty active on the boards and have come to meetings - and there have been quite a few new folk showing up so maybe a good time to test the waters again. I think John was still the president when I dropped out and Emerald (Kim) had just become an active poster.

Welcome! Glad you have been able to make it to some events and hopefully you will get a chance to do some more socializing in the future - great group of people on here who are always willing to help with questions and compare notes.

Thanks for the update! This has always been the one drawback that concerns me with any peristaltic pump setup having used them for many years in a research setting. Glad you had the monitoring in place and the physical arrangement to mitigate the fallout! Keep us posted on the master flex tubing - still interested in experimenting but I don't (currently) have flow monitoring capacity so need something more reliable than 15 days!

That is very cool! I happen to still carry it around in my wallet for no good reason other than I really like the look of it. Well.. that and I am a hordes 😁