Raccoon?

Bigger still, and much wider!

Just a bit of visual comparison between the end of June and the end of September
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The only new addition who is willing to show themselves;

Just about too fast for the camera, she comes with the name Jasmine and is about 8" long
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Its a 1" feeding stick for reference
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Definitely a grazer this one is!
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One of my colonies that seems to have become a late bloomer, from bright red-brown to mute brown....boo
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A new offshoot that is a different colour
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I think the density of my little ponape birdsnest is increasing
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Man I love those colours on Naso's. Very nice!!

Thanks, she is a big pig!

A photo from way back when, probably the beginning of the sumer, of the ponape.
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When I first got it. Its definitely come a long way!
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Man it sure has....and real purdy too:biggrin:

My Digital Aquatics order came in this afternoon, total customs charge of $20.17. Its all hooked up and running already.

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Thats not bad at all for customs.!

Definitely not bad at all, especially since my order came to just shy of $400USD. The shipping was right quick too, purchased in the afternoon on the 29th, and here by the 6th!

I'm having issues getting the RSS feed (which is what you see above in the screen shot) to come up. I think we have router issues, or its possible one of the dogs tripped on the temporary cord after we left the hosue this morning. I was really looking forwards to logging in this morning to see all the graphs!

tanks looking good, its gonna be amazing in 2 years or so all grown in!

I'm going to pretend that iPhone capture didn't just make me giddy. I chose to keep it simple and relatively LOW-TECH. Don't force me to get a controller after all! Man that's sweet. So it's just a plain ole RSS feed? Website could absorb it too...

I like how it keeps track of your Pods. That is a really amazing sensor!

I'm still learning about it, but so far I've got the online graphing function working. I just need some more time to set up the alarm system and link it to my phone.

So far the only things I need that aren't available are a dKH/alkalinity probe, and Calcium probe. Then everything would be perfect.

I've definitley got the graphing part down. I still however haven't gotten around to setting up the alarm system. Per the instructions all the probes have to be in use for one week and then re-calibrated so that explains the high Salinity and low pH, or at least I hope it explains the low pH.

These are all from this morning.

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Here is a screen shot of my initial log in options;

The two 'errors' aren't actually errors, they're are just no probes plugged in at those points.

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The shots from the controller are very cool. Your tank is looking great too.

Your ORP graph looks the same as mine every time I recalibrate the probe. It seems that ORP probes take quite a while to stabilize after calibration, so I doubt that your actual ORP is rising like that...it is just the probe.

Can you alter the scale of your pH graph so that you can better see the fluctuations? I'm thinking a scale of between 7.0 and 9.0...or 7.5 to 9.0. The Aquatronica graph function can do that, but won't hold the setting so you need to reset the scale every time...very annoying.

OK, I give up....what is % Pods measuring?

...and don't hold your breath for a Ca/Alk probe!

I'm wondering about the pods charting thing too??

I don't think there will ever be an Alk probe. If you can figure out how to make one though, you could probably get a PhD out of it. :)

I have to wait one more day, probably two, to re-calibrate both the ORP and the pH. I wish I knew how to change the scale, but I'm not overtly adept at it. I can import the data to another program, like Excel, but I'm not sure how to import data that isn't properly separated.

I can dream about an Alk probe! At least the test isn't overtly complicated or time consuming, so I can live if it never happens. I could definitely do with a PhD!

Pods are sets of two light LEDs that are part of the RKE system. The RKE simulates a lunar cycle, which is why you're seeing that repetitively decreasing pattern in the graph.

I'm bored and learning how to use my iPhone for things that are a bit more practical, like work, so I'm using the tank as my test subject.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJFi9LjVD04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAtL_4MNsNg

Feeding time after the above video
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I've got my own little cryptic zone going on
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Jasmine's handywork (naso tang)
Before
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Today, after
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April 3, 2009
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Today
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April 3, 2009
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Today
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May 19, 2009
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Today
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Cap on the wall, interesting :D *runs out to get magnets* LOL

Forget the PhD, head straight to the patent office!

Great shots! Nice growth on the monti there. What is it mounted using?

If you don't mind sharing, where did you buy your controller?

Great job on the tank. I really like minimalistic live rock approach to aquascaping.

The controller came directly from Digital Aquatics (digitalaquatics.com), I had originally purchased the RKE when it first came out via pre-orders, and then this last order was really just add ons, probes, the net module, etc.

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/1...cal-outlet.gif

Some quick updates;
- Greyhound claim for the skimmer is STILL ongoing...
- Winterizing of the house is almost complete, which means its almost tank time again!
- I got put on notice at work, which really just means I'm getting laid off in 30-ish days unless there is some miracle, and they renew my contract (highly unlikely).

Good luck !! :neutral: Hope something works out for you.

We reefers FIND a way. If we can't we make one up. Good luck =)

Today's FTS
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You swapped out bulbs? Something is different....in a goooood way

Bulbs got swapped awhile ago. I find to the eye its good, but to the camera its way too blue.

Can always correct the white balance after if you can't setup the camera to capture it correctly.

I wish, I apparently am too retarded...I've tried according to the Nikon handbook that came with my camera. I think I need in person help. Nothing I do seems to improve it, it only gets worse.

Pointers?

Greyhound claim is FINALLY resolved! What a pain that was.

well was it worth it im hoping to get out today to get them piece mailed out ok. i have been laid up to a accident with my hand rip my finger down to the bone. a few needles and thread holes.

PM'd

I made a bunch of frags a couple of weeks ago, and most of them are thriving. My Red-Orange digi isn't a fan of being fragged, both pieces STNed a few days after the initial fragging.

We also have some progress on our other build!

A couple weekends ago my parents were cleaning out their garage. They found a whole bunch of duplicate power tools, and they cleaned out a pile of boxes that used to belong to my father's mother.

We came home with a bunch of sweet new (to us) power tools, which we now no longer have to purchase. I also got this awesomely eclectic tea set that used to belong to my grandmother. I think its amazingly tacky, but very endearing in an heirloom-y sort of way.

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Hey!, I saw one just like that on the Antiques Roadshow once....was worth like $4000:razz:

Sell buy more clams :lol:

Some 180g shots from this morning.

T5s only
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T5s and MH
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We did some re-aquascaping as the brown/green cap was encroaching on one of my clams and starting to cause problems. I pulled some of the rock I was cooking in the sump out and put it into the display to make more space for frags, and growing colonies.

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I have all these intentions to get rid of all the majano anemones, but I start, and then my efforts drop off after awhile. Plus my efforts seem to make no impact. I'm kind of at the end of my list of ideas for addressing it long term. Ideas?
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My pair of C. ulietensis ("double saddle-back" or "false falcula") butterflies DESTROYED the majano problem in my 110.

Problem is they like anything with long little tentacles. So zoanthids for example seem untouched. But palys on the other hand, are in a contant state of "trimmed" (the polyp itself is fine, but no tentacles coming off them.)

And LPS is a problem because of the feeder tentacles. So since LPS tend to feed at night and butterflies tend to, you know, sleep, at night .. it's a very slow rate of decay with them, but now that I've had the butterflies 2 months I've had to relocate all my LPS into my smaller tank.

I don't see any LPS in your tank though so you might be OK. Just that one patch of palys there to the left? .. Mine have shown no interest in the clams so you should be OK there.

...

Something interesting I learned though. The whole legend about Chaetodon ulietensis for majano control was begat out of an article written by Terry Siegel in Advanced Aquarist a number of years ago. Going back and re-reading that article and looking at his tank pictures, he has mis-ID'd his fish, what he in fact has is Chaetodon falcula.

From a few conversations I'd have with folks on RC, C. falcula is slightly more reef safe than C. ulietensis. Also in the last year of looking for ulietensis, I passed on falcula a number of times because I was holding out for ulientensis, because the article was adamant that it was ulietensis. (It was only after I had the fish already that the mis-ID was shown to me..) So falcula may be better in a reef, and may be easier to obtain (could just be luck of the draw though). Both are spectacularly beautiful butterflies (very subtle differences in markings, in the falculas the black are smaller defined triangles, where in ulietensis it's more gradual).