re:december meeting
 

I would be interested as I have been into saltwater for a couple of years now and would like to meet people with a common interest I do not have any frags as I only have a fish only tank but am ready to start reefing and could certainly use any help you can offer I currently have a 135 gal reef ready tank with 120 lbs of sand and 100 lbs of live rock 12 or so snails and crabs long tentacle anenome 3 perculas 1 regal tang 2 six line wrasse 1 foxface 1 snowflake eel 1 coral beauty 1 male and 1 female square back anthias 1 three stripe damsel 1 orange spotted gobi and a few polyps that hitch hiked on some live rock I am putting the finnishing touches on a new canopy that will one day hold metal halides but for now I will be installing 4 165 watt vho 2- 50/50 2- actinic was told that it would be more than enough to start corrals if that is true I will need a lot of help learning how to care for them :question:

Hey Reef Monkey, sounds like you're on the right track. How are the three A. percula working out for you? I've heard of people doing large groups of them but never just three. Is one the dominant female, another the dominant male, and the last one a juvenile? Do your two sixline wrasses get along?

I do believe your VHOs would be fine for M. digitata, I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong. I can certainly bring you some frags.

Welcome :mrgreen:
Should I put you down for 7pm dec 06?I'm sure there'll be a few frags available.and you get to see a few of us electricute ourselfs with a diy metal halide setup :mrgreen: should be good for a laugh or two.

Jim

you can most definatly put me down I have been in the wrong forums finaly some one closer to home
the two six line wrasses get along just fine they were in the same tank at AI and I couldn't bare to break them up
as for the perculas they are exactly as oyou described them you sure know your stuff :cool:

Nice. Why don't you tell us a bit about your equipment, ie. protein skimmer, sump if you have one, etc. Also what are your levels like? pH, NH3, NO2, NO3, daily temp fluctuations, and do you happen to know what your CA levels are at?

Quinn, many years ago I had three ocellaris Clowns. That was when I lived in Vancouver. Two were dominant male and female because they spawned. We never knew what the third one was. It just hung around with the other two. They never hurt it or anything. :biggrin:

don't know where to start I have gone threw so much already
tank is 135 gal reef ready
sump is a 50 gal with bio-balls and baffles
I have 2 hagen 802 power heads in the tank for current
precision marine ES100 protien skimmer fed by a sedra 5000(500gph pump)
sump return is powered by a Mag-Drive 1800 gph
lighting is 2 50/50 165watt VHO's & 2 actinic 165watt VHO's each set is powered by Hamilton Technology ballasts.1-40 watt party blue incandescent light for moonlight :mrgreen:

my lvels at the last test are:
ph=8.2
no2=0.1
no3=5
Ca= 400
PO4=0.25
NH3=0.2
O2=6.5mg/l
SG=1.023
temp 79.5 f ( a little warm but hoping the new canopy will solve the problem)

I understand that's fairly normal behaviour in the wild, apparently there are often more than one of the juveniles or eunuchs or whatever. It would be neat to have a pair of black A. ocellaris along with a few juves in one tank, maybe with a nice blue carpet or something...

I have uploaded some photos of my system today and I finaly finished the canopy will have to monitor temp. fluctuations closely to see how well it is working may need to add fans to help it cool let me know what you think

uploaded to to the member gallery

nice job,got to love diy :biggrin:

Is the meeting still on for Dec 6 @ 7:00 pm if so I will need directions and anyone still bringing frags?I would be interested in any frags for sale or trade not sure what I have to trade but we could probably work that out at the meeting

1215 Klarvatten Court Edm

if you head north on 97st(towards the base)
-make a right onto 167ave(the lights by Boston Pizza)
-follow 167(east)
-go past the Macks store untill you hit 82st(set of lights)and turn left
-follow 82st and you'll take the first left(173ave?,will have flags and show home signs)
-travel(2 blocks)and turn left onto klarvatten road(you'll see show homes on the corner)
-then turn left onto klarvatten court(my road)
-house #1215,tan with green trim on the right(have 2 minivans in the driveway,tan mazda & green ford ) alot easier than it sounds :biggrin:

if you get lost call me 457-1247

i foreget who's bringing frags(give me a reminder again folks :biggrin: )but there are going to be a few
cheers
Jim

Jim, thanks for the directions :smile:

I will be bringing two species of cool macroalgae. Anybody wanting some please bring a container to take the MA home in.

Hello Everyone!
 

Hi there, hope I am not to late. Is it o.k that me & maybe a friend come? I'm excited!
I just got refered to this forum by Bev, thanks Bev. I was on a states forum before. Didnt even know about this forum from Edmonton. Think its great to get to know people in the same hobby, so close to home. Count me in!

Leeanne

Reposting this from the Calgary thread:

About the MA that I was going to bring:

The red stuff will not go cling onto your live rock like caulerpa will. It needs to be secured well in the sandbed or elasticked to a small piece of LR. It is very slippery and if it roots at all in the sand, it will take a very long time.

The green matt-forming green caulerpa-type of MA comes with baby cerith snails and sometimes brown flatworms. Please let me know if any of you still want me to bring some green MA. If no one is willing to take the chance on adding flatworms to their tanks I won't bring any, but please let me know.

Sure I will take some MA off your hands Bev, that would be awesome!
Only thing is I would love to trade frags with everyone but my fish are going to be going in a QT this week so dont want to give anyone anything (ich). :frown:

Sorry i just realized I owe my thank you as well to teevee/Qwin which seen me on RC and gave me this invite and this forum for Edmonton. Thank you Qwin. Hope to meet you at the meeting.

So everyone, Can I come! Can I come! :biggrin: Also if so, can I bring a guest? Is it to crowded aleady? I'd be sad but would understand.

Leeanne

Bev if I make it up to Edmonton I'd like a piece too of one of the red ones(small piece is OK). But I am not yet sure if I'm able to come up this weekend. If I do end up going I'll PM you and we can discuss trade terms. At this point though I'm pretty sure I can't come up. We'll see... :sad:

Tony,

I'm giving away the MA, so don't be concerned about trading anything for it. That is, unless you have some cleanup crew brittle stars you might have laying around doing nothing :smile:

Hi Leeanne,welcome to the club :biggrin:
you are invited to join us on the 6th Dec(Saturday)at 7pm,you'll find detailed directions on the previous page.If i figured right,then we should have 19 people(20 if Tony shows,hint,hint :mrgreen: )If you can't find your way you can give me a call.
457-1247

Jim

i donno if i can make it or not, darn work!

Ah mate you had a whole month to book it off! What happened! :razz:

Do you guys close 9pm on saturdays?see if you can switch shifts with someone.

Jim

wait i never thought of it! i only work till 4:30 itsnt it great haha, confustion there

whoa, just looked at the calander and i got it off haha i am so going looopie tonight haha

See everything worked out after all :biggrin:
Thats o.k.,I came home tonight and started getting everything ready thinking the meet was tonight!my internal calender has been way off lately.
Menu to include the following;
-mini potstickers
-bite size breaded chicken
-bite size boneless pork
-vegi spring roles
-cheese,sausage and cracker plater
-veggie platter
-shrimp
-various dips
-wine & colas(for non-drinkers)
-and whatever else i can think of before Saturday night

Thank god for M&M's meat shops :mrgreen:

Jim

Menu
 

What kind of shrimp are on the menu. Do you know the latin. LMAO :)

How about pepermint shrimp for desert........hahaha

Well I thought it was funny....

yeah thanks to mnm meat shops, gotta love their little meatball -drools- haha sorry had a momment


hopefully my friend wants to come still we shall see, he is off that day too haha, yay! sorry had a momment


anyone want a chocolate chip starfish by any chance, i kinda want to keep him, but not really does that make sence?

they're just plain ol shrimp,peppermints where too darn exspensive to feed that many people :mrgreen:

Come to Calgary and I can give you all the mini Brittlestars you could hope to have. The body is about 1/4 inch and the legs are about 1 1/4 inches long with pinkish bands. They live in the LR. When you put food in the tank you see waving arms everywhere. They originally came from Tony's tank. I think everybody in Calgary has some. haha :mrgreen: :eek:

I knew I was forgetting something on the menu,sweet n soure meatballs :biggrin:

haha told yeah, their awsome my mom buys them all the time haha
but anyone intrested in the starfish?

i need something that eats algea bad, i am having a bad dose of it right now haha

Bob,

If you are coming up for Saturday, can you bring a few with you? Pretty, pretty please :smile:

LBB, I just don't think you're going to be able to get rid of that thing. Everyone here knows about those things... :sad: See if AI will take it, perhaps. They have sold them in the past I believe.

Bev I do have those mini brittles but I do not think mine are reproducing quickly enough for me to be easily able to dig out any significant numbers. I will check though. By the way, all my macroalgae in my tank crashed so that sargassum project never got anywhere.

hey teevee, its worth a try though haha

Edmonton get to gether
 

Darlene and myself will not be able to come this time have to do that work thing. Thats retail for you. Hope to make it to the next meeting

:eek: you said the forebidden word,the word that shall not be mentioned :evil:

Quickly,you must do as I say...drink 2 beer and repeat the words"thou shall not work on the sacred saturday"(it's for your own good :biggrin: )do this untill the feeling to work passes.

Jim

updated guest list:
-QUINN
-MATT+GUEST
-TREVOR
-KEITH+VICTOR+JACKIE
-MPISHI
-AL
-REEFMONKEY
-JOHN
-LEEANNE+GUEST
-JESSE
-BOB
-BEVERLY+CHRIS
Unfortunatley we had a few that can't make it :cry: (we'll catch them on the next one)
we're still going to have a pretty good crowd. :mrgreen:

Jim

Hmmm... Is this going to be an adult only get together. The reason I ask is I have to babysit my girlfriends 12 year old daughter tomorrow night while the parents go on their anniversary dinner. This girl is quiet mature. But i really did want to come. Is it o.k if I bring her? If not I will try to make other arrangements.

Hey does anyone need aragonite sand? I have half a bag left that i didnt use. i could chip that in for the trades.

Also does anyone need a ride tomorrow night. If not to far, I would be willing to pick some people up. Let me know.

Thanks
Leeanne :rolleyes:

I don't see a problem with it but I think that this type of thing should be left up to the host of the party.