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Some content was required for people to even bother logging in Beyond that though, my place had a hugely active and intellectual forum, chat area, finest shareware library around and awesome games :D Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk

I wasn't really that much before you. My first real computer was a 386, and I think I picked it up in 1990. Proceeded to teach myself how to run bulletin boards & networking and server design at home. Launched that period of my career from my home office. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk

Fun times back then. Trying to put dial only boards onto the routed network in the early '90's was interesting. Thanks for the kind words. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk

Hah! Story of my life I've been Piper since the late 80's. I was heavily into aviation and although I flew cessna's, piper sounds more like a real name. I owned piper.com for a few years, was a big bulletin board sysop around here. I had 18 telephone lines coming into the house, ran two more board for the feds totally 96 lines. Back then it was all dial. My systems I set up to dial UUCP into UNIX systems and download mail, so my users had internet mail addresses and it was delivered in batches every few minutes rather than instantaneously to a mail server. But I digress. At the time, there was a Wandering Piper around the boards in town, a Pied Piper, and I was confused constantly with them. I had my fill of online chatting and messaging by '92, but sorta rediscovered it a few years ago in the form of car forums.

Thanks everybody:) Turns out it was actually the drain lines around the furnace. Have climatic out here right now, just figured it out. Appreciate the quick recommendations, truly. Thanks.

If anyone has a referral, I'd sure appreciate it. I have a leak, nothing related to the aquarium or the weather, been happening for a few weeks and it's really hard to isolate, for me anyway. I have water pooling and running on the concrete floor in the basement near our furnace, right near runoff lines from two humidifiers and some other pipe that heads off upstairs, but they're all bone dry. Could be a pinhole underneath, but it's all buttoned down, old and brittle. Need an expert to start picking it apart if that's even the source. Thanks in advance.

For what it's worth...

Actually I could improve my little setup by illuminating the entirety of the sump but only at night, should be enough water column to help with pH. Though I dose with carbonate first thing in the morning and it buffers during the day. Until I get a doser going again, I cant really avoid a pH bump doing it the way I am.

Yeah, I'll renew eventually. If I get it done while still relevant, I'll post pics here. I have high grade insulation wrapped around the entirety of the glass save the back corners where I've packed popcorn between the wall and tank. 3/4 of the tank is topped with a couple pieces of plexiglass.The two t8's are from a couple of 10gal tanks and are just laying atop the plexiplass. I likewise used plexiglass for the ad hoc partition between the main tank and the pseudo-refugium, several holes drilled in the plexiglass, one hole with a pico pump going in the rest flowing out. I have two heaters out in the sump/refugium and a couple in the show tank. Ultimately I intend to build a show refugium on the floor directly above the SPS tank gravity feeding back down. Eventually.

Not a true refugium, but I wanted all noise in the garage, not in the house. My overflows go straight to a 60gal tank in the garage from which I skim, dose, big ol return pump, but I partitioned off a third of the tank on the far end to do nothing but grow cheato, keep a couple of 10k t8 bulbs on that small section 24/7. It doesn't feed my tank with pods, It doesn't balance my pH. But it "is" quiet and it does suck up what few phosphates may be in the water column. Tried to attach pics but seem to need to renew first.

I think I may have upset Mr703 mentioning him earlier or making assumptions about his setup. Public apology if so. Only meant to help. Sorry if off base.

My purchases here have been GREAT by the way. Frags, equipment, etc. Buyers should be very grateful for the bargains here. I am going to re-up for that reason. Plenty of good here. I'll need to visit the for sale section eventually. Just prefer not to see the drama that arises often it seems.

Not buying it. Sorry. He was getting exactly what was pictured. Origami said from the beginning he agreed with me and then the tide changed based on whatever lobbying said user was doing in the background. It was a bad call.. I thought it would be fun to get involved selling frags but it wasn't. Want no part of it. I do agree that just not telling him I was keeping a frag would have avoided it. That doesn't change anything.

Interesting topic. Hadn't seen the most recent issues in "for sale" as my subscription lapsed last month and what little thought I'd given it, not seeing the "for sale" section here is up on my list of reasons to not renew. Lots of pluses to WAMAS, that isn't one of them from my perspective. My little dust up in "for sale" came with BOTH sides crying foul. I sold a football sized screaming green and told the buyer I was keeping a 1" frag, for which he demanded a 10% rebate, for keeping .001 percent of the colony. As classless as buying a used car and trying to sell the owner back his sunglasses and CD's from the back seat if you ask me, but ultimately the mods sided with this prolific user. Why people do these things, I'll never know. He doesn't have my birdsnest and I won't bother trying to sell a thing here anymore. Organizations do tend to take on the flavor of management. It sounds like one of the recent dust ups in the for sale area may also have something peripherally to do with me. I gave Mr703 a BUNCH of corals. Not the first time I've given a ton away, ask Pizzaguy. Since Zygote2k moved me over to 2part from a calc reactor, my growth has exploded and, acting on his recommendation a while back I'm moving the big, fast growth corals to the base. I can see a day soon when I won't even do cap or birdsnest anymore. Grow like weeds. Did a lot of trimming and gave a ton of them to Mr703. I think he's just embarrassed he doesn't have the setup to sustain the frags and had to leave them with me for a while. He's a good guy with limited resources but loves, LOVES this stuff, so hopefully the ribbing I've seen him get here and there might ease up. I can't see the for sale section right now, but sure sounds like he just didn't want to give up that they're in my tank for now. Might go re-up this afternoon just to get involved if I have to. The frags are fine here briefly anyway. I'd like them gone soon though.

Just stunning. I'd love to know how many years growth we're looking at.

My water is ultra clean, nitrates 0. My skimmer is rated 3x my water column. I can't turn the lights off, but the bulbs are about end of life now, waiting for the new LED's to come in. I've been dosing a lot of vitamins lately. Might the high nutrient levels and possibly degrading spectrum in my lights be contributing?

What's the best way of getting bubble algae off a reef. I have an outbreak beginning. Threw a dozen emerald crabs in there, doesn't seem to be enough. What eats the crap?

I had that happen once. Big snowflake. Found him the next morning hard as a rock and dry as a bone. Went to pick him up to dispose and he started wiggling! Threw him back in and he was fine. Ended up giving him away a few months later.

Gel superglue blob on the base, stir with toothick underwater, place on base rock and smear into the rock around the base. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk

I don't believe I have any pests. Been checked before, and while I've added some livestock recently, I hadn't in ages at the time all of this came down. There's no evidence then or now of pests. No nudis in the tank. I broadcast feed cyclopese after lights out almost every night. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk

Thanks. They're a good 45 minutes from me. I'll see about mail order.

In response to a chronic pH problem, a few months ago, we put a doser in place. Since then, I am completely convinced that the two-part solution is the best way for me to go, has worked out beautifully. However, the doser was a disaster. I trusted the technology and it apparently failed almost immediately with some sort of clog. I should have noticed. Shame on me. But that's why I got a doser in the first place, so I didn't have to check every day. My tank is stable and pH is fine and has been for a long time. My acros are exploding with growth. My acans however just are not coming back. They have not bloomed since the event, and are not showing any signs of repairing themselves. I'm dosing with vitamins daily. I'm not sure what else to do, but I love them, and want to fix them. Advice welcome. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I317 using Tapatalk

Thanks. I do appreciate it. I've actually learned more about alk, something that perplexed me for lack of appropriate interest up to now, since switching from a reactor to two part than I had in the years prior. It's a science test with real time results daily as I watch my pH probe adjust in real time. With this kind of moral support, I probably will try to automate again at some point. For the moment, I'm learning and that's probably a good thing.