BeltwayBandit
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Years ago I had a Haddoni. I had a pair of saddleback clowns that hosted in it quite nicely. IIRC the Haddoni is the natural hosting partner for this particular clown.
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I had a 120 with the back painted. It was super easy to do. I used a brush and applied 3 coats. Like one of the earlier posts, the first coat was a bit thin and looked crappy. That coat just gets a nice base down to hold the next coat. After the second coat I had good coverage. I added a third for good measure. The back side was a bit lumpy and uneven, but when viewed from the front the black background was seamless. The black background really helps give some depth to the tank and it hides all of the equipment behind the tank. I wouldn't use spray paint because the overspray can be annoying. Especially if this is being done after the tank is set up. With the brush on paint all I did was run two strips of tape along the line where the corner overflows met the back of the tank (I wanted to be able to see in the overflow which turned out to be a good thing but that is another story about the clown fish that lived in my overflow for 6 months..)
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Glad that the GFCI worked for you. Just wanted to add that a ground probe or two in the tank is also helpful.
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First off, I'm sorry for your loss. I do hope that everything works out for you. On the tank related side, I agree with Dave. I have a masters degree in Fire Protection Engineering and I have seen the long list of toxic nasties that are produced in a fire situation. If soot and smoke infiltrated the water you have no idea what is in there and standard aquarium test kits will not be able to detect all of the potential contaminants that could be in the water. Toss everything in the tank and claim it on the insurance. As for the equip and the tank, I would be very careful with reusing it as well. Make sure to wash everything and let it soak in water with frequent water changes. Then be very careful reintroducing it into a situation with livestock.
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In the first picture, had you just fed the anemone? I ask because, when they are happy the mouth is nice and tightly shut. The puffiness around the mouth IME indicates that it either just fed, or is not entirely happy.
Also, it will eat your fish. I lost several fish and I strongly suspect that it was the Haddoni.
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I had a Haddoni for several years. It was a nice addition, I had a pair of Clarkii clowns hosting in it. I loved it. A couple of tips. They like to bury their foot in the sand, up against some type of structure. Second, if they move...they aren't happy. If they settle in to a location where you don't want them you can move them by changing the flow. I could always get mine to move by putting it in an almost direct flow from a powerhead. They like water movement, but not a direct stream. Finally, they need food. I fed mine large chunks of fish and shrimp from the seafood counter at least twice a week. Whenever I made fish for dinner, I would keep the trimmings to feed my anemone. At its largest my Haddoni was close to 15 inches in diameter. Sadly, mine died when I tore my tank down. They are really cool anemones, and I want to have another some day. (Ideally I want an Haddoni with a pair of Saddleback clowns)
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As for the images from other sites, I can see a technical reason also. Most other smaller forums run on smaller size/amount of servers so I can
see how the images can slow down the thread with load times.
Its kinda like the slashdot effect. Post a link or image from a small site on a large one with very high readership and you create an unintentional DOS attack on the smaller site. I would not be surprised if the smaller sites actually requested to be blocked from RC for this very reason. The other reason is that RC is the big fish and people will try to use them to drive traffic to their own site, we deal with some of the same types of issues of people using our board to drive traffic to theirs, RC just has to deal with this on a much larger scale.
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Surprised at the amount of what seems negative comments about RC.
For me, I love the fact that there are people posting from all over the world, and can share their experiences.
Every one of these online forums have some issues.
And IMO, Thank God they don't.
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I'm not surprised. This is actually pretty tame from some of the anti RC rants that I have seen here and elsewhere.
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I just want to know how to stop the auto subscription. There's no link to do so
How did you pay? If it was paypal or CC contact them and let them know what happened. They can block any future payments to that account.
Now, RC should set up their account to reject any new payments so it shouldn't be a problem. Even if they don't they could not legitimately keep any subscription renewals after the site crashed. That being said, are you going to go out and initiate legal action over $20?
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That doesn't seem right.
Freedom of contract. If you don't like it don't subscribe!
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I don't have access to the paypal database. But I will make sure one of the officers who does can get your permissions set up. Hang in there and we will get you straightened out.
Oh, and Welcome to WAMAS!
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I agree, a ton of information, but it was getting out of hand. So what happens to all of the money? There's gotta be some money left and I'd bet that theres some sneaky business going on.
According to the reefbuilders article the TOS with RC is that in this event they keep everything from subscribers and sponsors.
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I mourn the loss of the information, but not the site. I had many issues with RC, but it is pointless to bring them up here.
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Good job Steve. It never hurts to call the mfr and discuss the issues with them. Especially in this economy, I'm sure all of the discretionary spending vendors (at least the smart ones) should be willing to work with their customers.
Going forward, when faced with problems it never hurts to call the mfr and be polite. You never know what they might be willing to do. Heck I didn't know that perfecto was even willing to consider custom tanks...
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I just had a plumber tell me about them the other day. According to him they work great and are code.
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I know John at BRK used to stock them. I don't know about any other local vendors.
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With other pumps that can be throttled up and down whats the point of one thats much more expensive. Sure there is a digital controller that theoretically tells you flow rate but after if goes though plumbing the rating it negated due to the complexity of calculating resistance.
Merely throttling the pump to change the flow rate will not change the energy consumption of the pump. From the video it appears that the controller varies the speed of the pump. Thus, it is a more efficient way to change the flow characteristics than merely throttling the pump. Not to mention the wear it saves on the pump that throttling can create. Again, I'm not saying that everyone should go out and buy this pump. But, in the right application it is potentially the best solution.
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I hate to poopoo an obviously cleverly designed product, but why would someone want a variable speed return pump? Just get an appropriately sized quiet running pump (eheim, reeflo, etc) for your return needs and be done. Why spend a grand on something that can be done well at 20% of the price?
I can see many reasons for it. Say you have a single pump that feeds multiple items. For example a skimmer, return, media reactor, auxiliary tanks, UV etc. Some of those items may be occasional use items. It would be nice to be able to maintain the flow rate to other items when the auxiliaries are switched on and off. It would also be nice to have the flexibility to vary pump speed in addition to using valves to tune the flow in a complex system. If you think about it, yes you are paying more for 1 pump. But if having the variable speed control allows you to run a complex system with only one pump instead of 4 or 5 pumps then the cost difference disappears (or is at least mitigated to some degree). Of course then you run into single point failure issues, but as with any engineering design it is a series of trade offs. You also would have power consumption savings by eliminating pumps, heat savings, etc. You can't just look at one issue, in this case price. Instead take a broader systems approach and evaluate it as a whole.
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I didn't think that you could patent an idea, but that it had to be a specific design. Is the Solaris product a mimic of their apollo product?
Section 101 of the patent code states 4 broad categories of patentable material: Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
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Another way to address PH problems during a Kalk dump is to use CO2. I managed to dump a bunch of Kalk in my old tank and the water got cloudy etc.. I took the CO2 bottle off of my calcium reactor and put several shots of CO2 into the air intake of my skimmer. Fortunately for me I caught the problem early enough and the worst PH problem was in my sump which was conveniently where my skimmer and PH probe was as well. I just kept adding shots of CO2 until the PH came back down to about 8.3. Fortunately everything survived.
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Keep reading Craig ....
I've got the bar exam in 20 days.... I'm doing a lot of reading.....
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hmmm, gotta read this they said bottom feeding patent trolls, if this is real it's not good.
Technically these guys aren't patent trolls. A patent troll is someone who merely holds patents with no intent to ever use them, only sue people for infringement. These guys are in the LED business, the letter from the president states an intent to get into the market. They aren't trolls... Now if you want to talk about prior art... then we can have a productive discussion.
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Thanks, Jason!
It will be interesting to see the outcome - but there must be 50 ways to use/control those lights. I wonder just how 'broad-based' their patent really is.
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I read the patent.. Its pretty broad.
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Beautiful tank. I need to get one up and running again... Its been so long I don't even know where to start.