frag party or par tee

[Mr S]

Frag party on June 3rd at my school. The plan is to pay $50 each, ahead of time to me, and then meet at my school and frag up all the colonies that we purchase. I figure each person will walk away with large frags, (probably about 5 different ones) and each person would also get one chopped up colony. We would draw numbers for the order of picking the frags so that each person would be guaranteed of getting one top pick of a coral frag. I also think that we could bring in stuff of our own to throw into the pot. This could be decided as the frag party gets closer. I would want money paid to me (no IOU's). Checks sent to me by snail mail. I see this as a fun opportunity so I expect fun easy going people to be involved. PM me if you are interested. Reply to this site if you have any comments or general questions.

[spayne]

Jay and I are in! I look forward to learning some new fragging techniques. Anything that furthers my education of the hobby I give three thumbs up! Let us know when you want our admission fee (just one of us, I'll supervise!) and if you need any help getting the par tee rolling.

Stacy

[impur]

Hmm i might be up for this. Sounds fun.

[reefgeek84]

I wish I had my big tank up, cause I would be the first in line for this...Only if it was 3 months from now...oh well maybe I can get on it next time.

[Nyles]

I'm interested. Where are these colonies being purchased from? Do you accept paypal?

[oldbrownies]

thats my question too, where are they being puchased, do you want people to maybe purchase 50 dollar corals and bring them to frag?

[UPSCALES]

If you need colonies for fragging I will sell any of my $65 heads for $50 for this event.

Travis

[ringwurm]

I just need to verify that I don't have to work that day. Sounds like fun.

Greg

[oldbrownies]

oh yeah, where is your school in salem, i have never been down there

[spayne]

oh yeah, where is your school in salem, i have never been down there The school is actually in Albany. It's pretty easy to get to, not that I could tell you offhand how to get there.

Stacy

[impur]

Looks like lots of interested parties for this party!!! Lets get it rollin!

[WAVES]

IM with Travis, Ill give special pricing for this event as well. Contact me off list if you like and we can discuss a package.

[impur]

IM with Travis, Ill give special pricing for this event as well. Contact me off list if you like and we can discuss a package.

Thats awesome of you guys.

[Mr S]

Sorry I have not responded sooner. School server decided to block this site for the last few days. Bummer. Travis and Joel thanks for the generous offer. I already have plans for the corals. I have done my homework way in advance. I will let you know if I plan on doing another in the near future. You two have done much to support the school tanks. My plan is to get some surprise stuff in. I believe it will be some stuff you would not normally see. I do not want paypal. I would prefer checks sent to my school address asap if possible. PM me for the address and if you have any additional questions. Thanks for the support of what I think should be a fun, nerdy thing to do on a Saturday.

[Michael7979]

Sounds like fun wish I didn't have to work Saturdays as I would have liked to join you.

[natureboy]

Can you give us any guidance on what sorts of coral you're looking to get? Are they all going to need high-light? Is it all going to be acropora? I don't have metal halide in my tank and I'm wondering if this Par-tee would be worth it.

[siskiou]

Are we talking SPS here, or LPS/Softies, too?

[Mr S]

Only SPS. I figure Stacey will have zoo frags that will end up being a bonus swap and I am also hoping if people feel nutty and have frags we can also swap them. I figure as the day gets closer I will have more details. So far I have several people interested and have contacted me. Make sure you pm me if you are committing to the par tee.

[Chief]

I could bring a Green/Purple tip Frogspawn. It has a bunch of heads. Maybe Stacy will chime in with some Zoa's.

Jay

[Ladiebuggy]

could you send me the address so I can get in on the deal?
Susie

[R-3]

I have talked to Miles (Impur) about making his modded MJ900 DIY/SEIO pump at the Frag Party. He said he would definately do it. I was just wondering if anyone would be interested in doing this at the frag party. Just seeing if there is any interest. Later Ryan

[impur]

I have talked to Miles (Impur) about making his modded MJ900 DIY/SEIO pump at the Frag Party. He said he would definately do it. I was just wondering if anyone would be interested in doing this at the frag party. Just seeing if there is any interest. Later Ryan

Linky (http://www.pnwmas.org/forums/showthread.php?t=220) if you haven't seen it here or on RC.

[ringwurm]

I will be there and would love to see his modded MJ.

[Mr S]

Okay, school still thinks this site is evil so I can only access when I get home. This is what I have so far: SPS frags only. People will bring stuff to frag if they want. The more the better. If you have frag plugs or rubble bring them along. I will supply frag glue unless you are partial to something weird!!! Bring your own lunch and drinks. PM me what time you want to meet and I will go with the majority rule. Bring a good attitude (heh heh heh) Bring a camera so we can post pics although polyp extension will probably not happen after we hack on them for a while I would bet. Bring Baggies for your frags. I am sure I am forgetting something so chime in if you think of anything. These are the people committed so far. If you wish to be added or deleted please let me know. The cut off date will be soon. It may be as early as this Friday. The problem will be if they will ship over Memorial weekend so watch this post and please notify me. I don't want to be the bad guy and say you can't come because you did not notify me in time. Okay here is the list.

Lowman
Mr. S
Jay/Stacey (Stacey is the camera girl and other things!)
Nyles
Impur
Ringwurm
R3 (you apparently don't reply to my pm's you knucklehead!!!)

Let me know if anyone wants to be added or deleted.

[Mr S]

I will pm school address to interested paying partiers!!!

[spayne]

All righty! I finally stopped procrastinating and cut you a check. Going out in the mail tomorrow to the school! I will definitely bring the camera, awaiting the thrilling moment when someone glues themselves to something! Good times! laugh

BTW, we'll bring some chow, too. And as for times, I dunno. If you give enough notice, Jay might be able to get it off. If not, he gets off at five on the weekends. Usually a bit later during the week. Just keep in mind, we have a 45 minute-ish drive!

Stacy

[impur]

Can we pay via paypal? I can cover the fees.

[Nyles]

don't think so...... I would be willing to as well but I think he already stated no Paypal

[impur]

Yah i'll just mail a check.

[Mr S]

no pay pal for you!!! I am leaning towards noon on Saturday. No offense but I don't want my whole world revolving around you guys on a day off. (sorry Stacy and Jay) heh heh heh

[R-3]

Roger are you talking this Saturday? I sure hope not. Later Ryan

[Lowman]

Saturday, June 3rd

[Ladiebuggy]

I pmed you, count me in please. Where is it going to be held at?
Susie

[Mr S]

Ladiebuggy you are on the list. It will be at my school. PM me and I will send you the address so you can send me the check. Found out last nite that if you go away from the par tee disappointed I would be completely amazed. There are some awesome sps on the way!!!! whooo hoooo

[Mr S]

There are now 8 people involved in this activity. I will close it off on Sunday of this week. As of May 21st. For signed up people we will meet at noon on JUne 3rd. R3 make sure you read this a coulple of times!!!!! I will keep you posted as we get nearer to the party time.

[Ladiebuggy]

Party, party, party!!!!!

I told my "special friend" that I was going to go to a frag party. He was suprised and worried (maybe even jealous) until he got that it was corals (or fishy stuff as he calls it) instead of young hot guys. Hehe.

I am really excited for this event, and very happy that it is in my neighborhood. Does anyone know if the liquid calcium works enough to get by for a couple of months, or if I should get a calcium reactor prior to the party?

Susie(party) (fish) (clap)

[Nyles]

You need to get a calcium tester, preferably Salifert. If these are going to be your first SPS you should be fine depending on what your doing now, I just dose the usuall kalk and I have liquid ca on hand but I never need it due to I don't have enough SPS yet that leech my ca levels below what Kalk makes up.

Get a ca tester and keep an eye, if dosing kalk and liquid ca wont keep up then you need ca reactor, unless you got the money, but you will probably overdose.

[impur]

I dose kalk and use Seachem calcium blocks. They dissolve as the tank needs calcium, keeps it pretty stable at 400ppm. You also need to test alk. For me, alk must be dosed daily even while dosing kalk 24/7.

Ideally, a 2-part additive would work best for you, especially if these will be your first few SPS corals. I've used B-Ionic and had great results.

[R-3]

Was anyone interested in doing the Maxi Jet 900 mod that Impur (Miles) did? Just trying to get some info. Thanks Ryan

[Mr S]

Yes, Miles said he is bringing it to the party. We have 9 total people signed up to participate. I have money from the following people:
Greg (ringworm)
Jay (and Stacy)
Bob (Lowman)
Miles (Impur)
Mr. S (he is really good about paying on time LOL)

[Westwood]

Bummed ive been making a weekend trip Just to pick up salmondine every weekend in portland leaving friday and comming back Sunday .. Im not sure i am getting the group emails of invites can someone from the board try and pm me or email me thanks Tammy

[Ladiebuggy]

OMG it is Westwood! I wondered what had happened to you. I hope all is well with the tanks (and baby kitty).
Susie

[SeanF]

Hey Miles those are Sea Lab blocks not Seachem. Seachem doesn't make a product like that.

[Reefin']

hey is it too late?? i could put money in the mail today

[impur]

Hey Miles those are Sea Lab blocks not Seachem. Seachem doesn't make a product like that.

Oh yah ;) (drinking)

[R-3]

Im pretty sure you still can. I'll email Roger. Nice to see ya around! Later Ryan

[Reefin']

cool thanks, finally got internet service back....

[R-3]

So nobody wants to do the Maxi-Jet mod? Going once, Going twice.............Later Ryan

[Chief]

I definately want to see the maxijet mod. I probably won't get a chance to use it until I get a frag tank going, but the demo would be cool.

Jay

[impur]

Well i need to make another for my 55gal i hope to set up around the end of summer. Maxijet mods on either end connected to the swirler-stein should create some major chaotic flow. 3000gph and chaotic flow for $50 or less. How can you beat that?

[Mr S]

I thought it was agreed that Impur would demonstrate the maxi power at the frag meeting. Reefin if you are interested pm me and I will get you my address. I need to know asap.

[R-3]

Yeah hes definately coming. I just wanted to see who wanted to do it to make sure we had enough parts. Later Ryan

[Ladiebuggy]

I wanted to also demo it.
Susie

[Reefin']

count me in

[Mr S]

Here is the group for the par tee.
Reefin
Lowman
Mr. S
Chief
Niles
Impur
Ringwurm
R3
Joelackey
Ladiebuggy
Most of you have paid. Thanks in advance. If you are not going to make it let me know asap. Order coming in. It should be a great time. Bring clippers, glue, rubble or rock that you want to attach frags to, a cooler, and baggies or water containers. Do we want to do a pot luck???? Post on this thread if you are interested.
Also if you have anything you want to let people frag up bring it along. Remember it is important to suck up to me so that I will do this again!!!!!!! LETS PAR TEEEE

[Nyles]

Sounds good, I will run by my LFS and get baggies, I think I got everything else I need. Think I can get away with using electrical dikes for fragging? I would think it would be fine... ya ya I know.....

[impur]

(kneel) (fishhit) laugh

[R-3]

Okay guys dont let Roger get a big head. LOL

Okay down to business.

Miles is gonna do his DIY SEIO MJ Mod. He will be doing a demo but there will also be a chance for people to make one there. What everyone needs is a MJ and some parts. Lets make a list out of the 10 people that would like to make one. Of course everyone can watch. Later Ryan

[Reefin']

a pot luck sounds good to me...ill bring some drinks(pop i guess, cant bring any of this(drinking) ) and maybe some hot wings? i would like to do the diy project...just wonder if possible to find the props soon enough. are we gonna bar-b-q?(hungry)

Reynaldo

[Chief]

I won't be participating in the DIY demo, but I will be watching. I think it would be a good solution for flow in my future frag tanks.

Pot luck sounds good. We'll be bringing some food. Maybe I can get Stacy to make some cookies. (hungry) (drooler)
She makes the best cookies.

Jay

[Mr S]

No place for a BBQ or the liquid drink you hinted at!!!!! Remember it is a school. I personally have never turned down cold chicken. (actually any food for that matter) Let me know what others are bringing. Let'
s get fired up

[impur]

I'll bring a couple extra props that i have. They won't move the same amount of water because they are smaller, but you can always change the prop later.

I'm going to pickup some grey PVC tonight and make a dozen shrouds or so. I also have the carbon fiber rod. So all we need is ppl to bring their MJs and some extra superglue if you have it!!

[Ladiebuggy]

OK, please forgive me for asking a stupid question, but what are MJ's. I want to build, so what do I need to bring to do so? For the potluck, I was thinking of bringing some lasagna or cheese filled shells with marinara sauce. When it was stated to bring clippers, would pruners for plants work? What type of glue is used? And finally, does the rocks/rubble need to be dry?

Susie

[Nyles]

your more than welcome to use my clippers, as far as glue some superglue "GEL" is fine, wet rubble is fine for gel. I have aquapoxy but its better for rockwork and such.

[R-3]

MJ's are Maxi-Jet powerheads. I think the mod that Miles has will work with a MJ900 or MJ1200. Later Ryan

[impur]

It works for them all. The pics in this thread were done on a mj600.

[Mr S]

Just got through unloading all the sps colonies. Needless to say there is some awesome looking stuff. Get psyched!! Does anyone have a Dremel and cutting disks they can bring? This would ensure some cleaner cuts on some of the stuff. Don't forget to bring things for your frags.

[DChemist]

(worthless)

I'm dying to know what I'm missing!

[drock59]

Im stoked!!! The I just dug out my sheers.

[impur]

I'm gonna bring my dremel for the mjmod anyway so we can use that. I have a bunch of discs too.

I cut up some shrouds tonight. I'm gonna do a few with the pvc test caps so ppl w/o some of these tools can do it at home.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/impur/DIY/P6010128.jpg

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[Chief]

I'll bring my dremel also. I have a big bottle of glue, my shears, and lots of rubble.

I think I'm ready.

Jay

[Mr S]

You are groovy!!

[drock59]

Thanks Mr. S for putting the frag-o-thon together.

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Not a new frag but I like the photo:
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[R-3]

Nice pics D-Rock! Now I dont have to take any. Anyonw who wasnt there sure missed out. Later Ryan

[Nyles]

Thanks guys and girls again for inviting me and mr.s and ryan for helping out with everything. Awesome peaces and interesting frag techniques... you know who Im talkin about... lol

[Michael7979]

So details people.............I need details!!!! Who got how many, and what kinds, and pictures we need lots of pictures!!!!


Hope you all had fun wish I didn't have to work Saturdays or I would have been there too!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lowman]

A very special thanks to Roger for getting this done, and to Ryan Mackey for scoring AWESOME friggin colonies. All involved got 10 nice frags. We have to do this again soon

[R-3]

Yeah a big thanks to R2 for the hookup. Corals are great! They are looking great. LAter Ryan

[spayne]

The frag par-tay... outstanding! Well worth the drive from Creswell to Albany! Absolutely incredible specimens! I'm not a big colored stick fan, but DANG! We had some b-e-a-utiful colonies to split amongst ourselves! Not to mention I had a great time with those who showed up for "Frag Fest I".

Now, onto some pics!

Here's our gracious hostess... er, host... Roger! He insisted that no one was allowed to get sneak peaks at the colonies until it was time for the par-tay to get rollin'. It's a wonder he still has all of his limbs as eager as we all were to see the pretties!

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This is right about when my jaw hit the floor:

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Close up of the Xmas Tree Worms! We also had a couple of acro crab hitch-hikers as well.

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Let the festivities begin!

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Jay was being a typical manager for Nyles and Suzie!

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Jay getting to work... finally! laugh

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Suzie, Dan, Greg, Roger (hamming it up for the camera!), Miles and Nyles' backside getting busy on the corals.

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Dan assisting with the hammer while Roger oh-so trustingly held the chisel. Notice that Roger had the foresight not to ask me to wield the hammer! (plotting) Nyles is making magic happen via a dremmel.

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Roger devised a very technical plan for dividing the frags fairly amongst everyone. Let fate decide and pick a chip! Greg rolls the dice!

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Bob! You're number one! The fates shined down upon Bob as he was the first to pick his frag. And what a frag it was!

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Here's Miles checking out Roger's display tank:

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Closer shot of the display:

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A sampling of one of the two frag tanks in the classroom. Roger also has another tank loaded with various macro algaes and mangroves.

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And where the magic happens... the equipment we all know and love! Okay, I don't love the equipment aspect of the hobby, but it does simplify things somewhat. Wait, simplify isn't the right word here. This hobby isn't simple! laugh

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It was a fantastic day for sure! And to end it on a high note, we went out to dinner, as well as dessert, with Ryan (R2R2) and his lovely wife Sandy. Good friends, good times! Can a day possibly be any more perfect?

Stacy

[NeilsReef]

It looks like everyone had a great time. I hope to get in on the next frag party!

Stacy; your post directly above this is one is one of the best posts I have seen in quite some time. What a great mix of pictures and content!

Great job everyone

Neil

[Michael7979]

Nice job Stacy!!!!!!!!!!!!


So who will be next to post pictures of the frags they took home??

[ringwurm]

I'll post more videos as soon as they finish uploading.

Dremel vs coral (http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/littleichiban/fish/pnwmas/?action=view&current=MVI_2690.flv)
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/littleichiban/fish/pnwmas/th_MVI_2690.jpg (http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/littleichiban/fish/pnwmas/?action=view&current=MVI_2690.flv)

Greg

[ringwurm]

Mr.S's Frag tank

You can see his yellow tang checking me out as moved down the tank. :)

Frag Tank
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Greg

[Chief]

You asked for it. Keep in mind that these pics are under a 6500K Compact Flourescent bulb. The 10000K XM goes in tonight for the frag area of my fuge.

My frags:

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Miles' Frags:

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It was a great day. We really need to to do this again.

Jay

[ringwurm]

more pictures.

http://www.syphracing.com/ringwurm/saltwater/hello/38722/1024/IMG_2656-2006.06.04-13.50.38.jpg

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[spayne]

Stacy; your post directly above this is one is one of the best posts I have seen in quite some time. What a great mix of pictures and content!
Thanks, Neil! What a wonderful compliment! You made me feel all warm and fuzzy!

Stacy

[Nyles]

So whats it gunna take to get Mr.S to open the doors and do this again? LOL... I had a good time and always a pleasure to meet more people in the hobby, thanks to those who showed and look forward to meeting everyone again soon. If this keeps up I may need a calcium reactor sooner than I thought.

[Ahbrit]

If you're thinking of a ca reactor, jump on the Regulator Twitter has for sale on TRT

[Palani]

Man Roger, those are some nice looking HAWAIIAN mangroves. LOL.

[Mr S]

YEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

[Reefin']

hey can anyone post pics of theyre frags from the partee. just curious what kind color change everybody is having with the frags......my babyblue ones haveturned green at the bases....camera sucks ,otherwise i would post pics:D