albertareef

'cmon you guys! You know black is the classy way to go - everything looks better in black!

Definitely worth it but yeah, call first if you can I had swung by about 3:00 yesterday as well on a whim... you weren't sitting outside in your car at the time were you?

Yeah - very cool looking angel which I have been told is completely reef safe. I have thought about adding one of these myself but never seem to run into one when there is space in the tank. Either that or I see a wrasse I like at the same time and the wrasse always comes out on top

That was/is a gorgeous piece! Must have been hard to part with but someone is, I am sure, enjoying it right now. At least you will be able to ease your pain with some chalices (or is that chalice?)!

I thought Andy's "Arctic SPS" post & thread was an instant classic as well (laugh)

Sweet! Did you scuba dive in the big tank with the rays? Must be nice to be able to rent something like that for a private event!

Very cool - thanks Mark. One of the commenters said it was filmed at the Georgia aquarium... wonder if any of our crowd has been there.

Looking good Garrett - I like the new layout. Bummed to hear that blue macro crashed though... I was hoping to score some of that from you. I love blue...

Good to hear Curtis! Hope you will be permanently bug free soon (rock2)

Yeah - it's mostly 'cause we are just lazy slackers! Actually, I have often opted not to pursue items down south because I either overestimate the shipping costs or figure it isn't worth the hassle to you to have to ship it. Maybe I'm just projecting my lazy slacker attitude onto others???

Do you know if the parts are readily available to do this as an add-on to an existing RO/DI? I am guessing some sort of pump and reservoir hooked to the waste line and plumbed back into the hot water line with a check valve of some sort. Intrigued by the possibilities here! Thanks for the info everybody!

Sweet comeback win! Another streak ended!! As I mentioned, just not feeling the Spurs mojo this year... of course it helps that Manu is out for the rest of the year but hey, I will take it

Great video Jay! Thanks for posting. It's really amazing to see how fast and with how much force those shrimp can strike. :eek:

That is looking really sharp! Nice work! Can't wait to see that fired up... hope your pinwheel shows up soon. Makes me think I should dig that huge skimmer body out of the basement and see about modifying it. Seems like there are a lot of folk on here who could give some good ideas on that - it could use a bubble plate and a pump. Not like I don't have enough to do already...

Will do - thanks Blaine!

Ahh! That makes more sense... thanks Andy! Hmmm.... I wonder if I can figure out a way to do that (plotting)

Good clarification Andy - the reverse osmosis membrane is the only part of the typical system that has water loss, all the others are throughput filters/resins where you get out (in terms of water volume!) is what you put in. Bob/Blown - I am curious about the "zero waste" setups. The only thing I can imagine is some sort of loop system where the "reject" water (carrying a higher concentration of contaminants than the original input) is fed back through the RO membrane and partially diluted with some "fresh" water to make up volume/flow. While more efficient in terms of water use, I can't see this working too well in terms of water purity... you would jack up the concentration of contaminants in the retentate so high the rejection rate of the membrane would start to suffer and you dump it all on the DI resin. I must be missing something here... sorry for the digression

Hi Scott - I actually bought this a while ago. You never know though... Shannon seems to keep finding more stuff in his garage all the time!

Well, from what I have seen, the typical RO will reject about 2/3 of what you put through it so you would be tossing 2 gallons for every one you keep. Just a rough estimate...

I have had good success with Novus polish for CDs/DVDs as well. Also glasses (if you aren't worried about loosing the anti glare coating that is).

Nice collection Eric - sorry to hear you are having to consider selling it.

Wow - that came out great! Nice looking tank BTW - I look forward to seeing pics of it up and running. Good luck!