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In Portland I have a UV sterilizer that I do not use and was going to put up for sale. But I am in PDX if that is an option for you. Here is the link and description http://www.marinedepot.com/md_viewItem.asp?idproduct=YUL3113 It has been used very little. You can have it for 1/2 price of a new one.

2 more showings Sun 4/29 at 3 am OPB Wed 5/2 at 11 pm probably the kind of show you would want to see playing at your LFS store if they had a TV and a comfortable sofa to seat on. Maybe one of the LFS will pick-up on that...(clap)

Missed it I just caught the last 5 minutes of it.(enforcer) It seemed amazing, I could not believe the size of that thing and of the animals in there. The people looked like ants compare to some of the swimming species. Did you like it?. I hope they re-run it.

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Impurfect Frag Count me down as well for an Impurfect Frag!! (laugh)

I'll split them with ya!(whistle) (laugh)

Very nice selection! Me drooling (drooler) Impur, how about naming those zoos Impurfect...(naughty) (scratch) (wife)

I like 1 and 4. Trade you for some cheese...(laugh)

Keep it where the fish tanks are I agree, I would stay away from the library or any meeting room where we cannot look at a fish tank even empty! I'd rather go again to Fantaseas if they are ok with that, they can accomodate a large crowd.

Anybody would be generous enough to givge me a small frag of capricornus, any color would be great, red, green, purple, yellow. Even a tiny tiny chip would do, I know how quickly they can grow and I really would love some back in my tank. I have nothing to trade at the moment, but I promise I will let you pick any frag in my tank when things are growing all over the place. (naughty)

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Shannon, sorry I missed your call. Today is one of those "all day meeting day" with just a few minutes here and there. Beside the bubbles everything else is shapping up nicely. I have not fired the calcium reactor yet so I am slowly adjusting the calcium manually. The Mag pump goes to the skimmer. I thought too it might be sucking all the bubbles originally but turning that pump off had not affect at all on the MB. The return is the one with the down spout next to it (to the front/right of the Mag).

My goodness what kind of flow do you need to make this puppy get dirty? Is this from the OCA?

Beautiful zoos. So how do I get access to any of the right half frags ?(drooler)

Yes I agree with that. I am planning to do that next, just add another valve an restrict the flow from the pump. The sump is about 3 feet long and length could be an issue. The filter sock sounds interesting, do you just wrap it around the return pipe?. Do you have a picture of it showing what it looks like? reef165; I dismantled the return plumbing and put it back changing and adding section including a T. But I did not check if there was an air trap in the upper part where my dorso is. The tank is 200G, the sump about 40 G. I have tried to play with volume by filling up the sump as high as I can, but the bubles still come rushing. Maybe the 1200GPH is excessive after all. CCR: I know you love pics. I jjust got my camera back and will try to take pics and post pics. The closed loop is already on 1200-1800 GPH and the skimmer on 1800 GPH with no bubles coming on the discharge. Both return from skimmer and main loop come in the far left of the sump and then navigate all the way to the right down and up 2 gates. Both skimmer and main pump intake originate from that far right section of the sump. Maybe this pic will help. Bubbles on the left! You can see the bottom of the elbow and the T. big pipe =return from overflow, small pipe is return from skimmer. If you compare the color between the left and right compartment you can detect the turbidity on the left section of the sump due to flow + bubles. Just another thought, I have two baffles in my overflow and as you can see in the pic in order to avoid running 2 pipes to the sump I combined them on the return outside of the tank just above the sump. So this might actually create a vortex and increase the speed /force of the flow ending in the sump?. Would it be better if I would have an individual pipe for each baffle or put a bigger pipe if combining both? Here if the left part of the sump where the return generate bubbles. You can see the excess big bubbles coming back to the surface. The middle and right section of the sump with pump going back to skimmer and intake to the main pump to the tank.

Thanks I already put several elbows and a T which decreased some (maybe a 1/3 rd ) of the bubbles but still not enough. Have not tried to poke holes in the pipe though. I'll give it a try. What are micron bags? Where do you get them? I don't think the CL is generating bubbles because when it is on alone I have no bubbles. It's only when I already have the bubbles from teh main line that the problem gets worse with the CL. I guess the bubbles just keep cycling through the CL and stay around longer.

I am having some problems with micro-bubbles. I have some coming up from the sump presumably because of my return coming down pretty fast ?.I am running the main line to the tank on 1200 GPH but through only 1 sea swirl. The sump is a three part sump, so that the return dumps in part 1, slowly moves underneath a gate to part 2 and above another gate to part 3 where it gets recirculated to the Sea Swirl. And When I turn on the CL the bubbles just stick around for much longer . It makes the entire tank "bubbly". I was considering 2 things. 1-Coupling another seaswirl (costly) or a SCwID (which I already have available from another system) to split my return or 2- decrease my inflow . Although the problem seems to be at the return to the sump, lots of bubbles generated. If I decrease my flow (valve is between intake and pump) I increase my bubbles even more. head ache !!(scratch) Any suggestions?

So what happened to the safecrackers? Did they became suddenly unsafe and blew up your camera?(flame) BTW I am just starting my tank and would love just about any Zoos frags with preferences for the RED, blues, purple?

Gloves And on top of all the other protective clothes-wear, make sure you get some heavy duty gloves that are resistant to concentrated HCl. I bought 2 gallons and gloves to clean my tank (covered with Corallin algae) but when my wife read the label, she pretty much asked me to treat this as we were fumigating the house. Since I could not move the tank out and did not really want the kids to be exposed to the fumes , I decided to bypass the process and just refill the tank after letting all the algae dry out. It is taking more time but after fiilling the tank and by applying flow directly on it, most of the spots are disolving, flaking and disappearing. It is taking time...but no one got heart in the making!

Make a donation You can always bring them as frag to the next meeting. I am sure there will be some takers (whistle) . I'll be happy to get a small frag if you are getting rid of some of it. I already have the perfect "isolated rock" for it.

Right on CCR ! Why keep it simple when you can make it complicated? John> I almost asked you if you had checked your thermostat. But I assumed that would be the first thing you would do. DOH! Hope the problem is solved. It's a good thing to know that we have some very talented people who can do the maths around here. (clap)

Well done 180 Bob! So John. I think its clear: Start relocating to the space station! You can even swim with your fish then! (nutty). OK seriously. Sounds like a canopy might help limiting evaporation some? But that's not the answer you are looking for. (scratch)