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Please put me in the list too. Thx

sent you a PM earlier, didn't hear back from you..

Yep! Good deal. We will be there this weekend!

I'll take one for $10.00. Let me know when and where. Ill pm you my number.

Funny you should say that I asked the attendent if he could give me a little twig from this colony! he just smiled.

A picture from my recent trip to Seattle aquarium

If you want CF lights, I have a pair of actinic (640 nm, 620 nm) and 10K white bulbs with holders connected to ballasts. Also, I have polished aluminium reflector for these light with two blue 12V LEDs as moon lights. This setup came out of my nano when I changed over to LEDs. Asking $25.00 for the whole package. Both of these bulbs were used for about 3 to4 months. Let me know if this is of interest to you. thanks, Upinder

Iwas searching for soft start led circuits and this is what cameback as result: http://makeprojects.com/Project/LED-Tank-Top/25/1

I need one (1) blue Cree LED (can be 1 W or 3 W). Is there a place locally where I can get it by NOT paying $6.00 shipping charge!

This was a great idea Miles. I wish I had thought of his before setting my rock work. It provides perfect gap and grip between rock and bottom of the tank to maintain flow !

A big thank you to Beth and Kim.(clap)(clap)(clap) I was pleasure to meet you and thank you for bringing the corals from Medford to me. I hope you had a safe rest of the drive home. Upinder

Great frags Gabe!! Thank you. Just put mine in the tank and will let you know tomorrow as the lights are out in the tank.

They both supply Mg but the difference is the counter anion to Mg. In layman's terms Chloride(-1) is half as basic as sulfate (-2) and so it will influence the pH one half of sulfate. My 2 cents

If available, I'll take it. You can send it with Kim tomorrow as she will be stopping by my home.

Thanks Kim, Live about 5-7 miles off I-5. I can meet you any of the Eugene exits of I-5 to save you some time and driving. Please letme know. Thanks, Upinder

If Kim is planning to make a pit stop in Eugene, I'll take the red digitata and purple -blue birds nest frag B. Also add to the list green psilipora 3.5 inch frag I could show her my new DIY proJects

Cannot find thermal epoxy anywhere locally. Does anyone knows a place here in Eugene?

Ok, So after several long and very painful attempts, I am happy to say that the old thermostat in my home will now control the temperature in my Nano here is a quick update. Thanks for the info Emerald525. Never got around sending Topher an email but I'll keep him in mind if I run into any future issues with this project. Thanks, Drew. Yeh! finally it worked so you are more than welcome to take a look at it. I am out until Sunday DOH! again, but after that we are good. If I do get back in town earlier, I'll let you know. Thanks for your input Tidepool. You are right on the money with SSRs and I wish I had one of those. Instead, I was using the mini-relay. Anyhow, After two days on continues effrot to figure out what was worng, I started to wonder if the thermostat was bad (scratch), sure eough, I removed my home thermostat and attached this new one, and nothing really happemed (flame). I wasted two day on this crapy thermostat trying to figure out what I was doing worng (flame)(flame). I was sooo.. frustrated that I event stoped recording pictures to share!DOH! Anyhow, So I got a new thermostat from Jerrys and put it inon my home furnace ( the older one could only be programmed for 5 days, the new one is now 5-1-1). So I located the thermister (the temperature sensor) on this thermostat (the yellow circle), removed it using soldering iron, attached a pair of thin wires and resoldered it back to the circuit board. I used heatshrink tube to insulate the thermister and now I'll put silicon around it. compared the temperature with the home thermostat! Not bad! Finally wiried the relay, outlet and wall wart as done by the previous guy (post #1 on this thread) and I had my <$20 temperature contorller. And connected the whole thing to the thermostat (or controller) Here is the whole contraption I tested it with a lamp and set the temperature to be 75 F( room temp was 69F). The lamp (Heater rep!) came on. I them stuck the sensor in the lamp shade, the temp started to go up. As soon as it was 76 F, the lamp went off. I then removed the probe off the shade and as soon as the temp hit 75, the lamp came back on again. Did this a few times to make sure it was doing what it was suppose to do. I now have to seal the temperature probe with silicon or something just leaving the thermister exposed. Actually, thermal adhisive will be best but I don't have any at the moment! Then, it will be the real deal So far, it worked in the test conditions, field test is coming soon. Stay tuned for the update (scary). Let me know if you have any question!! Thanks, Upinder

Sorry, I dont see the humor in in this statement!

I have been toying around with an idea of converting a home thermostat into a temperature controller. Finally I found one on the web in a brewing fourm. here is the link. http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/diy-temp-controller-build-133364/ So, I set out to make one for myself and succeeded halfway. that is, I have a good working temperature sensor now. I wired the electrical outlet with mini relay (coil voltage 12V, contact voltage 120 AC) and the relay operates perfectly when I supply it with 12 V wall-wart! The problem is I am not able to operate the relay with the controller as described in above post. I do have a different relay that the guy using it in the post. Mine is this from radioshack: http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062482 Question I have to HVAC experts is what am I doing wrong here DOH! The entire wiring of the thermostat and relay is exactly like described in the post. Also, after reading a bit about thermostats, I do understand the circuit and priniciple on which these things work. So based on my reading, the system should just work fine(scratch) Is it the relay that is having problem talking to the controller? (one guy here is controlling auto relay using theromstat!!!) Thanks for your help.

Jose, I'll take one of each if you still have these. I'll be making a trip to PDX and pick-up frags from a few people there at the same time! Unless somebody is going to go up there from Eugene or coming down here from PDX. Please let me know. Thanks, Upinder

Do you have any 5 polyps (or 1 polyp) frags left. I'll one of those please, preferably 5 polyps frag!