Higher Thinking

Dang man, my bad, just trying to help. But like I said before, the bean animal is just like the herbie except you run a slight trickle down the open channel and have an extra emergency. Just trying to give you a hands on visual of siphon action and the valve adjustment. My apologies for derailing.

Here's another great reason to buy an urchin. They'll give you some free space on your frag rack after they steal some frags.

Here's a quick video I just made of my Herbie. I think the only difference between this and bean animal is a third tube that provides even more added security. I misspoke when I said my overflow line T's off. Obviously I just meant it makes a 90°.

Yeah, I think you're making it too complicated. Just Google videos of people using Herbie overflows. They are totally silent and super easy. Jman, while you can make a silent overflow without siphon, you can barely move much water without noise. If you want to be able to actually move a decent amount of water through the overflow, the silent siphon is perfect. These styles require that you have a gate valve to control the flow coming down the overflow. Once it is set, the water level doesn't change much. You might need to adjust it every couple weeks, but with a gate valve, it takes about 2 seconds. As long as you don't have too many T's, the piping should be able to clear the air bubbles. I didn't notice a valve on your setup, am I missing something?

No neat music or video edits, but here she is: http://youtu.be/Jaj3_XdlsLo

You two accomplished quite a great deal this morning!

I suppose that's the question that in general is being discussed more and more. How much are we willing to pay for something from an LFS versus going online. Most folks on this forum are huge fans of the local stores and often pay for things a bit higher because we're supporting local. However, we all have budgets and depending on the item, the internet may be the best option. We currently have a couple supporting sponsors who manufacture LEDs and as the PR guy for this group, I wouldn't be too interested in supporting international while we have stuff being built in our backyards. That's just my initial opinion, but I'm always interested in helping the local stores increase sales.

You only need 5 [emoji41] Maybe a couple "that's cool" comments around the forum, haha.

Great to have you around!

Good to have you here. I also came from a planted tank background. I'm certainly going full boar with the salt these days! Still have my 20 and 75 planted though.

Great to have you around. Please check out the section for Brandon. He was a local reefer who tragically passed away so people are auctioning off items with the proceeds going to his family. Looking forward to some build threads.

This is amazing that you got squared away with the foundation to help. Hopefully this comes together! I hope to see some pictures too.

Conversation over: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/

What are your parameters that "seem to be spot on?"

Gas exchange is occurring wherever you have surface agitation on your water. Most pumps push water around in such a way that you get ripples across the surface. Those ripples facilitate gas exchange.

Unfortunately, Thomas hasn't been around for several months so I don't anticipate you'll receive an update.

I have one I won in a raffle that I'll unashamedly sell. It's never even been used.

Upgrade to the quiet drive! We need local feedback.

I've seen this tank in person a couple times. Absolutely stunning!

Forum rules state that if you have multiple items for sale, they must be in one thread.

You are correct. Perhaps "stupid" was not a legitimate term to address the issue. I apologize for being a bit hostile in how I addressed that point. My overall point was that the edit button is one single speck amongst a whole lot of forward progress and some people will only focus on the one thing they don't like.

No one has yet to answer the question of how many representatives does it actually take to qualify as being "present." How are we a no show if people showed? It seems like reserving a table for our members is a nice gesture and the fact that hardly anyone showed is indeed a reflection that our membership doesn't really care about attending those events. So this awesome opportunity that you and Noob keep speaking of was "dropped" because members such as yourself didn't show up. I really can't understand the delineation between the BoD missing out on an opportunity to boost the club and every other member who failed to go, also dropping the ball on representing the club. Maybe if you reread Kevin's post, I'm pretty sure you'll notice a segment about contacting the group to say we likely can't attend.

This has nothing to do with silencing people. Why would something that is directly related to PNWMAS as an organization not be put in the members section. Having issues about the way things are run are left to paying members. Again, why (as was claimed by someone) was the club a no show if members showed up? Exactly how many members of the BoD were expected to show up to then qualify as "showing?" Why is it our responsibility to attend an event when people don't want to attend local events? To be honest, I have never dealt with such an ungrateful group of people in my life. I have always tried to stay positive, always been one to look for ways to reasonably accommodate others, and to diffuse situations. However, this latest event is such a slap in the face to all the hard work being put into this club by a bunch of VOLUNTEERS. Since the hack there has been a huge amount of effort put into implementing new software (yes the first software upgrade was a bust, but we're not computer scientists). The amount of appreciation pales in comparison to the amount of criticism about stupid little things like an edit button. Do I really have to go all JFK on yall and tell you to stop always asking what the club can do for you, but rather what can (and have) you actually done lately for the club. It's so easy to sit back and complain, but its much tougher to think about and appreciate stuff going on. How many of you have time to design fliers, book flights, reserve venues, email countless companies to acquire donations, reach out to sponsors to acquire/maintain sponsorship, implement a new software program by spending over 100 hours Googling how to do things so we don't have to pay a company 700 dollars to do it (this is all Kevin right here), or drive around cities to deliver fliers (including Bob Moore frag swap), show up early to meetings to setup, stay late to clean up, send thank you letters, etc. etc. etc., all the while trying to keep the peace on a forum where certain people do nothing but complain. I definitely don't do this so I can get accolades, but I dang sure won't do it if all that comes with it is criticism. I don't even need a thank you. I just wont tolerate listening to "lack of leadership" and things of that nature.

I'm not sure I understand correctly. The thread has been moved over in its entirety. The posts were not dealt with individually.

The thread was moved to the members section as it dealt exclusively with PNWMAS as an organization. Seemed like something that would only pertain to members.