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Me too, seriously!

I highly recommend it. Don't get stuck with phosphate leaching rock, it makes life miserable!

Great post, great pics, enjoyed reading. Shoulda got me one of those mega clams for the 240 what a deal!

Looking great! Well done!!

Can someone fill in for Thomas and kick off the poll?

Cool, thanks for sharing.

CB rockstars, CB Mandarin Oranges are around the forum. I have both but am pretty far North in Kelso. CB Rockstars - Lineage Bombertech CB MANDARIN ORANGE - Lineage Barrier Reef A very special Zoa - Krakatoas Cousin Read about em here (used to have a thread here, lost it) http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/zoa-discussion-club-zoa/159879-huge-thanks-therman-red-spackles-krakatoas-cousin.html

Hooo boy. That is going to be tough to catch up to! Congrats, I predict a winner

Lobo is doing great, love the bright orange on it. Wow, what a stand upgrade!!

It looks like. There is a nice PDF linked here showing them. http://www.reefradiance.com/WIRELESSEVERGROW.pdf

Wahooo! Congratulations!! You have inspired me since the beginning to try and take better pictures. The beauty that we have in our salty cages is difficult to capture but you are a master.

Welcome back, you told me you were coming back that day I bought the lobos and hammers, that didn't take long. Nice clean update to the stand, the trim and corners is a nice touch. Going to have a big garage system too like the last place?

Up to 11!!

Interesting topic! Last thought. The controller listed below is a big step up but only 20 bucks. http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Universal-Digital-PID-Temperature-Controller-SSR-Control-output-1-alarm-/110862594914?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19cfecf362 We use it to control the cheap electric smoker. The smoker is now elite class, it can now hold temp +- 2 degrees in the drafty garage, pretty amazing. Smoking comes out perfect since the temperature is so dead on. The old thermostat was all over the place. The algorithms in this thing are really good, it uses good old calculus (rate of change/derivative) to know to turn off before setpoint etc..

One cool feature would be PID support. Rather than on/off repeatedly, use variable output to ramp the heaters up/down. Supposedly way better for the heaters and more accurate temperature control.

If you are going the DIY route, these are hard to beat, 13 bucks. There are lots of threads out there with people using them, I have no experience personally but one sitting in my stack of fishy stuff somewhere... http://www.ebay.com/itm/10A-110V-Digital-Temperature-Controller-Thermocouple-58-194-Fahrenheit-US-/121314210967?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c3ee3f497

Plumb it in, plumb it in (chanting)

Those shallow trays are awesome. So awesome I brought my Mom, who cannot get around well, in to the store on her walker to admire coral on Sunday when we were driving by the shop. She could easily see all kinds of coral, nems and clams from the ideal top down view. No doubt thieves love those shallow trays too unfortunately, that stinks!

Time to vote???

I think IPB takes things that people are volunteering to do and move them over to the professionals. We call it ‘managed services’ and ‘managed service providers’ sometimes in the industry. Since we are doing the analogy thing, my company is a managed service provider in the printing industry. We install, update, fix bugs, add new features, test them, maintain backward compatibilty, run an international 1-800 number for support that is fully staffed, etc. As a result it allows printers to focus more on printing, less on our software. We handle the software issues, they handle printing. To replicate this service in house, the printing company would have to maintain a large group of full time employees (software engineers, quality and support, project managers) and all the expense that goes along with it. This expense would far exceed the cost to engage us as an MSP. In addition, the MSP has seen most issues that crop up because they work not with one customer, but many. So a problem seen in one place goes into the knowledge base and leaves the MSP better prepared to handle problems from the largest, to the smallest customer. If it were my forum, moving to a managed service would be worth it. I would want to focus on PNWMAS, not patches, and hacks and software versions. I don't see any of that in the PNWMAS mission statement. I bet it is all over the IPB mission statement though. We can focus on what we are good at, and IPB can focus on their business, a win-win on paper. All that said an MSP approach has to be cost effective, and fortunately it looks like it is quite comparable. Lastly, the public beta thing Micah brought up is critical! Letting the group test drive as a whole and vote on the move makes people feel like their opinion matters. Kind of the life cereal thing, try it you may like it. It might be a pleasant surprise to all how good things can be with this move. Or, it could be a disaster, but at least people have a chance before crossing another 'no turning back' threshold. Based on all this, from my perspective, moving to an MSP model makes allot of sense. Is IPB the best forum / MSP bundle? I have no idea, but am interested to find out.

Well, not really, but did pickup some nice stuff from Golden Basket and AquaSD Some random shots... etc...

Tick tock, build time is running out! T - 2D!! Cannot wait to see the updates.

What??!! I must have missed that offer!! Seriously though, the plan is solid, Micah is willing to help. Unless there is another plan LETS DO IT!!