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Yeah, that pretty much says it. The Pukani was basically devoid of macro life, and baseball sized, although as you can see, the colors were good. The Dr. Mac stuff (I believe is also from Walt Smith, BTW) was fresher off the boat, more encrusted, and the macroalgae looks like it will revive. And...

I should have said it's only roughly in order. I can't keep my hands off the dang aquacontroller! That said, I wasn't planning to use it to control my calcium reactor, since I got a pH controller with my setup. Do you recommend I use the AC-3, does it do a good job? I'm using a dedicated ATO...

I thought it might be fun to post my to-do list so far. Obviously it keeps getting longer... UPCOMING REEF BUILDING TASKS 1) Build and install manifold piece with unions (X) 2) Drain Water, move sump into position (X) 3) Finish Drain end plumbing (X) 4) Finish return pump plumbing (X) 4a)...

Got another 50lbs of LR, this time from Dr. Mac. Now this is the stuff I like: football sized pieces as requested, very little rubble or gravel, some porites and other coral growth (star coral?) which looks like it might be viable, reasonably fresh looking macroalgae. Good smell, must be fresh...

Looks like Sumpus Chumpus to me. I think you have to be a biology professor to get a species ID. Suffice it to say: Crabs are omnivorous and With a few exceptions, need to be removed unless you are so totally into crabs that you tolerate them. If you pulled this guy off your rock the first...

Okay, so, hear me out, drill a couple 2" bulkheads into opposite sides of the tank, and, and, run a piece of clear PVC between the bulkheads, okay, ya with me, and see, then, run the train track through the pipe, and bang, it's a train tunnel through the reef, I mean, would that be amazing or...

I think those are cold water animals, don't know how well they'll do long term. I wonder if you can get live warm water clams at the Chinese market... Still, you can always make chowder if it doesn't work out (eeewwww --- tastes like coral!) ;)

We did go to Steamtown a couple of times. It's worth the trip. "Bigboy" is amazing in person, but I didn't see it running. If you go to Scranton, a stop at Coopers for a seafood dinner is a must. That place is one of a kind, plus they have over 100 beers. I have what you might call a mild...

If I might, here's some photos from the Roaring Camp and Big Trees Railroad we visited this spring. It was never run as an actual railroad in historical times, buit was a labor of love by a guy who built it in untouched forest so people could see what a logging railroad was like. The engine is a...

Ahh, don't feel too bad. Here -- misery loves company: Yesterday I was drilling a hole in the wall to run the wires from the ballast in th garage to the reeftank. I drilled straight through a main electrical line in my house. $100 to fix today, and now I have some really fugly junction boxes on...

On a more serious note: I think you need to be up front with people about why they need a relationship with a physical store in these days of mail-order and teh intraweb. Maybe you could offer a 24-hour emergency number, for regular customers, who might be in a situation off-hours. You...

Jim-- Go see that store our friend runs, see how he runs his SW system and what kind of people he hires. Then do everything the opposite way!!!

Beleive it or not, the live rock vendor warned me to monitor and adjust Ca levels, lest I lose all the "collectible" multicolored coralline algae. The nerve of some people.

I'm up in Rockaway, in Morris County. Stoopid bears wrecked a $80 bird feeder the other day. I had it way up in a tree, like 30' with a pulley, and they climbed for it.

I disassembled my old Hamilton lighing unit to harvest the wiring harness. I really wanted to save the old unit to use on a frag tank or something but the prospect of a neatly done, heavy-duty 20' wiring harness provisioned for 2 MH and 2 VHOs and a fan was too hard to resist. The unit uses...

Congratulations Stan, that's wonderful...

It's Pukani rock.

Pop rivets are a TREMENDOUS TOOL. I would not have thought I could fabricate this rack until I read Melev's magnificent post on RC detailing it.

Making the light Rack

Mark of quality: The rocks: