October Meeting Wrap Up

[Brian]

A big thank you to Kathy for opening her home to us. It was a great time seeing all the usual faces, and eating all the great food. (some of us ate more than others!  : ) (Kathy can cook about 100 burger and dogs in like... 20 minutes.. AMAZING  )

It was a busy day with the Maxi Jet Mod workshop (Thanks John and Renee for all the help with that!) and handing out all the items from our Premium Aquatics Group Buy.

Flash Bulbs were popping all over the place today... There should be some pretty interesting pictures to follow (MERV!    )

As usual there were many frags from the club raffles and some member trading.

Here are the winners of the club frag raffles:

Multi-Color Acan: ReefDrumz / Katlongo
Infamous "tan thing from Atlantis: Katlongo
Watermelon Mushroom: Qwerty
Small Leather: DFlint
Green Pavona: Chazotte
MultiColor Zoos: BLange
GSP: BLange
Blue Tip Stag: ReefDrumz
Brown SPS: Qwerty
Green Poccillipora: Katlongo
Green Echno: Katlongo
Atlantis Green Acro: Chazotte
Green Frilly Shroom: BLange
Red Candy Cane: Katlongo

The Host was the big winner this month!

Thanks again to all the members for their help and support of the club!

 

[RichT]

 

[momof6kids]

Yeah, Kathy. Congrats on the big win. What a small world we live in, what are the chances of you knowing my daughter? ;D I will let Holly know we ran into you.

Thanks all for a great meeting. John and Renee a big thanks to you both for letting us all dump on you and have you "teach" us how to do the mods. I think I am going to wait till tomorrow to shock my fish though.

 

[steve68]

CHHHHEEESSSEEE!!!!

 

[steve68]

Kathy thank you for hosting the meeting, i had a great time.
John all i can say is "U THE MAN" thank you so much for helping
out i owe u so when u are ready i will help u with the mod
on ur RMR-3.
Beer!!!!!

John whats in ur hand?

NIce Camera !!!!!

This bud's 4 u !

 

[RichT]

Is that a D200 around Phyl's neck?

 

[steve68]

U so crazy Nagel.

the mod begins

LOL

this goes where?

Hmmmm

we know what was going on here

all right look at it go!

 

[steve68]

Yes it is Rich she was loving it.
& it is a sweet camera.

KAthy i think i got all ur fish

 

[steve68]

a couple more.
i ding get a good one of this fish.

or this one

Good night Everyone.

 

[RichT]

Well, there's proof that Kathy made people feel right at home.

 

[concept3]

I was able to process these two fish tonight, I just got back from my parents in Dumont. what a long day!!!

Kat- thanks for the hospitality and these wonderful subjects

I'll post more up tomorrow after work.

 

[katlongo]

Thank you EVERYONE for coming all the way up here. I wish I'd gotten a chance to meet a few more people and speak to everyone. I'm glad that everyone had a great time.

Those pictures are fantastic -- I'm going to have to rotate them through as my desktop.

My skimmer is officially dead -- the pump doesn't even hum a little bit, so I'm getting a bigger/better model.

Merv - Thanks for the corals - Hopefully I won't kill them off !

Someone else handed me a bag with a coral in it as they came in the house..... please let me know who you are as my old age has muddled my memory.......Thank you!!!

I put all of the corals in the tank and the stupid butterfly started in on two of them. So, they're officially in the sump. I think I'm going to put them in my husband's tank, so I'm shopping around for a new light fixture for him as well.

And, lastly, many, many, many thanks to John for putting together my MJ mods. The one in there already is making such a huge difference. Now, I just need to get my lights working and I'm set!

 

[Phyl]

Kathy, did you use the magnet mounts? How did you attach them?

Thanks again for letting us invade your home. Food was great, as was the company. It was a super long day, but worth it.

 

[katlongo]

Phyl,

Anytime you folks want to come invade you're invited.

I used the magnet mount and some Weldon, then I slipped the magnet on it. It seems to hold fine. The airplane hum does bother me, but I don't think the magnet has anything to do with it unless it's putting more of a pull on the inside magnet?

 

[momof6kids]

I used super glued mine to a magfloat that needed to be replaced anyway. It is humming but I don't think it is any louder than my fans on my light. The flow is amazing. Thanks again John.

I cannot get the second one of mine to work. It starts up and after a few seconds comes apart and the miniscule washer floats away through the stream. After finding the washer twice, I have taken a break from it and put it aside.

 

[RichT]

Try putting a piece (or two) of rubber matting, like the stuff used to get jar lids off, between the inside magnet and glass. Or maybe the little bumpers used for cabinet doors. Can't be too thick or the magnet might not hold the weight of the maximod. Maybe that will help with the humming.

 

[steve68]

Kathy i was the other person that handed u a coral on the way in.
it was a small colony of zoo's

 

[concept3]

more october meeting pics

Raffle frags......

 

[concept3]

WHAT ARE THEY DOING?!?!?!

I think Brian is up to something....

 

[concept3]

more pics oct meeting

Oh yeah, this is goooooood...

Oh yeah *mmmmmmmmmm*

The GB sensei himself amidst our presence.  Hail GB Guru, Hail!

(why is steve always in the pic?!?!)