bloopbloop
New member
Chris, I was looking forward to seeing you again! Haven't seen ya in bajillion months!
Hope you can make the next one!
Hope you can make the next one!
April Meeting
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bloopbloop
New member
Thank you to kaptken for the presentation! Thank you MTM for the pictures, so I understood what kaptken was talking about! 
Thank you Tbor and MTM for the trades!
It was good to see some new faces tonight!
Thank you Tbor and MTM for the trades!
It was good to see some new faces tonight!
Dan Thrash
New member
nice meeting everyone tonight. hope to see more at the next meeting.
kaptken
New member
Good to meet you too Dan. Welcome to the club. Many members here can help you solve any problems you might encounter with that new 12 gallon Nano you are setting up. feel free to ask. There are many great Nano Reefers here.
And Welcome also to Tom and his lovely Wife, also joining us as new members tonight. Tom has been a member of the Delaware County Aquarium Society, a fine fresh water tank club, but has recently been seduced to the dark side of salt water reefing. those were nice pictures of your new 35 Hex reef tank, Tom.
Cheers All !!
And Welcome also to Tom and his lovely Wife, also joining us as new members tonight. Tom has been a member of the Delaware County Aquarium Society, a fine fresh water tank club, but has recently been seduced to the dark side of salt water reefing. those were nice pictures of your new 35 Hex reef tank, Tom.
Cheers All !!
kaptken
New member
Chris, that's great that you want to present on your BTA tank. I have never had one in my tanks. it would be very interesting to hear what they need. and how yours are doing. I'm sure we will all keep our eyes peeled for good deals on new BTA's, and let you know, or frag trades. Hope it comes together.
If you need pictures, I can help
for those who are interested in more on the meeting topic:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=430060
apparently the chlorine gas generated is readily dissolved back into the water - and pretty toxic - I'm going to keep reading/researching amd maybe, just maybe do a little chemistry to see if making the process infinately smaller, the chlorine gas generation will be unnoticable....
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=430060
apparently the chlorine gas generated is readily dissolved back into the water - and pretty toxic - I'm going to keep reading/researching amd maybe, just maybe do a little chemistry to see if making the process infinately smaller, the chlorine gas generation will be unnoticable....
kaptken
New member
Good links Nick, i figured there had to be some more info on the acretion process on some reef sites. but i can never seem to get into RC's search engine. always busy.
yes, the articles and patent description in that first forum link mention the other thing i had thought about but didnt mention. electrolsys of free chlorine gas at the anode. I was thinking about it because thats how we make sodium hypochlorite, or bleach. electrolosys of salt water. the ocean is infinite , our tanks small. but still there must be a way.
for those that couldnt make the meeting heres the prime link to the BIOROCK organization for reef building. check all the drop down menu links for photo archives and articles on projects around the world..
http://www.biorock.net/
according to the patent, low voltage DC is the key, just a couple volts, and in closed tanks very low milli amps. so a single solar cell crystal might do the trick. anything more would be dangerous and destructive to the tank live. but the same side effects would still be there.
of course plenum type deep sand beds operate on an ORP differential charge between the low oxygen water space below the sandbed and plenum, and the general tank water above. that creates a natural charge differential. battery,between tank water and sandbed , and anything attached to it. like the rock. perhaps that is why hard corals in my plenum reef tank do very well, a natural setup of acretion charge. Hmmm?? but im not clear right now if the low opr sand bed is the negative charged cathode? if so thats what makes it better.
yes, the articles and patent description in that first forum link mention the other thing i had thought about but didnt mention. electrolsys of free chlorine gas at the anode. I was thinking about it because thats how we make sodium hypochlorite, or bleach. electrolosys of salt water. the ocean is infinite , our tanks small. but still there must be a way.
for those that couldnt make the meeting heres the prime link to the BIOROCK organization for reef building. check all the drop down menu links for photo archives and articles on projects around the world..
http://www.biorock.net/
according to the patent, low voltage DC is the key, just a couple volts, and in closed tanks very low milli amps. so a single solar cell crystal might do the trick. anything more would be dangerous and destructive to the tank live. but the same side effects would still be there.
of course plenum type deep sand beds operate on an ORP differential charge between the low oxygen water space below the sandbed and plenum, and the general tank water above. that creates a natural charge differential. battery,between tank water and sandbed , and anything attached to it. like the rock. perhaps that is why hard corals in my plenum reef tank do very well, a natural setup of acretion charge. Hmmm?? but im not clear right now if the low opr sand bed is the negative charged cathode? if so thats what makes it better.
