Yes please do, and while you are at it bring back some Epo putty so I can get this
XXXX cube aquascaped!
Not until I get rid of the 288 packs I already have
I'll buy some!!
PM me the prices, etc!
I'll buy some as well, send me a PM, heck, i'll even drive up to get it! I'm in western Mass, it would make for a great weekend trip
mr. Wilson, if your serious then I'm seriously excited. the Bro's Grimm said it was all gone and I have had no luck getting a response from the distributor. I NEED EPO PUTTY!! Where do I send the money?
Mr. Wilson does have a room full of the EPO putty. In an agreement with me and in keeping with the RC forum policy he is not allowed to actively solicit business in this thread. To date, I believe Mr. Wilson has kept that agreement and in fact has demonstrated a cultural best practice for someone who is a supplier of services to this community by actively sharing information and not actively marketing his business interests in the process. This is a very difficult road for any servicing practitioner to follow and I applaud his principles in this regard. The members of this thread need to know that the information they are getting are free from commercial bias and I believe Mr. Wilson has done this to a fault.
I would strongly urge anyone who wants to engage Mr. Wilson at any level to PM him on the back channel and keep those conversations one on one. Personally I would like Mr. Wilson succeed in his business aspirations as I personally know him to be an honest and forthright individual with the highest standards of personal integrity. His assistance to me in this build and open attitude to helping others in this thread is a huge asset that this community wants to vigorously protect. So by all means please use Mr. Wilson as a supplier of product or services but do it away from the thread.
Now all Mr. Wilson has to do is clean up his inbox!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for the rant but this build has a long way to go yet and I absolutely want to continue to share this forum with Mr. Wilson to everyones benefit.
and speaking of long way to go, Mr. Wilson has been focusing on a number of milestones which for the greater part have been more or less out of the public view. At the outset of this build and with Mr. Wilson's formal joining of the project team we decided NOT to post truly negative experiences with product or services suppliers and I think we have kept that promise. I can tell you that there have been moments along the way where it's been extremely difficult to refrain from making a few comments. This thread was born with a pledge to create and maintain a positive culture that would pursue and promote best practices in all its endevours. It is not that we want to present an unbalanced view and I think we have shared our progress "warts and all' fairly and objectively in that regard.
Hopefully soon you will join us in seeing some of the progress we have been making in the background. We are still assessing lighting strategies. This tank canopy is large by typical tank standards. I believe that what we finally end up with will be innovative and beneficial for many in this hobby. Although it is taking a long time to find the right solution I believe that it will be worth it. The questions we are asking now have been improved greatly since we started this whole lighting expedition so hopefully it will be resolved soon.
I am very, very pleased with the chapter on pumps and flow. From the beginning I wanted to achieve 'managed chaos' in the tank and that, thanks to Mr. Wilson's perseverance has been achieved. In fact I am very pleased to say that we now have the ability to exceed a reasonable flow virtually on demand anywhere we want in the tank. We have actually tempered the flow as we think it will be too excessive for the animal live in the tank when we start to populate it (soon, I hope). The pumps we acquired are nothing short of astonishing in my opinion. They are variable (huge upside), they are quiet (I cannot hear them standing directly over them in the fish room), they are phenomenally efficient (compared to the overwhelming majority of aquarium pumps on the market today), they are extremely flexible from a programming standpoint and they are supposedly one of the longest MTBF on the market today (this I cannot attest to as I've only had them for a couple of months). They are expensive (or Mr. Wilson is taking me to the cleaners!!!) but I cannot understand why anyone would buy the regular pumps with all the noise and heat given my limited experience to date. Time will tell if the performance stays the same for the next decade as promised.
Next week is Mangrove week on the thread. Mr. Wilson has promised that I will be picking Mangrove fruit by friday so hang in there we will be taking pictures............or was that mangos??????
Video++++++ this has been a very time consuming and expensive journey to say the least. This is my project and accounts for my limited posts on the forum of late.
There are really two projects going on. First are the two web cams.....one for the fish room and one for the display tank. I have installed a few different brands and I have not been entirely satisfied with the resulting images. Having said that, the assessment has been hampered by the fact that we have been running five different lighting systems over the display tank which has made it almost impossible to get a sane picture that I can use as a baseline for evaluation purposes. I think we are getting closer but until we make the final decisions on the display tank lighting strategy I won't be releasing the web cams to the general public.
Then I ventured into the HI DEF camcorder world...........bought a relatively decent camcorder capable of 1080P 24fps in low light. But then I had a heck of a time getting the result to play properly on a wide variety of PC platforms. I tried it on desktops, Laptops, tablets all to no avail. The results were not running smoothly but and its a BIG BUT, the picture was staggeringly good.....almost like 3D (more on this later). So I thought I will break down centuries of prejudice and buy a MAC. WOOOSH what a difference. The quality is phenomenal. Now I have to figure out how to get that result into all your greedy hands. The file size is huge just to get a single slow pan of all 50 ft of visible tank. The quality is so high that I know that no matter how slow I go folks will still complain it's too fast. The quality is so good that I am seeing stuff for the first time that I did not see with the naked eye and I do for sure want everyone to be able to benefit from that experience as well. I think I will resist the temptation to dumb it down in size or resolution. I think I am going to store it in the cloud and then let folks download it at their leisure.
I have an errand to run so I will take a brief break before I continue the update.
Peter
