Mark's 180 Starfire upgrade

[Ian]

I meant Bioptim, not Bioclean...

 

[eagleONE]

Oh wells about the name of the unknown now...
that piece is stn'ing on me...
:mad2: :sad1:


Loripes is still stunning as ever...

Not to take away from your thread.



I don't think your honeymoon tank is over... keep going.

 

[mpoletti]

Jay- good luck; cut off the best piece and put it in a shady spot with lower flow.

 

[willan]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12334490#post12334490 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tbone28
Willan - I've read over on the Reef Chemistry forum, that making saltwater will sometimes leave a white residue, which never goes into solution. Randy HF says that this is normal and nothing to worry about. I experience the same. What *helps* for me is to make up the entire batch of RODI (50 gallons) before adding the salt. When I add the salt, I add it in 3 smaller batches (instead of pouring the whole bag in)

wow...I'm almost lost this reply ,thank you for shareing your experience for me ,I'll keep in mind because usually I'm poured the whole bag of salt in to the water...may be that is my mistake

then I've interesting the TUNZE salt...but here is not this salt ..I'm so despond...

 

[mpoletti]

Today was pretty cool. Our local club had a quaint little auction today with John Dakan of Yourreef.com, Steve Tyree and Eddie Hanson; aka Eddie's purple monster and the RIP store tropical Paradise.

Steve was presenting at MARS last night and the place was packed. Today, it was a little different. To my surprise, there were not as many people as I had expected. I am glad I showed up

My new Strawberry Red Fungia :dance:
It is still in that shade, but it is so sweet. Thanks again Eddie

I also picked up an LE to be, the pink cadillac monti from reefready and rommel's rainbow staghorn.

My friends Brian and Alicia came up this morning from Napa this morning bearing gifts. Brian delivered a frag of his LE to be Stargazer chalice and a decent sized frag of mings Shades of fall acro. Thanks again Brian.
Alicia was picking up her frag of Mengs mummy eye that we picked up a couple weeks back. It was nice to show the tank to Alicia especially because things are so much better off than the last time she was up a few weeks back.

Time to get some glue out before I have some visitors tomorrow

 

[tbone28]

Nice goodies, Mark! Your thread is still alive!

 

[jtarmitage]

Nice Fungia!:eek2: I've been eyeing a couple lately, but can't stomach the price tags on the bright red ones. That Pink Cadilac sure stands out.

 

[mpoletti]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12368485#post12368485 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jtarmitage
Nice Fungia!:eek2: I've been eyeing a couple lately, but can't stomach the price tags on the bright red ones. That Pink Cadilac sure stands out.

:dance: I just can not stop dancing :dance:

I even made jambalaya, which is my favorite and I can not stop posting pics of it

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12368432#post12368432 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tbone28
Nice goodies, Mark! Your thread is still alive!

Yep, I am done with the upgrade, so now it will just turn into a thread that will be littered with 5 star rated eye candy :eek1:

 

[tbone28]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12368520#post12368520 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Marko9
Yep, I am done with the upgrade, so now it will just turn into a thread that will be littered with 5 star rated eye candy :eek1:

5+ stars
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: "2 thumbs up"
Your eye candy from your 90 was why I started following this thread!

 

[tbone28]

dp

 

[mpoletti]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12368541#post12368541 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tbone28
5+ stars
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: "2 thumbs up"
Your eye candy from your 90 was why I started following this thread!

Thanks. Do you guys think it is wrong if I rate my own thread :lol:

The problem is I splurged a little lit today and I did not think I was going to even bid. I went to drop off off some directions and then I saw the red fungia and Emma was smiling at me. I knew it was all over at that point. She was telling me earlier today that she wanted a gem tang. I told her no, so on her 17th month birthday, we settled for this

I think a mothers day trip to bacfm is a little bit out of the question now :hmm2:

 

[tbone28]

LOL, you're cracking me up. Sure, you can even nominate yourself TOTM! Emma is magic. She can sure pick out that eye candy! BACFM was never a possibility! It's a test!

 

[kdblove_99]

Nice stuff Mark.

Brian has some great peices/tank. Saw his tank about a month and a half ago the thing is just packed full of LE corals.

 

[mpoletti]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12368698#post12368698 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kdblove_99
Nice stuff Mark.

Brian has some great peices/tank. Saw his tank about a month and a half ago the thing is just packed full of LE corals.

Brian has a great collection. Its really cool because we really started collecting around the same time. His 90 was about 4-5 months older than mine was.

 

[kdblove_99]

I usally dont get into the favia type stuff but there were 2 that Tyree put up on the screen last night that were awesome.

forgot the names one was somethinjg like robbakakis

Do you remember Mark?

 

[mpoletti]

C'mon Davey, of course I remember. I am a coral connesiour

The true robokaki is one of the chalices. I do remember his eye of jupiter, baby's breath, sunburst and pot of gold slides. It was funny because Brian and I were in the back talking about where we got each one of the pieces as they were being shown.

 

[kdblove_99]

That was it. So nice! Babys breath is awesome.

Was the Robokaki up for auction today?

 

[Jflip2002]

Recent FTS or I rate it a 1 =) lol

 

[mpoletti]

This was a couple pages back. It was taken last Sat.

The robokaki wa snot for auction today. I know that there are two pieces in town. One is in Johns display and the other one in a few pages back as well.

 

[mpoletti]

For you Davey