My 1st 180 RR Project, Cust Built stand/canopy Tunzes etc..

Ohh man, thats not good, alright the good ol escape to John's!!!LOL Welp hopefully you guys will be all good later!!

Alittle OT but Rob do you know anyone in the home networking field, I need to get a wireless router and some access points for 2 cpu's and a laptop??
 
Did you get that DJ panel at HD? They looked at me like I was crazy when I explained to them what it was. Where else would they sale something like this at? Thanks.
 
As for my opinion on TBS, it is great if you want to add diversity to your tank, and wish to have excess of 1.5 lbs/gallon in your tank. The rock is extremely dense which is why you need so much of it. Must of the base rock placed into the ocean to aquaculture is mined from phosphate pits and the like, which is not what I want in my tank. It is also mostly encrusted with sponge and tunicate life with excellent coralline coverage. I can grow coralline, and sponges and tunicates have very mixed results upon curing, and depending of aftercare. Beyond this, the level of undesirable hitchickers ( the aformentioned "diversity") gave me endless headaches with my gulf/keys rock in my first reef tank. Coral eating lympets, zoanthid spiders/nudis, GORILLA CRABS (so many it needed capitalization), mantis/pistol shrimp, bad stars, fantastic odor (lol), and algae blooms (bad bad bryopsis). None made it into my new tank. Although I spent additional money on new rock. My previous delight with haitian rock has left me jaded now though. The tiny encrusting tube worms that came from it, and now cover my back glass, eat so much calcium and strontium, corraline has taken a back seat. Walt smith premium fiji is fine rock so long as you get it from a reputable source. There are better but rarer sources as well. The tonga Kaelini is really pleasing me with it's arrays of coralline colours, as well as shape. As is the indonesian, but this tends to be somewhere between Fiji and Gulf in density, so you will pay more for it, and need more of it. I just set up a 20H zoa tank with only 2 pieces of Indo. a 13lb and a 12lb piece. Covered in coralline of the deepest purple tone, with some nice pinks splotched about, with a healthy covering of a Gracilaria like macro algae, and some chaeto looking stuff as well. So far no spike, at 13 days.

P.S. Mike, sorry 'bout the hijack.
 
Cool, thanks Landragon. I appreciate all the comments and help. Mike, I appreciate the use of your thread and assistance as well.
 
No prob slothguy, Jamie is a good person and will lead ya the right way!!

Jamie- No prob on the hijacked thread!!! Its all good man, How are things going with you, Im still keeping an eye out for a truck for you but the only ones I see are rusted out BAD!! But I will still keep my eyes open for ya, Hope things are well.....
 
OT again, but is anyone familiar with networking here??? I already got all my CPU's to talk to each other and share printers and all that jazz, but now I have a question about a wireless router and a regular router. Please let me know if anyone on here has some knoweledge about this. Thanks
 
Hey Paul and thank you for helping, OK my question is this, I have a D-Link router that is ran after my cable modem (of course!!) The question is I dont want to have to make all my desktop computers wireless just my laptop, can I run a wireless router from the regular router or will there be issues with that? I hope I am explaining this good enough for you.. Like my D-link has I believe 4 ports on it and just my 2 desktops are running from it now plus this laptop, but when Im sitting on the couch I right now have to run a CAT-5 wire throughout my living room, which stinks cause my kitten likes to chew on it!!! But Im just interested in doing this laptop wireless.....

THANKS again for helping me!!!
 
That will most likely work. Specifically, I you'll need to make sure and turn the ROUTER functions of the wireless router off and make it serve as just an ACCESS POINT. Does any of that make sense?

I'd have to explore the web interface some to help more. Let's do 2 things. First, post the exact model # of the device (or PM me). Then I can look up the manual online and be able to help better. Secondly, why don't you give me a call tonight and I will try to walk you through any details. I will PM you my number.
 
Yes I do understand the access point part, I was woundering if I could have gotton away with one of those. I dont really know which one I was going to get, I was just trying to figure out if it would even work. Im most definatly going to get it from either Office Depot or Best buy or circuit city, one of those. You dont have to go through to much trouble for me, I really just appericate you just helping me!!!! Should I stay with the D-link brand for the wireless one or can I do Linksys. Im thinking I should stay with the same brand for software issues??? Sound right to you??

Thanks again Paul for your help
 
I think the brand is unimportant, as long as the wireless router/access point is happy enough to operate as an access point. I didn't realize you didn't already have one. :)

What varieties of Wireless does your laptop support? 802.11 a/b/g? And what is the model number of your wired router?
 
OK Ill have to call you for all that, cause thats going to be followed by some questions!!!LOL :D

Is it cool to give you a ring in a few minuets??
 
Upon further thinking....... While you could get a device that was JUST an access point, I would really recommend you just get one that was a full fledge router, but that was happy being a wireless access point only. That way you don't limit yourself later in case you want that wireless device to serve as the router.

Another possibility is letting the wireless device be the router, and convincing your current device to just pass everything on to the wireless router, which shouldn't be hard.

And lastly, upon REALLY thinking, I realize that many/most wireless routers you buy will come with 4 or so wired points on the back of them. So maybe you should just buy one of those and retire the current wired router for now.

:D
 
Hi Mike! The tank is looking awesome. I really like the stand. It's really nice and the detail is great.

I would watch that xenia. It grows like a weed and can really multiply fast. I had some in my tank and took it out. It grew too fast for me.

I notice you have socks in your sump. How easy are they to change out? I hope easy because they can get to be a pain in the u know what. I had to change mine every week. I finally got tired of that and took it out. I actually like it batter without the sock because it allows pods and other critters to move throughout the tank without hindrance.

Some folks use and some don't. I am actually starting to have some algae problem now. As I stated in the pm the tank has been up around 170 or so days now. I have 2 plate corals, several heads of frogspawn and a hedrphena (sp). I also have some mushrooms etc. I still only have 2 clowns in the tank.

I plan on waiting another 3 or 4 months before I add anything else. I want the tank to mature more and the algae problem to dissipate.

Anyway, enough about my tank. Very nice job on yours. I bet your causing a lot of folks to get the fever!!

I'm going to keep an eye on your tank. Don't forget time is on your side. Don't hurry too much because it takes a lot of time.

It looks like you have had some good help along the way. That always makes a difference.

Thanks for the PM Mike. Take care and I hope you have much success.
 
PayMayo-Thanks man for those compliments. Yeah the socks are pretty easy to change, I have unions on all the pipes leading into the socks and I have an extra 4 to make it easier, it only takes about 5 mins to change them, I usually change them every 3-5 days so far. Yeah im still going to take my time with adding, now that I got the tank up and running and theres some cool critters crawling around so that will occupy our time watching. We are the type that could just have live rocks and still be very interested in what just the rocks hold!! That hardest part for me was wanting to get the tank fired up and filled up, now that were past that point its pretty easy to wait!!!! A friend of mine just located some Tunzes for me at a very good price, but im going to wait alittle till the bank acct gets back up there b4 getting them!!! Its my sons B-day party this weekend so were throwing a party so thatll comsume some mula as well!!! I cant tell you how much money I am into this thing so far!! Im sure you can imagine though!! Plus I have a 58 that I started to build a stand and canopy for and havent made any progress for, I think once thats done im going to sell it to recupe some of the money I have spent on this 180..

Yeah there were so many guys/gals that helped me along the way, very helpful people on here, its pretty amazing, I remember when I 1st started posting on this thread I was woundering what everyone wanted from me, it seemed that people were tooo nice!! Thats because of where I was raised, it seemed like the people who always wanted to help wanted something big in return. But I came to find out that these folks were just being really nice. Pretty amazing the group of people on here!!!

When I set up this tank I went with the saying money is no object, I wanted the best or almsot the best equiptment, than I started finding out that this is a grand and that is another grand so I started to look for some good equiptment that was used!!! Thank god I found some really good used things. But now that is all said and done I am VERY happy with the results. I met a great person/couple on here that has turned out to be a very good and helpful friend of the family, and have met many other great people in this hobby. Between selling, buying, garage sales and just talking to people I have noticed that there are still some really nice people in this world that will still help someone in need....

I thank you again for beign the 1st to respond to my 1st ever post..... Mike
 
hey mike watch what happens to your ph when you have a house full of people. don't panic or freak out but you will soon know how co2 relates to an aquarium. if you don't leave a window open in a couple hours it will be down to 7.5 or better. just leave a window in your bedroom open so it can be the hot room. if you leave one open in the living room you will be sorry and so will your guests. what time is satuday. margie is working but I am not sure when she will be done
 
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