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2turtles

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How about when you get a recent addition to your setup, you show it off here? Kind of like back to school show and tell. People who were thinking about getting / doing that can ask questions, we can give local feed back etc. Here is some stuff I did/added over this past summer.

Foster-Smith summer sale $35.00 for a beautiful four inch powder blue

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RANCO temp controller managing the BlueLine 500 watt titanium heater.
Had it wired wrong at the beginning but after I figure out what I did wrong - works great
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Automatic top off from autotopoff.com Works great. You can see the BlueLine hanging out at the bottom.

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Can't pass up free pound of ROX with purchase of GFO :)

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My first American Marine monitor. Sweet deal using 30% off at TFP!
First probe I had I think was bad as the readings were all over the place. Lou from American Marine was very helpful and sent me a new probe. So far so good. I was thinking I could just float the probe in the water for constant monitoring but it is not really designed to work that way. (greatly reduced the life of the probe)

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Another good deal from Bulk Reef Supply, Got it with a TDS and free shipping!

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And this was from our first meeting since the revival of the club. Thanks Bobby! So far I have not killed it :) Color is not great in this pic but the base is a nice green with the new growth having purple tips. Sweet!

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Just want to report back that the 500 watt Blue line heater failed. Did not get much use during the summer but now when I need it it failed. Now I order two Jagar heaters. We will see how long they last. I am so tired of darn near everything we buy anymore is JUNK! Every time I see "made in China" my BP goes up a few ticks....
 
Nice fish. I'm hearing you on the crappy products, too. Luckily, nothing has failed for me lately, but it sucks when it happens.
 
I'll post here. I have a few new additions, plus a few pics of things I got from the first meeting that have been growing.
First pic: Yellow tang and large mushroom from Joel's home sale
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pink birdsnest that started about half of what it is now
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One of the LPS that Matt gave me
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This coral started as a plug from Bobby (I think). It is now covering about 1 sq foot. Nice purple body with bright green polyps.
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FTS as of about a week ago right after adding a few things and moving things around
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There are a few other pics of things, but most of them were taked after changing the aquascape, so nothing is open in them. Will get more soon.

Joel
 
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