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I upgraded all my Vortechs to the new style controller, the two MP40s are quiet drive. Now I can program the Vortechs through ecosmart live and start the feed program from my iPhone. I hooked all the battery backups up again, they've been disconnected for a while, so all the vortechs are...

I always come back from MACNA fired up about the hobby and with good new ideas. Joe Yaiullo gave a great presentation about "Old Tank Syndrome," which he says doesn't exist and is actually "L.A.R.S." or Lazy-*** Reefer Syndrome! Trying to win out over LARS. I realized that some of the problems...

I think this was the best MACNA ever. Great presentations and it all ran smoothly. Very cool stuff at the show. Heard a lot about EcoTech's controllable DC return pump and the elaborate Neptune systems controller. I only picked up a few frags, from Dr. Mac. They cleared the exhibitors out very...

Off to MACNA tomorrow! Hope to see some of you there! If you see me and I don't recognize you, come up and shake me or something!

I'm going, staying with my sister in Falls Church. See y'all there!

The Big Ol' tank is plugging along. I continue to have issues with random corals going downhill while others do well. I'm losing my Emerald Isle cyphastrea, pokerstar monti is doing poorly while sunset takes over, and my healthy hunk of Green Slimer has deteriorated. I pruned it back and moved...

Arrived this morning in good shape: four Indian Ocean Lyretail Anthias (1.3), three Chromis to shore up the existing group, two firefish for the biocube (now that the killer pistol shrimp is gone!) a Wheeler's Shrimp goby that I don't really need now, some Nassarius snails, a Halloween Hermit...

Had to pull and remove about a half-gallon of xenia. Never should have let it get out of control. Recently added a PM Kalk Reactor after the one I was building got smashed (something fell on it!). The PM device works fine, although the instructions are lousy. I put it on a timer shared with the...

One thing I've now learned is this: Just because you have an automatic neck wiper on your skimmer, you are not excused from cleaning the skimmer! I let it go for a few weeks, and it was amazingly disgusting, particularly the wiper itself and the surrounding top end of the skimmer. It looked like...

Almost everything recovered. My Pearlberry frag bought the farm. The beautiful rainbow acro looks like crap, but is alive except at the tips, and the dead tips for the slimer are actually falling off. My working theory is that the whoopee new carbon cleared the water so much that there was light...

Paul, you crack me up. Old age is not for sissies, and middle age ain't so great either!

My sister lives just outside of DC, so it's a no-brainer for me. Definitely going.

Bought this. Actually hard to get one to fit the space in my kitchen, they've all gotten HUGE. http://www.lg.com/us/refrigerators/lg-LFX25974ST-french-3-door-refrigerator

I'm looking for a side by side, I've always had top freezer style. CR likes Samsung, some people say they are noisy. I've got the online CR, I like hearing from humans/ Sometimes CR's decisions seem crazy, as evidenced by reviews on their site contradicting their findings.

My 10-year-old Kenmore is dripping water all over the place and I want a new fridge. Anybody bought a fridge they like lately? No Sub-Zeros or built in-ins, that's out of my budget!

Much like people who've been "saved" with bad CPR, some of our reefs are never quite the same!

Changed both the carbon and GFO reactors. I think that was a bad idea, since now some of the acros have dead or irritated tips. Only one reactor at a time from now on.

The goby in the shrimp tank is great. I haven't seen the goby in the big reef. I hope I spot him. The Rainford goby in the big tank is a great tiny fish for a big tank, because he stands out and has a lot of personality. Other small fish can disappear for a long time.

I have occasionally mentioned cool gadgets I have found at the hardware store. My HW store had a thing called a jar funnel or cannning funnel. If you have to refill reactors, this thing is the bomb because I hate to get the GFO or carbon on the rim of the reactor where it interferes with the...

I had to remove one of the gobies from the nano. Some gobies get along with conspecifics, some don't. These guys were getting along sometimes and fighting the rest of the time. I found one of the gobies exhausted and lying against the drain screen. I quickly scooped him up and moved him to the...