Remember the fraggin' from yesterday?





How did I do?

A few split much smaller than I intended, but I finally got the nerve to smash em up.

These I grew out from small frags from nolongerMvite and fatex9. So I suppose these are the first "real" aqua cultured corals from my little frag tank.






I could imagine!

Cause of the helmet hint hint

I'm not sure if its the helmet or what looks like brown poop smeared over my face! BTW if the contest for all of N-R.com doesnt pan out I think we should have a weeties lounge contest!

(In hearty Brit accent)
By JOVE I think she's got it!!!
Why yes indeed, MoldyBread would be QUITE welcome here!!!
(For those who are confused by the above, pls. see post# 226 on pg. 12 of this thread here: http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?...654&st=220)

Now for my answers to THE QUESTION OF THE NIGHT--
There are actually two things that I really like about NR.
Like most of you, the first thing is the community here. I love the friendships I've formed here and I love the give and take and the way we are able to help each other out and cheer each other up when we're down.
The other thing I like is that NR allows me to be the person I really want to be.
What I mean by this is that in real life I get impatient and aggravated with the kids, I'm lucky if I can cross one thing off my "To Do" list a day, and I want to do SO much more for the people in my life.
But somehow on here I am able to be patient, to stop and think for a minute before going off on some idiot troll, to cheer people up and to find a way to laugh at myself and help others to laugh as well.
It helps me to feel better about myself and gives me hope that I will someday be able to be that person IRL.

The thing I dislike is pretty much the same as the rest of you.
I STRONGLY dislike the tone I see in the Makeshift Lounge lately (I make the other Mods police it so I don't have to look at it!) and I really hate the negative attitude that I see showing up in the regular Reef forums and the way some people seem to just be here to start arguments and bash Newbies over the head.
I really, REALLY hate it!
That's it for me.


On a TOTALLY different note, don't forget to try to find a pic of yourself from when you were a kid to post tomorrow, and for the really adventurous, use it as your Av for the day.

I wouldn't be as reef poor as I am today if it weren't for NR. Because of all of the help I received on this site, I went from a 10 AGA, to a 24g Nano experimental prop tank to a full 30L prop with 20g sump & a QT tank to boot! I have asked so many questions & received so much help. It has been great to meet some of my NR friends at swaps. A lot of people on here see each other as real people with real lives & the same struggles we have & not just cyber dudes & dudettes. Because of the community here I stay loyal to NR.

I, too, don't like the insults & crude talk that can go on. I agree with NRF about treatment of noobs. It makes NR look bad & sends good people packing. Thanks, Chris, for making this forum available to us & trying to keep the Mod Patrol easy with the night stick but effective with necessary.

I was never a kid, I was always a mature and proper young lady....


(my mom told me my eyes are brown bc they are full of $hit, anyone else agree?)

Nice score! I have some of those & love how they look in my tank!

Yes, j/k. Those are some big brown eyes.

NRF, I really like the look of those frags and I honestly wouldn't mind getting one. Just add it to the list of all that other stuff we're supposed to trade. If only I can get the 30ish gallon system set up I might finally be able to follow through on that.

Kmitch, those pics really are a HOOT (as BibleSue would say) and I love that you used one for your avatar! I think that's the first time WL has spawned an avatar pic!
As far as doing the contest here, NRF actually asked me yest. about that. At this point I want to hold off and see if we can do it on NR as a whole. If it doesn't pan out there, it would be fun to do here.

I agree it should be open to all of N-R, but if worst comes to worse, well I need an excuse to start a new tank!

My half of the zoas are doing great, about half have opened. Although I can hardly see in the tank from the Parabio!

Told you, that reef booster clouds the tank

Yeah you werent kidding! Did you talk to Sean about the Bioclean?

Its bizarre my skimmer has never not produced skimmate before until I added this, its obviously affected the tension of the water. We'll see, I figure if the germans made it then it can't be too bad! (and it cost like $50!!!)

Yea I talked to him about it. the Bioclean is a combo of the biodigest and biotim which I already have. OHHHH I forgot to tell you about the skimmer, keep an eye on it the bioclean will make the skimmer go crazy.

Currently my skimmer is going crazy in the opposite way, its not skimming at all!

Did a 5 gal water change, did as instructed and turned off skimmer for 15 mins, turned it back on and Its not doing anything besides making big bubbles like a spa, not making foam.

Currently my skimmer is going crazy in the opposite way, its not skimming at all!

Did a 5 gal water change, did as instructed and turned off skimmer for 15 mins, turned it back on and Its not doing anything besides making big bubbles like a spa, not making foam.

ok, i heard you the first time .

hope it works, if not then Im tearing the frag tank down.

NOOOOO you cant do that. We'll have to have a beer and discuss this situation, rash decisions are unacceptable!

Hmm, beer, that sounds good.
What does everyone like?
I like Sam Adams Black Lager, Scottish Ale, Brown Ale and my very favorite ever that I only get once in a while cause it's a difficult to find import is Mackeson's Triple Stout. I LOVE that stuff!

I like Pacifico, or Dos Equis dark.

Hey, I move that in Weetie's Lounge the MEN do the dishes!

Just knocked back a couple Sammy pale ale's myself.

No prob on the frags L. I will just make a spot in the tank 4ur stuff.
( Hmmm, might look good in a contest tank too.. )

I also hope we can get the contest together for all of N-R.

If not I'll see if I can build a tank better than my cat can or something.......


K, my wife has big brown eyes too and I remember her Mom telling her that very same thing when she was a kid! ( yes, we have been together for ever! )

Tash, I DO do the dishes.

haha, i stop and picked up some pale ales today. I was looking for the octoberfest sam adams, but it not out yet.

I second Tasha's motion!!

Holdorf333, I'm really sorry to hear about that ballast. I hope you're still able to work something out. You gonna post some updates on your tank thread anytime soon?

The person selling the Solana isn't getting back to me, so maybe that's not meant to happen...

They have them by me!!

Gonna grab some tomorrow!

I just ordered one locally, and should be good to go in about 4 days. Not much different, just a move so the 'scape is a little different. Thinkin' about a clam...

In any case, what about a frag-tub of some sort???

I go for the girl beers... lol.... Woodchuck cider and K. I love white wine but am a huge sucker for margaritas and shots!

thats funny...i don't like beer...but Woodchuck is AWESOME

That's one awesome pudding-stache kmitch!

Your frags look good, Buddy! Now you want to come do mine? They are running out of room in my tank. I need to cut them up & sell some again. They grow so fast! Any pics with them puffed up?

Body shots? yes yes

CM you know you never thought that when you started this site people would be proclaiming their love wearing fire helmets and with chocolate pudding mustaches. Its not too late to change your answer to what you are most proud of!

I'm having a problem with my Nano-Remora skimmer skimming part of the time and part of the time bubbling with no skimming action at all.
Anyone else run into this?
NRF?

Okay, here's my kid pic.
I had another pic in mind that I was looking for, but this is actually the ONLY one I could find, so this is what you get.


I was rooting through a lot of old photo's today and wasn't finding any pics of me as a kid AT ALL, so I had pulled these college photo's out to post since I thought it was the youngest ones I would be able to find of me.

(I know this looks totally posed, but believe it or not it wasn't.)


Boozing it up in college!
The guy with the black hair right next to me is BibleSue's son.

So come on guys, where's all your pics???

Only for you guys.....( yeah, like no one else is reading and laughing their arse off! )

But, if Kmitch would do it.....What the heck





Here a few years / pounds ago...


left to rt- me, my sis, my bro

And y'all saw me in kristens thread last week yes, I went for the Awww factor with wife and child...FAIL

Weetie is the skimmer doing that after you add supplements? My remora will skim less or not at all for a few hours after I feed or add supplements

And if you need help in writing up some contest rules that we can submit to CM, lemme know.

Go ahead, say it, I was a cute little kid:


(Big kid on left, my younger sister Lauren is on the right- shes a Sophomore at Vanderbilt now)

lol...old people are old

i have no idea where my kiddie pics are, and I'm rather glad of it

^^ lies... I bet Amber knows.......(help us out Amber!)

I do know but I have no way to get them into digital format....so no baby/kid pics of either of us.   He was a cute kid though.

Awwww, SO CUTE!!!
I feel like an idiot for not recognizing you in the Sexiest Man thread, D'OH!!!

Amber, mine weren't in digital format either (too old for that!), I just scanned them. Can you do that?

Kristen, you WERE a cute kid!!!
Also, I'd love to get the contest going but I'm a little discouraged by today's responses. We may end up just having to do it in Weetie's Lounge. We'll see.

We don't have a scanner. So I can't do that either.  but  I haz idea.

All those pics are 80's-rific!

Btw, who thought the 80's were a good idea? I mean really.

You haz a camera, you haz a picture, you take a picture of a picture and viola! digi pic

Awww, I wanna post my kid pic, but they're all on my desktop....... and no power.

Okay den, your task is different. Find a pic on the interwebz of the celebrity you most resembled as a kid and post it.
Or you can draw pic, just no stick figures!
Hop to it MoldyBread!!

Yes, ma'am!!!
But I was like really really cute... wish I could post one...

I'd post a kid picture, but any that exist are at my parent's house

Here's one from 5 years ago that I had posted in the gallery

So NOT the 80's



I'm second from the right behind all the dolls. There were 3 more after the 4 of us after Mom took a 6 year break.


Grade School-I was trying to copy the face on the pumpkin. Ahhhh! I was a serious child.


Sr. in High School married to the GI in the background-pre-kids


Second marriage-post-2 kids (Weetie's hubby was the first)


Their wedding


Look how far I've come!

Great pics!

Weets, how is the skimmer? Aside from the normal hiatus it routinely takes when feeding and dosing,( like Kristen said ) the only problem I had was the other day when I noticed, following a cup cleaning, production basically stopped.
I cleaned the injector like we discussed and its been cranking out good stuff since.

Did you clean the entire skimmer? Perhaps its going through a mini break in period? Although you did say it was working following the cleaning huh....


Oooops, reef related post.....But Weets did ask, so I guess its OK.

Awesome pics all.
Chris, you really did lose weight, didn't you? Was that hard?
Momma Sue, I see hubby in that pic of you mimicing the pumpkin face.
NRF, on the skimmer--I'm kinda confused.
A couple of weeks ago I noticed that the skimmer wasn't skimming at all, so I cleaned down the film on the inside of the riser tube, thinking that was all it needed. No improvement.
Then I removed the MJ900 and gave it a thorough cleaning, which it really needed unbeknownst to me. That helped slightly. After that it started skimming about 30% of the time.
Of course 30% of the time just doesn't really cut it, so last night I took the screw out and used the flexible wire brush to clean the injector. I wasn't really able to reach all parts of the tube, just what you could clean with a straight in and out motion of the brush.
Since then it'll skim for a bit, then completely stop skimming, then after a while it will skim again. When it stops skimming, I can see nothing that would have caused it, no action at all on my part. Not sure what to think now. I'd say it's skimming about half the time now.

bump that pump up to a mj1200. Sorry at work now, so no kid pics tonight.