Yep, it should be the MJ1200 on there. I assume the white screw isnt screwed down tight?

Yeah, I didn't think they made one with a MJ900

Sure is worth a try and easy enough to swap out ( if you have a 1200 handy that is ).

Boy did I screw up my post in the contest thread huh?
I was trying to be helpful and wound up confusing everyone.......

I thought there was a good shot at pulling this off yesterday. Not so much today....

Ok, so who wins the pic contest Weets? Gonna let it go a couple days?

Yeah, I've lost 60lbs since my heaviest 4 years ago! 40lbs was just in the past year through diet change, and lots of biking since January. I try to only eat all natural and less processed foods. No preservatives, artificial color/flavors, no high fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners.

wow, your intake sounds like the exact opposite of what I look for in food....nom nom nom

(It'll catch up to me one day, but for now I eat like a total fat kid.... I had 6 tacos for dinner...mmm)

hahaha, it will change. I could eat whatever I wanted, but not now and drinking beer almost everynight dosent help

I stay young forever like Biblesue!

can our question for tomorrow be "What is one thing most people don't know about you?" (like a fun fact)

WOW, that's really impressive, seriously.
Major props to you.
Do you notice a difference in the way you feel and think since you made those changes?
I used to eat like that, but I've slipped lately.
I need to figure out a way to get back into good eating habits.
The problem is, I'm trying to juggle too much stuff so it's hard to keep up with it.

On the skimmer, it's been my understanding that you can use either a MJ900 OR a MJ1200 with it. I do have a MJ1200, but it's the PH I'm using to pump the water from the sump built into the back of my tank back into the display. If I switch the two pumps out, it would really cut down on flow in my main display. I'll see if I can come up with a solution.

Richie, I don't think you messed up with your comments in the Contest Thread, don't beat yourself over the head. That's MY job!!!
And there isn't a contest winner for the pics, I just thought it would be a fun thing to do.

<<<<FAIL on the pic today. Wont be able to get one up tonight

Weetie if you need an MJ1200 I have a spare around here I thinky.

Its supposed to come with a MJ1200 or something else thats not an MJ... its the regular remora right?

FOR FUN??!?!!

I mean, look at me! That's a tricycle for Pete sake! Wearing some kinda plaid jump suit suspenders-n-stuff!

And no winner?
oh, ok, then. can i l haz a cookie at least?


And the skimmer, a MJ1200 or a Rio 1400.......

If you use it for your Av, you get the COOKIE TO END ALL COOKIES!!!

I used to eat like that,too! I weighed 98 no matter what I ate. After the divorce I couldn't afford meat with 2 kids. Hubby #2 is 17 years older than me (still a kid when he's not in engineer mode) was a veggie so we went that route. I was 106 after child #5 & 108 at Weetie's wedding. When I went to work 9 years ago, my diet suffered & I picked up more weight than I wanted. It comes to all who weight! Enjoy it while you can!





Wait! I LOVE his avitar! It makes me want to bop as I read-at least until he sends me into gales of laughter with his Awesome Wittieness. Maybe he could put it in his sig? Pleeeaaassseee???

That boy needs a cookie to end all cookies!

hehe...

sorry guys, I distracted Amber too long for her to figure out the "taking a pic of the pic" trick....for now at least

Still hoping for contest tank...I have an idea and need a reason to do it.


anyhoo...all the food talk got me hungry. Off to get my chocolate Moon Pie

Wow, THAT'S what you looked like as a kid, I never would have guessed!!!

Did everyone in your school talk about the mustache?

Ok so we just heard from the realtor reasons for taking so long:

a) person that looks at the contracts was on vacation. Why didn't they tell us this last week when we put our offer in?

they wanted a list of repairs that FHA would require to be made before they would finance the house. This is a good it will alert us to things that could cause us to not want the property as long as we get to see the list.

So hopefully since she is back and the list has been completed we should know today

You'll definitely get to see the list of repairs FHA requires to be made.
I went through that with our first house.
The FHA can be kinda picky on that, but that's actually a good thing for you. If for some reason FHA won't finance it and you really, really want it, you can also look into getting it through State subsidized programs for first time homebuyers, which is what we did with the house we're in now. Interest rates for those programs tend to be pretty good as well.
Did they tell you that they would definitely give you an answer today?
Keep us updated!!!

In aquarium news, I have the Nano Remora, not the regular Remora, but I went ahead and switched out the PH's so I now have a MJ1200 on the skimmer and a MJ900 for the return pump to the tank.
When I took the MJ1200 out to switch them, I discovered that there were 3 small snails that had gotten caught in the intake to the pump and died, so this is the probably cause for why a couple of my corals haven't been very happy in recent days.
I cleaned the MJ1200 out well and and put strainers on the intakes to both PH's to prevent this problem from re-occuring.
I will do a WC later tonight.
I'm developing a definite GHA issue in the front corner of this tank as well as some pest macroalgae that has recently sprung up. I'm hoping to get a Lettuce Nudi to deal with the Hair Algae and I'm thinking of putting an Emerald Crab in the rear sump and putting pieces that have Bubble Algae problems in there for him to clean.
I'm thinking of holding off on the 30g upgrade til I get everything straightened out in this tank.

For today's fun topic, I think we should go with kmitch's suggestion from last night and answer the following question:
WHAT FUN FACT DO MOST PEOPLE NOT KNOW ABOUT YOU?

I used to be a ballerina.
Well, I did tap and jazz also..

We're HOPING to know today, but theres no guarantee apparently. They got an estimate from the contractor yesterday on repairs FHA would require, so it looks like they're seriously considering the offer. I dont anticipate any dealbreakers from FHA, but I have heard from a LOT of people that they're pretty mean about inspections. Good for us, as long as they don't scare the bank off too much.

Forget the FHA bud get out your hammer

No because I don't go to school. How old do you think I am?

hahaha, she not that young.

what was that pic supposed to be?

hammer is ready, as well as the paint brush, the saws-all, drill, and a jackhammer but i won't complain if FHA makes the bank do some improvements first

I was talking about the Mario cookie...

you asked me what everyone at school thought of the mustache......?

Thanks I feel like an entirely different person now. I'm lucky to have a Trader Joe's grocery store close by, which makes shopping easy since nearly everything they sell is all natural.

That Mario cookie is awesome holdorf!


I have extremely dexterous toes!

I wish my toes would spread...lol

Most people don't know about me...... I cant curl my tongue (aka I can't do this)

Not a good night. I got my tank up and running again. I think only kmitch knows what happened, but my wife called last night to say the water was spraying everywhere and the power strip was smoking. Long story short, both my tanks are ok and I had to redo plumbing and a new power strip.

I was running on the treadmill today and twisted my knee. So now Im sitting in the chair. with ice on it and a beer.

Fun fact, I used to have a mullet. Business up front and party in the back.



Stop it!!!

I can twist mine upside down.

You too

I use my tongue for eating, licking lollipops, making faces..... I'm going to stop now before I say anything not PG......

Don I'm glad to hear you got the tank fixed up, you out of the doghouse now?

I think so, you can pm me the MA part

Can I do a few? OK...

I make awesome home made pizza and pierogies!
I make the absolute best toll house chocolate chip cookies.
And I once bowled a 300 game in a state tournament.

And today I received one of the most beautiful shipments of coralz I have ever seen from Brett!!

And just in time not to be in the contest too!

In all seriousness, I kinda think we should maybe just do the contest here, between us.
For prizes, each contestant should contribute either $25 or a prize (coral frag, etc.) with a value of $25+.
I have some stuff I've won at Frag Swaps but not used yet (gift certificates, etc.) that I could put up as prizes.
We could go by the rules as spelled out by kmitch this morning.

Hey Richie, I want some pierogies!!!

Not sure which of these are fun or just plain trivia, but here ya go:
-I was born on the Mexican/Arizona border and have a half Mexican grandmother (you'd never guess it to look at me!)
-I had a brief stint as a clown. (Big surprise, right???)
-My hearing is about on the level of old Aunt Ethel who says "Eh, what?" at everything anyone says at Thanksgiving Dinner
-My mom says I liked to eat toilet paper as a baby
-I'm a closet Trekkie

I guess that's it for now.

some of those fun facts don't surprise me much...

as for me...

I'm double jointed...everywhere - fingers, toes, spine - i can pop them all out and back in. It's inherited...my great grandmother could stand on a step, knees locked, bend over and not only touch her toes, but she could put her palm flat on the step below her. I'm not that good yet...



Weetie's lounge contest is sounding better and better (and simpler and simpler than NR contest). You shouldn't give up your gift certificates for the prizes though, Weet

Eh, What? Would you mind repeating all that?

I can vouch for all but the toilet paper. You'd never know about the hearing loss most of the time!

My confession:
I used to drive a souped up used Mercury Cyclone w/4 in the floor. No one on or off the base in Ft. Hood, TX could beat me. MP's? What MP's:lol: 6 mi. to the gallon. Yellow with a black top. I loved that car!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Cyclone

I was just about to post this in the contest thread, but decided I was probably just beating that dead horse again.




Perhaps we do stand a better shot with our smaller group and maybe whoever else we would want to join in?

That's exactly how I feel Richie!
I think you were speaking for both of us there.
So if we did the contest in Weetie's Lounge, who would be in for it, seriously?

I think I just made that post for you

edit: Amber and I are in as a team

Yup, I think so too D. And I'm sure we could put together some kind of prize fund ( frags / cookies/whatever ) or just for fun even, whatever you guys think. I just thought it was a cool, simple idea at first. Then.......

Daniel, EVERYWHERE???




yup I had to.

He had to do something to keep occupied while waiting for the bank to call....or not.

i see what you did there...




not...of course

If this was directed to me, let me explain more as specifically as possible:

Holdorf posted the mario cookie.

Weetabix replied "Wow, THAT'S what you looked like as a kid, I never would have guessed!!!"

Then, I talked about [the mario cookie] moustache in the post below Weetabix's.

edited for more specificity.

Daniel, well said Sir. I think that just about covers it.

Weetie, I think I already have a shiny new, never seen water 5.5 in my attic.

I am curious and excited to see what we will come up with.

So, YES I would love to play.



Ugh, how did something that seemed so simple get so nutz, so fast?
It always seems to though doesn't it

OK, so Weets, a neon toady, two acan frags, daytrippers and two dozen pierogi? Gotcha covered.

I thought it was pretty good. I probably shouldn't have added the "pm me about progress" line...Ray took that a little too much to heart

OOpps, did he? uh-boy. I really didn't think anything was out of line. Its just that we were so close, and getting it refined ( which Kmitch and Weetie did just fine ) and then peeps step in and start tearing into it or totally revamp the original idea, not being constructive.... never mind, I'll drop it....I'm preaching to the choir here.

So, Daniel, my friend, tell me about this great idea you have for a low budget 5.5......

DT, how is that knee doing? Did the Sammy Pale Ale help any? NO? try 2 or 3 more.

Susan, frags are still not super poofy but I may have some shots of the mini colony before I cut 'em up. Feeders are out on most of them today though, that can't be a bad thing can it?

Does everyone miss Diane as much as I do? Yea, I know you do......silly question.

nah, he's just playin around. pm-ing me that there's no progress repeatedly I'll get him back eventually I wouldn't have minded quite so much if it was from people interested in the contest...anyhoo...off that subject.

we can't tell you yet...it's gotta be a surprise

+100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 to missing Diane. Not the same without her.

Yeah, I miss Diane too.
She would be awesome in WL right now, and probably with the contest too.
Last time I talked to her, she just basically had a lot going on In Real Life.
I sent her a PM when we resurrected Weetie's Lounge a couple of days ago, but I don't think she's even been on.

It's funny, but trying to iron out the whole contest thing inspired me a bit, and I actually threw a bunch of LR and sand in the bottom of a 5.5g today to start cycling.
The thing is, with the contest rules the way we were talking about them, I don't think I'd be able to participate. I have too many frags on hand that I need to find a place for and not enough room for them, but we're not supposed to use coralz we have on hand.
After we hammered out all those rules I do NOT want to mess them up them up, but what are you guys' thoughts on that?

Knee still hurts, bad I really f'ed it up. hmmmmm. I dont know if im in the contest with stocking a new tank that is cycling now. Then again who knows, I have room on a shelf downstairs that Im gonna culture phytoplankton on.