Cool! I mainly wanted to see what zoas you had since all I have fragged right now are zoas. I have a couple that need better light and they will color up alot better. They are only one polyp each but they are starting to spread so in your frag tank they should multiply nicely. This is why I want to 5.5 so I can have the MH over it for my frags.

I was wondering about the snails lol. I thought they would be sitting on my porch dead today but I am glad to know you didnt send them yet.

cool beans on the zoas.....


and yea, i gotta ship the snails today before 5pm....
our last priority pickup is at 5pm, so that would be the best time to send em
(less box time that way....)

but they ARE goin out today.




DO EEEEEET!!!!

just made, like, 40 frags.....

gotta go buy some moar colonies....

FRAGS!!!



Plating MacroAlgae....






some orange & browns.... (were under the rack, oops)



Pinkies....



Lone KedRedd..... needs some friends



PerpDeths.....





About 2min's after fragging....



Blue Cloves that hitched their way in....



Not sure on the name.... looks cool tho.



BluEyed Girls?



Mush. that looks like a clam mantle....





Green Plating Monti.
*this one is showing great growth!




TopDown....

All the polyps i fragged yesterday are open....


I just dont have time to take any pics right now... srry.

uploading new pics...

For the last 24hrs. I've been relying on this for an ATO....


...and dammit if it aint werkin'
Sg is perfect!

[*and so what if I got Pooh-Bear wallpaper, youwannafightaboutit? ]


Frag pics as promised....
*keep in mind bulbs are 12k/14k.







KeddRedds, anyone?



My woman has requested that the red skirts "not be sold."



PD's, Green Crossettes, Monkey Butts.....



PD's, TealRings, KeddReds....



Panda Bears....



Moar PB's & some freinds....



A lil' "bleaching" due to Sg swings....
Problem has been fixed.









Kedd Mama's!!!!






My Reef-Fund for january....



Thats all for now....

mah girl got me a biocube skimmer...

its the airstone kind, but does a damn good job.

ooooh will you ever sell some frags on this site, if so, i just may buy from you

yup.... im gonna start selling killer stuff in January.

I get such good deals around here that I cant help but share!

most frags will be $10. That way everyone can afford them.
My frag tubs will cost me next to nothing to start, which means i can give at cost deals.

I just wanna give back to my NR peeps.
who knows maybe ill become a sponsor one day.... That'd be shweet!

New Skimmer!!!




My uber disorganized equipment corner....



ALOTTA BUBBLES....



Alotta Crud....



The skimmer has been running since yesterday afternoon and was producing nice, dry skimmate.

But,

I accidentally knocked the skimmer into the water this morning, which started the whole process over again. ....

oh well, it got all this out....




The water is soooo clear compared to yesterday.
*also notice, the Cyano is withering away.








Im totally ecstatic about de skimmah!
My gurly is dah bestest

Just took in some frags to the LFS for a trade....


i traded them a bunch a single polyp zoa frags for a Sixline Wrasse, and a Rainbow Favia.
They will both stay in the frag tubb.

Watchu know about deh Rainbow Favia?!







I like it... I like it alot...



*I couldnt get a clear pic of the sixline...but who cares, right?

The new Sixline Wrasse....

Im calling her Eebil.... she's done nothing but eat pods.
She's FAT now.




Pod DESTROYER!!!!






Just swimmin' in the current...



So much personality....



No moar dry water for me....



Sneak peek of the new favia....

looking good man. I am in the same boat as you. I set up a little frag tank to help pay for my reefing expenses. I will post some stuff once a month or so and that pays for supplies and it allows me to pay for needed equipment too...plus it keeps me extra focused on the tank. I added a sixline to my frag tank about 3 months ago and it was the best decision. Those fish are constantly on the move and they do a great job as frag tank fish. I eliminated my sump because it was not drilled and causing more problems than it was eliminating. I am going with the ac110 modded fuge and I will probably add some type of HOB skimmer soon too. Keep the work up.

Good to hear that the sixline worked, er is, working for you...

I used one in a past 10g to eliminate a flatwerm epidemic.
Sure enuf, that sixline musta ate 200+ fw's in 2 days...
theyre amazing lil' eaters, that and the pod population in the frag-tub is INSANE.

Probably in the millions....

she'll be busy.


Edit: oh yeah, and they're pretty, too.

24hrs. of skimmate....



Wait.... My fish lived in that!??

lol you'd be supprised what they live in. I love that favia and that sixline is awesome too. Oh yea, I'M BACK!

werd!


yer back from yer trip already?
Ive heard this is "the busiest week in shipping"....
You think It'd be okay to ship the stuff?

Yep, I'm back already. It seemed too short yet very long at the same time (I went with the in-laws). If you want to wait till after Christmas thats fine. A cold front moved in so waiting may be a good idea. But if you really want to just let me know.

totally know what you mean aboot teh in-laws...
Hope you had a good time, anyways...

cold front, eh? sounds not too good.
i think we're waitin a bit longer then....
I promise you'll get some AWESOME frags w/ the stomatella's...
*thats the main reason i havent shipped yet.

Sweet! I can send some $$$ for shipping if you wanna overnight them. But I am in no hurry .

Ya...
Theyll prolly be overnighted w/ the stuff Im sendin'...
Ill prolly just cover the shipping, seeing as i dont have paypal yet.

ok well I will just throw a few things in the box and send it back .

I forgot to mention, I found another stoma in my overflow about 1/4 of the size of my other. In fact they were both in my overflow for some strange reason. I dont know what the conches and stomas find so facinating in there lol.

High flow+lots of nutes=the algae they like

I used to have a colony of stoma's in my 20H's overflow box....

I have soo many to send to you....

and I have 2 tanks to put them in lol. I need to hurry and drill my 5.5 and plumb it into my office tank. Of course I need to buy another pump for that. Then I will have some place to put my frags.

werd.... get it drilled!

Whoa, alotta frags! You tryina give away some stomatellas? Hook it up!

after xmas...

Yeah, I got you on the cold, it's about the same temps here in Houston too. Even more nuts it snowed in Houston a couple weeks back!

Your pic bandwidth exceeded

no worky

Yea the snow in DFW delayed our flight to FL on the first day of my vacation. Why couldnt it wait an hour or two lol.

effin snow....

Most of your pics are blank.

ya.... i know.


it's because I "exceeded the bandwidth" per month on PhotoBucket....

^ There's yer FULL explanation of why the pics tell you what i just said...
now please, stop filling my thread w/ posts that tell me crap i already know.

kthxbye.

That takes some effort to exceed PB's bandwidth.

not really...

its only 10Gig a month....

*but thats why i have 4 PB accounts...


EDIT: Every pic I upload is 2200x3648pixels @ 10mp, which is a pain in the a$$ because PB counts how much you upload, not how much is in yer acount after editing.....


stupid high resolution camera....

Turn the resolution down on the cam!

No....




I like my pics to look crisp and clear.....

That, and screw photobuckets want for me to pay for a "premium account"....
Greedy pigs.

The pics will get downsized when posting on here anyway...besides, you can take lower res pics without them becoming blurry. Remember: resolution = size, not clarity!

I'm right there with ya on the photobucket thing though.

I use photoshop and make an 800x600 copy to upload. Of course I host my own pics so I can upload as much as I want. Although when I upload too much from work to my house my internet at home craps out for a couple of minutes then its all good again.

actually, the moar pixels there are, the more i can enhance the image to a proper size and viewing ratio.
thats why i take BIG pics.....

I normally crop down to about 800x1100 (or so), then resize them to 640x480...

I ONLY resize that small because this site will auto-resize hosted img's if I don't...
thats a pita, but I ain't complainin'

I used to use PS.....

well,

used to use CS3, to be exact.


then, my POS father-in-law "didn't download porn" (his werds. but, i have the proof.) onto my comp...
he also, "didn't turn off my internet security" to do it.... (because it has site-tracking on it.)
then, he "didnt crash my computer" w/ the virus he "didn't 'accidentally' download".....

oh wait, it gets better....


the cherry on top:


He then, WIPES MY HARDRIVE CLEAN AND REFORMATS IT.... (presumably to hide his tracks...)

effin' A, cotton..... effin' A.

OMG! Luckely my FIL only screws up his and blaims his other daughter and son in law. Of course then I have to fix it . I have used CS2 but right now I am using a portable version of CS (it does the job). I want CS3 but I dont have a permanent computer to install it on. My laptop belongs to my work and so does my desktop at home so theres no telling how long I will have them. My main computer is my DVR in the living room that I only use for storage and watching TV. I need to get a new laptop for me with Windows 7 and test the system restore features for screw ups.

Ya... I just bought my gurl a brand new toshiba protege, from BestBuy....

Not the "BestBuy" I ever purchased....


I bought the computer brand new, in box.
-Got all the program packages and features, and payed for the pro installation.
-Payed for the removal of unnecessary programs, two year, full-coverage insurance, free upgrade to Windows 7, blah blah blah.... Her $700 laptop, cost me $1,300 out the door.

then, I had to use the warranty....
*ugh..


I had knocked the laptop off our dresser and onto the carpet.
The ONLY damaged component was the "DC jack".
The power cable was plugged in when it fell, so it knocked the jack loose... Np, right?

Wrong!


I take it into to bestbuy's geeksqaud counter the next day.....
Their computer system had crashed, literally, the second i walked in the door.
The rep I talked to seemed to have some knowledge of the process, so i believed him when he said "No problem, this is an easy fix. They just have to replace the screws in the housing. This'll be done in 2weeks, tops."

*I shouldn't have believed him.

2 weeks passes... No call.

On day 19 of my "14 day MAX" repair, I called the store....
here we go.

I tell the store my info, the GeekSqaud rep goes to find my machine.
Comes back to tell me thhat its not there, OR in the system....
"wtf? get me a manager!"

manager shows up and tells me, it is in the system,
but its "STILL IN A BIN WAITING TO BE SEEN" ( 5 days after it should have been done!)
they feed me their line of bs about "backups" and "how busy they are at the *blah blahblah*"
The manager then tells me that "BestBuy's policy on any repair is 2-4 weeks return time."

I tell her "okay, I can understand that. I cant understand why yer employee is tellin me my $1,300 computer doesn't exist!..."

I wait..... another 2 weeks.

(Mind you, this is now 4.5 weeks into a two-week repair, for 3 loose screws.)


I call the Bestbuy. The manager tells me this sh*t....

"Well, we had yer machine in our service center, but, since our service center is so busy, we shipped it to another center....."

I said " Wait, you shipped my computer somewhere else, without my knowledge or permission?"
She said, "Yes."

told her: "Give me the name and phone number of the place my computer was shipped to. I need to confirm that my machine is actually where you say it is."

she tells me "Well, I cant do that because I dont have that information available."

"get me the person above you." , was my response.

...

...

After 20 minutes of being on hold and being asked "umm, what are you holding for?" by 4 different people, I was talking to the "vice-regional representative" which is a fancy-pants way of saying "the guy that gets chewed-out by the owners."

This cocky SOB screws up BIGTIME....

He tells me exactly what happened:

1) My laptop sat in the store for 7 days.
2) Was then shipped "Freight" for 8 days to San Francisco! *I coulda walked it there faster!
3) Sat in a "holding bin" for 14 days @ the BestBuy service center. *no one touched it.
4) Was then shipped 'next-day' to the Toshiba Service Center for actual repair.
5) Toshiba fixed in the same day, and next-day'd it back the the BestBuy store.

*this is when i SHOULD have been called to pick it up.

But,

6) SOMEONE (we dont know who yet), decided it needed "the bottom cover and LED's replaced", for no reason at all, and SHIPPED IT BACK OUT TO BESTBUY's SC to start the whole process over again....


7) Somehow makes it back to the TOSHIBA center... (which was it's current location.)


He then, gives me the name of the service center, the phone number, and the name of the center's site manager....

I called them, great guy. seriously.....

He filled me in on BestBuy's Insurance fraud scam...

Apparently, the guy i was talking to was the Site Manager of the Toshiba Service Center.
Now why, if I sent my machine thru bestbuy, to bestbuy's service center, is it at Toshiba's Service center now???

good question.

The Site manager proceeds to tell me about how bestbuys scam is to,"mandatorily hold the device for 2weeks in their center. In this two weeks it just sits in a bin, no one touches it at all. then, they claim 'the center is too busy to get to it in time', and send it out TO THE MANUFACTURER, UNDER THE MANUFACTURER'S WARANTY!...

The scam behind this, as i would find out, is...

It cost's BestBuy NOTHING to send it to the manufacturer under warranty....it's FREE.
Just like if you or me we're to have sent it there.

It cost's me $300 for the 2yr. insurance policy.
I could have sent the computer to Toshiba myself for free and NEVER used my insurance.
(and got the comp back in 7 days!)


When i told the bestbuy people this, and what happened,
they refused to fully refund the money I paid for the insurance i never used.
claiming that "since it sat in their service center's bin, it was technically 'seen'"....

I said, "alright then. I'll sue you for the policy money, damages to the machine, and personal suffering, If my attorney can squeeze it."

Manager told me, on a recorded phone call, " I dare you."

Right now, I have an attorney filing suit, and im joining a class-action suit against bestbuy for doing this to hundred's of other people....

sh*t... when i actually went into BB to get my computer, The guy in front of me in line was yelling at the customer service person, for not accepting his computer game returns "because they were bootlegs", but the guy had proof that he bought them from the store.... on top of that, the lapto he was getting serviced for his daughter, had been STOLEN off the GeekSqaud counter, on camera!

(some IDIOT left this poor girl's $2,000 laptop on the counter and it got swiped. No one noticed 'til the next day, when they looked up the service number and watched the video....)

^ thats what unfolded in front of me for 30min's...

F%CK BESTBUY!!!

...

went off on a rant about that one......


The whole reason I even started typing that,
was to say why i wont get my free upgrade to Windows 7 done.

Then, I was like...-------------------------------------------------->way over here.

lol I understand. Dont even get me started on AT&T or I would take up an entire page on how they cut my phone off every month for no reason then charged me $30 to turn it back on each time. lol

Wow.