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Recent content by jamesw

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    🎉🎉It's Our Anniversary!🎉🎉 Wait, MARSH is how old??

    I don't have a tank up here - we just got our house recently. I did bring my big skimmer, MH lights, Vortec pumps, etc up with me for if/when I ever get a new one. There are actually quite a few reefers here in Anchorage. Cheers James
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    🎉🎉It's Our Anniversary!🎉🎉 Wait, MARSH is how old??

    Whoops - I moved to Houston in July of 1998. I edited the post. Want to hear something crazy - I brought my fish and clams on the airplane with me from Oakland CA to Houston! Eric Borneman kept them for me in his tank until I got a tank set up in Houston! I had a purple tang that made the...
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    🎉🎉It's Our Anniversary!🎉🎉 Wait, MARSH is how old??

    I dug up a bunch of old photos from 1999 and sent them to the admins. Enjoy!!! Just for kicks - here are our first membership cards from 1999 and some splash graphics from our first website. Frank Marini did the graphics I believe. I'm so proud of you all that you've kept MARSH going strong...
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    🎉🎉It's Our Anniversary!🎉🎉 Wait, MARSH is how old??

    And Nico aka Nicolas Will was our first webmaster
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    🎉🎉It's Our Anniversary!🎉🎉 Wait, MARSH is how old??

    Hello from sunny Anchorage Alaska! It’s true I moved to Houston in July 1998 and we started up the club shortly after at my home in the Heights. We didn’t incorporate the club and do the paperwork until after that. Some of the founding members were Frank, Barbara, Eric, See Loong, Michael...
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    Mods: please add me to members group

    It looks like my membership status didn't carry over to the new software. I love the new forum/website btw - it's excellent. Cheers James
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    Started a "snowstorm" whoops!

    Well, I was topping up my tank last night and added about a gallon of milky kalkwasser by accident (When you have a 2 year old, you get distracted easily). Doh! That isn't a big deal in my tank because I have 200g+ of water, but when you are already saturated w/ Ca/Alkalinity it starts a...
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    Anyone seen a Ritteri or nice Carpet?

    This isn't a WTB ad - I'm curious if anyone has seen any nice carpet or Ritteri anemones around recently. I'm eventually going to want to get one to replace the ritteri (dinos killed every anemone in my tank) and bubble tip I lost :-( Cheers James
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    Finally recovering from Dinos. Anyone else?

    Did anyone else have a dinoflagellate bloom in May/june? I had a really bad one this year ant it killed a bunch of my snails and it caused all of my anemones to shrink up and even some to die. I even had 2 sps bleach and one eventually died. I have noticed in my 12 years living in Houston...
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    I'm Speaking at the MAAST event next weekend

    For anyone that's interested in a nice coastal drive next weekend :-) I'm speaking at the MAAST event and collecting trip in Port Aransas: http://www.maast.org/showthread.php?60179-Port-A-Collection-Trip-July-23-25 Here are the particulars: MAAST Port Aransas Collection Trip July...
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    Galveston Collecting Report 5-9

    We went to East Beach in Galveston today and did some sargassum checking. The water is probably in the high 70's and there was some but not a lot of sargassum coming in. We found lots stuff in the sargassum - the best being a sargassum frogfish. We didn't check the jetties or anything for...
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    Web/security camera to monitor your tank?

    Does anyone use one? I'm thinking of setting up a pan/tilt remote webcam in my fishroom, so that I can check in with my critters while I'm away and someone is tank-sitting. Since my fishroom is out in my guesthouse, I've even considered sending the video feed to my TV so that I can watch the...
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    DIY Supplemental Blue Lighting

    Well, I found my "cheap-guy" DIY solution. I purchased 2 24" 4-bulb over-the-bathroom-mirror light fixtures (8 lamps total) and 8 of these...
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    Have you seen your tank under natural sunlight?

    If so - what did you think? Kind of ugly eh? Well shoot - that's what the corals naturally look like. So why do they look so much better in the ocean? Cheers James
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    Fishcraze's Mystery Wrasse - Photo

    I just have to share this photo from Fiscraze's tank: Isn't he/she beautiful!!!!! What a fish. Cheers James
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