Akwar'eum - Page 21

Anselth · 03-15-2008, 10:44 AM

Awesome shots greg!

vdituri · 03-18-2008, 03:13 PM

Great pics!

I love the palys. Are they teal in person?
Sweet color on those!

framerguy · 03-18-2008, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by vdituri

Great pics!

I love the palys. Are they teal in person?
Sweet color on those!

Thanks Victor! Yeah, they are teal in person, I hope they don't get taken over by those ugly guys like the golden polyp forest has.

framerguy · 03-18-2008, 09:50 PM

Well, we found another house we really like yesterday. My mother is a realestate agent so she took us around to look at places but she wants our friend Danny to be the "agent in charge" as it were because she feels he has a better eye for a bargain home (and she's right). He looked at it with us today, and thinks it's a solid house with no obvious serious issues like most of the other houses have had. He advised us on what to offer and what our top end bid should be and we are making an offer tomorrow. The owner of the home is a vendor in our antique market but we are pretending like we don't know who owns the house so if the offer insults him we can say "if we knew it was you we would have offered XXXX"...Dannys advice, who knows, they might just accept it.

The tank will need to be an L shape to have anything close to what I want. The tank room will be in the basement. The property is beautiful and quite private with some serious landscape potential. I like working in the yard landscaping, although I admit since I started reefing, I haven't done much of it lately. I'm not getting overly excited like I did before just in case they can't come down to what we can afford, but the house is very close to what we had in mind to build. I keep ya posted.

framerguy · 03-18-2008, 09:58 PM

Tank stuff: I have switched back to doing a one gallon WC per day for about a week now. I can't remember why I changed, it's really easy. After refilling my kalkwasser tower my PH has once again stablized at 8.1 at night and 8.2 during the day. I just ordered from Gary at Gettanked.com. I wish he had a credit card machine. We had to use paypal and I really don't like paypal. I ordered some Calcium Chloride for my calc supplement, some activated carbon, and some purple seaweed. He is throwing in a 25gal sample of his salt mix plus some other supplements trying to hook me. I'll see what they are and how easy they are to use. He seemed nice to talk to but as I am from the south and he is from the north our accents were getting in the way a little. All of my critters seem to be doing well. More later...

tbittner · 03-18-2008, 10:16 PM

I wish you the best of luck with the house, Greg and Gail!

Landscaping, eh? I used to do that when I was much younger. We had 300 acres we landscaped. Oh yeah, it was a dairy farm.

I was seriously considering an "L" shaped aquarium. I love the way they look, especially with the curved front corner. But then I realized that I love both of our tanks too much to choose. So the predators get one tank, the reef another. The predators will probably hang out in the corner as close to the reef as they can get with drool hanging out the their mouths.

Of course, I could always send Patti down for a weekend and you can give her a hammer and she will make room for a tank as big as you want!

framerguy · 03-18-2008, 10:37 PM

Dude! I've got hammers, nail guns, and power tools out the wazzoo...come on DOWN!

I've really got my fingers crossed about this place. I didn't feel confident about the other places but this one gives me the warm fuzzy's.

Octoman · 03-18-2008, 11:23 PM

Great photo update a few days ago and I've got my fingers crossed for you on the house!

tbittner · 03-18-2008, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by framerguy

Dude! I've got hammers, nail guns, and power tools out the wazzoo...come on DOWN!

Be VERY careful what you wish for!

framerguy · 03-18-2008, 11:27 PM

Thanks Mark!

Terry, it would be a wish come true! Who knows, maybe we'll have a house big enough for a guest room soon. Then...come on down!

tbittner · 03-18-2008, 11:30 PM

I would love to come down for a visit! As long as you promise to hide all the tools from Patti. She's KILLING me!!!

I think she is secretly trying to get me back into great shape....

framerguy · 03-18-2008, 11:34 PM

Man, talk about getting into shape! We were walking the property..only four acres but still...it kicked our A%#! I used to be into bodybuilding til I blew my shoulder out (still hurts) and now I do nearly nothing... well, except eat..sleep...post RS... work.. but no excercise.

tbittner · 03-18-2008, 11:40 PM

aHA! So you want some exercise! Patti would fix that. I've been sore for a couple months now. Of course, my parents (who are 67) put both of us to shame. They still go out into the woods and cut their own fire wood.

And whats wrong with eating, sleeping, posting on RS, work thrown in occasionally, laying on the couch watching the tank, all nice and relaxed...

framerguy · 03-18-2008, 11:46 PM

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And whats wrong with eating, sleeping, posting on RS, work thrown in occasionally, laying on the couch watching the tank, all nice and relaxed...

Quite obviously...nothing! I'm as happy and content as I've ever been in my life and I'm glad to be sharing it with Gail and you guys!

framerguy · 03-20-2008, 12:01 AM

OK, all you folks playing with your lenses and turning out such awesome artsy photos has caused me to play with mine. I played with depth of field, exposure, etc and turned out a few decent shots. ...

This is my Mussa with sweepers extending...

This one's my favorite. It's my elegance...

Xenia in mid pump...

buttons up close...

03-15-2008, 10:44 AM	#301 (permalink)
Anselth Harlequin Tuskfish Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: South Jersey Posts: 906 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Akwar'eum Awesome shots greg! __________________ -Adam Learning on the fly My 70 Gallon Reef My 110 Gallon Build

03-18-2008, 03:13 PM	#302 (permalink)
vdituri Excellent Guesser :D Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Sacramento California Posts: 5,725 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Akwar'eum Great pics! I love the palys. Are they teal in person? Sweet color on those! __________________ Victor ----- People come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

03-18-2008, 09:50 PM	#304 (permalink)
framerguy Manta Ray Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Mount Airy, Ga Posts: 3,326 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Akwar'eum Well, we found another house we really like yesterday. My mother is a realestate agent so she took us around to look at places but she wants our friend Danny to be the "agent in charge" as it were because she feels he has a better eye for a bargain home (and she's right). He looked at it with us today, and thinks it's a solid house with no obvious serious issues like most of the other houses have had. He advised us on what to offer and what our top end bid should be and we are making an offer tomorrow. The owner of the home is a vendor in our antique market but we are pretending like we don't know who owns the house so if the offer insults him we can say "if we knew it was you we would have offered XXXX"...Dannys advice, who knows, they might just accept it. The tank will need to be an L shape to have anything close to what I want. The tank room will be in the basement. The property is beautiful and quite private with some serious landscape potential. I like working in the yard landscaping, although I admit since I started reefing, I haven't done much of it lately. I'm not getting overly excited like I did before just in case they can't come down to what we can afford, but the house is very close to what we had in mind to build. I keep ya posted. __________________ ___________________________________ Greg All time fav quote: "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."-Guillaume Apollinaire "Being happy can be as easy as deciding to be!"-Greg Kimsey (framerguy) Still Workin' on it! 390gDT built in wall, Gargantuan DIY Beckett Skimmer, 150g sump, Sequence Hammerhead closed loop, 75 gallon seagrass/mineral mud refugium, 55 gallon crushed coral/live rock refugium, 30 gallon DSB/ cheatomorpha refugium, algae turf scrubber, DIY calcium reactor, DIY kalkwasser mixer, DIY light system w/4x 250MH & 4x54w T5, etc, etc, etc... chronicles-akwareum (\___/) This is Bunny. (=O.o=) Copy and paste him into your signature (")__(") to help him gain world domination

03-18-2008, 09:58 PM	#305 (permalink)
framerguy Manta Ray Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Mount Airy, Ga Posts: 3,326 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Akwar'eum Tank stuff: I have switched back to doing a one gallon WC per day for about a week now. I can't remember why I changed, it's really easy. After refilling my kalkwasser tower my PH has once again stablized at 8.1 at night and 8.2 during the day. I just ordered from Gary at Gettanked.com. I wish he had a credit card machine. We had to use paypal and I really don't like paypal. I ordered some Calcium Chloride for my calc supplement, some activated carbon, and some purple seaweed. He is throwing in a 25gal sample of his salt mix plus some other supplements trying to hook me. I'll see what they are and how easy they are to use. He seemed nice to talk to but as I am from the south and he is from the north our accents were getting in the way a little. All of my critters seem to be doing well. More later... __________________ ___________________________________ Greg All time fav quote: "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."-Guillaume Apollinaire "Being happy can be as easy as deciding to be!"-Greg Kimsey (framerguy) Still Workin' on it! 390gDT built in wall, Gargantuan DIY Beckett Skimmer, 150g sump, Sequence Hammerhead closed loop, 75 gallon seagrass/mineral mud refugium, 55 gallon crushed coral/live rock refugium, 30 gallon DSB/ cheatomorpha refugium, algae turf scrubber, DIY calcium reactor, DIY kalkwasser mixer, DIY light system w/4x 250MH & 4x54w T5, etc, etc, etc... chronicles-akwareum (\___/) This is Bunny. (=O.o=) Copy and paste him into your signature (")__(") to help him gain world domination

03-18-2008, 10:16 PM	#306 (permalink)
tbittner Watch this Ma! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern VA Posts: 5,562 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Akwar'eum I wish you the best of luck with the house, Greg and Gail! Landscaping, eh? I used to do that when I was much younger. We had 300 acres we landscaped. Oh yeah, it was a dairy farm. I was seriously considering an "L" shaped aquarium. I love the way they look, especially with the curved front corner. But then I realized that I love both of our tanks too much to choose. So the predators get one tank, the reef another. The predators will probably hang out in the corner as close to the reef as they can get with drool hanging out the their mouths. Of course, I could always send Patti down for a weekend and you can give her a hammer and she will make room for a tank as big as you want! __________________ Terry 150g predator tank full of killers. Soon to be upgraded to a 360g. 450g reef 300g sump.

03-18-2008, 10:37 PM	#307 (permalink)
framerguy Manta Ray Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Mount Airy, Ga Posts: 3,326 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Akwar'eum Dude! I've got hammers, nail guns, and power tools out the wazzoo...come on DOWN! I've really got my fingers crossed about this place. I didn't feel confident about the other places but this one gives me the warm fuzzy's. __________________ ___________________________________ Greg All time fav quote: "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."-Guillaume Apollinaire "Being happy can be as easy as deciding to be!"-Greg Kimsey (framerguy) Still Workin' on it! 390gDT built in wall, Gargantuan DIY Beckett Skimmer, 150g sump, Sequence Hammerhead closed loop, 75 gallon seagrass/mineral mud refugium, 55 gallon crushed coral/live rock refugium, 30 gallon DSB/ cheatomorpha refugium, algae turf scrubber, DIY calcium reactor, DIY kalkwasser mixer, DIY light system w/4x 250MH & 4x54w T5, etc, etc, etc... chronicles-akwareum (\___/) This is Bunny. (=O.o=) Copy and paste him into your signature (")__(") to help him gain world domination

03-18-2008, 11:23 PM	#308 (permalink)
Octoman Majano Slayer Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Savannah, GA Posts: 1,362 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Akwar'eum Great photo update a few days ago and I've got my fingers crossed for you on the house! __________________ Mark My tank thread... http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...-euphoria.html Tank build... http://55reef.blogspot.com/

03-18-2008, 11:27 PM	#310 (permalink)
framerguy Manta Ray Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Mount Airy, Ga Posts: 3,326 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Akwar'eum Thanks Mark! Terry, it would be a wish come true! Who knows, maybe we'll have a house big enough for a guest room soon. Then...come on down! __________________ ___________________________________ Greg All time fav quote: "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."-Guillaume Apollinaire "Being happy can be as easy as deciding to be!"-Greg Kimsey (framerguy) Still Workin' on it! 390gDT built in wall, Gargantuan DIY Beckett Skimmer, 150g sump, Sequence Hammerhead closed loop, 75 gallon seagrass/mineral mud refugium, 55 gallon crushed coral/live rock refugium, 30 gallon DSB/ cheatomorpha refugium, algae turf scrubber, DIY calcium reactor, DIY kalkwasser mixer, DIY light system w/4x 250MH & 4x54w T5, etc, etc, etc... chronicles-akwareum (\___/) This is Bunny. (=O.o=) Copy and paste him into your signature (")__(") to help him gain world domination

03-18-2008, 11:30 PM	#311 (permalink)
tbittner Watch this Ma! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern VA Posts: 5,562 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Akwar'eum I would love to come down for a visit! As long as you promise to hide all the tools from Patti. She's KILLING me!!! I think she is secretly trying to get me back into great shape.... __________________ Terry 150g predator tank full of killers. Soon to be upgraded to a 360g. 450g reef 300g sump.

03-18-2008, 11:34 PM	#312 (permalink)
framerguy Manta Ray Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Mount Airy, Ga Posts: 3,326 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Akwar'eum Man, talk about getting into shape! We were walking the property..only four acres but still...it kicked our A%#! I used to be into bodybuilding til I blew my shoulder out (still hurts) and now I do nearly nothing... well, except eat..sleep...post RS... work.. but no excercise. __________________ ___________________________________ Greg All time fav quote: "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."-Guillaume Apollinaire "Being happy can be as easy as deciding to be!"-Greg Kimsey (framerguy) Still Workin' on it! 390gDT built in wall, Gargantuan DIY Beckett Skimmer, 150g sump, Sequence Hammerhead closed loop, 75 gallon seagrass/mineral mud refugium, 55 gallon crushed coral/live rock refugium, 30 gallon DSB/ cheatomorpha refugium, algae turf scrubber, DIY calcium reactor, DIY kalkwasser mixer, DIY light system w/4x 250MH & 4x54w T5, etc, etc, etc... chronicles-akwareum (\___/) This is Bunny. (=O.o=) Copy and paste him into your signature (")__(") to help him gain world domination

03-18-2008, 11:40 PM	#313 (permalink)
tbittner Watch this Ma! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern VA Posts: 5,562 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Akwar'eum aHA! So you want some exercise! Patti would fix that. I've been sore for a couple months now. Of course, my parents (who are 67) put both of us to shame. They still go out into the woods and cut their own fire wood. And whats wrong with eating, sleeping, posting on RS, work thrown in occasionally, laying on the couch watching the tank, all nice and relaxed... __________________ Terry 150g predator tank full of killers. Soon to be upgraded to a 360g. 450g reef 300g sump.

03-20-2008, 12:01 AM	#315 (permalink)
framerguy Manta Ray Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Mount Airy, Ga Posts: 3,326 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Akwar'eum OK, all you folks playing with your lenses and turning out such awesome artsy photos has caused me to play with mine. I played with depth of field, exposure, etc and turned out a few decent shots. ... This is my Mussa with sweepers extending... This one's my favorite. It's my elegance... Xenia in mid pump... buttons up close... __________________ ___________________________________ Greg All time fav quote: "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."-Guillaume Apollinaire "Being happy can be as easy as deciding to be!"-Greg Kimsey (framerguy) Still Workin' on it! 390gDT built in wall, Gargantuan DIY Beckett Skimmer, 150g sump, Sequence Hammerhead closed loop, 75 gallon seagrass/mineral mud refugium, 55 gallon crushed coral/live rock refugium, 30 gallon DSB/ cheatomorpha refugium, algae turf scrubber, DIY calcium reactor, DIY kalkwasser mixer, DIY light system w/4x 250MH & 4x54w T5, etc, etc, etc... chronicles-akwareum (\___/) This is Bunny. (=O.o=) Copy and paste him into your signature (")__(") to help him gain world domination

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