I've decided to set up a Referral Program for those of you that have purchased a RO/DI unit from me. For the details, here's the link:
melevsreef.com/rodi_referral.html
So tell others and start saving some money. :)
In other news...
If you've been following my site over time, you know how I love to compare numbers over time. I watch the site's statistics each month as reported by my hosting company. I've been using ipowerweb.com for the past few years, and they do a good job keeping my site up at all times. Here are the numbers for 2006:
Believe it or not, Episode 19 is now available. Right click; Save As to download it to your computer.
Topics in this show:
Tech Support for Skimmers
MaxiJet modifications
Reefcast's Real Men of Genius
Interview with Andy Howard of IceCap, Inc
Interview with Tim Marks of EcoTech (VorTech)
A special song written just for our podcast;
In other news...
Reefcast Episode #20 is online now. You should Right Click & Save As to download the mp3 to your harddrive or mp3 player.
Last weekend, the East Texas Reefers (Tyler) asked me to come out and speak to their club members about sumps. It was a lot of fun talking to a small excited group of hobbyists. About 25-30 hobbyists gathered that day, and shared in conversation and delicious treats. PLUS it was almost an open bar event. :D
I've had it with this computer. I'm going to format Drive C and reinstall. If you can't reach me for some reason, give me 48 hours to get everything back to normal. Hopefully this will be uneventful and all will finally run correctly.
Never install that stupid DSL software from SBC/Yahoo. Grrrr.
Today I made some calls to see if I could locate a hobbyist-friendly supplier of Weld-On #4, since Tapplastics.com has decided to no longer carry the product. I found a vendor in Indiana that is willing to ship anywhere in the U.S. and have added that information to the Tools page on my site.
Woohoo - Blogger fixed their software and I can make entries more easily again. Yes!
Today I tested the water in the tank. It had been weeks and I didn't really want to find out any bad news, if you know what I mean. To my surprise, everything is great!
Salinity - 1.027sg
Temp - 80.8F
pH - 8.21
Alk - 9.6 dKH
Cal - 450
Mg - 1360
Nitrate - 5ppm
Phosphate - .03ppm
ORP - 297 (but I think that is a false reading)
Yesterday I took over 40 new images from my tank. I posted these in my thread on Reef Central. You do have to be signed in to view them, but that is free.
I bought a new coral today. Since my camera was at home, I thought I'd try to take the picture with my Razor phone. ;)
It is actually a bubble coral, but only about 2" across. It looks more like a Ricordia. When I saw it, I thought the colors and the tiny bubbles were rather unique, and wondered it it was a cross between a Fox Coral and a Bubble.
