The new tank

Beau is hosting the January Meeting this coming Saturday the 14th at 6PM.  It will be BYOB as well as a snack to share and raffle items are always welcome.  It has been requested that there be “NO SHOES” on the carpet due to it being a whitish color.

He doesn’t have a tank to view but we will have plenty to discuss in hopes that it will get the NEW YEAR off to a good start.  The annual membership fees are due, so now would be a good time to get them in to our Treasurer Stacey Hahn.   Fees are $20 per individual or $25 per family

Attendance was low at the election meeting in November and no votes were taken at December’s meeting so we have decided to take votes for anyone that didn’t get the opportunity in November and will be attending this meeting.  
We will add the votes to November’s ballots and the announcement will be made during the meeting so we can go forward.
NOMINATIONS:
President:  Jim & Nacho
V. President: Ed, Bo & Daniel Leigey
Treasurer: Stacey
Secretary: Carmen & Angie

Let’s hope the New Year brings new members, returning members and new ideas.  The club is always willing to take suggestions to get the most out of the hobby we all enjoy.

Please PM Nate C. by clicking here for directions if you are not a club member.  

Club members can click here to go to the club member only forum to get directions.

Hope to see you all there!

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[Nate C.]

Thought we should finally share some pictures of what we have been up to on the new tank.  Rick has been helping me with the plumbing (THANK YOU!) and we just last weekend had the framer that built our house come back to install the stands for the chiller, fuge, and the skimmer.  There's also another link for the landscaping we've just finished too.

www.canfieldreef.com/home

The bottom two links are the newest updates.

[luvnsalt]

OH MY GOSH!!!! BOTH THE YARD AND THE TANK ARE AMAZING!!!!!!

[sirfisher]

That is looking amazing and we can't wait to see it when it's all said and done.  Thanks for sharing.

[Nate C.]

Thanks Guys!

Daisha, need to talk to you (work related), could you PM me a phone number to reach you?

[karen]

Awsome guys,

Love the landscaping, especially the waterfall. 

Cant wait to see what you do with the tank, I know its gonna be great.

Thanks for taking the time to share your pic's.

Karen and Mike

[luvnsalt]

Nate, I just saw this! Sorry!!! We were on vacation until last night. I have pm'd you.

[Nate C.]

Latest update, here's a picture of the T-Slot set-up I am going to build for our lighting.  The ends have linear bearings, so we will be able to raise and lower the lights for working in the tank.  I'll try to get the newest pictures added to the website too...Rick and I have done quite a bit more since the last update.  Getting close now!

[Ed]

I love it.   If you use a reflector on your atinics you will increase your lighting, have you considered that?
What type of Atinics are you using, T5 or VHO (T12)?

[Nate C.]

Thanks Ed!

We are using VHO's for Actinic's, they are internally reflected.  Don't want to mess with additional reflectors for the vho's since they will be partially under the MH reflectors, but going with 2 sets of VHO's should give us great blues anyway.

[Ed]

I was wondering how the new tank was coming along?

[Nate C.]

website has been updated with newest pics.  Drain lines are done, my T-Slot material is here and I will be starting on the lighting build this weekend.  Going to try to finish the plumbing for the chiller and skimmer this weekend, and if possible, maybe even get the supply line finished for the feed to the Fuge.  That will just leave the run from the fuge to the tank and the return sea swirl supplies to get finished up with Rick the next time we can get together. 

Oh, website has sevearl break-out drawings for the lights too, and all of them are in 3D pdf, so you can rotate the drawing around and zoom in and such.   www.canfieldreef.com/home/tank 

[Nate C.]

Link has been updated.  Pictures with the new lighting system installed are up!

[Ed]

bumpity Bump, bump bump?

[colleen]

Just got back from Cabo San Lucas.  Haven't had time to update the pics, but will tell you that it is up and running 100%.  Jim has the old 155 gallon tank now, and everything seems to be going well with our new one!  :-)

Will try to get some new pictures up and share in the not too distant future.

[Nate C.]

OK, so I finally had time to sit down and work on the website.  http://www.canfieldreef.com now has links to all the tank related stuff...there's reports that update every 5 minutes from the controllers for the big tank, and the frag system.  There's options to show graphs for temp and pH for each tank (thanks to www.reefchat.org for these two cool features).  There's also a link to the completed tank build picture set.  I'll be adding another link as we go forward that will be dated pictures of the tank to show progress as things grow.  Haven't gotten pictures rounded up for that one yet, but hope to soon.