november meeting

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.]

Rick could to lower light output be due to bulb devlopment? My biggest frustration is Not able to get a 72 " T-5 bulb .
 Still ruuning VHO for MH supplment.
Thanks for sharing this Rick and you too Ed
Jeff

Jeff, as was shown at the meeting, the T5's probably do put out more lumens.  The bigger issue is the color.  The T5's really look like an actinic/white when compared to the VHO's.  Both sets of bulbs were 2 foot long, both were UVL Super Actinics.  They are mounted basically side-by-side, and the T5's have the parabolic reflectors.  With the MH's off, the color difference between the two sets (turning each on and off indiviudally) was staggering.  The T5's do appear to brighten the tank more, how much is more light output and how much is perceved due to the color of the light I can't say.  Another interesting observation was - with the 400 watt reeflux 12k bulbs on, turning the T5's on and off really didn't change the lighting in the tank at all, but turning the VHO's on and off did produce a SLIGHT change.  I haven't experiemnted again with this since switching back the the Reeflux 10k's.  If you are intersted I can do so and let you know if there's more of a noticable difference.  

I can tell you that we plan to switch completely back to VHO's for the actinics and will likely run a total of 8 bulbs - 2 on each side of each MH reflector (Coralvue Lumenbright's).

Nate