Yes, we are still here!

Laura and Jim will be hosting the May meeting this Saturday the 12th and it will be the usual of food, drinks, raffle and fun.
 
Doors will be open at 6:00 pm for social talk and the meeting will start at 7:00.  Parking gets a little tight and the city says you can't park on 4th but there is a parking lot a block away.   Meeting is usually held in the backyard so feel free to bring your favorite lawn chair, weather permitting of course.

If you need address/directions, contact a club member.

Best if you park at Mini Mall (where the spaghetti establishment use to be)
 
You will get to see his new frag tank set up in the making.
 
Hope to see you there!

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[VickiG]

Hi everyone.   The news reports that Darrel and Vicki must have fallen off the face of the earth are greatly exaggerated.  We have just been extremely busy and I haven't been on the computer much lately.  However, we are still "into" the reef hobby and making good progress on our tank.  It is in the house, full of (tap) water, no more leaks (we had a few minor bulkhead leaks to deal with).  Everything is running great and Darrel installed the UV sterilizer last week-end and we just ordered a Neptune Aqua 3 controller (yes, we had to go and rob a bank first -  :shock: ).  The next step is to install the lights into the canopy - we are trying to find some of that extruded aluminium framing (Les - we need to talk to you about that).  After the lighting is done, we will be ready to mix up some salt water and order some live rock!  (Again, Les, may need to discuss borrowing the LRCT!).   So, we are getting closer to actually having fish etc at some point!  Exciting.  It is going to be such a nice system - Darrel has really "nukified" the plumbing - and it will be worth the wait when we are done...I can't wait!    We are looking forward to seeing everyone at the Dec. meeting!        See you then!

[VickiG]

Here are a couple pictures showing the progress we've made.  The back of the tank is still in a bit of a mess because the tank is out in the middle of the floor in the breakfast nook area of our kitchen.  Once we get this all done, it will be pushed back into a niche (we may have to oil up the walls to get it to fit - it is pretty tight!) and some of the plumbing and most of the wiring then passes through the wall via a dog door (should be a fish door I guess  :lol: ) and into the equipment closet in our home office (yes, I finally convinced Darrel that this equipment would not all fit under the tank inside the stand and we 'breached' the wall!).   Anyway, thought you might like to see the most recent pics.   Again, looking forward to seeing everyone at the Dec. meeting!  

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[sirfisher]

Wow, I would be excited about that too.  It looks like a lot of work was put into that set up so it should be worth the wait.

It looks great and we can't wait to check it out when all is said and done.

[Les]

Looks good Vicki, and yes you can borrow the LRCT.
As to the aluminum 80/20 stuff you mentioned, I have found something I like better and not quite as spendy. I have started using aluminum miter track you can buy for building router tables. You can get it with slider piece that holds the light well and allows you to move it out of the way some. http://www.mlcswoodworking.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/smarthtml/pages/routacc2.html#combo_Ttrack_anchor
This is where I have purchased it from though there may be other venders out there. Look under the miter T track and T bar.