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    20 Questions: Christine Williams 

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    melev
    Published on 12-23-2011 01:11 PM
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    Every year, MACNA brings in a big groups of speakers and these people provide a small image and a biography detailing who they are. Boring!! We want to get downright personal so we can know who they really are.

    Sitting down with Christine Williams, the interview went like this:

    1) Let's start off easy... What was your first job?
    CW: Working for a company that made artificial limbs. It involved straps, velcro and other assorted items. (Favorite limb?) A guy that wanted a beer bottler opener embedded in his leg! It's important to have the right tool for the job.
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    How to Host a Speaker for Club Events 

    Published on 11-16-2011 08:13 PM
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    When a Club Hosts a Speaker
    by Steven Pro

    As an aquarium society grows, they inevitably want to bring in out of town experts to educate their membership. The first thing that the club leadership needs to determine is, what would the members like to hear about? Do they want to hear the latest on reef aquarium lighting or would they prefer to discover the most recent breakthroughs in marine fish breeding? Some clubs prefer hands-on workshops on things like coral fragmentation, aquarium photography, aquascaping, fish necropsy, or acrylic and PVC fabrication. While other clubs might prefer more formal, educational lectures or picture heavy travelogues. Once it has been decided what the club is looking for, finding a speaker to fill that niche is much easier.

    The Marine Aquarium Society of North America (www.masna.org) provides a database of speakers, their contact information, and their specific requests to provide lectures and/or workshops to their member clubs. I urge you to take advantage of this resource, but if there are speakers not listed, do not hesitate to ask the board so that they can assist in locating and contacting the speaker. MASNA is also pleased to make suggestions ...
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    Product Review: EPO Putty 

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    melev
    Published on 10-21-2011 01:36 AM
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    Jim's Reef sent me a sample of a two part putty to try out in my reef. Putty is used to secure certain types of corals to the rockwork in a tank, and can be used to bond rocks in place to prevent movement later.

    The product is packaged with two equal-sized parts of dough which once kneaded together produces a chemical reaction that results in a putty that hardens over time. Whenever I work with any kind of putty, I wear (surgical) rubber gloves to avoid toxicity issues. Tearing open the first part of the putty, I found that it was difficult to extract. Similar to peeling out chewing gum out of its wrapper during the hot summer ...
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    Dart pump wailing - replacing seals and bearings 

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    melev
    Published on 10-14-2011 05:24 PM
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    My reef uses two Dart pumps. One is used as a return pump, the other as a means to feed all equipment with a manifold of valves. The return pump started making noise about a week before I had to fly to MACNA 2011. Swapping the noisy pump out with my back up Dart pump wasn't an option; that one leaked at the seal so the noisy one was re-installed.



    In the past six weeks, the noise level had only gotten worse and worse. Buying a new pump was the obvious solution, but this one was only used for 8 months, and my funds were spent elsewhere. My friend Bobby told me we could replace the bearings and correct the problem. He had me order bearings found on Ebay. I found a package of 10 for $11.50 with free shipping, sold for skateboarders.



    Within a week, the bearings arrived. I also had a new seal at the ready.



    The pump was easily removed from the plumbing by unscrewing the union valves.



    The first thing to remove is the impeller housing. There are six nuts that need to be removed to pull off the cover.




    With the cover out of the way, the impeller is visible.



    Not pictured is how the cooling fan cover at the end of the pump was removed. Next, a flat-head ...
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    On Location - Brett Raymer from Animal Planet's - TANKED 

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    Jessy
    Published on 09-25-2011 09:37 PM
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    Marc gets Brett from Animal Planet's newest hit show TANKED on camera in Reef Addicts' style at MACNA 2011


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    Why are my Jellyfish Shrinking? 

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    Nancy
    Published on 09-25-2011 02:37 PM
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    Why are my jellyfish shrinking? Help!

    This is the most popular question I have received in the last year as folks start to venture into keeping jellyfish as pets. As there are many reasons why captive jellies tend to shrink, let’s start with some basics. First, the one thing I feel most don’t realize is that jellies occur in all oceans of the world and in all temperature zones. There are tropical jellies, temperate jellies and arctic jellies. Each species requires specific water ...
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    Welcome (back) to Reef Addicts 2.0 

    by
    melev
    Published on 09-23-2011 12:23 PM
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    The website was taken down due to a serious infestation of SPAM. If you were following along on Facebook, I was posting updates daily. We updated our software to the latest version, which was key to locking down potential security leaks. To make this happen, the entire site had to be rebuilt from the ground up, and I want to thank Ed for doing his webmaster magic to reassemble everything so our site would work correctly. He removed over 25,000 spam-based blog entries!



    Some things you'll notice ...
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