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Well, After about 9 days of hard labor, the new Stand is completed. I had help from my cousin on the skinning of it. Am hopeful to begin the Stand Swap on Friday. Any words of wisdom on doing a stand swap out there?

Below are some pix of the build. The inside is Kilnz and then a Qt of HD's - Behr's Semi-Gloss Interior Enamel paint. (purchased for only a buck, some one else's "opps Paint" but, the type and color were okay for my purposes.)

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I know, the title sounds odd. My wife and I have our second son due soon. I am trying to think of a name to reflect my passion for the ocean, reefkeeping, corals etc. that doesn't sound like I names him at Woodstock. I would like a name derived from or meaning something from this realm. The only name I have found I like is Kai, Hawaiian for 'of the sea', however my last name is VERY French (D'Aunoy). Not sure how the two would flow. For the record my wife is Irish/Scandanavian and I am a predominately ...

When I considered writing a review for Chemi-Pure Elite... I thought to myself, "that would be a very short review!" Namely because the product is so simple and effective, but then I began realizing that this product does SO MUCH that I can talk about... so I decided to give it a go.
BOYD is willing to make some VERY outrageous claims with this product, and while I cannot put a stamp of approval on many of these, I am willing to say that this is a valuable ...

As of last night, all three of the Helfrichi firefish died. Perhaps it was pursued by the Mystery Wrasse; I really don't know. For those keeping score, one died in quarantine, one vanished, and the third one perished last night. I may not try those again.

I"m still getting some strange brown stuff growing on the purple gorgonians, on the shells of Astrea snails, and it is visible in the overflow box. Since I don't know what it is but have a bad feeling about it being toxic (aka ...