Simon's 450

Victoria M · Dec 17, 2018

My reef power RPM kept winding itself up on the cord. Dang acrylic is 3/4" thick. I had to use a zip strip that can be screwed in place to secure the cord in the canapy. Seems to have done the trick.

ca1ore · Dec 17, 2018

Victoria M said:
My reef power RPM kept winding itself up on the cord. Dang acrylic is 3/4" thick. I had to use a zip strip that can be screwed in place to secure the cord in the canapy. Seems to have done the trick.

I’m sorry, but that made me laugh - trying to envision that. Mine are mounted to my overflow, so only asking the magnets to handle 1/4” acrylic.

garbled · Dec 18, 2018

Yeah, I have 2 Tunze 6255's mounted to the overflow, but I want something a little more forward the front on the wall, so I'll probably by an absurdo magnet and try to mount WAV's there... I was doing the math on this 1164lb fishing magnet on amazon, and it might do the trick. Given the ones you specified were smaller, then yay, it should be more than enough.

Victoria M · Dec 18, 2018

ca1ore said:
I’m sorry, but that made me laugh - trying to envision that. Mine are mounted to my overflow, so only asking the magnets to handle 1/4” acrylic.

Lol. Two turns or was the worse of it. I should have filmed it.

Victoria M · Dec 18, 2018

Look what I nust read about in a different thread.
https://www.amazon.com/Bob-Smith-Industries-BSI-161-Debonder/dp/B0000DD1QS

ca1ore · Dec 18, 2018

Nice! Usually I just used a razor blade ..... carefully.

Victoria M · Dec 18, 2018

ca1ore said:
Nice! Usually I just used a razor blade ..... carefully.

Oh my gosh...no, no, no. That gives me the heeby jeebys

ca1ore · Dec 19, 2018

So, on the topic of firsts .... had one of my fish actually knock the screen top off it’s moorings today. I hear them hitting it pretty regularly, sometimes enough to splash water onto the floor; but never hard enough to knock it out.

ca1ore · Dec 19, 2018

Been playing around with lighting a bit this week. The release of the new Kessil 360X proved irresistible, particularly since one of my older 360 pendants had recently failed, so I picked up a couple. Nice lights! Not yet sure they’re worth the sizable premium over the older model 360, but we shall see. Dimming effect is quite seductive, and the addition of violet useful. This is the light dimmed down to about 5%. It doesn’t go completely down to black, but much closer than the older model.

User1 · Dec 19, 2018

ca1ore said:
Been playing around with lighting a bit this week. The release of the new Kessil 360X proved irresistible, particularly since one of my older 360 pendants had recently failed, so I picked up a couple. Nice lights! Not yet sure they’re worth the sizable premium over the older model 360, but we shall see. Dimming effect is quite seductive, and the addition of violet useful.

You have a way with words @ca1ore. It does have a nice form factor and they seem well built. If I was to buy an over the counter package it would probably be a Kessil.

ca1ore · Dec 19, 2018

I write for a living (well, partly) and have that British tendency for flowery prose. Even try to weave in the occasional whilst

. It’s all I can do to not be correcting folk’s grammar (which can get annoying lol) .... that particular torture I save for my kids.

ca1ore · Dec 19, 2018

Victoria M said:
Oh my gosh...no, no, no. That gives me the heeby jeebys

Well, I would use a hammer and chisel, but it hard to operate with two fingers superglued together .....

NY_Caveman · Dec 19, 2018

ca1ore said:
It’s all I can do to not be correcting folk’s grammar (which can get annoying lol) .... that particular torture I save for my kids.

Ha! I have written for years and yes, I hold my tongue at grammar errors. It make me cringe, but I refuse to be the grammar police.

My new pet peeve? People who use convenient texting abbreviations in more formal forms of writing. :mad:

garbled · Dec 19, 2018

I might have gone with the kessils rather than repairing my LED's, but the new ones aren't apex ready, so bleah.

Victoria M · Dec 19, 2018

ca1ore said:
I write for a living (well, partly) and have that British tendency for flowery prose. Even try to weave in the occasional whilst . It’s all I can do to not be correcting folk’s grammar (which can get annoying lol) .... that particular torture I save for my kids.

Are you from England? I write like a hillbilly with the purpose of being silly when on fish forums. Typing on an iPad has definitely changed my writing style. I am a capable writer, but tend to be short, and direct as the type of writing I do most often is nurses notes in patient charts. Short, to the point.

User1 · Dec 19, 2018

Victoria M said:
Are you from England? I write like a hillbilly with the purpose of being silly when on fish forums. Typing on an iPad has definitely changed my writing style. I am a capable writer, but tend to be short, and direct as the type of writing I do most often is nurses notes in patient charts. Short, to the point.

Are you a nurse?