Feb Meeting in Vienna

PaulS · Post by **PaulS** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:06 pm

Very nicely summarized Jen.
Rick, I'm bummed. It looks like I missed an excellent presentation!
Paul

SCMurphy · Post by **SCMurphy** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:30 am

Wow Jen, I didn't know I could surmise.

Nice write up! AP English huh, All the meetings are going to sound fun and informative at this rate.

DelawareJim · Post by **DelawareJim** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:38 am

Great write up.

One minor technical correction; Ghazanfar and I both have metal halides. Otherwise you're spot on.

Cheers.
Jim

DonkeyFish · Post by **DonkeyFish** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:50 am

I'm blushing over here! Thanks everyone!

Sean, you have sooo many skills you don't know about. I'll show you if you keep piping up at the lectures and give me something to work with!!

Thanks for the correction Jim...that little section in my notes was pure scribble. I made my best guess and ran with it! I believe it's called "artistic license".... LOL! I'll get that corrected right quick.

Cavan · Post by **Cavan** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 12:38 am

ingg wrote:Don't start.

It is traded as and known as Arthraxon Malayasia! That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

I talked to a grass guy at the herbarium and showed him a stem of it. Definitely a grass. No way to tell genus or species until we can flower it. He said it shouldn't be too hard then.

Jeff120 · Post by **Jeff120** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:47 am

So you can smoke it?

B Considine · Post by **B Considine** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:36 am

Jeff120 wrote:So you can smoke it?

Easy now. This is a family site.

Blaise

ingg · Post by **ingg** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:44 pm

Technical note, was reading the lights section:

Metal Halides are actually more expensive buy in AND a more expensive upkeep than T5. The bulbs are a (roughly) equivalent cost, and MH bulbs burn out twice as fast as a T5HO set of bulbs.

They are also less efficient in Lumens/watt output, at least in consideration of tanks 24" and less in depth. (And even afterwards, but the effect of pinpoint light release does have some special consideration for deep depths, as was noted in the presentation)

IMHO, they (Metal Halides) only have two real pluses - one, the pinpoint light release does seem to penetrate deeper depths better, and two, they create a shimmer. They also have unique intensity options, I guess, though that is mainly a saltwater consideration - like blasting my 30g cube with tons of light for a reef setup. Outside of that, T5 systems have them beat in every way, shape, and form.

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