Brittany, the one who won the aquarium at the meeting updated pictures here..

[zooqi]

I offered Brittany (the one who won the tank at NCPARS frag swap) that we will help her fill her tank and set her up. I know it cost alot of money to do a tank like hers and to encourage her with it we decided to give her stuff and this way they are hers and her project.
I used the money that GL sent me at the meeting (GL is the one who sent the money for our website too, Reefnest.com) for gas.
It took me three and half hours total from leaving my house and did the followings,
1: gave Brittany about 23-28lbs live rock (from Brazil, Tonga) and she put them away in her tank, used 402 powerhead to bring the water from the back sump to the front and used Magnum U tupe to turn the water to the tank. Gave her enough shells, snails, shells to cover the bottom of her tank and they are full of life from my sump at home. Gave her PC light total 72 Watt that I just bought two weeks ago for this kind of projects. Gave her maxijet powerhead and extra one just in case. Also gave her a timer for her light and recommended that she set the timer to come on at 2pm (hour before she comes back from school) to 9:00pm. In a few days we will be giving her some frags from the schools to start her tank and will try to help her as much as we can. We will try to help as much as we can. If we have used equipment sitting around we will use them to help younger reefers like Brittany. My camera did not have disk so her father Scott took some and will be uploading them in reefnest.com sometimes this week. She also was kind to send tank you email to us..

Dear Mo, Just wanted to say thank you so much for the live rock and
light.Everything else you have done to help me out with the tank, and thanks
to everbody who was at the meet and everything I dont know most of your
names but im glad I went to it and got to meet a lot of people and I won the
tank which is awesome ! So just thought I would tell you this and the tanks
looking good.
Thanks a lot
Brittany

[zooqi]

Showing Brittany how to set the rocks.
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what a nice tank there

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Teaching her about the stuff before they go in the tank. I'm sure her dad is a good teacher and can explain some of the stuff to her but I just wanted to explain some of the stuff that her dad did not have and I brought.
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[zooqi]

watch out for bugs Brittany,, nah,, these won't hurt :D
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[zooqi]

The tank looks really nice and specially after putting the light on it.
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[zooqi]

setting the timer
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[zooqi]

it should clear tomorrow and specially those rocks and gravel came from a running system.

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[zooqi]

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[zooqi]

good job Brittany and welcome to the reefing life :D
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[zooqi]

what is the next step? and we will help as much as we can.
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[fishesRdelicious]

looks like she is off to a great start. wish i could of come with you but i was too busy, let me know if i can help again

[ODOG]

Looks like a nice tank and a great start!

[zooqi]

Thanks guys and good to see you guys reply and I'm sure Brittany will be reading this soon and seing you guys reply is a positive thing. We have more to do and working on it.....

ODOG : we need to set a time to get your son't project going. I did test what I told you and it looks like is a good thing to have as a project. I'm thinking about being in your area sometimes next week and will update you about it before I do.

[stargazer=2]

looks like she is off to a great start real nice job keep up the good work -Dane & Donna

[billpa]

always nice to see a young person get started off on the right foot...great job as always Mo.

-bill

[cwegescheide]

It looks like I joined the WRONG reef club!!! Wow you gave her a reef tank and all the trimmings???

Where do I sign up? LOL Thats a very cool thing you guys did. Watch out Brittany.. Its a trick.. Before you know it you'll be hocking everything you own to get that monster reef tank with all the high tech goodies!! :)

Have fun,
Chris

[zooqi]

Dane, Dona, Bill, and Chris
Thanks for checking the thread and I'm sure she will be reading this soon.
Chris,
You just joined the club with your kind words and reply and watch for our other projects soon.

[was16803]

I am so glad the raffle tank went to someone who could really use it and appreciate it. It is such a nice tank. I spend a month admiring it in my house before the swap. Zooqi, again, great work it helping out and training the youth.

Bill

[Bill King]

Brittany
The only thing better than me winning that tank was you winning that tank.
I think I was smiling just as much as you, when you went to claim it.
Please let me know if any of my frags will help to fill it up.

Good luck
Bill

[Ocean Image]

Enjoy the tank Brittany!! Glad to see it went to an up and coming reef enthusiast. To see more details of the tank visit our website at Ocean Image Aquariums (http://www.oceanimage.net)

Chris Knox
Managing Director
Ocean Image Aquariums

[zooqi]

Chris Knox: Thanks for the link and your donations. I was in search of finding where the tank came from and you beat me to it. We will put your company name in our website
reefnest.com when we upload information about Brittany's aquarium. Very nice aquarium and it fits in her living room perfectly. Soon we will update with picture of her tank with corals and other stuff that we will be helping her with and you are welcome to use any pictures in our site after we upload them.
Thanks again ...

[Ocean Image]

Thanks Mo, we appreciate the web link. Look forward to seeing more pics as the tank matures.

[zooqi]

Sure and we are working on it. Thanks

[Bubba Beast]

Hi Brittany
Good luck with your tank!
Bubba

[nixnutz]

TANK IS LOOKIN' GOOD!! Looking forward to watching it progress.

Congratulations!

MO-Keep up the good work. It was great to see you at the swap.

Rahn

[zooqi]

Rahn, what's up buddy ? Thanks.
I got a phone call from Brittany's dad that her light fixture went bad. I offered to check it if he brings it to me and hope I hear from him soon. I do have some frags from the schools for her too.

[nixnutz]

Mo-Things are moving along. You got PM...

Rahn

[zooqi]

good to hear that. I got your PM ..

[zooqi]

Some updates here and on Thursday she is getting 10 extra frags from Montoursville High School. Is getting there and will update everybody with picture with my camera sometimes too.
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[Reef_Dweller_69]

Very nice looking tank. It turned out really good.

[zooqi]

Yes it does look good, and it will look better with time.

[fishesRdelicious]

thats really good to see the progress and that corals from the school are going to help students

[zooqi]

She got a corals and some frags from one of the high schools. Those frags are from big corals we have fraged in the past. I will be sending her few more smaller frags in a week or two.