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acrotrdco
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Thanks Bro!
Wow time flies, it's been another 1.5 month since I've posted my update, a lot of things happened during this 1.5 month, I'm gonna sum it up here.
Around early December I was notified by the RC staff that my tank had been elected as one of the TotMs to be hosted on Reefkeeping Magazine, I was thrilled and was scrambling to prepare everything needed for it. Then about a week later, without a single word from any RC staff, my account was banned.
Later I found out they were doing an IP check on my account, and found out it was associated to an old RC account that I previously used. During Feb 2010 (almost 2 years ago), I had organized a few group buys for the old Maxspect G2 fixtures on RC helping folks there to get their hands on the product, before the was an US distributor. Apparently that was against the rules of RC because the group buy was not authorized, so my account was banned.
I didn't reopen another account until I started my new tank around Jan 2011, I wanted to document its progress because like everyone else I'm passionate about my tank, and that's what I did.
When my account was banned, rumors started flying around on RC, some guys even start posting WHOIS information on maxspectusa.com and saying I owned Maxspect, etc. That's simply not true. I've a full time job in an I.T. firm and I'm a freelance web designer, my company is Acropora Trading company which I use to accept web design projects with, and I had not hide from anyone, in fact I had use it as my alias in forums, because I felt like there's nothing to hide. If I had hidden agendas wouldn't I be using another alias on these forums?
Because I've organized the group buys with Maxspect during early 2010, I was contacted by them asking me to help them redesign their website, which I agreed because it's also my profession, and hey I made a few buck from the project too.
Another website project I've done recently: Glamour Bridal
Those folks went as far as saying my tank is sponsored by Maxspect, which is simply an insult to me, this is MY tank, which sits in my living room and I paid for everything I used, including the LED fixtures! Yes I've a discount when I bought it from the store locally (I still have the invoice), but I still paid for my equipments. If this were a Maxspect sponsored tank, I would be using full Bubble King skimmers and GHL computer and full KZ Zeolite equipments already! Instead I'm using BM and DIY equipments like every other hobbyists on a budget.
I'm going to sum this up with saying "when one door closes, another opens". Haters gonna hate no matter what I say so I'm not gonna repeat what I've said here, while my ToTM is gone and my RC account banned, I've received an invitation from CoralVue to be their rep tank and I've accepted.
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