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  2. So, the question is, what is the minimum size of a colony/mini colony? I have two HUGE colonies, I would like to frag for sale. 1. A peach hammer that is over a basket ball size. would a piece of 10-15 heads be consider a colony? 2. A green slimer colony with several branches over 6 inches long. I would like to offer up colony size for sale, not 1-2 heads or peaces that at 1-2 inches long. thoughts? Many thanks Milton
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  4. What platform? On desktop my preference is the tried and true irfanview, either for individual or batch conversion.
  5. Silly question but all of our photos/ files are too large to post. Do you have any tips on how to make the file size smaller? - Murray
  6. We just got in an amazing selection of fish and corals just in time for easter. Below is a list of fish/ corals we got and we are located at 3404 Idaho Ave NW in DC. Open from 11-7pm 7 days a week. Any questions, feel free to call us at 202-506-5476 Chris FISH: Royal Gramma PJ Cardinalas CB Banggai Cardinals True Super Black Percula Clowns Black/ White Clownfish Misbar Perculas Platnium Perculas Green Chromis Aiptasia Eating Filefish Wheeler's Watchman Goby True Yellow Watchman Goby Green Banded Gobies Gold Neon Pygmy Goby Rainbow Goby Flame Pygmy Goby Diamondback Goby CB Yashia Goby Flame Hawk Blue Stripe Pipefish Yellowbanded Pipefish Ghost Weedy Pipefish CB Eurectrus Seahorses Desjardini Tang Redfin fairy Wrasse Yellow Choris Wrasse Cleaner Wrasse Bicolor Cleaner Wrasse Leopard Wrasse Inverts: Condy Anenome Ultra Rock Flower Anenmomes (FULLY COLORED) Scarlet Hermit Crabs Red Collar Turbo Snails Curly Que Pistol Shrimp Cleaner Shrimp Corals: Hammers Frogspawn Green Trumpets Duncans Zoas Fancy Disco Mushrooms Lobos Button Scolys Dendros Elegance Favia Pectinia Acan Colonies and a few more
  7. Hilary Jaffe's latest YouTube video for SaltwaterAquarium.com has a few visual references to the WAMAS community Facebook page at 4:10 and 4:42. The topic of the video is money saving tips for saltwater aquariums, and I can definitely agree that the being a member of the WAMAS community has not only made this hobby more enjoyable, but also more financially feasible, thanks to our generous members and sponsors. Hilary Jaffe was the guest speaker at our Winter 2023 meeting. SaltwaterAquarium.com is a WAMAS Platinum Sponsor.
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  9. Cool. Thanks for the info. I do want to add some other small fish and cleaner shrimp, but since the tank is pretty well fed, I may go ahead with it. I also have a couple of biota mandarins (which I haven’t seen for a while, though not that surprised) that are tiny. I expect I’ll see them more when they’ve grown a bit, so perhaps I’ll wait until they’re a bit bigger before adding the betta.
  10. @cpeguero he is super chill. I don't have any inverts, most I had when I set my last tank up 5-6 years ago so they died off. I never added more yet because of the trigger. The betta hasn't eaten anything in a few years. They are more slow/lurky. Just my take but unless it was a really tiny goby that just sat in front of the betta I don't think its much of a threat even then I still doubt it, they are more of a sit in a cave and wait for something to swim by variety, not really active predators from my experience. Mine could easily eat the dottyback and others and it shares caves with some. I'd pull the trigger, mine is quite shy during the day but will swim around here and there and at dusk/night he's out alot. I'd pull the trigger, super cool fish. Ill take picture of it for sure once I get a chance here soon
  11. Welcome to the club and cheers to getting back in salt. We are looking at ways to add more events besides the quarterly meetings, based on member survey last year others also looking for more activities and interaction. Hopefully soon we will roll out some LFS tour days; and schedule some coffee meetups as a way for members to meet others in their area since there is a little distance and travel time to get around the capital region.
  12. How has your experience been with the marine betta? Been contemplating adding one eventually, but worried about it with inverts and smaller fish.
  13. Welcome! I'd suggest also joining PVAS, the Potomac Valley Aquarium Society, which focuses on freshwater. They have monthly meetings with small auctions, as well as two all-day auctions each year - a good way to rehome any extra fish!
  14. Welcome, Jim. Post some pics of your setup. Garrett.
  15. So far the setup is 3 MP 40s on reef crest ramping between like 60-100%. 2 Amazonas 960s on about 60% most light colors except for orange/red. Probably to high still Couple Finnex heaters and the return pump is a chunker on from Dolphin I think. Fish Vlamingi Tang Hippo Tang Chocolate Tang Desjardini sailfing tang Niger trigger Female blue throat trigger Marine betta Royal gramma Flamr hawkfish Starry blenny Mystery wrasse Clownfish pair Splendid dottyback Potters angelfish Corals Toadstool leathers like 3 different kinds Cabbage leather Green slimer Some assorted zoas Couple big gorgonians (still mad from being in a stock tank I think) Sinularia Different mushrooms. Have a few rocks covered in them, I mostly got rid of the green hairy ones that were a plague Kenya trees (down from probably 50) Xenia on a rock by itself Other softies Im forgetting Upcoming stocklist Corals SPS of the easier ish fast growing varieties. I miss having SPS can't wait to watch it grow out in this tank. Fish to buy Melanarus pair or single Talbots damsels pair Sapphire damsel pair Dusky jawfish Yellow watchman goby Coral beauty A Genicanthus angel pair TBD by what I can find in that genus Moorish Idol (survival rate sucks but Ill give it a try in a tank this size) Yellow coris wrasse pair or trio Anthias trio either lyretails or dispars Probably others as time goes on but those are most of my current targets
  16. Hello local Marine Aquarists. Jim here. I got my start, as most of us, I should think, with freshwater fish as a kid, ranging from the community tank to discus. I then "graduated" to saltwater fish, and maintained a 180g reef set up in the mid 00's, before I went to college. Sadly, my reefing career went on hiatius untill about a year ago, but am now back. I started in February of 2023 with a 40g breeder, but have since upgraded to a 100 gallon mixed reef, and at the moment all fish are aquacultured, which is important to me. I joined WAMAS, because I'd like to spend time and learn from local folks who share the same passions. Other than my reef tank, I have a small 10 gallon tank with some tetras and minnows and neocaridinia shrimp, I also have a 300 gallon pond out back stocked with a combo of Shubunkin and Comet goldfish and rosyred minnows - all of which breed prolificly, so if you're in the market, let me know. I'm looking forward to the May meeting, and can't wait to meet folks. Jim
  17. Correct, I've had some back and forth with the LFS about it, they want me to pay to have them come back out and fix what I paid them to do the first time which I shouldn't even have to explain to them why I won't accept that offer. I've ordered new pieces so I await their arrival and will attempt myself. For now I am going to setup a funnel to catch the drops (right on the side of the sump of course) and hookup the returns so I can get it all going and see what the flow situation is. I had everything in a stock tank and decided it was time so moved em over. So far these Orphek Amazonas lights are insanely powerful. I have managed to have some bleaching on a couple leathers that were probably higher up than they should have been so have moved them and reduced the lighting a teensie bit.
  18. Smoky recently posted had a bulkhead leaking and still trying to solve the problem; so I think he is not using overflows right now until he resolves the issue.
  19. Nice trim work! Tangs look healthy. Why does the water look low?
  20. By Randy Holmes-Farley https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/reef-aquarium-salinity-diy-calibration-standards.1042851/ Hope you find this helpful on calibration of checking your water
  21. Version 1 of get the rocks and existing angry corals into the tank. Everythings been ok for about a week now. Still have to fix the leaking bulkhead. Have learned of a LFS to never use again. Beginning to look for more corals to start to fill the tank in and let it grow.
  22. Don't know about the angel, but I've had mine for a couple of years now and it's doing well. The tricky part is getting it to eat initially, I think once it's eating some variety of good quality prepared foods, they aren't tough to keep unless you've got something aggressive.
  23. Black worms have always worked for me.......just need to pick a heathy fish to begin with
  24. Pick up in silver spring, MD clearing out these extras to make room for next batch coming next week. pricing cannot be beat, we are selling to move out!! we have: white tail yellow eye tangs super male lineatus wrasses small blue hippo tangs checkerboard wrasses mystery wrasses zigzag wrasses maldivian mccoskers wrasses melanurus male and female wrasses small powder blue tangs small clown tangs small juv queen angels dispar anthias barred rabbitfish pajama cardinal fish small convict tangs ventralis anthias (cooler water) evansi anthias carberryi anthias lyretail anthias white tail tamarin wrasses small foxface rabbitfish If interested in multiples we will add further discounts!! all have been through our unmatched prophylaxis and quarantine protocol. All are eating with gusto on LRS frozen blends and avast marine reef jerky. if interested in any species above for pick up within five days, send a message with your order and we will get back to you with a price.
  25. Definitely interesting results. Metasorb is another product that absorbs heavy metals (just used it to try to get rid of excess aluminum in my frag tank), but of the cuprisorb will get the tin, use that. would be worth taking a good look at all your equipment to see if there’s any corrosion or other exposed metal. Basically eliminate the potential sources you can directly investigate. Once you’ve done that, and used the cuprisorb, I’d do another ICP test to confirm tin is gone. After a few more weeks, do another to confirm there isn’t still a source of tin. If there is, then going down the list of things to fix, in order of increasing work/expense, run an icp on your source water (though I think you may have done this) both tap and ro/di; you could replace the flexible tubing with another material or switch to pvc, and then, the ultimate is to upgrade your tank…… I’d be surprised if the tank glass is truly the source. I would think that any residual tin would get rinsed off fairly easily.
  26. Hey folks, my ICP test results are back!! Results here: https://www.triton-lab.de/en/showroom/icp-oes/210778 Interestingly, just about everything is in a good range, with the notable exceptions of phosphorus (which we knew) and... tin. While it's possible it's a false positive, the level is high enough to seem relatively unlikely. A quick search has informed me that along with other standard heavy metal sources like malfunctioning equipment, tin can come from plasticizers in flexible tubing... I am using vinyl tubing for my drains and return line, and have gone through two sets because I had to increase the tubing size to decrease head pressure on my return pump and enable higher drainage rates to accommodate higher flow rates! Also, float glass is apparently made by pouring molten glass onto molten tin. If a manufacturer isn't careful to track which side was touching the tin, it can end up on the inside of the tank instead of the outside like normal. My tank is an Aqueon, so I wouldn't be terribly surprised if this was the case for my tank. As a bit of history, my system was running (totally fine) for 6+ months before moving into the current tank (started small and upgraded, and then had a leak). I also didn't use a sump (or flexible tubing) at all until this fall, which was right after I started having issues with algae growth (I'd previously used a simple HOB and added the sump so I could have a refugium and extra filtration). So both of these potential causes of tin didn't start out with my system, and might explain why things were going well for quite a while before taking a downturn. Also interesting is that SPS are particularly sensitive to tin. Before the tank crash that I've been associating with the major cyano bloom and alk swing, I was having some odd issues with SPS dying back. The alk swing was almost certainly from me starting to dose kalk in an attempt to help the struggling SPS. Looking into potential options for tin removal, it seems cuprisorb is often recommended, and luckily I actually even have some already (had for a freshwater tank that had been having issues with shrimp and I'd wanted to rule out heavy metals). I'm thinking I'll be adding some to my system today!
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