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WAMAS Platinum Sponsor Avast Marine Works is donating a Plank Automatic Feeder to the May meeting raffle. Thank you Avast Marine Works for the many years of supporting the WAMAS Club - It's great to have a local manufacture of quality reefing equipment in our area.

In an effort to be able to sponsor posts on Facebook/Meta to spread the word of WAMAS meetings we had to create a non-profit business page. If you can, please give a follow/like to help the club. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557924882673 WAMAS also has the public group on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/48990824750 Thanks!

WAMAS Meeting Sponsor Bulk Reef Supply is donating a 4 Stage Value Plus RODI System. Thank you BRS for your support of the WAMAS Club!

It looks like the Drop 1.4 comes with 2 power supplies. Are they both working - try switching the power bricks for each. And maybe you can find a power brick on amazon or a mean well one that is compatible with it.

I think I just sent invoice via email to renew.

WAMAS Platinum Sponsor Reef Nutrition is donating three gift cards to our May 4 Spring Meeting: $100 Gift Certificate for Reef Nutrition products (with $40 bump-up for shipping) 50 Gift Certificate for Reef Nutrition products (with $40 bump-up for shipping). (2 chances to win!) Thanks Reef Nutrition for your continued support of the WAMAS Club.

8 snails is not a big enough cleanup crew for tank that size. You need to add a lot more mouths to control it better. I was dealing with a hair algae issue in my 112 g system few months ago I added 150 astrea, couple tuxedo urchin, 300 small blue leg hermits, 5 chestnut, 10 Mexican, and 25 banded trochus snails. Also started running an AI prime 16 fuge light in fuge area of sump on reverse cycle. Also added a bristle tooth tang as I find them to be a workhorse at picking on algae. If the snails eat up all the algae I put small sheet of nori on clip. if you can’t find good selection at LFS, I’ve had great success with shipments from reeftopia.com and you can get some good mix of crews for $150ish. This video gives a good overview of different janitors and what they generally address

I’m not familiar with the AI Prime, other than the fudge one I recently got. Didn’t play around much in my AI app, but description of the prime on premium aquatic makes it sound like you can control color channels independently. If so, create your own custom schedule. Alternatively, I know world wide corals and top shelf aquatic share light program profiles on their website. Scroll down to AI https://worldwidecorals.com/pages/led-lighting-presets https://topshelfaquatics.com/pages/led-lighting-presets

A few years ago I picked up one of the SR Aquaristik mag-stirrer speed tester mixer and I love it. Makes things easier and faster than adding some solution and shaking the vial. It's worth the time and money to pick up any brand of mag-stirrer in my opinion. I find that by using my speed tester I'm less likely to let the Rich Ross coined term LARS (lazy-ass reefer syndrome) kick in since testing can be done relatively fast. And then I just plug in the result into the Apex Fusion app. and track my results. I've looked at investing in a Apex Triton but haven't decided to spend on one thus far. Most people can make the Triton work without issues and I'm sure I'm only reading the few who make a fuss on the F-book group; but has me shying away from getting one. In short, if you are new to the hobby or seasoned veteran and still doing titration testing by swirling a vial, take a look at speeding things up. No I'm not sponsored or paid to say this. Although I should reach out to see if they will donate some to a future club meeting raffle.

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.

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.

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

Looking at your picture here, it does look like the right bulkhead / gasket is overlapping the larger bulkhead/ gasket on the left. If that is the case it may be preventing a tight seal - if that turns out to be the bulkhead leaking.

WAMAS 2024 Coral Swap/Show - (aka Aqua Affair - Don't tell your spouse, bring cash!) Saturday, December 14, 2024 Time: Noon - 4:00 PM (Raffle starts at 3:00 pm) Vendor setup 9:00 AM Where: Green Acres Center, 4401 Sideburn Rd., Fairfax, VA General Admission - $5 (Kids 12 and under are FREE) Vendor rates and details posted soon. Contact officers@wamas.org if you are interested in reserving table space. * Note this event is outside/in addition to our normal quarterly meetings

I bought a bottle of microbacter 7 last fall when I was setting up a 65 seahorse, but ended up going with Dr. Tim's product. Dr. Tim's makes several types of bacteria products for use beyond an initial tank setup one. You may benefit from Dr. Tim's. I just picked up some waste away and the eco-balance probiotic for my main system since it has been running since 2005. Not that I'm having any problems, but I run ozone, skim heavy & use UV; never tried to replace beneficial bacteria. I have had experiences of losing a few sps corals to a little slow stn. Hence hoping beneficial bacteria will help. As for dosing phyto - I also would hold off a bit longer until you see few weeks of no signs of cyano returning before adding more nutrients - and reestablish beneficial bacteria base.