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SAVE THE DATE! More details posted soon. WAMAS Summer 2024 Meeting (in person, not streamed) Saturday, July 27, 2024 Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Speaker starts at 3 PM) Where: Green Acres Center, 4401 Sideburn Rd., Fairfax, VA WAMAS Platinum Sponsors - Air, Water & Ice - AquaHaus - Avast Marine - Blue Ribbon Koi - Capital Exotic Fish - ChemiPure (Boyd Enterprises) - Coral Magazine - Exotic Reef Creations - Frank's Tanks - ICP Analysis - Maxspect - Puddle Aquatics - Reed Mariculture (Reef Nutrition) - Reef eScape - Reef Nerd Aquatics - SaltwaterAquarium.com - Supreme Reefs WAMAS Banner-Only Sponsors - Cobalt Aquatics - Jellyfish Art - MASNA - Two Little Fishies Raffle Prizes: 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!) More info. posted soon.

Coveys Coral Cove - out of Bloomsburg, PA, will be on site selling. Thank you to all the coral vendors coming out to help make the meeting great. Sponsors On Site, Selling Capital Exotic Fish: @CapitalExoticFish Supreme Reefs: @Supreme Reefs Vendors On Site, Selling Jason Fox Signature Corals: jasonfoxsignaturecorals.com Coveys Coral Cove: https://www.coveyscoralcove.com/ Members On Site, Selling @gws3 r.Chalice

Mast prize list update above. Below are some of the recent additions. Thank you to all our sponsors. Please be sure to support our sponsors, and if you win, follow up and let them know you appreciate their donation to support the club. Aqua Illuminations Nero 5 powerhead from WAMAS. $239 value. 1 chance to win! Supreme Reefs - coral frags. Fritz Blue RPM salt, 200G size from Exotic Reef Creations. 4 chances to win! Sicce XStream SDC pump. $249 vlue. 1 chance to win! $50 livestock Gift Certificate from Blue Ribbon Koi. 3 chances to win!! Nero 5 XStream SDC

Just ordered a set of lids for my Aqueon 65 reef ready tank from https://www.clearviewlids.com/ Getting their new to be rolled out modular lid design. This new design will let you swap out pieces in the future in your equipment needs change. Saves from having to get an entire new lid - meaning that say I want to swap out light mounts in future. Adam at ClearView Lids can create a new back piece to swap out. I'll have to post pictures once they are built and delivered. And another great thing is they are a local small business based in Virginia.

Prize list updated. Hope to see everyone at the meeting.

Saw this on bookface. No idea any good. Says for AIO tanks

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