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Welcome back to be active in the hobby and club again. Good luck on cycling the tank and getting some livestock when you are ready.

Not sure it's the best - but was affordable to get a couple and easy to use. I got the Wyze Cam Pan v3 Indoor/Outdoor IP65-Rated 1080p Pan/Tilt/Zoom Wi-Fi that run around $35 - 40 a cam. Does the job for what I need outside of seeing tank info via Apex. One in sump room I can pan/tilt and pinch screen on phone to zoom and see what I need. Can also flip to "privacy mode" to stop stream/turn off when not in use. Amazon or direct from vendor.

ReefSavvy makes a slim one called a ghost overflow. It has teeth on slim inside portion that is magnetic and removable for cleaning. Love it on my 36x30x24 ReefSavvy tank https://www.reefsavvy.com/ghost

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Due to a work schedule shift the Fall meeting has been shifted to October 5, 2024 (Saturday) to accommodate speaker availability.

Bump - reminder it's next Saturday.

You can see latest updates on this event here in Capital Exotic forum. Hope to see many of you at this event.

Reefing USA is returning to the DC area this fall for a coral show with several out-of-state coral vendors including Cherry Corals, Eye Candy Coral, Coveys Coral Cove, as well as a few local vendors like Jason Fox and Supreme Reefs. Date: October 20, 2024 (Sunday) Time: 11:00 - 3:00 pm Where: Tysons Corner Marriott 8028 Leesburg Pike Tysons, VA 22182 $5 Admission Door prize drawing @ 1:00 pm (free prizes) WAMAS Fundraiser Raffle drawing @ 2:00 pm (Raffle put on by WAMAS to benefit WAMAS Club) Free coral frag to the first 100 attendants WAMAS is working with Reefing USA to help promote the show and the club gets to put on a raffle with 100% of raffle proceeds going to the club. Raffle Prize List: The Plank Autofeeder from Avast Marine. $209 value. 1 chance to win! Aquaillumination Nero 5 Powerhead (3000 GPH). 1 chance to win! Gift Certificate for Clear View Lids (screen aquarium lid). 1 chance to win! $200 Reef Nutrition Gift Card. 1 chance to win! $100 Reef Nutrition Gift Card. 2 chance to win! $100 Capital Exotic Fish Gift Card. 1 chance to win! $50 Champion Lighting & Supply Gift Card. 1 chance to win! Coral Tweezers by Maxspect. 5 chances to win! Pastel Reef Magnifier & Filter (Grande) by Maxspect. 5 chances to win! Frozen Food Mold by Maxspect. 5 chances to win! Neptune WXM module. 1 chance to win! Neptune 2" Flow Sensor FS200 SV-1 Solenoid Valve Blueline ATO. 1 chance to win! About Reefing USA: Reefing USA is working to build a better reefing community. Vendors/farmers at their shows are prescreened to meet quality standards. They are some of the best in the country. They are committed to bringing simply the best corals from around the world. Indeed, according to the Reefing USA website vendors must be at least 80% aquacultured coral to be approved as a vendor. Learn more on their website: ReefingUSA.com as well as see their fall schedule. And if you are a vendor interested in exhibiting, you can find details on how to submit an application. While the DC metro area has several great stores to shop at and support - many are club sponsors - given the opportunity for the club to host a raffle and get 100% proceeds to support the club, the officers determined this was a benefit for WAMAS members and hobbyists in the area. In addition, we hope that local stores and WAMAS sponsors who are not be an exhibitor at the coral show will nonetheless consider running weekend or day of show sale specials to help attract more out of town guests to the coral show and to their and the many local stores in the area. Likewise, because WAMAS brings in guests speakers for the quarterly meetings and works to promote and grow the hobby, show organizers are willing to work with WAMAS and permit the club to host a raffle. Reefing USA put on a coral show on March 24, 2024 with close to 300 people in attendance. Due to the shows success the show floor has been expanded. Reefing USA is brought to you by these additional sponsors: Blueline, Champion Lighting & Supply, Fritz, Reef Nutrition, Brightwell Aquatics, Carib Sea, Simplicity, Clear Choice Distribution, Eye Candy Coral, & Mermaid's Delight Food WAMAS Raffle Sponsors: cherry-logo.avif

I have a box of PVC fittings & pipe, bulkheads, pvc glue, pumps, wet side for vortechs, gyre parts, extra LED power brick for Radions, batter pwr air pumps, pwr. strips; screen for net covers, heaters, maxi-jet pumps Running 5 tanks of various sizes I like to have lots of parts around for any emergency - like a few years agon on x-mass eve one of the bulkheads in overflow that I guess did a bad job in 2005 plumbing up flexible pvc line decided to start dripping. I had a spare bulkhead and stuff to fix. As to your question on apex energy bar - I learned my lesson the expensive way in the past of using the outlet to control a heater and ended up causing the 832 to not respond. Since then switched to let inkbird control heater cycle and set EB outlet as backup should tank get too hot. It may be cheaper to just have a few spare pwr. strips as backup as you can always manually cycle on/off; or even buy some lamp style timers for short term solution until you can source apex replacement bar.

Save the date - more details soon WAMAS Platinum Sponsor Capital Exotic Fish is holding an open house for WAMAS members on Saturday August 24, 2024. Time: 1:00 - 4:00 pm Where: Capital Exotic Fish 3404 Idaho Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016 Please plan to visit their showroom for this special event. Member discounts; special event sales on livestock; and snacks & refreshments provided. A great way to meet fellow hobbyists and support one of our sponsoring local fish stores. https://www.capitalexoticfish.com/ * We are working to book more tours with our other sponsoring stores this fall.

It probably took 2-3 weeks for the horses to get used to feeding at the station. I got my seahorses from Alyssa.

2-3 times a day seahorses get PE mysis and/or mini mysis. Broadcast feed Reef Nutrition phyto, oyster feast, and R.O.E. once or twice a week. Also weekly splash of reef-roids. Radion Gen 6 xr-15 pro for lights. Water temp 70.5-71.5

Tank has been running since May. Moved a few anemones in few weeks ago. Added clown pair last Tuesday. Still a work in progress but I'm happy with this start.

Latest updates. Got a set of Artfully Acrylic/Clear View Lids custom made for lights and other cutout needs. Their latest design with modular frame parts (allowing you to swap pieces if future upgrades dictate a change to lids - meaning wouldn't have to buy entire new lid).

WAMAS Platinum Sponsor Reef Nutrition is donating three gift cards to our November 3 Fall 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.

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

I sent an email to each of you with the club grant information. There are some members who have some used equipment that was donated in the past.

https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/researchers-stop-tissue-loss-disease-in-rescued-pillar-coral-video/ Scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) have successfully treated and rehabilitated diseased pillar coral rescued from the Florida Reef Tract. First detected near Miami in 2014, stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has since spread throughout the Florida Keys and much of the Caribbean. The disease is infecting and killing roughly half of the region’s hard coral species, including pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) — a species listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Florida's wild pillar coral population is now less than six percent of its known population in 2014. see article for more

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Thank you Rich Ross for taking the time out of your schedule to come speak to our club. Over 130 people came out on a hot July day. Thanks to all the volunteer officers and members who helped put on the meeting, worked the door, or assisted with setup/teardown. Special thanks to the vendors and members who brought corals to sell - makes the meeting special. Finally, thanks to all our amazing Sponsors for your support in making the raffle table large; as well as Reef Nutrition for the door prizes.

Here is a picture of the Zoas frag pack donated by Coral Candy Aquaculture for the raffle. They will be on site selling aquacultured frags. Thanks to all our sponsors for supporting the club!

Event: WAMAS Fall 2024 Meeting Saturday October 5, 2024 Time: 1:30 PM - 4:45 PM (Speaker starts at 3:00 PM) Where: North Bethesda Middle School, 8935 Bradmoor Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817 WAMAS members get in free. Guests are $5 each (paid at the door). Join WAMAS at this link. Agenda: 1:30 Sign-in / socialize / frag sales 2:45 Club business 3:00 Speaker - Mike Henley - Cryopreservation of coral microfragments 4:00 Break 4:15 Raffle! Directions to North Bethesda Middle School: - NOTE: The school is just inside the north edge of the beltway near Old Georgetown Road. Here's a map from Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/bKz79Y9HmQF2 (Pictured: left- Dr. Mike Henley; right John Coppolino, WAMAS Speaker Coordinator) ABSTRACT: Corals are under siege by both local and global threats, creating a worldwide reef crisis. The loss of species and genetic diversity has stimulated an interest in reef conservation methods such as marine protected areas, oceanic coral nurseries, and land-based repositories in aquaria and aquaculture facilities. Additionally, advances in cryopreservation have allowed for the emergence of “cryoconservation” wherein live, cryopreserved cells (coral sperm) from reefs in the Caribbean and Pacific are secured in gene banks as insurance against loss of genetic diversity; this material has also been used for assisted gene flow, and more recently, live coral larvae have been successfully cryopreserved. Cryopreservation is an important intervention measure and a vital component of the modern conservation toolkit, but preservation techniques are currently limited to sensitive reproductive materials that can only be obtained a few nights per year during spawning. These annual spawning events provide limited opportunities to secure genetic diversity, and reproductive material is increasingly negatively impacted by ecosystem stressors. Coral asexual reproduction via fragmentation allows for cryopreservation of the whole coral organism (and genome) and decouples the process from yearly reproductive events. Here we use a novel technique, isochoric vitrification, to cryopreserve and revive small (1 cm2) coral “microfragments” and use oxygen-uptake respirometry to determine 24-hr post-thaw survival. Immediate next steps are currently exploring techniques to allow for the continued survival of fragments beyond this initial benchmark and new combinations of cryoprotectants that allow for vitrification at temperatures higher than the liquid nitrogen standard. These findings are paving the way towards an approach that can be rapidly deployed around the world to secure the biological genetic diversity of our vanishing coral reefs. Background: Mike is a WAMAS member who has a distinguished career working at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. He is currently a Fellow, Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, based in Hawaii. Mike also work several years in the Invertebrate House at the National Zoo in DC, where he was part of team of scientists and researchers working in the SECORE program. SECORE stands for SExual COral REproduction, which refers to SECORE's Coral Seeding approach for reef restoration: taking advantage of the corals’ own reproduction potential to develop scalable methods and technologies. Breeding corals from collected coral spawn allows SECORE to produce huge numbers of baby corals out of one spawning event while at the same time supporting genetic diversity and consequently promoting reef resilience. Sponsors On Site, Selling Capital Exotic Fish: @CapitalExoticFish Coral Candy Aquaculture: @Coral Candy Aquaculture Vendors On Site, Selling Members On Site, Selling @gws3 @nburg Scorpion Corals Special thanks to theses sponsors. Please support them & say thanks next time you shop with them. You can find their website address by visiting their forum or the sponsor page on the WAMAS website. Raffle Prizes: $50 Gift Certificate for Reef Nutrition products (with $40 bump-up for shipping). (2 chances to win!) $100 Gift Certificate for Reef Nutrition products (with $40 bump-up for shipping) The Plank Autofeeder from Avast Marine + Avast food pack. $239 value. 1 chance to win! Two Little Fishies C-Balance (2x1-gallon bottles) $60 value. 1 chance to win! $100 Gift Card for Capital Exotic Fish. 1 chance to win! Chemi-pure Blue nano - 15 pack by Boyd Enterprises. 5 chances to win! Julian's Thing & Gonipower (1 oz) donated by Two Little Fishies. 1 chance to win! TLF PouchFeeder & Sea Veggies [1x bulk (100 sheet), 1x purple (30g), & 1x green (30g)] donated by Two Little Fishies. 1 chance to win! Single head of Pink & Blue tipped Torch from Blue Ribbon Koi. Value $200. 1 chance to win! 1 Blueline LED Refractometer donated by BluelineAquatics.com & 1 AccuraSea Calibration Solution (250ml) donated by TLF. $95 value. 1 chance to win! 1 Frag Bag & Frag Tools (1-Bone Cutter, 1 SPS Clipper, 1 precision tweezer) donated by Champion Lighting & Supply. $55 value. 1 chances to win! 32" Blueline Reef Tong & 12" precision tweezer, donated by Champion Lighting & Supply. $50 value. 1 chance to win! 1-DI Resin, (1.25lb), 1- Citric Acid (1.5lb), 1-Carbon (12oz), donated by Champion Lighting & Supply. $50 value. 1 chance to win! 1 - SEATAK (2oz), 1 Coral Gel tube, 1 Super Glue bottle, donated by Champion Lighting & Supply. $40 value. 3 chance to win! WAMAS Platinum Sponsors - Air, Water & Ice - Avast Marine - Blue Ribbon Koi - Capital Exotic Fish - ChemiPure (Boyd Enterprises) - Coral Magazine - Exotic Reef Creations - Frank's Tanks - Maxspect - Puddle Aquatics - Reed Mariculture (Reef Nutrition) - Reef eScape - Supreme Reefs WAMAS Banner-Only Sponsors - Bulk Reef Supply - Cobalt Aquatics - Coral Candy Aquaculture - Jellyfish Art - MASNA - Two Little Fishies

Thanks to our amazing sponsor Reef Nutrition we will have some 6oz bottles of Tigger Pods & Apex Pods, and TDO food pack samples to give away as door prizes to some lucky attendees. Be sure to pick up a Reef Nutrition bag when you check-in at the welcome desk and look for your door prize ticket, as well as the brochures on all the products they offer. Thanks for your support!

Update on raffle items from Reef eScape: $20 gift card (with bonus if use the gift card towards 2 corals, get an additional $10 off) for Reef eScape. 5 chances to win! (1) 4 Head Mottled Hammer Coral - Value $74.77; and (1) New York Knicks Torch - $149.77 by Reef eScape. Pickup in store.

NOTE: Updated Speaker talk start time - now 2:45 Master 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 . $239 value. 1 chance to win! Sicce XStream SDC pump. $249 vlue. 1 chance to win! Nero 5 XStream SDC