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WHAT'S NEW? Lots of new items in this week including more larger Blue Reef Chromis, Sunshine Chromis, Lightning Damsels, Masked Gobies, Jewel Damsels, a juvenile Blue Angel, Red Saddle Clowns, Blue Neon Gobies, Halloween Hermits, larger Cowries, a Red Serpent Star, Aquaculture Atlantic Live Rock, and lots of beautiful corals. Make sure to stop by and check out all the new cool livestock we received and maybe add some new stuff to your tanks at home. WHAT'S ON SALE! Still on sale are the following discontinued items; PFO ballasts, Seachem Reef Enhancer and Fundamental packs, Visi Therm Heaters (excludes 25 watt), Seachem Renew, Skilter Filter 400, an artificial Acropora coral and an EcoSphere. Also take 15% off Tropic Marin Elimi Phos, and an assortment of corals are up to 20% off. REALLY BIG AQUARIUM BARGAIN! We have a 9 foot x 3 foot x 3 foot tall aquarium, approximately 600 gallons, that is brand new. It is acrylic and has two overflows (one in each corner) and is clear on all sides. We have had this aquarium in storage in the interest of using it for a display. We have decided not to use the tank and are offering for $2500 or best reasonable offer. The first person with cash in hand gets this tank. Serious inquiries only please. DID YOU KNOW? Did you know that the Marine Scene has a Livestock Trade In Policy? For those of you moving or changing the setup of your tank and need to find a new home for your livestock, we can help you out with that. Please read over the policy http://www.marinescene.com/FAQ/faq_trade.shtm before bringing in any livestock. Hope to see you in this weekend! Melissa Sutton Assistant Manager The Marine Scene 293 Sunset Park Dr. Herndon, VA 20170 (703)689-2815 www.marinescene.com

MACNA is pleased to announce the keynote speaker for the Gala Banquet Jon Hoech, a curator with Monterey Bay Aquarium husbandry staff and the person in charge of the Outer Bay exhibit where the white shark resided, will present about the white shark project at MACNA. Visit MACNA XVII Website for full details! Abstract Title: Project White Shark at the Monterey Bay Aquarium: Don

Dr. Mac's Pacific East Aquaculture Call us toll-free 877-887-5224 Call him to order specific items to guarantee he has it for you. - FREE SHIPPING ON LIVE ROCK if you pick it up at meeting - FREE Shipping on dry goods - pick it up at meeting

Just got off phone with Dr. Mac. Mac is CONFIRMED and he will be there in person (not son zak) SO CALL him to order stuff and get FREE Shipping. Dr. Mac's Pacific East Aquaculture Call us toll-free 877-887-5224

Latest Web Site Additions: FREAKY FRIDAY THE 13TH ACROPORA SALE ALL ACRO COLONIES ON THE "Z" PAGE 35% OFF WHEN YOU BUY $150 or more in corals. Orders taken and shipped Friday May 13 only. DON'T FORGET, ADD ANY METAL HALIDE LAMPS, DRY GOODS, OR BOOKS TO YOUR LIVESTOCK ORDER AND PAY NO ADDITIONAL SHIPPING.

Take note of start time Doors open at 1:30 Agenda 1:30 - 2:00 Sign in and Socializing 2:00 - 2:45 Ben Frable - "Summer Experience" 2:45 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 3:30 MACNA update / Club news 3:30 - 4:30 Brandon Ghrist - "Artifical Reefs" 4:30 - 5:00 Raffle 5:00 Adjourn

Happy Friday Marine Aquarists! WHAT'S NEW? New in our coral tanks are multiple rocks almost totally covered with Florida Ricordea! The Ricordea is a lighter green, some with brightly colored mouths, and the rocks are all different sizes ranging from about 3" up to 8". We also received in some nice Euphyllias, Frogspawn, Hammer and Torch, some larger green Long Tentacle Plates, beautiful Bubbles, Trumpets and Open Brains, lots of Green Branching Briarium (the same coral as in our 75-gallon display!), Orange, Green and Pink Zoanthids, and lots and lots more! As for newer fish and inverts, we have a large Gold-Striped Maroon Clown, a Tobacco Bass, Black and Gold Damsels, Red Cluster Dusters, Pink and Yellow Cucumbers, Maxima, Hippopus and Deresa Clams, and of course lots more. DISCONTINUED ITEMS SALE Take up to 50% off the following discontinued items; PFO ballasts, Seachem Reef Enhancer and Fundamental packs, Visi Therm Heaters (excludes 25 watt), Seachem Renew, Skilter Filter 400, an artificial Acropora coral and an EcoSphere. The EcoSphere is a self contained ecosystem filled with small red shrimp and algae, great for your desktop or window ledge...also great as a present...especially for Mother's Day! REALLY BIG AQUARIUM BARGAIN! We have a 9 foot x 3 foot x 3 foot tall aquarium, approximately 600 gallons, that is brand new. It is acrylic and has two overflows (one in each corner) and is clear on all sides. We have had this aquarium in storage in the interest of using it for a display. We have decided not to use the tank and are offering for $2500 or best reasonable offer. The first person with cash in hand gets this tank. Serious inquiries only please. DID YOU KNOW? Instead of a Did You Know, lets do a Do We Know... We would like to hear any suggestions, comments, or complaints that you, our customers, have. Please reply to this newsletter and let us know how we can make your visit to the Marine Scene a more enjoyable and better experience. We appreciate any and all feedback, so don't be shy! Hope to see you in this weekend! Melissa Sutton Assistant Manager The Marine Scene 293 Sunset Park Dr. Herndon, VA 20170 (703)689-2815 www.marinescene.com

new corals, clams and fish this week new sps from a new coral farm expected Friday. cleaner and fire shrimp expected friday

Dr. Mac's Pacific East Aquaculture Call us toll-free 877-887-5224 NEW SPRING-SUMMER 2005 Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 11 am-6 pm Eastern Saturday: 11 am-5 pm. Closed Wednesday and Sunday. Retail Outlet Hours: Saturdays from 11 am-5 pm, other times by appointment only. NEWS & Web Site Updates Latest Web Site Additions: Check out the NEW Weekly Specials page, lots of great deals!!! Tuesday May 3: --New Zoanthids added to the "T page --New LPS Corals added to the "J" page --New Soft Corals added to the "S" page --New Nano Corals added to the "N" page Monday May 2: --New Zoanthid Colonies added to the "T" page Saturday April 30: --AWESOME New Acros added to the "Z" page --INCREDIBLE New Blue Zoos added to the "T" page --PHENOMINAL New Green and Red Favia added to the "J" page --REALLY NICE New Soft Corals added to the "S" page --GREAT New SPS corals added to the "E" page ____________________________________ DON'T FORGET, ADD ANY METAL HALIDE LAMPS, DRY GOODS, OR BOOKS TO YOUR LIVESTOCK ORDER AND GET FREE SHIPPING WITH GOODS DELIVERED AT WAMAS MEETING.

I got a email response from Dr. Mac today confirming either he or his son Zak will be at the meeting. THUS: you can contact them and pre-order stuff and get it delivered at meeting = FREE SHIPPING on cherry picked items Dr. Mac's Pacific East Aquaculture Raffle update: DT's Plankton Farm is donating some samples of their two products

I got a email response from Dr. Mac today confirming either he or his son Zak will be at the meeting. THUS: you can contact them and pre-order stuff and get it delivered at meeting = FREE SHIPPING on cherry picked items

MACNA XVII Updates: MACNA XVII Website. Don

Raffle Updates: 1 MACNA Full Conference Pass with Gala & Reception Premium Aquatics - Frag clippers, aqua tongs Champion Lighting & Supply - Blueline Moonlight & Auto top-off unit Coral Dynamics - 3 x $20 Gift Certs. Roozens 6 x 1 Free Cleaner Shrimp Reeftopia.com 1 Gift Cert. for cleanup crew w/ free shipping Weiss Organics Products Reed Mariculture - Win 1 of 10 bottles of our Phyto-Feast marine microalgae concentrate. Fish Food From tank food party More to come.

Just Arrived....... Fiji corals.... colorful zooanthids, green starpolyp, green Hammer coral, RED Cynaria, Blastomussa, Colt coral, and more... Fish in-stock, six-line wrasses, tank-raised percula clowns, Fairy wrasses, tiny Humu triggers (Fiji), Flame angels.... NOTICE - NOTICE - NOTICE!!!!!!! Our new Summer hours are 4pm - 8pm, Mo. thru Fri. & noon - 5pm Sat. and Sun. www.reefstore.com www.dcreefs.com

The Spring Meeting of The Washington Area Marine Aquarist Society (WAMAS) will be on Saturday May 14, 2005 from 1:30-5:00 p.m. at Rock View Elementary School, Kensington, MD (immediately outside Washington, DC). Our featured special guest speakers are: Brandon Ghrist, Environmental Specialist, Artificial Reef Program, Maryland Environmental Service; and WAMAS Member Ben Frable. Brandon will be giving a presentation on the construction of artificial reefs. Ben will be giving a presentation on the history and importance of undersea research habitats & his experience last summer when he won a competition and got to spend a week in FL learing about corals and reefs. Along with Dr. Mac, lots of frag swapping, and a great raffle, this is sure to be a meeting NOT to miss! For further information on WAMAS and the Spring Meeting, visit our web site http://www.wamas.org/ Who: W.A.M.A.S. (Washington DC Area Marine Aquarium Society) When: May 14, 2005 (Saturday) Time: 1:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. (EST) Where: Rockview Elementary School 3901 Denfeld Avenue Kensington, Maryland Cost: Members - Free / Non-members - $6.00 [Annual Membership = $20 - Individual; $35 - Family] Agenda 1:30 - 2:00 Sign in and Socializing 2:00 - 2:45 Ben Frable - "Summer Experience" 2:45 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 3:30 MACNA update / Club news 3:30 - 4:30 Brandon Ghrist - "Artifical Reefs" 4:30 - 5:00 Raffle 5:00 Adjourn Special guests - Brandon Ghrist - Ben Frable - Dr. Mac's Pacific East Aquaculture Miscellaneous - Light refreshments and snacks will be provided. - Raffle prizes: coral frags; gift certificates; Directions: Directions to Rockview Elementary School From the Beltway 495 Exit Conneticut Avenue, Head North towards Kensington about 3 miles. Conneticut takes a fork at University- stay to the left to remain on Conneticut. Go to the 3rd light which is Denfeld and Turn Left.

do you feed nori sheets to the tang? Tangs need to graze on nori or other types of seaweed. I have had the same yellows for 4+ years and never had HLLE. I feed nori 5+ days a week. Either seaweed selects, bulk nori from bigalsonline.com or you can buy some at asian stores.

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Happy Spring All! WHAT'S NEW? In our shipments this week we received some really nice and exotic fish including Bundoon and Canary Fang Blennies, a small Harlequin Tusk, a Fiji Foxface Rabbitfish, an extra small Cave Goby, more Green Chromis, a Two-Spot Blenny, a Chocolate Tang, Black and Gold Damsels and a nice large Tomato Clownfish. In our coral shipment we received a nice red Lobophyllia, more orange and green zoanthids, a red mushroom rock, some nice Ricordea rocks, and a few really nice Open Brains. We also had a couple customers bring in some corals this week including some Waving Hand Polyps and neon green Trumpet corals. These are great looking corals and I am sure they will go fast so make sure to stop by and pick one up. WHAT'S ON SALE? Coolworks Iceprobes and chiller controllers are 15% off. For those looking for a smaller reef, or even fish only, Eclipse 6-gallon and 12-gallon are 10% off. Tropic Marin ElimiPhos is 10% off so stock up if you are having a phosphate problem, this stuff works great. Still on sale are Visi Therm heaters at 20% off and an assortment of corals up to 25% off. DID YOU KNOW? Did you know that as the weather starts warming up, you might have some problems keeping your tank cool? The intense lighting is one of the main causes of over-heating your aquarium. Your house temperature can also affect the temperature of your aquarium. Some easy ways of cooling your tank are by adding plastic cooling fans to your canopy or a chiller to your system. Fans are easily installed and less expensive than a chiller yet fans will only cool your system a couple of degrees whereas a chiller can cool your tank as much as you need depending on the size of the chiller. Don't forget that temperature stability is very important, so you will still need a working heater even in these hot summer months coming up. Fluctuation of more that a couple of degrees can bring on infections of parasites such as ich and can stress your fish, corals and inverts, so make sure that your temperature only changes a degree or two between your day and night cycle. Do you know how many degrees your tanks temperature fluctuates? Hope to see you in this weekend! Melissa Sutton Assistant Manager The Marine Scene 293 Sunset Park Dr. Herndon, VA 20170 (703)689-2815 www.marinescene.com

5 sandwich size ziplock bags of food "frozen" so we can raffle it off at meting.

Whale-Dolphin Hybrid Has Baby Wholphin By JEANNETTE J. LEE, Associated Press Writer http://beta.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050415/a...rth_6&printer=1 The only whale-dolphin mix in captivity has given birth to a playful female calf, officials at Sea Life Park Hawaii said Thursday. The calf was born on Dec. 23 to Kekaimalu, a mix of a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Park officials said they waited to announce the birth until now because of recent changes in ownership and operations at the park. The young as-yet unnamed wholphin is one-fourth false killer whale and three-fourths Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Her slick skin is an even blend of a dolphin's light gray and the black coloring of a false killer whale. The calf still depends fully on her mother's milk, but sometimes snatches frozen capelin from the hands of trainers, then toys with the sardine-like fish. She is jumbo-sized compared to purebred dolphins, and is already the size of a one-year-old bottlenose. "Mother and calf are doing very well," said Dr. Renato Lenzi, general manager of Sea Life Park by Dolphin Discovery. "We are monitoring them very closely to ensure the best care for them." Although false killer whales and Atlantic bottlenose dolphins are different species, they are classified within the same family by scientists. "They are not that far apart in terms of taxonomy," said Louis Herman, a leading expert in the study of marine mammals. There have been reports of wholphins in the wild, he said. Kekaimalu, whose name means "from the peaceful ocean," was born 19 years ago after a surprise coupling between a 14-foot, 2,000-pound false killer whale and a 6-foot, 400-pound dolphin. The animals were the leads in the park's popular tourist water show, featured in the Adam Sandler movie "50 First Dates." Kekaimalu has given birth to two other calves. One lived for nine years and the other, born when Kekaimalu was very young, died a few days after birth. Park researchers suspect the wholphin's father is a 15-foot long Atlantic bottlenose dolphin named Mikioi. "He seems to be totally oblivious to this happening," Lenzi said. False killer whales do not closely resemble killer whales. They grow to 20 feet, weigh up to two tons and have a tapering, rounded snout that overhangs their toothed jaw. Atlantic bottlenose dolphins reach a maximum size of 12 feet and can weigh up to 700 pounds. Sea Life Park officials said they hope to decide on a name for the baby wholphin soon and move her to a large display tank in a few months.

Few admin Q's for you all 1) Is the Date May 7 2) What is start time? 3) Do you want this posted in the Calender section? 4) any other notice sent to members? 5) would you be willing to make some extra for club to raffle off at spring meeting that is now moved to May 14? [club will give you some money for expense of food] let me know either reply or PM me. or email to craig@wamas.org

ALL, DATE CHANGE FOR SPRING MEETING May 14, 2005 (Saturday) WHY: there was a lot of other events going on that weekend (CMAS May meeting was next day; NCPARS Frag sway & PSU Tank tour May 1; fishing trip that some club members were going to go on). WILL UPDATE location when Michael & Dave S. get us hall booked for new date.