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I'd like to welcome AquaHaus to the WAMAS family! Thanks, Adam, for sponsoring your local club! And thanks for the very, very generous raffle donation which I'll be announcing soon. AquaHaus is located at 7025 Brookfield Plaza, Springfield, VA 22150. (That's the old Quantum Reefs location for those that remember.) Adam has cleaned it up and is ready to roll. Give them a call at (703) 388-8555. Good luck, Adam!

First, try taking a knife and making a clean cut at the base where it's torn (if it is, in fact, torn). The clean cut may be less traumatic than a rip. Second, you're going to have to put it up against something so it can reattach. And, finally, you may just have to give it a week or two to recover from the change. Toadstools can be pretty resilient. Heck, you can completely behead the stalk and frag the head and all the frags and the stalk will develop into new toadstools.

Ha! Love the humor. It carries thru to the description as well. Description Home grown special personally selected to be the best piece. Super resilient to pest, lighting, AND temperature. To ensure it keeps the excellent coloration, make sure you use a specialize brush to clean this awesome coral off once in a while. Sent from my SM-T818V using Tapatalk

Google "Rocket Engineer Stand" and you'll find a lot of old plans. My first stand (for a 90) was built using this plan. (That was over 15 years ago.) I then skinned the frame with 1/4" oak plywood and used 3/4" oak to trim the bottom and the top of the stand. The top trim extended above the top flat surface of the stand (where the tank sat) to hide the plastic trim on the bottom of the tank. The home for the original design was on Reef Central.

Great observations. Adam's installed a lot of tanks for clients. These newer XL300's apparently have 19mm thick glass - well beyond what the MP10QD is rated for. I wouldn't have expected it to be so thick, but that's where Adam's experience comes in!

One of our longtime members and member of the FragFest coordinating team, @mogurnda, has prepared a handout that we're making available in conjunction with this year's FragFest meeting. "Fragging, Mounting, and Caring for Corals - an excessively brief summary" is a two page primer on fragging, mounting and caring for your corals. It's neither exhaustive to cover all corals nor is it intended to address all situations or techniques that you may encounter, but for somebody new to the hobby it can help give you a start. Use the QR code below of go to this link to download the softcopy handout.

I'd like to welcome WAMAS' newest sponsor, Reef Nerd Aquatics! Thanks, Lynn, for supporting your local club! And good luck in this new venture! @lynn.reef.nerd

I'd like to announce that VIBRANT CORALS is donating 10 colonies for fragging to this event. VIBRANT is a wholesale-only outlet specializing in supplying corals from Australia, Indonesia and Tonga. If your LFS or coral retailer is not bringing in VIBRANT corals, ask them why not! Thanks, VIBRANT for your generous support of WAMAS!

Free ICP-Mass Spec test just for coming to FragFest! ICP-Analysis is joining us as a club sponsor and has made a very, very generous donation of 150 ICP mass spec test kits that we'll be giving out to members that attend FragFest 2022. Limit 1 per member / family. First come, first served. While supplies last. Doors open at 12. Summarized from their website: This is the first Mass Spec test offered to the aquarium industry. It is 1000x more accurate than traditional ICP OES. ICP-Analysis uses a five-point calibration curve and certified standards to guarantee accuracy. There's not any test more accurate available.

Nikki's topic description has been updated in the first post to give a seasonal flavor. Provided here for your convenience. Scary Frights and Aquatic Ghouls (or "Pests in Your Reef Aquarium") Enter if you dare, into the world of what may be haunting your tank and lurking in the shadows of that beautiful new coral. The spiders are biting, the worms are crawling, and the slugs are leaving only skeletons behind. Join us for a truly spooktacular adventure!

See post #3 above. Reef Nerd Aquatics just added an Aquabiomics aquarium microbiome test kit to the raffle! What's in your tank?

Please note: We're trying a few "new" things for this FragFest: 1) Tank-drilling demo (televised). 2) Fragging guide handout that can be downloaded. (We'll provide a QR code here.) 3) Fragging demos, televised to the big screen so we're not all crowded around a small space. Hopefully, these updates will enhance the audience experience.

Welcome, Anthony.

Donated for the raffle by Boyd Enterprises, the makers of Chemipure, chemiclean, and other products: Package #1: 16-ounces of Vita Chem (vitamin supplement) plus one 2g vial of Chemiclean (treats cyanobacteria infestations). $39 value. Package #2: Three 5-ounce size Chemi-Pure Blue, treats 35 gallon tanks for up to 1 month (3-month supply). $49.92 value Package #3: Three 11-ounce size Chemi-Pure Blue, treats 75-gallon tanks for up to 1 month (3-month supply). $83.31 value Package #4: Twelve Chemi-Pure Blue nano, treats nano tanks for up to 1 month (1 year supply). $45.26 value. Four chances to win!!!

Donated by Cobalt Aquatics. 13.5 ounce jar of Cobalt Aquatics Ultra Pellet Marine all-natural fish food. $43.40 each, retail value. Three chances to win! Made with 100% natural ingredients for large, picky marine fish. Nutritious recipe includes whole sword prawn, squid, shrimp, seaweeds and algae. Will not cloud the water in your tank so you keep your clear view of your fishy friends. Fortified with prebiotics and probiotics to support a healthy digestive and immune system. Creates minimal waste for a cleaner aquarium.

Donated by WAMAS sponsor, Cobalt Aquatics, for the raffle! 1 set of water quality products (combined value of $147.66) consisting of 20 oz of Complete Reef ($32.08 value) 22.5 oz of Total Reef ($89.23 value) 13.5 oz of Ultra Carbon ($26.35 value) Descriptions below. Complete Reef Superior marine aquarium pollutant and nitrate removal media. A combination of Ultra Carbon Granules, Total Organics and Total Nitrate high-capacity ion-exchanging resins. Removes organics, nitrite, nitrate, phosphate and metals. Won’t affect calcium, magnesium or alkalinity to keep the water balanced. Broad-spectrum choice for saltwater aquariums. Removes pollutants that rock and protein skimmers cannot to help keep your tank clean. Total Reef Superior rechargeable pollutant removing marine aquarium resins. Highly durable resin removes organics, nitrite, nitrate, phosphate and metals. Designed for reef aquariums with sensitive stony corals, clams and invertebrates. Removes pollutants at low concentrations—great for use in ultra-low-nutrient systems. Can regenerate many times to extend the use of the product. Does not release the collected pollutants into the water when exhausted. Ultra Carbon Quick-acting granulated carbon. Low-density, high-capacity granulated bituminous carbon helps keep your tank clean. Use in canister filters or medium reactors. Suitable for use in freshwater and saltwater aquariums. Quickly removes dissolved organics to help keep your fish friends healthy. Even removes common aquarium medications!

F-Aiptasia (two-ounce and one-ounce bottles). Free to attendees while supplies last! Generously donated by Frank over at Frank's Tanks. Reef-safe Aiptasia fix. Works in minutes. We have a supply of 48 bottles of the two-ounce size and 37 bottles of the one-ounce size that we'll be giving out to members on a first-come, first-served basis (starting when doors open at noon). To ensure the broadest exposure, we must limit this give-away to one per member or member-family.

Ever want to try a Jellyfish Aquarium? Well, here's your chance to get $150 off one from Club Sponsor Jellyfish Art! We only have one of these, so come to FragFest and play the raffle for your chance at this!

Sorry for the loss, but really impressed with how far you've come and how much you've learned on this journey.

Moved at OP request. Zykor, since you're getting out of the hobby, this is the only for sale thread that you're allowed outside the For Sale forum. Update as appropriate, but please don't start a new thread. Sent from my SM-N976V using Tapatalk

Have you thought about Grainger? They've got brick and mortar outlets in a lot of places around here. You can place your order online and have it delivered to the store. The one that I go to from time to time is just outside Herndon near 28 & 606.

More raffle items from SaltwaterAquarium.com 1 kit comprising 1/4 gallon each of Kolar Labs Granular Activated Carbon and Granular Ferric Oxide (for phosphate removal). $60 value.

Raffle donation from SaltwaterAquarium.com - Two Little Fishies reef supplement kit comprising - 1 kg jar of KH Power, alkalinity supplement - 800 g jar of Calcium Pronto, calcium supplement - 1 kg jar of pH Balance, alkalinty supplement and marine pH buffer Value of this package is $53.

Reef Nerd Aquatics has just donated a $100 gift certificate AND an Aquabiomic (aquarium microbiome) test kit ($99 value) for the raffle. They will also be joining us on site so raffle winners can save on shipping and apply the full certificate value to corals! Thank you, Reef Nerd Aquatics!

Maxspect has seen some of the recent high-profile club activity and wants to sponsor the club and FragFest. They've generously donated the following products that we'll re-package for the raffle. Specifically we'll raffle off ten sets comprising 1 pair of Maxspect Coral Pruners ($25 value) 1 pair of Maxspect Coral Tweezers ($20 value) 1 Maxspect Coral Gripper (60 cm) ($15 value) 1 jar of Maxspect Coral Putty (epoxy), 120g ($14 value) The value of each package is $74 and we'll have ten packages to raffle. Thank you, Maxspect!