[SEEKING DONATIONS! Fish or soft coral for Montgomery Blair HS Tank]

HI WAMAS Members,

 

We posted inside another thread about this a few months ago and got a few responses. I'm a high school marine biology student at Montgomery Blair High School (I'm located in Silver Spring, MD). We're looking for donations (soft coral or fish) or any kind that would thrive in our 28 gallon tank. Currently we have 14 lbs of live rock, two dozen snails and hermits, a couple of clowns, and a sunstripe gobi. We're receiving some soft coral frags tomorrow (generously donated by Jim Dart!), but are still in search of more fish and soft coral.

 

I'm tentatively planning to come the January 22 meeting at Wooton HS at 1:30 to pick up donations for our tank. If anyone has anything extra they might like to donate (if you can't come to the meeting, I can probably drive over to where you are to pick any donations up). Please contact me at lmuskinpierret@gmail.com if you have any donations.

 

Thank so much for supporting our marine bio class!

-Leah

[Donations to Schools]

Hi Chad,

 

This is Leah, the student from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring. After establishing a small ecosystem in our tank (we've got tons of live rock, a small army of snails and hermits, two clowns, a gobi, and are set to receive some soft coral), we're hoping to expand our tank. I would be happy to pick up a coral skeleton or two at the Jan 22 meeting, if you're still interested in donating. I'm sending you an email with my contact info so we can communicate more directly.

 

Thanks so much!

-Leah

Do y'all need decorations? I have four coral skeletons (two real, two fake) that I dont need. I had pictures in a for sale thread at some point but could dig them up again if needed. The largest is probably 18x12 and tabling in structure. I can bring them to the Jan 22 meeting if y'all want.

 

Dave, I also still have that section of 1.5" tubing if you want it too.

 

Let me know,

 

Chad

 

 

[Donations to Schools]

Hey,

 

See the message I just posted regarding our tank I'm putting together at school for Marine Biology class. We're looking for donations of soft coral cause it looks like it's way out of our budget, and it sounds like you might have something to donate. Did you find homes for everything below or are you still looking to donate?

 

I'm a little far away (you profile says you're located in Springfield). I'm in Silver Spring, MD, but if you'd be willing to donate I'd be happy to make the trek!

 

If you'd like to get in contact with me feel free to email lmuskinpierret@gmail. Thanks so much!

 

Here's where I am in terms of things available for donation:

 

- I have around a half dozen green & white discoma mushrooms looking for a new home. At the moment, they're jumping off the mother colony faster than I can sell/give them away - it's like the old Doritos commercial ("crunch all you want...we'll make more).

- I need to prune back my colony of green palys (radial stripes of lighter green to almost white), so while I don't have them fragged at the moment, I just need a couple days' notice to get them on frag plugs.

- I can also do a frag of the pale green and orange zoas (also radial striping) at any time.

- I can do multiple frags of green star polyps at any time also.

- I could do a small frag of deep pink pocillipora and possibly of a red-orange monti digi as well, but my wife has informed me the monti cap I mentioned previously as a possibility is off limits.

- Turning to non-corals, with a bit of notice I could catch and set aside a few of my numerous stomatella - while they started as hitchhikers they've done well enough to spawn in my tank.

- I could probably spare a couple of hermits as well.

- Finally, I can also spare some live rock (a couple pieces from roughly fist size to perhaps half that) and probably 15-20 pounds of previously live but currently dry base rock - I can't put an island name to it ("Fiji", "Tonga" etc.) but its fairly porous.

 

If you're interested, just let me know when we can do a transfer.

[Donations to Schools]

HAVE SOMETHING YOU'RE LOOKING TO DONATE? Read this:

 

Hi WAMAS members, My name is Leah and I'm a student at Montgomery Blair High School (Silver Spring, MD) in the Marine Biology class. As part of a school project, we're spending the semester setting up a marine reef tank. We've got our main setup, and are already planning to purchase a few fish next week with our own funds, but we're hoping to get donations of "extras" like additional fish and soft coral. Below is our current setup. If there's anything you think you could donate to our group or to the program as a whole, don't hesitate to contact me by email at lmuskinpierret@gmail.com or by phone at 301-585-5277. Here are the Specs:

• 28 gallons
• Temp: ~77 degrees F
• Ph: 8.2
• Salinity: 1.024

Current ecosystem:

• Reef sand (if that counts)
• Live rock (15 pounds-ish.. we could take more but don't need it)
• 7 hermit crabs
• 7 snails
• To be purchased next week: gobi, firefish, clownfish

Hardware Inventory:

• UV light
• Heater w/ internal thermostat
• High Range Ph test kit, dissolved oxygen test kit, hydrometer
• Dissolved Oxygen Pump
• Current pump
• Protein skimmer

What we need:

• Fish - currently plannig on purchasing clownfish, gobi, firefish, but our tank has room for more (we would like docile saltwater fish that will thrive at our specs)
• Soft coral (we'd LOVE donations of this, because its definitely not in our budget)
• Any other small organisms with little environmental impact (ex: decomposers, plants)

Thanks so much for any donations you could provide!