AlanM

On desktop browser I typically can upload whatever I want and the forum software resizes them upon upload. I have only very rarely tried to post anything on phone and never one with photos. Maybe the tapatalk interface would work better for image uploads from phone?

For reference, I am on the current firmware of Apex in March 2024. This just happened again today after the time change.

Next meeting in North Bethesda is Colin Foord from Coral Morphologic. The one after that should be Joe.

I'm interested in the fish system and all the work you do with the fish vet doing diagnosis as well.

Man, that is awesome Paul. Showing the family the video.

New donation: 2 issue trial to the new Coral Magazine by Aquatic Media Press! Four chances to win. $20 value each

Bump for more raffle prizes: $50 Gift Certificate for Livestock (2 chances to win!) from Blue Ribbon Koi Thanks Johnny!

Craig, are Phil and Dave still on board for this? It would be in 2 weeks.

Our speaker for this meeting has changed! Joe has a medical emergency that makes him unable to be with us this Saturday, but we will still have a speaker at the meeting. We have been wanting to have Jim Graham @telegraham on WAMAS speak to the club for a while, and he was available to speak to us this Saturday. His bio has been updated in the top post. His topic will be "Backup Power and Disaster Preparedness" which is very relevant to everyone in the club. I'm excited to hear from him and to get lots of great ideas. He's inventive and has fun YouTube and Instagram channels with a bunch of examples of ways to take some of the risk out of your reefkeeping on a budget.

Good grief. This is too bad. I guess it must be velvet, but no outward signs on the fish is really troubling. Maybe someone who knows more about fish disease possibilities can chime in here. I'd think the tang would be first to go, not the others.

Lastly, from Two Little Fishies: 1 VeggieMag Nori Clip 1 AquaStik Epoxy Putty (red) 1 CorAffix Gel $42 value for all three

Also from Two Little Fishies: 1 TLF AlgaEraser 1 Julian's Thing $70 value for both

Donation for the raffle from Two Little Fishies: 2x32oz. C-Balance Two-Part Dosing ($30 Value)

I remember an old WAMAS member, Robert Chu, @chucelli had acropora spawn in his tank at home. He had really big colonies in his 75 and very stable parameters. It was Robert's posts on RC that led me to WAMAS.

Looking great.

This is a bit out of left field, but I'm a fan of making stands out of 3/4" plywood rather than 2x4 or other pre-sized lumber intended for framing. Plywood is more dimensionally stable with less risk of a collapse from racking to the side if there's a sideways force applied to the top accidentally. Yours looks like it will be very solid, but plywood does have the advantage of leaving lots of room in the stand for things if you need it. Here were some build pics of the one I made for my 75g tank at the time showing how the pieces fit together.

wrap a nori sheet around a rock for the big guy?

Tank is going well. I'll try to get some good pictures soon. Posted here because I'm planning a switch from dosing 2-part BRS sodium carbonate and calcium chloride from my Neptune Dos. Instead I'll use the DOS to do kalk through an Avast stirrer. Maybe I'll use the second DOS head for top-off. The kalk will keep the pH up by consuming CO2 in the tank water and will also supply calcium and carbonate ions in equal proportions. This isn't always ideal because alkalinity also gets consumed by things in the tank that aren't coral, so it can cause the calcium to keep increasing if you're dosing kalk mostly for alkalinity. I'll have to keep an eye on it. May end up dosing less kalk if it's making the calcium go way up and keep dosing a little bit of sodium carbonate. Given my small alkalinity consumption it looks like I only need 0.8 liters of concentrated kalkwasser per day. I tend to evaporate a little over 2 liters per day, so I'll still need a separate ATO.

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I plan to update the forum software tonight at 9pm. There will be a very brief outage where you will see a "maintenance" message, but it should be less than 5 min. I will reply to this post when the update is complete.

So many corals to hand out tomorrow! These are just some of them. Please thank our Treasurer, Scott Friedman, at the door for handling all of the corals. He has been processing them for a large part of the day.

Added to the raffle, fragging supplies kit. 4 chances to win; $66 value each Coral Rx Coral Dip 8oz, $18 value Stone Grey AquaStik Epoxy Putty, $14 value 10oz bottle BRS Extra thick Gel super glue, $34 value

Two chances to win: Stingray 10 plug locking frag rack, Slide-loc $30 value

Two chances to win: Aquamaxx mini magnetic frag rack with 9 holes and AquaForest Poly Glue adhesive $43 value