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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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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

Next up on raffle: Aqua Gadget Reef Rack 102 Expandable Frag Rack, Holds up to 102 frag plugs (small ones) on 5 tiers. $40 value, one chance to win

Added to the raffle: BRS Standard Coral Propagation Kit with Glue Four chances to Win! $35 value

Added to the raffle 1 Frag seller setup! We will use this setup on the frag tank we use to maintain the giveaway frags before we hand them out to members and will include it in the raffle at the end. It includes: 1 Maxspect Jump 30W LED 1 Eheim Jager heater, 100W 1 Maxi-Jet 600 Powerhead Retail on all of them is around $175. Add a 20 gallon tank and you're in business to sell frags at a meeting!

New to the auction for Saturday. Indo Gold Torch $200 value 1 chance to win

New to the auction for Saturday. Black Widow Bubble Tip Anemone. $200 value 1 chance to win

If members want to come to set up a tank and sell frags please PM me so we can be sure there are enough tables. We usually have plenty of room at North Bethesda.

Discussion and volunteer thread here:

Just a quick bump for FragFest in two weeks at North Bethesda Middle School. I've updated the speaker bio here. Dr Mitchelmore has spoken to SMMAS in the past but never to WAMAS, and she is full of information on coral biology and environmental threats. The question and answer time should be great! We are also arranging raffle prizes now and will have more details about them soon. I'll start another thread for FragFest discussion for questions and answers since this forum doesn't allow followup posts. We've had a lot of feedback over the last couple of years that the frags we slice and give out don't do that well in member tanks, so we are trying something a bit different this year to try to avoid extra coral morbidity. It may be a lot of fun, or it may be chaos. Come to find out! We will bring in lots of commercially pre-mounted frags. All members who attend the meeting will get a ticket for a free frag. You can get more tickets for frag donations, up to 2 additional tickets. Frag donations are limited to hard corals or zoanthids. No palythoas or other soft corals. Donations must be at least 1 inch in size. We will need a few people to volunteer to bring 5 gallons of pre-mixed saltwater at around 35ppt salinity. You'll get the bucket or jug back after the event. We will also need a couple of volunteers to help hand out frags.

Raffle is up at https://go.rallyup.com/marcna/Campaign/Details

Like many of us, our speaker from our last WAMAS meeting, Marc Levenson, was disappointed this year that MACNA was cancelled. Ever the inventor and DIY reefer, he decided to invent a single-day, 24-hour, completely-online alternative which he is calling MARCNA! He got some sponsors to donate raffle prizes, and lined up lots of great speakers who we have heard at WAMAS meetings and at MACNA events in the past. 24 speakers over 24 hours, one speaker per hour, all free, all live-streamed on his YouTube channel starting at 9am Central time Saturday. He's running it as a fundraiser for the Coral Restoration Foundation, CRF. There is a raffle, as mentioned, and raffle prize proceeds will be donated to CRF, who WAMAS has also supported in the past. WAMAS is giving a little bit of help with the raffle, but I encourage everyone to support the event by tuning in to the stream throughout the day and getting raffle tickets during the event! Marc's site for the event gives a full list of speakers and schedule.

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Really good deal for a really nice tank. Good luck with the sale.