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cowrie

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  2. Bob and I are going up on Friday and staying until Sunday. No one told me I had to shave my legs!!! Someone told me there is a pretty good aquarium in town.... Tamie
  3. We have had a rock full for several years. We squirt some food at them when we are filtering feeding and then walk away for a while. When they open up we can spray the food right at them. We use a long piece of hard tubing with one of those baby snot-sucker balls on the end (can buy at the local drug store). We use a combination of frozen mysis, rotifers, enriched brine, golden pearls, phyto and lovely filter feeder food made at the WAMAS Club get-togethers. Bob and Tamie
  4. About three months ago we picked up a used Pepsi Cola concentrate drum to store tank water at the flowerseller's Frag Fest party in McLean. After washing it out many times it still smells like soda. Since one of the main ingredients of Pepsi is phosphoric acid, which IS hydrogen phosphate, I was wondering if anyone else who got bought one has used it yet, and if there was any problem with algae or cyano blooms? How do you get the smell out of it or more impotantly, any residue of its previous contents? Cowrie
  5. We would like to have all the reflectors. ANYONE OUT THAT WAY COMING TO THE MEETING ON THE 9th THAT CAN BRING THEM?!?! Bob and Tamie
  6. We'll take the reflectors. Pick up at the meeting in August. Bob & Tamie
  7. We PM'd you about the reflectors! Bob and Tamie
  8. This can't be the same tank that just won Tank of the Month, is it?!?! If you did not see it actually spawn, how do you know it is the carpet? Do you need to run carbon? Good save! Bob and Tamie
  9. Bob and Tamie are coming!!!
  10. So, 11am May 7 at Eddi's, right? We can bring our rockfish again. Who is doing the Cyclopeez order? We would love to get some of that, too. Bob and Tamie
  11. Mike, Did you find anyone to split the Cyclopeez with? We are interested in some. Tamie and Bob
  12. We are interested. Can bring whatever is needed (not octopus or squid!). Bob and Tamie
  13. Has anyone heard of a useful way to reuse harvested Halimeda from the tank? We harvested a gallon volume of Halimeda and before we throw it out we were wondering what people do with it's calcium carbonate contents since natural sand is largely made up of Halimeda "skeleton".
  14. Arrow crabs eat them. I have trapped them with home-made traps. Take a small plastic yogurt container with a lid. Cut off the bottom. Silicone a piece of screen forming an inverted cone shape inside, leaving a small opening at the "tip" of the cone for the wworme to crawl in. Make sure that there are a couple of inches between the tip of the cone which is in there and the lid (which will now be the bottom of the container). Take off the lid, put a piece of shrimp in there, put the lid back on and attach fishing line so that you can just lower your container/trap in there. They crawl through the hole at the tip of the screen cone and get the shrimp but they cannot get back out. It is the same idea of the purchased tube that you see at the stores. When youi pull it up you just take the lid off, empty the worms, re-bait the trap and place it back in there. Sound complicated? It is not. You can call me. work:202-673-4693 home:703-276-8316 Tamie
  15. Thanks Glenn and OUsnakebyte. I will take you up on those! Want anything from Miami or Keys? Tamie
  16. Thanks for the last set of books, Rich. Shhhhhh Bob will have a Merry Christmas! Tamie
  17. We are looking for a cigarette lighter powered air pump for transport of animals in the car for a couple of days over the holidays. Bob and Tamie
  18. We use the big trash can with powerheads in it for large water changes but before we had the auto top-off system we used the gallon milk jugs for DI to top off and for kalk. They were easier to carry up and down stairs than the buckets.
  19. We have a HUGE Maroon clown who has started to get "blisters" on both sides of her face below her eyes, along with a bumpy white film on her face--on both sides. She is behaving normally but looks like H-E-double-hockey-sticks. Her mate has no signs of the condition. Any ideas how to diagnosis and treat?
  20. So what if it had copper in it from the past? After bleaching, vinegar scrub and lots of rinsing would that not take care of it? I have always heard the rule "never" but can someone tell me why? What is the science behind this?
  21. We are setting up a refugium in the basement to run both of our upstair's tank through. We purchased the pre-drilled 40 gallon tank from Wally's. As Bob is doing th eplumbing he notes that the silicone on the inside of the tank is a lovely blue color. The tank was painted blue on three sides but we scraped that off. Could this blue color be from a copper treatment? If it is from copper what can be done to rid the residue of copper from the tank? If the sillicone is covered with a new layer of silicone, assuming that it is copper, does copper get in to the glass itself which is not blue? Tamie and Bob
  22. That would be wonderful. Thank you so much. Do you have a favorite recipe? We are supplying snacks, but it is just nice to have some home-made things, too. Bring me the receipt and I can reimburse you.
  23. As I mentioned above, anything home-made. Everyone loves home-made desserts and dips and such.
  24. Thank you guys so much for all the hard work and great donations of home-made food for the Symposium in June. Anyone want to add a splash of home-madeness into this meeting? Just let me know what you would be willing to bring. Anyone who wants to bake brownies or cookies or cupcakes can just bring me the receipt and get reimbursed for the mix! Wow! What a great deal. Tamie
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