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There is a link to the forums on every page. Not sure what you mean. ???

We are proud to annouce the new WAMAS website (http://www.wamas.org). The new site has been in the works for sometime now. Hope everyone likes it. Comments, questions, suggestions, and concerns can be posted in the general discussion area. -The WAMAS Officers

Nice to see someone actually goes there. Thanks!

I respect Dana's opinion, but I have to disagree. Although our reefs might not come close to a indo-pacific reef at noon during summer, lighting levels on a natural reef vary throughout the day, due to the sun movement and due to cloud cover. Choosing the maximum intensity ever recorded on a reef and then saying our tanks are no where near that is irresponsible IMO. Let's face it folks, we will never be able to bottle the sun, but we have come very far over the last decade. The next step in reef keeping won't be better lights or water movement, it will be live food for our corals. That's really what we are missing. Finally, I highly doubt water movement is more important to coloration than lighting. Dana has already shown that intensity is most important to coloration; not water movement nor color spectrum. Alberto, can you provide links to new Dana's information? -Tom

The coral I got was from the main tank with all the soft corals in it. Not the tank with all the WSI frags in it. From what I have read on the net, freshwater dips seem to be the only cure for flatworms. There are certain fish that eat them, but it seems to be limited to the brown ones, not the red ones. As always, there are nudibranchs that eat them, but they are hard to come by. My acro did not respond well to the freshwater dip. Although I just "blasted" the base with freshwater, rather than actually dipping the coral, the base has started to bleach. I decided to frag the coral rather than risking it. Hopefully some of the frags will make it. I will keep you posted. -Tom

Here are some pictures of the flatworms that are still in the bag. I don't see any on the coral, but being cautious.

The links section on the wamas homepage has a brief list of local stores. The MS has MH lamps, as does The Reef Tank. However, any LFS will be much more money than mail order. -Tom

Are you talking about the 20KK lamps?

Not the acro bugs, flatworms. They look like, and might be, planaria. The piece was purchased at CC last on 10/26/02. -Tom

I got a coral last night at the WAMAS meeting. Once I got home and inspected it, I noticed it has some small red flatworm looking animals on the base. Fearing contamination, I have not put it in my tank yet. Any thoughts on what they might be or how to get rid of them (good or bad I don't want them in my tank). I'll try to snap a picture, but I cleaned many of them off last night with a series of freshwater dips. Any one use that SPS dip I've seen? -Tom

Just that your alkalinity levels will raise or fall over time. If you are monitoring them, the changes will be readily apparent. If you are not, well, you shouldn't using a calcium reactor :D -T

I have a pair from oliver, as does michael. if he comes to the next meeting maybe we can have a sidebar about it. The winter (Jan/03) meeting will likely be on breeding, so that will be a good opportunity to talk again. -Tom

More important than the pH leaving the reactor is the alkalinity and calcium levels in your tank. Keep a close eye on them over the next month. It will take about a week to get things dailed in, then watch your alk. It should be obvious if something is not right (too high or too low). -Tom

I suspect any fish would have problems with eating only one source of food. In any case, brine shrimp should be "fattened" up with selcon and/or vitamins prior to feeding any way. Here's the bangaii article by Frank. http://www.breeders-registry.gen.ca.us/Article....ini.htm -Tom

If you have success, you should write something up that we can post on the web site. Oh, take pictures too! -T

Good news Michael. Maybe mine will be do the same some time soon. Will the babies actually eat golden pearls? I thought they wanted live food. -T

And your still alive :O

I most important thing about an airdriven skimmer is controlling the bubble size and quality of the foam. Using a good airstone and a powerful air pump will give you good bubble size and duration. The biggest problem I found with the design is my neck as too short, so I had a hard time controlling the quality of the foam. I had to throttle the air pump back to get good foam, but that affected the overall efficiency of the skimmer by reducing the number of bubbles. I recommend some of the following 1) Make the neck longer (which is what I did) 2) Make the skimmer taller (36" instead of 30" should work) 3) Make the skimmer wider (4" inner diameter maybe) All of these will give you more contact time and better foam control. You can even add two airstones for more bubble production, but then the skimmer has to be pretty tall to accomodate the extra volume. Finally, the base needs to be much larger to keep the thing from toppling over. I attached a piece of wood to mine, which might not be a bad solution anyway. Just remember there is little science here; just build it and see how it works -T

I'll take a dump of macro if you can spare some

The fall meeting has been schedule for Saturday, Nov 16, 2002. We still don't have a definite from Sanjay, so the topic of the meeting is TBD until we can get further details. We apologize for the delay. WAMAS Fall Meeting ------------------- Date: Saturday, November 16th, 2002 Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm Where: Rockview Elementary School 3901 Denfeld Avenue Kensington, Maryland -The WAMAS Officers

Yes Larry - just small blue legged hermits. My experience has been the same as others - my snails started disappearing once I added some blue legs. Coincidence? 0.02. -T

No offsense taken. We have the latest version of Ikonboard. The pervious version seemed to be better with cross browser support. I highly recommend Opera, if you are willing to send the $30 to get rid of the annoying ad banner. Mozilla seems to work just fine too. And you can always use IE. More and more apps seem to be IE only these days...things would be different if I were king!

Am I to understand there is actually a store in the area that sells SPS corals??? And they actually have some in the store to look at???? What is the world coming to?

I simpathize with you. Due respect, but I'm not slugging through the html for this board so it will work in Netscape. I do have a life :D I highly recommend you bring your issue up with the Ikon folks (www.ikonboard.com). I think it is inexcusable, but lack the motivation to make it better

You personally or me as admin? You can link to an external one right now and I thought I enabled uploads too. I will look in to it. Are all your problems OK? Aside from any NN4.7 problems.