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Hey Everyone! I'd like to announce our plans to have a Friday Night Party here at Fins and Feathers. We are planning for Friday May 11, 2007 from 7pm to 9pm. We will be closing the store to other customers to focus on WAMAS members. We will be serving food and refreshments (beer and wine will be served). Planned Give Aways Include: Oceanic Bio-Cube 8 Gallon Nano Blue Life Precision Kalk Wasser (1800 Grams) PA Media Reator Canisters Tons of Corals Frags Crocea Clams Acro Colonies Crystal Sea Bio-Assay 160 gallon Box $25.99....amazing salt I am bringing in some special livestock at amazing prices....stay tuned. Please send me a pm if you are interested in attending. I'd like to plan accordingly. I will also try to accomidate special livestock needs. If there is something that you desire, let me know I can find it for you at the price that you want to pay! I hope to have a great turnout.. I'd like to have a at least one party a month! Sean-2

Hi Folks, We received and early week shipment that includes alot of nice corals: Acan Lords....Green, Green and Blue, Green and Red....Some small branching pieces and some giantic colonies! Red Blastomussa Wellsi Colony...20+ heads....should I frag it? Pink and Green Chalice Coral Tons of Ultra Blue Mushrooms Lots of Electric Green Mushrooms Nice Elegance Coral Electric Green Star Polyps Some Really Nice Combo Rocks with....Star Polyps, Different Species of Mushrooms and Ricordea and Zooanthids. Two Amazing Open Brains....Really Green I have some really nice Superman Monti's Left $19.99 a frag. I have one Rainbow Montipora Left.....Really Nice Coral I have two Deep Blue Acropora Left Acan Lord Frags $23.99 Rainbow Acan Echinata Frags $19.99 Ultra Blue Crocea Clams $39.99 to $43.99 Dont forget your Wamas Card for an Extra 10% savings on our incredibly low prices!!!! More arrivals later this week!

In my experience that type of algae has grown in tanks/systems that lacked in aeration and alkalinity...the cause of that would be slow tank turnover and quite possibly an accumulation of acids particularly carbonic acid. Ive seen it grow in tanks that essentially were on the softer side of ideal mineral levels. I might recommend increasingflow through the displayso that your skimmer passes more water more often. I've never really been a fan of ph meters....a good Test kit like Hach or lamotte is best IMO. Just my two cents.

Hi All, Some interesting fish moved from our quarantine system are ready to sell this week: Bangaii Cardinals Candy Hogfish Geometric Pygmy Hawkfish Suluwesi Saddle Clowns Chalk Bass Sohal Tangs Naso Tangs ($40.00 to a person that has a 150+ gallon aquarium...Larger Size) Midas Blenny Flame Angel Coral Beauty Tank Raised Tomato Clown Tank Raised false Percs Yellow Tangs Acan lord frags $23.99, 10 frags remaining Rainbow Acan Echinata frags $19.99, 6 remaining Superman Monti Frags $24.99 Fins and Feathers Limited Edition "Teenage Mutant Ninja Coral" Palys $18.99...5 remaining. Sean himself drove to the island of Jakarta and collected these beauties. For you LPS lovers we still have quite a few really nice: Red Lobo Brains Purple and Red Striped Lobo's Rainbow Scoly's Favias Neon Green Bubble Corals Zooanthids Freaks will find: Very colorful cherry picked pieces. Blues Purples Lavenders Reds Greens Zoo Frag pack 3 for $39.99 I still have some really nice Acro frags and Colonies. Crocea Clams $39.99 to $43.99 I will be receiving a HUGE shipment of corals and fish on Monday. stay tuned for more info. Cheers.... F&F

what is the kH and pH? sean

Awesome!! glad to hear he acclimated so well! Sean

Hello Everyone, Alot is going on here at Fins and Feathers. We have just set up a new display, our coral lookdown tanks have undergone some much improved renovations and our pricing plans have continued to drop. We have some great specials/steals of the week Acan Lord Frags $23.99, 7 to 10 polyps per frag Acan Echinata (Raindow) $19.99 Dejardini Tang $36.99 Powder Grey Tang $73.99 This week our new arrivals include (coming in Friday) Blue Jaw Triggers Sulawessi Saddle Clowns Candy Hogfish Majestic Angels Bangaii Cardinals Blue stripped pipefish Fire Clowns Maroon Clowns Yellow Tangs Chalk Bass Midas Blennys Geometric Pygmy Hawkfish Powder Grey Tang Margarita Snails Blue Legged Crabs Mexican Red Legged Crabs Trochus Snails We are now carrying Crystal Sea Marine Mix, Bio-Assay Formula. We contribute this wonderful salt as part of our coral keeping success. If anyone is interested we are selling 150 gallon boxes for $29.99. This salt was rated #1 by many of the top marine biologist. It is an amazing salt and I am willing to pass the sales onto wamas members without the group buy hassles. We still have tons of very colorful SPS colonies and frags. With yor WAMAS discount you can get 5 sps frags for about $45.00... I have the areas most colorful zoo's. Come in for the most popular coral in the hobby. Why pay $5 to $15 dollars a polyp for "designer zoo's" online.... most of my frag colonies are $19.99 or 3 for $39.99. Thats about $35.00 with your wamas discount. Have a great weekend...come by and see us.

Thanks again for the nods guys...you know we'll always be here to offer the best customer service in NOVA. P.S.- As per the recomendation of the other Sean aka mini-me (ha) we are reducing our prices on Saltwater livestock and dry goods across the Board to BETTER serve our existing customers and lure in some new faces as well. Thanks Sean

Lee's specimen containers work well....we sell them. Sean

Hi all Thanks to the huge succes of our Weekend sale as well as our frag pack sales, we are able to bring in several boxes of large to show size acro and other SPS colonies. The species included, but not limited to, in this shipment are: Acropora...... Plana, Valida, Gomezi, Suharsonoi, caroliniana, humilis, millepora, tenuis, Formosa and many many more!!! I will receive several colored montiporas arriving including caps, supermans, and blue w/ green polyp monti's!!! I expect another maxima shipment from tonga along with A few wild acropora colonies. Also expected in that shipment are ric's, bullseyes and bright bright colored rhodactis. THE ZOOANTHID FRAGS ARE STILL PLENTIFUL AND ARE A STEAL AT 3 for $39.99!!!!! Some of the Electric blue croceas and just a few of the Snakeskin Croceas are still available. !!!!!An important note for our website!!!!! Please check before your visit to see current specials or sales. we will be running one day sales and promos through our site. -Sean Gallagher Fins and Feathers

Todd is a pretty awesome bassist too!

This Weeks Arrivals Include: We received an amazing assortment of Crocea Clams. The clams are wild caught from the Vietnam area. Many have interesting markings. Amongst the more common colors of greens and blue we have some gold and red. The gold and red have an interesting pattern that resembles the skin of a rattlesnake. These clams are some of the nicest that I have seen in a long while. They range in size from 3

Fins and Feathers Weekend Sale for Friday March 23rd to Sunday March 25th Tonga Kaelini Live Rock $5.19 a pound, that

This week we have quite a good selection of corals, fish and inverts. As far as inverts: I just received a huge shipment of Blue Legged Crabs Scarlett Reef Crabs Nassarius Snails Peppermint Shrimp Orange Pistol Shrimp It would be a great time to stock up on your cleaning crew! I have a few really nice Pom Pom Boxing crabs left also. Corals: Some of the cherry picked pieces include: A Red, Green and Orange Branching Lobo Rainbow Discoma Bright Green Encrusting Montipora Two Incredible Elegance Corals....Healthiest I've ever seen! A Huge ....almost a foot across Green Favia Brain! A 7 inch Giant Clam (Gigas)...It's Blue, Green and Gold Tonga Bullseye Mushrooms, Purple Green and Orange. A great find for the softy lover! I also have a great selection of Acro Frags and Colonies in our look down tanks. A few monties, porities, millies and pocillies are sprinkled in the mix. I just added over 50 zooanthid frags yesterday, not to mention a few torches, acan echinata, meat corals, lobo's and favia's. Fish: Niger Trigger Green Chromis Bangaii Cardinal Yashia Gobies Wheelers Gobies Yellow Watchmans Gobies Naso Tangs Anthias Fairy Wrasses False Percs Tomato Clowns .....too many to mention them all! I have two really nice mated pairs of clownfish. False Perculas Orange Skunks Due to an overwhealming amount of support from the WAMAS organization I have decided not to disassociate my store from the club. My interaction on this forum will be limited, I will not doing any business via PM's . I will still offer great customer service and a discount to club members with a WAMAS card. I hope to see everyone soon. Expect a huge shipment of fish and corals next week. Look out for Acro Colonies, zooanthis, acans, blastos and more! Thanks, Sean Fins and Feathers

Im planning on building a few after christmas, I can make a supplies list and post it here....youd be more than welcome to come to the shop and build yours when I am building mine. Sean

the only to tanks (systems I dont run UV on are my grow out and/or coral only tanks. A must have for systrems more then sparsely stocked with fish. Sean

hey chris, sorry i left early today, been feelin cruddy, I think Charlie brought the sickness to F&F. I Will get another ballast in for you. They will ship one out and only charge if they decide after examining the ballast that there was any neglect. if not, then youull not be charged. Sean PS if you have any ?'s PM me for my number, I left yours at the store.

powder blue tangs purple tile fish carpenters flasher wrasses six line wrasses twin spot gobies green clown gobies wheeler's shrimp gobies male and female square spot anthias red stripe tile fish midnight angel (nox) copperbanded butterflies juv koran angel indo sailfin tangs bicolor angels dispar anthias chocolate mimic tangs fire gobies PJ cardinals foxface hutchii anthias coral beauty lyre tail anthias blue gudgeon gobies tuka anthias Spot cheek tang inverts: aplysia lettuce nudi's skunk cleaners mex. tyurbos large nassarius snails Lots of zoos and paly's lots of Rics-FL and yuma On tuesday some nice blastos and micro mussas and more blue zoos!!!!!! Sean

if your curious about an intestinal parasite, only get curious if the animals health is questionable, other wise assume hes a fartarss. A dip or more like short term immersion in trichlorfan will literally send the worms shooting out of the fishes anus. I have also experimented with wormwood, 3x droncit(praziquantel) short term baths, and fresh water w/ formalin. the prazi (dronict) and the organophosphate dylox or trichlorfan work well. Unforunately there is not many ways to detect the lil buggers unless the fish is showing strong symptoms. If im not mistaken most ist. parasites are digenean, meaning that they need an intermediary host (snails) for the larval stage to develop in a swimmin adult. Best way to tell the difference between fat fish and fat worms would be to abserve the fish....I typically have seen that fish who have endoparasites tend to stay bloated. Watch for blood or worms coming from the fishes anus. Other than that keep him fat. Sean

Thanks Rudy, we will always try our best to offer the bst quality and service possible. mikki-- bad bad bad mikki!!!! pssst.....bring guinness Sean

if it is not underwater id use a plastic hose clamp, or a good ole fashioned metal clamp around some teflon on top of male threaded fittings. if the fitting is barbed a clamp without teflon wil do. is it pressure, or drain side? Sean PS web man!!!

I have just started maintaining a 120 reef tank at pharmacy in the area that has an in house compuonding lab, they have assured me that if it doesnt violate dispension laws, that i can get whatever I want. I will ask them about it on friday. Sean

well for the nematodes, youd have to administer orally one of the -zine meds( i.e. piperazine). for trematodes, digenean, prazi immersion can be effective if done for 3-4 weeks. any organophosphate derived compuond should do the trick. Just thought of something doug, the USDA has a lab office in Warrenton. you can drop fecal off there where they can examine it with better equipment and knowledge than I have. they only charge 15- 30 bucks as well for fecal stains. You could always dip the fish in wormwood tea, might have a psychadelic response but just an idea. Sean

Just a stab, but can you try and collect feces from the fish, if its an internal nematode not much you can do. if its a trematode, it can be treated quite effectively. LMK if I can help. Sean