AndrewB

Ocean Visions is what I like to use as a plastic film stick on background. It can be removed later but not reapplied since it gets stretched during removal. You would just need to get some new product to reinstall. There is another store locally that sells it... They'll even put it on the tank for you if you have the tank with you.

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Landing tonight: A hundred corals! This is a huge shipment with lots of different pieces coming in... No more than two of any given variety! Also coming in, sea stars, urchins, electric blue hermits... This is in addition to the 150+ corals that we already have in stock including many hobbyist-grown frags. Additional stocklists below... A suggestion for the weekend: Go to the CMAS Spring Seminar in Columbia and enjoy their fantastic event. When you're done there (you'll be out by 5), stop by SCALES on the way home. We're only 15 minutes from APL! Go south on Route 29 to Briggs Chaney Road. Take Briggs Chaney west until it ends on New Hampshire Avenue. Turn right on New Hampshire and right immediately in front of the "Lowest Price" service station. You'll see us at the back of the shopping center. A perfect day of reefin'! Fish in stock, eating, out of quarantine as of Friday Morning: Lunare Wrasse Green Chromis Royal Gramma Longnose Hawkfish Maroon Clownfish Niger Trigger Blue Line Snapper Green Bird Wrasse Orange Toadfish Picasso Trigger Undulated Trigger Green Wolf Eel Blue Devil Clark's Clownfish Red Spot Dottyback Sand Perchlet Whitetail Trigger Clown Trigger Volitans Lionfish Brazilian Seahorse Neon Goby Pixie Hawkfish Cinnamon Clownfish Kole Tang Flame Hawkfish Black Anampses Wrasse Arc Eye Hawkfish Lawnmower Blenny Yellow Tang Pinstripe Anampses Wrasse Purple Firefish Powder Blue Tang Heniochus Koran Angel Bellus Angel Purple Dottyback Longnose Butterfly Tomato Clownfish Powder Brown Tang Thornback Cowfish Spotted Grouper Springer's Damsel Copperband Butterfly Canary Wrasse Blackback Butterfly Yellowtail Damsel Punctatus Butterfly Beaugregory Steene's Dottyback Bluethroat Trigger Ocellaris Clownfish Rainbow Wrasse (Thalassoma) Canary Blenny Watchman Goby Sixline Wrasse Critters & Cleanup: Peppermint Shrimp Cleaner Shrimp Yellow CBS Fire Shrimp Astrea Snail Emerald Crab Tiger Cowrie Camelback Shrimp Green Saron Shrimp Blueleg Hermit Cortez Hermit Zebra Hermit Sally Lightfoot Crab Bumblebee Snail Arrow Crab Tricolor Hermit Pink Feather Duster Green Feather Duster Hawaii Feather Duster Belize Feather Duster CBS Cushion Sea Star Chocolate Chip Sea Star CoCo Worm Scarlet Hermit Mexican Turbo Snail Rock Flower Anemone Strmbus Conch Antler Anemone Bubbletip Anemone Serpent Star Yellow Cucumber Pink Margarita Snail Black Margarite Snail Anemone Shrimp Porcelain Crab PomPom Crab Zanzibar CBS Zebra Turbo Snail Chestnut Turbo Snail Hairy Hermit Anemone Hermit Violet Tube Anemone Sea Hare (Monster size) See you soon!

P.S. We're open on Sunday, 10a - 6p.

Lots of bargain corals! $14.99 - $34.99 - includes mushroom rocks, zoa rocks, leathers (all kinds) and much more! Lots of hermits! Tricolor, Zebra, Cortez, Scarlet and Blue Leg Lots of snails! Astrea, Turbo, Margarita, Zebra Turbo, Chestnut Turbo and Nassarius Lots of shrimps! Cleaner, Peppermint, Fire, Coral Banded (several varieties) and Sexy Lots of critters! Sea Hares, Serpent Stars, Feather Dusters (several varieties) and much more! Lots of fish, newly released from quarantine! Too many Green Chromis, all healthy and eating. Lots of Crocea Clams! $34.99 to $59.99. And much, much more. The weather sucks, might as well come on by this weekend!

A bit of a drive from NoVa but SCALES has ghost shrimp, 12 for a dollar. Much healthier than feeder fish, especially for feeding marine predators.

I hope this is the appropriate forum board for this message... Stocking an aquarium store with quality corals is becoming a challenge. Obvious statement, but perhaps this is useful for those of you who are interested in finding coral species to propagate. Euphyllia species: Hammer, Frogspawn, and Torch corals, have long been among the most popular corals for reef aquaria. They are durable, beautiful, and surprisingly easy to propagate. Among stony corals, they are always among the first stony corals suggested for a beginning hobbyist and indeed few reading this board have not tried keeping any of these species. Unfortunately, because of their high desirability, Euphyllia are also a target for over-collection. At current, their collection is limited to the point where quotas amongst collectors, wholesalers and retailers are enforced. These corals have been targeted for sustainability studies and their collection in certain collection regions like Indonesia are monitored and controlled quite closely. I am not certain but have heard that importation into the European Union of Euphyllia has been banned for several years and would anticipate that in a short number of years they may be excluded from the North American trade as well. I have no idea of the relative success of these protection programs and have to say that if it works, more power to all of those involved to prevent these gorgeous animals from disappearing from the reefs. I also desparately hope that Euphyllia do not disappear from the reef aquarium trade! Since they are so easy to propagate, there is no reason that they should. I kept a beautiful pink and green branching Frogspawn coral that thrived under four regular flouresent tubes, one actinic, one 50/50 and two "plant-grow" tubes from Home Depot. The colony doubled every 3-4 months and I was able to completely cover the rock face in my 55gal aquarium in about 18 months, having started with only 6 polyps. Of course, colony frags also found their way into a number of other aquaria. If I could do this in my byzantine system, imagine the growth you can get in the high-tech systems maintained by WAMAS members! Here's the pitch. Euphyllia are expensive! If you are looking for a way to seed your hobby with a few extra bucks for salt or other equipment and supplies, this is your chance! If you already are keeping colonies of these corals, find room in a propagation system or section of your tank to produce them. If you are not keeping them, find an attractive colony to start. I suggest branching varieties because they are so easy to frag. Any knucklehead (like me) can break or cut a branching skeleton without doing damage to the coral. Pick compelling colors! Vibrant green, pink, gold, white and brown (yes, these are pretty too...) and combinations of all of these can be found in the trade at current. Generally speaking, Euphyllia are not competetive with each other so several varieties can be kept in contact of each other without damage. Decent independent aquarium shops all have some kind of program to purchase stock raised by their customers. I can't speak for others but I give cash for coral frags because I recognize the importance of encouraging captive propagation of corals. I'm sure others stores in the area will work with you as well, particularly if you have compelling stock to sell. Unfortunately I get a lot of people who want to sell me exotic sps frags that simply do not sell as well or as quickly as other corals. Don't get me wrong, I buy the sps too but I can give a lot more money more frequently for corals like Euphyllia because they sell so much faster and for more money. That's the biz. Raise the crazy, rare, unusual and difficult stuff to satisfy your own curiosity. Raise the easy stuff to make some cash and keep stores stocked with corals that can be sold to beginners. Most of you got started seeing reef aquaria in aquarium shops and being a bit intrigued by them. If we (the stores) don't have the stuff to start with, fewer people will get into the hobby. So, if you don't have a Euphyllia colony already, please, PLEASE go find a nice one somewhere and start growing it with the idea of production for the open aquarium market. IF you have friends that are growing them too, check with each other to make sure you're not all growing the same kind. I'll buy your frags (just call me first), and I'm sure many other independent aquarium retailers will too.

Lots of stuff came in this week... First shipment of ORA fish! We have clowns, basslets, reidi seahorses and more, all captive bred. Crocea clams, from $34.99 to $59.99! Leather Corals, from $4.99 frags and up, Zoo colonies, from $4.99 frags and up, Lots of cleanup crew in stock and much, much more... See you soon, Andrew

Do sponsor stores count? If so, add 18,000 gallons, give or take a couple hundred.

Cleanup Crew arrival: Zebra Hermits Tricolor Hermits Halloween Hermits Cortez Hermits Scarlet Hermits Margarita Snails Zebra Turbo Snails Chestnut Turbo Snails Mexican Turbo Snails Pacific Turbo Snails Impact Urchins Tuxedo Urchins Emerald Crabs Sea Hares Feather Dusters (Belize)

Two shipments of corals came in. There's gold in them thar hills! Really good stuff here, most of it cheap. We have frags from $4.99 to $44.99, sps frags starting at $14.99! That's before your club discount... Here's some pics, enjoy. This shelf of frags, only $34.99 each! Ten inches long and eating pellets... Pretty little thing: It's like Christmas! Nice combo piece... Need some color? Anyone for some Reggae? A total eclipse of the.... Zoo? If it ain't purple, it ain't cool. I won't eat your corals! Promise! Twisted: Angelic. What does a Mimic Tang mimic? Couple of nice pieces: And lots and lots and lots more. Critters and cleanup crew came in tonight. Don't pay too much for clams! Croceas starting at $34.99... See y'all soon.