milesmiles902

Clams! 

Deadline:

Feburary 4th

Happy 2018!

Let's start off the new year with a bit of democracy!

Poll closes: Monday January 8th at 12 am.

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Sorry about that. I'll get it done tonight.

Just like re-using aluminum or iron phosphate, it will lose its efficacy.

Although, totally worth a shot.

There are a lot of good aquarium stores in the area. Cuddlefish and Paradise corals are good ones. I am sure there are plenty more up north.

If you can make it down to Wilsonville, All things aquarium.

One of my personal favorites is The Premium Aquarium in Salem.

Happy Birthday!

I am a graduate student in physical chemistry. 

Got a question about chemistry? I might be able to help.

Biology is a different story.

Location?

Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!

Hey everyone, 

Finally came north to visit The Evergreen State College. Here is their facility and the corals donated.

It is located in the basement of Lab I. When I was there, most of this area was storage and a bio-analytical research lab. 

They had multiple cold saltwater tanks with massive creatures from the deep.

They had multiple "touch" pools" for handling creatures.

Their back room had a huge saltwater mixing container and multiple phytoplankton starts.

Huge backroom sumps.

Then their tropical tanks.

The bottom one looked solely like an aiptasia culture for the purpose of studying this model organism. The top was pretty much empty, so I put most of the corals in there. 

It was a cool experience and I'd like to say Thank you to everyone that was involved.

Cheers!

Happy Birthday again! I'm your biggest fan!

Gosh. These are all great pictures.

Keep it up!

Happy Happy Birthday!

Hollllllyyyyy!! Happy Birthday!!!! 27 must feel good.

November - Stylaster

The winner is: Stylaster

Any photo from the family Acanthuridae, i.e. surgeonfishes, tangs and unicronfish.

Deadline:

January 1st

Alrighty everyone! It's that time of the month.

Get those votes in!

Anything is appreciated. If you need me to come up north before December, please let me know. Although, December's meet would be great!

I honestly think anything that is free of bugs. I am going to throw in some montipora, along with some faster growing SPS.

Oh, and that's the thing. Fast growing would probably benefit them.

There are a lot of isolated tanks that they tend to do experiments in. No animals are harmed in the process, but if you imagine a student wants to do 10 trials of different pH's....then they need to grow fast enough to supply the students.

So anything that grows at a good pace and is somewhat hardy. 

Hey everyone,

I went back to the Evergreen State College (my undergraduate) for a visit and they installed a huge 13,000 liter system aquarium system in the basement of the school. One thing I thought they always did well was teach the sciences and this provides a way for the students to both monitor and have a hands-on experience with these living creatures.

http://www.cooperpointjournal.com/2017/04/26/hidden-marine-treasures-evergreen-debuts-new-state-of-the-art-aquarium-facility/

Although, when I visited, they were looking for more variety of corals and it made me think it would be good to ask the club.

Personally, I have some euphyllia, birdsnest, xooanthids, and pavona that I am going to donate. I haven't heard of anything they don't want.

So, please let me know if you have any corals that you would be willing to donate for educational purposes. I'll likely be heading up in December, so no rush. 

Thanks again,

Miles

October - Nanoreefer!

Again, an excellent picture by: Nanoreefer!

We should make a calendar with these photos. They are great.

Show me your Pavonas

Deadline:

December 1st

Get those votes in!

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