Mitch Carls presentation.

Laura and Jim will be hosting the May meeting this Saturday the 12th and it will be the usual of food, drinks, raffle and fun.
 
Doors will be open at 6:00 pm for social talk and the meeting will start at 7:00.  Parking gets a little tight and the city says you can't park on 4th but there is a parking lot a block away.   Meeting is usually held in the backyard so feel free to bring your favorite lawn chair, weather permitting of course.

If you need address/directions, contact a club member.

Best if you park at Mini Mall (where the spaghetti establishment use to be)
 
You will get to see his new frag tank set up in the making.
 
Hope to see you there!

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[Ed]

I wanted to share the very informative Talk from Mitch Carl.   The topic went on from barrel bugs, to nudibraches, crabs, fish, red bugs,  and ways to prevent them or rid your tank of infestations.

Nudibraches being flatworms, Acro eating flatworms, a nudi that resembles Xenia and eats xenia, A nudi that eats soft corals.

crabs like the leather crab, etc.
We witnessed the partnership of corals and mithrax crabs.  The coral was being overtaken by algae.   The mithrax crab prevented this when it housed in coral. 

all fish can possibly eat coral.

The use of a six line wrasse and other wrasse, dragonets like the scooter and mandarin to slow down the population of flatworms.

It is always important to quarantine. 
A treatment for Red bugs, AEFW  should be repeated for 5 weeks.

 We witnessed methods of treating for flatworms in Large Zoo Aquariums.   

I want to say this was one of the most informative meetings I have witnessed.   Now with all the infestations, animals coming in, We  need to be prepared and learn how to prevent losses.   The ocean has its own predators for bugs.    Predators introduced into aquariums do not have threats like in the wild.  Our aquariums are ideal breeding grounds for infestations.

[sirfisher]

Ed, this may be something that you can share into further detail at the meeting you will be hosting.  What do you think?  I think this is a great topic.  Thanks for sharing.

[Ed]

I need to learn the exact perscribed dose of interceptor pill and Lamisil before I run my mouth anymore.   Maybe Mitch will share it will me.   
Mitches Sister lives in Basin City.   Maybe we will get lucky and he will visit us sometime.   It was awesome to learn from someone wth  such expertise in this field.   We often overlook the contaminates in our reef tanks.

[Nate C.]

Colleen was reading your post on RF about this talk too...sounds like it would have been a good one!  Would love to get more info from you or him on this stuff in the future.