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25th Annual Carolina Aquarium Workshop - March 6-8, 2009
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You will not want to miss this. In addition to our great speakers, we have all kinds of fun activities including fragging demonstrations and frag trades. Please make plans to attend.
Friday, March 6th, 2009
12:30 p.m. - Native Fish Collecting trip - Meet at NCSU Centennial Campus, Engineering Bldg 1 in the lobby area (Note: you will need to get a $2 parking permit at the guard booth for Friday only) and return by 5:30 p.m.. Equipment provided, but bring dry clothes, boots/ waders, buckets, and dipnets if you have them. Contact Gerald Pottern at Gbpottern@yahoo.com or (919) 556-8845 to sign up and for further information.
6:30 p.m. - Workshop Registration opens
7:00 p.m. - Diana Walstad - Planted Tank Demo - Room 1
Carmalee Scarpetti - Frag Demo and Frag Swap - Room 2
8:00 p.m. - Gerald Pottern - How to Make Your Own Filters and Improve Old
Filters with Poret Foam
Saturday, March 7th, 2009
8:30 a.m. - Registration opens
9:00 a.m. - TBD
10:00 a.m. - Marc Levenson - Pests in the Aquarium
11:00 a.m. - Charlie Grimes - Diving in Quatro Cinegas with Ad Konings
12:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00 p.m. - Ray Lucas - Kids in the Aquarium Hobby
2:00 p.m. - Chris Jury - Ocean Acidification
3:00 p.m. - Eric Bodrock - Cory Breeding Made Easy
4:00 p.m. - Tony Terceira - Killifish: Scriptaphyosemion. Archiaphyosemion
and Callopanchax
5:00 p.m. - Break
6:00 p.m. - Dinner - Speaker - Charlie Grimes - Dead Fish Talk
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
9:00 a.m. – Auction Registration begins– (Sellers and Buyers may register at any time during the auction.)
11:00 a.m. – Auction begins.
For additional information and registration forms, please visit www.raleighaquariumsociety.org
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Frag Swap - March 7, 2009
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MARS Fragswap 5.0 - Madison, Wisconsin Frags, Raffles, Fun!!!
The Madison Area Reef Society (MARS) cordially invites you to take part in it's annual aquarium coral frag swap. All hobbyists new and old are invited to come trade/swap/sell or just browse a huge variety of hundreds of captive propagated corals from all over the Midwest. Drygoods and used equipment for sale or trade are welcome too. And for the first time in its history, ADMISSION IS *FREE* and free soft drinks will be provided!!! We will also hold several raffle drawings for corals, gift certificates and drygoods throughout the day.
Saturday, February 7th, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. at the City of Middleton Main Fire Station, 7600 University Avenue, Middleton, WI
And yes, we have a snow date. Sunday February 8th in case we get hit with a big one again.
For further information, please refer to: http://www.madisonreef.com
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Frag Swap - March 14, 2009
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The Connecticut Area Reef Society Presents
Frag Farmer ‘09
Time & Location
Saturday March 14, 2009 - Noon until 4:00 p.m.
E.O. Smith High School
1235 Storrs Road
Mansfield, CT 06268
This will be the largest Frag Swap in the Northeast
Admission is free to attend and we invite all hobbyists, industry professionals and local retailers to come on down.
If you would like to set up a tank for coral sales (or anything else tank raised), go to www.ctars.org
All proceeds go to the E.O. Smith High School Aquaculture Program
For more information, visit http://www.ctars.org/ |
TMAC - March 21, 2009
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Texas Marine Aquarists Conference will be at the New San Marcos Convention Center directly next to the Tanger and Prime Outlet Malls on Saturday the 21st of March. We are proud to announce that Anthony Calfo will be the Key Note speaker. There will also be a Fragging Demo by Anthony which you will not want to miss. We have the following Vendors with more in the works.
Embassy Suites San Marcos - Hotel, Spa & Conference Center
1001 E. McCarty Lane, San Marcos, Texas, 78666
Tel: 1-512-392-6450 Fax: 1-512-392-6451
9:00 a..m. to 6:00 p.m.
Vendors
DT's
Red Sea
Reef Nutrition
Tunze
Precision Marine
Deep Sea Aquatics
Omega One
Seachem
Hikari |
Coral Vendors
Zoafrags
Fish2morow
Frank's Tanks
Wetthumb Frags (possible)
B&B Aquatics
CherryCorals |
We will conclude with a large raffle!
The cost to attend the conference is $25 (prepaid) or $30 at the door.
Email treasurer@maast.org to pay online.
For the latest information, visit this thread on www.maast.org |
Midwest Marine Conference - March 14, 2009
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11th Annual Midwest Marine Conference
Saturday, March 14, 2009 starting at 9:00 a.m.
Cranbrook Institute of Science
39221 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
For more information and to register, visit http://www.masm.org/Events/Event.aspx?ID=58 |
Guest Speaker - March 21, 2009
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RASOC (Reef Aquarium Society of Charlotte) is proud to host Richard Harker. Mr. Harker will be presenting on "What the natural reef teaches us." There will definitely be plenty of diving slides and a great time to be had by all. Richard Harker is well-known and duly respected in the hobby having been one of the first people to successfully keep SPS corals in a reef tank. He currently has a 2000-gallon system with 100 square feet of SPS corals. Please be sure to come to our meeting this March.
For more information visit www.rasoc.org |
NERAC IV - March 21, 2009
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The Long Island Reef Association is holding NERAC IV on Saturday March 21st. It's a day long conference with an optional evening banquet. We have several excellent speakers:
Dr. Yehuda Benyahu - Dendronepthya Corals.
Dr. James Cervino - Coral thermal bleaching and diseases, the links between global warming and pollution.
Todd Gardner - Getting cultured: A guide to growing your own plankton.
In addition to the speakers, we also have several vendors that will be present. When it comes to venues for an aquarium conference, this one can not be beat: Atlantis Marine World. If you stay for the banquet, you not only get to eat some of the finest food to be had at such an event (it's actually good food  ), but you get to eat in front of a well matured 20,000 gallon reef tank.
The top raffle prize is a chance to snorkel in the 20,000 gallon reef tank.
Sign up now: http://www.longislandreef.org/NERAC4.html |
Frag Swap - March 21, 2009
MAX - April 3-5, 2009
Frag Swap - April 4, 2009
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All Ohio Frag Swap
Saturday April 4th, 2009 from 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Skyview Lodge
336 Pearl Rd.
Brunswick,Oh 44212
www.skyviewlodge.net
Directions and more information on our website www.c-sea.org. |
Frag Swap - April 18, 2009
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The 4th Annual GRMAS Frag Swap will be April 18th, 2009.
Calvin Elementary School
601 36th St Sw
Wyoming, MI 49509
We will be meeting in the gym from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
All other items will be very similar as before, including the largest raffle in Michigan with many thousands of dollars in give-always. We have had 200-300 in attendance at our past swaps.
This year we have a bigger venue and plan to have many more sellers. As of now tables are filling fast. Full tables are $15. Admission is $5 per person and $8 for families. You can arrive as early as 10:00 a.m. to set up before it begins.
For more information, send a PM to Dejavu on Reef Central. |
Frag Swap - April 18, 2009
Marine Aquarium Conference - April 19, 2009
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The Connecticut Area Reef Society Presents
2009 Marine Aquarium Conference
Time & Location
Sunday April 19, 2009
Mohegan Sun Casino
1 Mohegan Sun Blvd
Uncasville, CT 06382
There will be lectures, vendors, raffle and an auction
Featured Speakers:
Steven Pro
Christine Williams
And an Afternoon with
Anthony Calfo
To purchase tickets or find out how you can be a vendor, go to http://www.ctars.org/ |
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Bob Fenner - Selecting Livestock for your System
