Origami December 21, 2014 Share December 21, 2014 ==> ANNUAL MEETING NOTICE: <<== WAMAS Winter 2015 Meeting - Oakton High School - January 24th, 2015 (Saturday) The Winter Meeting of The Washington Area Marine Aquarist Society (WAMAS) will be on Saturday Jan. 24th, 2015, 1:00-5:00 p.m. at Oakton High School, 2900 Sutton Road, Vienna, VA 22181. Go in through Door 5. Special Guests and Highlights:Speaker: Karen Brittain - Topic: Captive Fish Breeding (Karen, who's in Hawaii, will be joining us by two-way video teleconference) Having been born and raised in Hawaii, Karen Brittain’s interests have always revolved around the ocean and marine life. She graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1983 and found her passion soon after in the captive breeding and rearing of reef fish which she persued in her garage. At that time she was employed as a Reef Tank Diver at Sea Life Park Hawaii and began volunteering at the Waikiki Aquarium in an effort to learn more about her passion. Her aquaculture career began in 1987 with an assistant position at the Waikiki Aquarium working on aquaculture methods for mahimahi, Coryphaena hippurus. For the next sixteen years she moved through different positions within the Aquarium all of which involved the rearing of marine species from food fish to ornamentals including both fish and invertebrates. In 2003 she accepted a position at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology working with the pink snapper “Opakapaka” and she has spent the last year working on a Rising Tide Conservation project focusing on hatchery methods for the purple masked angelfsih, Paracentropyge venusta. Karen is currently rearing marine ornamental fish at home in the garage through her small business Reef Friendly Fishes which was started in 1997. She currently raises several species of clownfish as the bread and butter crop which funds her work with more challenging species such as angelfish and butterflyfish. Over the past couple of years she has successfully raised Genicanthus watanabei, Genicanthus personatus, Paracentropyge venusta and Centropyge acanthops to the juvenile stage and encourages marine aquarium hobbyists to persue captive breeding.Vendors on site: Dr. Mac (Gold Sponsor) Exotic Reef Creations (Gold Sponsor) Pimped Out Aquariums (Premium Sponsor) For further information on the WAMAS Winter Meeting, visit our web site http://www.wamas.org/Agenda1:00 - 2:15 Sign-in / socialize2:15 - 2:45 Club business (including elections for Secretary and Vice President)2:45 - 3:00 Break3:00 - 4:15 Speaker: Karen Brittain4:30 Raffle!Miscellaneous- food & drinks providedWAMAS Members selling/trading (table display)Ben251 coppsSpecial thanks to theses sponsors. Please support them & say thanks next time you shop with them. You can find their website address by visiting their forum or the sponsor page on the WAMAS website.WAMAS Gold Sponsors - Air, Water & Ice- Avast Marine- Blue Ribbon Koi- Dr. Mac's Pacific East Aquaculture- Exotic Reef Creations- Pimped Out Aquariums- Reef eScapeWAMAS Silver Sponsors- Artfully Acrylic & Incredible Corals- Charm City Corals- Cobalt Aquatics- Fins and Feathers- FishnReef.com- LRS Reef Frenzy- The Marine Scene- Petland- Premium Aquatics- Reed Mariculture (Reef Nutrition)- Quantum Reefs- Reed Mariculture - Supreme Reefs* Save your receipts from our sponsors and get raffle prize tickets Raffle Items include:Premium Aquatics Gift Certificates Avast Marine Gift Certificates Rod's Food - from Charm City Corals Reef Frenzy Frozen Food - From LRS Reef Frenzy RO/DI System from Air, Water, Ice Pimped Out Aquarium Sump Reef Crystals and substrate from Petland Tunze 9002 skimmer and Hydor Smart Level ATO from Quantum Reefs Captive Bred Clownfish and Coral Frag Pack from FishnReef.com Corals (and a clam!) from Dr. Mac's Pacific East Aquaculture 3-polyp Green Speckled Mushrrom from Supreme Reefs $200 Zoanthid Pack from Supreme Reefs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami January 10, 2015 Author Share January 10, 2015 Updated raffle items. More to come. Also, Karen, who is in Hawaii, will be joining us via a two-way video conference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott711 January 21, 2015 Share January 21, 2015 Updated raffle items. Jeff from Pimped Out Aquariums will be in attendance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami January 22, 2015 Author Share January 22, 2015 Updated raffle items with a Tunze 9002 skimmer and a Hydor Hydrofill ATO, both from Quantum Reefs in Springfield! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 January 22, 2015 Share January 22, 2015 From FishnReef.com Frag Pack Clownfish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami January 23, 2015 Author Share January 23, 2015 INCLEMENT WEATHER NOTICE: Our meeting is ON as scheduled unless Fairfax County Public Schools cancels Saturday events in their facilities. Should this occur, we'll reschedule for a later date. FCPS will often make their announcement through local media and through their website at http://www.fcps.edu. If a closing announcement is made by FCPS, we'll try to relay it here. Come on out if you're able. We'll have a great meeting and give away some great raffle prizes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami January 24, 2015 Author Share January 24, 2015 As of 6:45 AM, FCPS is still OPEN and the Annual Meeting is still ON. Doors open to the membership at 1:00 PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami January 24, 2015 Author Share January 24, 2015 Stocked to the gills with raffle items for the meeting. Latest count: Over 45 chances to win! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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