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    Who are you?

    in General Discussion

    Hi my name is Rafael, everyone calls me Raf, this what I look like... Nice to meet you.

     

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    What do you look like?

     

    NOTE: The purpose of the thread is for people to see the faces of other members and when you go to a meeting they look familiar, not to mention if you see them on the streets you can easily recognize the members of your club!

    Project Aware

    in Conservation & Sustainability

    WAMAS Senior Leadership should look into this:

     

    PROJECT AWARE FOUNDATION

    GRANT PROGRAM

     

    INFORMATION AND GUIDELINES

     

    About Us

     

    The Project AWARE Foundation, established in 1992, is the dive industry's leading non-profit organization committed to conserving the underwater environments through education, advocacy and action. Grant program funding is made possible by direct contributions from divers and water enthusiasts and operates on a quarterly funding cycle.

     

    Project AWARE Foundation provides grants to a variety of nonprofit organizations, institutions and individuals involved in activities directly related to the conservation of underwater environments - both marine and freshwater. We work to accomplish our mission through support of programs in selected focus areas including:

     

    Coral reef conservation

    Shark protection

    Sustainable fisheries

    Ecotourism (as related to underwater environments)

    Aquatic education with a special interest in children

    Direct activities to conserve underwater resources such as shoreline and underwater cleanups, mooring buoy installations and maintenance.

    Within these focus areas, projects may include:

     

    Public education (formal and informal)

    Grass roots conservation and enhancement projects

    Environmentally focused research that leads to conservation measures

    Public awareness initiatives

    Environmental assessment and monitoring projects

    Volunteer-support community activism

    We do not fund:

     

    Legislative advocacy to influence policy; political campaigns

    Projects whose methods are not environmentally accepted

    Overhead expenses including salaries, stipends, benefits or tuition

    Capital expenses including computer hardware/software or office furnishings

    Travel and living expenses

    Dive equipment or instruction

    Products designed for resale

    Funding Limitations

     

    Funding requests will be accepted up to a maximum of US $10,000, AU $2,500 or UK

    The Living Seas

    in General Discussion

    So I was at Epcot yesterday and of course HAD to go by the Living Seas. Not too shabby. I was hoping there'd be more reef stuff, but at least there was some. What I loved the most was that they had a researcher there doing... something -- behind an array of small tanks filled with tank-raised fish, and a pair of coral propagation tanks complete with reef plugs and eggcrate. They even had a sign talking about coral propagation and it's importance. That was fantastic.

     

    We also had dinner at the Coral Reef ... which didn't have much in the way of reefyness, but we were sitting directly adjacent to the 57-million gallon tank complete with (the ever popular) lookdown fish, grouper, a few triggers, sharks, stingrays, and at least one very large sea turtle. ... and a bunch of divers :)

     

    Those of you who travel with children -- and really, even if you don't, check out Turtle Talk. My 2 year old AND my 11 month old were transfixed.

     

    I have been going to Disney for the past 6 years and every single year we have dinner at the Coral Reef and of course spend almost a day hanging out at the Living Seas. Highly recommended.

    Finally Decided to Register and Post!

    in General Discussion

    nice collection of zoanthids!

     

    Well those are the survivors om 24G genocide, all the bad *** ones prettu much died and the ones that survived have lost come of the color, hopefully I can re aquascape soon and put them back on top, I'm always willing to trade once they are ready for fragging. I don't the conditions on the new tank, but on the old tank zoas used to spread like an out-of-control wildfire.

    So I finally joined....

    in General Discussion

    I finally joined Wamas. Paid via paypal on 3/25. Recieved my card. I wanted to introduce myself and post some pics of my reef ..so I applied for a password for the gallery. I never received a reply. I reapplied, SEVEN times. I still can't post pics to the gallery. Can anyone help me get a password so I can post some pics?

     

     

    loco que paso? Bienvenido, I started posting about 2 days ago myself so I'm still a little wet behind the ears. Cheers M8

    Finally Decided to Register and Post!

    in General Discussion

    hey raf that was me with the big tank and the t5. i should get them on wednesday. glad to see you finally joined the board!!

     

    jacob. "mierda"..... come on man!

     

    i speak McSpanish!!

     

     

    GaryL that's right dude, it is you...

     

    I went with 6X39W T5's with the option of adding 2 more in the future for 8, I should receive them by next thursday.

    Finally Decided to Register and Post!

    in General Discussion

    Rafa

    Colegio? UPI? o Poly?

     

    esta bueno eso del Commander Anti Tang, Boricua Division, me rei con gusto al leerlo.

     

    and by the way

     

    we, ie parle France

    yo parlo Italiano

    io falo Portuguess

    Ia gavaritz Parusski (Russian)

    y mierda como los cubanos

     

    CJ, comenze en el RUM y termine Army, ahora trabajo para DOD. The Secret Operative and Commander of the Anti Tang Police, Boricua Division came out of Nano-Reef.com to which I was a regular and there is the ongoing JEDI Battle of the people with tangs on their Nano's and the advocates of having tangs on your Nano is cruelty even if they are baby 1-2" tangs and you fully understand that it needs to move out to a bigger home when it reach a bigger size, go figure, darn hippies...

     

    Language barrier wasn't brag but more to make people feel welcome if the wanted to conversate on another language, I'm trying to learn ALIEN now!

     

    Antonio

    No need to be sorry. We all strugle with english, even those living here for centuries. You can express yourself and if someone dosen't understand either they ask or.... como decimos nosotros, "que se joda". :D

     

    Same thing I told him, al que no le guste que se vaya 'pal Karajo! o menos vulgarmente "que cojan el monte y que no sean soba mangueras o pellisca

    Finally Decided to Register and Post!

    in General Discussion

    hi Rafael i think you speack spanish too.

     

    si es asi bueno pues bienvenido a Wamas yo tenog un 65 galones que pronto convertire en un 90 o 120 dependiendo que encuentre primero... quizas tenga algunos corales para donarte si te interesa. un arbol verde fluorescente, algo de kenya tree no se mirare que mas puedo fragmentar... yo vivo en gaithersburg. cerca de rio.

     

    Por cierto tengo un amigo al que contagie de la epidemia de los acuarios de arrecife, (con un poco mas de dinero en el banco que yo) y que se acaba de comprar dos tanques inmensos llenos de piedra peces y corales, los vamos a trasladar uno el sabado y el otro el domingo, uno de 150 galones y otro de 135, muchos corales y cosas saldran de alli para mi tanque jajajaja y ya veremos que puedo compartirte...

     

    bueno sin mas carreta... espero que puedas entender mi mensaje ( me he encontrado con muchas personas aqui con nombres hispanos qu eno hablan ni una palabra en espanol. asi que espero que este no sea tu caso...)

     

    bye

     

    Antonio

     

    Antonio si hablo espa

    Live rock and DSB for sale Frederick MD

    in General Discussion

    hello everyone,

     

    I just broke down my 180gal, and am putting it away until i finish college. Only 1 year left! Anyways.. as of now i'm not selling any of the "hardware" (this may change). But I do have atleast 150lbs of fiji live rock setting in rubbermaid tubs (originally purchased through premiumaquatics.com a couple of years ago, for sale right now. I also have my DSB, enouph to give a 6ft x 2.5 area a good 4-6in bed. I'm am hoping to sell all the rock at once. Email me or give me a call anyime 2404224139 I am in frederick MD, and am planning on weighing out all the rock to find out the total weight I do have.

     

    Thanks Chris

     

     

    Chris if you decide to part out some LR and you offer a good price I will be interested in about 30lbs.

     

    Thanks, Raf

    Finally Decided to Register and Post!

    in General Discussion

    Hi, I am Rafael, everyone calls me Raf, I'm located in Rockville, MD and work in NOVA. I have attended couple of WAMAS meetings and met some interesting, encouraging and knowledgeable people (Bob, Charlie97L, dude you know who you are T5 plans big tank - sorry but I forgot your name) Anyways, quick background had a whooping 24G NC and it cracked, well sad that it broke but it gave me a chance to pick up a brand new 46G AGA BF for 96.00; bad part is that I can be a compulsive spender (always want the best of every hobby I'm involved) so I once a month I have a small limit to spend (the temptation of a drug addict sitting in front of a table full of different drugs knowing that you can't have them no matter how much you want them) so I'm slowly making progress in the recovery and build. Donations are welcome for the new tank fund :) and did I forget to mention that contributions are tax deductible under charity ;)

     

    If some of you remember in the zoo a few weeks back when the lady was making her presentation on the different tanks the kid that was driving her crazy with questions that is my kid Gio, also if some of you remember the meeting at Blue Ribbon Koi he was the lucky little dude that got the opportunity to draw the winning raffle tickets.

     

    Anyways, I will see you all in the future and look forward to conversating with everyone.

     

     

    Raf

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