AlanM August 11, 2023 Share August 11, 2023 Event: WAMAS Fall 2023 Meeting, FragFest (In-person, not streamed) Saturday, October 14, 2023 Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Speaker starts at 3 PM) Where: North Bethesda Middle School, 8935 Bradmoor Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817 WAMAS members get in free. Guests are $5 each (paid at the door). Join WAMAS at this link. Refreshments provided by WAMAS. Officers are currently discussing how to do FragFest this year. We are trying to come up with a way to distribute the best frags to members with the best chance of survival in tanks while keeping it fun and interesting for everyone attending. Ideas are welcome from members at officers@wamas.org. Speaker: Dr Carys Mitchelmore Dr. Carys L. Mitchelmore is a Professor and Interim Director of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Maryland. Her expertise is in environmental health and toxicology spans fundamental and applied questions concerning the exposure, fate and effects of pollutants. Her research is directed towards the detection of chemical contaminants and understanding their toxicity and implications to ecosystem health for risk assessment, regulation, and management activities. Dr. Mitchelmore has been building a framework of collaborative interdisciplinary research with NGOs, trade associations, and industrial partners to address societal concerns regarding the environmental risk of emerging personal care product chemicals, including sunscreen ingredient UV filters, especially to endangered and/or understudied species like corals. Her expertise in the impacts of oil and oil spill dispersants was called upon to provide research and expert advice regarding the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil incident. Dr. Mitchelmore received a BSc (Hons) Biology and MSc Applied toxicology from the University of Portsmouth (U.K.), and her Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham (U.K.) in 1997 investigating the metabolism and toxicity of organic contaminants. Prior to joining CBL as an Assistant Professor in 2022 she held three postdoctoral positions at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (U.K.), University of Kent at Canterbury (U.K.) and Oregon State University. Topic: Recent findings and current research in coral stressors and sunscreens Agenda: 1:00 Sign-in / socialize / frag sales 2:50 Club business 3:00 Speaker 4:00 Break 4:30 Raffle! Directions to North Bethesda Middle School: - NOTE: The school is just inside the north edge of the beltway near Old Georgetown Road. Here's a map from Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/bKz79Y9HmQF2 Special 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 Platinum Sponsors - Air, Water & Ice - AquaHaus - Avast Marine - Blue Ribbon Koi - Capital Aquarium - ChemiPure (Boyd Enterprises) - Coral Magazine - Dr. Mac's Pacific East Aquaculture - Exotic Reef Creations - FishnReef.com - Frank's Tanks - ICP Analysis - Maxspect - Premium Aquatics - Puddle Aquatics - Reed Mariculture (Reef Nutrition) - Reef eScape - Reef Nerd Aquatics - SaltwaterAquarium.com - Supreme Reefs WAMAS Banner-Only Sponsors - Cobalt Aquatics - Jellyfish Art - MASNA - Two Little Fishies 2023 virtual meeting support provided by Eureka Strategic Consulting, Discover the Extraordinary. Raffle Prizes $50 Gift Certificate for Reef Nutrition products (with $40 bump-up for shipping). (2 chances to win!) $100 Gift Certificate for Reef Nutrition products (with $40 bump-up for shipping) $50 livestock Gift Certificate donated by Blue Ribbon Koi. (3 chances to win!) $50 Gift Certificate donated by Puddle Aquatics. (2 chances to win!) Black Widow Bubble Tip Anemone! $200 value! (1 chance to win) Indo Gold torch coral! $200 value! (1 chance to win) Frag seller setup: Maxspect Jump 30W LED light, 100W Eheim heater, Maxi-Jet 600 powerhead, $175 value, (1 chance to win) BRS Standard Coral Propagation Kit with Glue, $35 value (4 chances to win) Aqua Gadget ReefRack 102 Expandable Frag Rack, $40 value (1 chance to win) Mini Magnetic Frag Rack (9 holes) by Aquamaxx and AquaForest Poly Glue adhesive (250ml), $43 value (2 chances to win) Stingray 10 plug locking frag rack, $30 value (2 chances to win) fragging supplies kit: Dip, glue, epoxy, $66 value each (4 chances to win) More raffle prizes to be announced. Sponsors On Site, Selling @AquaHaus Members On Site, Selling @Mr.Chalice More to be added. Stay tuned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM October 3, 2023 Author Share October 3, 2023 Just a quick bump for FragFest in two weeks at North Bethesda Middle School. I've updated the speaker bio here. Dr Mitchelmore has spoken to SMMAS in the past but never to WAMAS, and she is full of information on coral biology and environmental threats. The question and answer time should be great! We are also arranging raffle prizes now and will have more details about them soon. I'll start another thread for FragFest discussion for questions and answers since this forum doesn't allow followup posts. We've had a lot of feedback over the last couple of years that the frags we slice and give out don't do that well in member tanks, so we are trying something a bit different this year to try to avoid extra coral morbidity. It may be a lot of fun, or it may be chaos. Come to find out! We will bring in lots of commercially pre-mounted frags. All members who attend the meeting will get a ticket for a free frag. You can get more tickets for frag donations, up to 2 additional tickets. Frag donations are limited to hard corals or zoanthids. No palythoas or other soft corals. Donations must be at least 1 inch in size. We will need a few people to volunteer to bring 5 gallons of pre-mixed saltwater at around 35ppt salinity. You'll get the bucket or jug back after the event. We will also need a couple of volunteers to help hand out frags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM October 3, 2023 Author Share October 3, 2023 Discussion and volunteer thread here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM October 5, 2023 Author Share October 5, 2023 If members want to come to set up a tank and sell frags please PM me so we can be sure there are enough tables. We usually have plenty of room at North Bethesda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilary October 6, 2023 Share October 6, 2023 John at Blue Ribbon Koi is donating three $50 livestock Gift Certificates for the raffle! BRK is known for its selection and new arrivals are often pictured on their Facebook page. Thank you so much, John! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM October 10, 2023 Author Share October 10, 2023 New to the auction for Saturday. Black Widow Bubble Tip Anemone. $200 value 1 chance to win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM October 10, 2023 Author Share October 10, 2023 New to the auction for Saturday. Indo Gold Torch $200 value 1 chance to win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM October 11, 2023 Author Share October 11, 2023 Added to the raffle 1 Frag seller setup! We will use this setup on the frag tank we use to maintain the giveaway frags before we hand them out to members and will include it in the raffle at the end. It includes: 1 Maxspect Jump 30W LED 1 Eheim Jager heater, 100W 1 Maxi-Jet 600 Powerhead Retail on all of them is around $175. Add a 20 gallon tank and you're in business to sell frags at a meeting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM October 11, 2023 Author Share October 11, 2023 Added to the raffle: BRS Standard Coral Propagation Kit with Glue Four chances to Win! $35 value Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM October 12, 2023 Author Share October 12, 2023 Next up on raffle: Aqua Gadget Reef Rack 102 Expandable Frag Rack, Holds up to 102 frag plugs (small ones) on 5 tiers. $40 value, one chance to win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM October 12, 2023 Author Share October 12, 2023 Two chances to win: Aquamaxx mini magnetic frag rack with 9 holes and AquaForest Poly Glue adhesive $43 value Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM October 12, 2023 Author Share October 12, 2023 Two chances to win: Stingray 10 plug locking frag rack, Slide-loc $30 value Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM October 12, 2023 Author Share October 12, 2023 Added to the raffle, fragging supplies kit. 4 chances to win; $66 value each Coral Rx Coral Dip 8oz, $18 value Stone Grey AquaStik Epoxy Putty, $14 value 10oz bottle BRS Extra thick Gel super glue, $34 value Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilary October 13, 2023 Share October 13, 2023 Our good friend Todd at Puddle Aquatics has donated two $50 gift certificates for the raffle! Todd is the creator of the Reef Boxx, a patent pending automatic backup switch that allows users to connect battery backup in many configurations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM October 14, 2023 Author Share October 14, 2023 So many corals to hand out tomorrow! These are just some of them. Please thank our Treasurer, Scott Friedman, at the door for handling all of the corals. He has been processing them for a large part of the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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