Gatortailale February 28 February 28 FYI - we are planning to bring in Salem to speak to the club. Time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Speaker starts at 3:00 PM) Where: North Bethesda Middle School, 8935 Bradmoor Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817 WAMAS members get in free. Guests are $10 each (paid at the door). Join WAMAS at this link. Agenda: 1:30 Sign-in / socialize / frag sales 2:00 Workshop - Phyto and copepod culturing - Morgan Hicks 2:50 Club business 3:00 Speaker - Salem Clemens 4:00 Break 4:15 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 Salem Clemens is an aquarist that's been obsessed with all aspects of the hobby fresh and salt for a decade. He worked for around five years in the retail side of the industry and recently graduated with a degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and a minor in Chemistry. During his time in college he studied coral pathology working closely with his universities Biology and Chemistry programs where he gained experience in microbiology, biochemistry and analytical techniques such as GC-MS. Salem has a passion for rare and oddball corals, fish and inverts, experimenting with new methods and attempting to solve problems in the trade. He hopes to utilize an objective lens to help elute the best information and practices in the industry. Salem Shows Off His Reef Tanks! Reef Recap w/Salem Clemens Special thanks to theses sponsors. Please support them & say thanks next time you shop with them. WAMAS Platinum Sponsors - Air, Water & Ice - Avast Marine - Blue Ribbon Koi - Capital Exotic Fish - Champion Lighting & Supply - ChemiPure (Boyd Enterprises) - Coral Candy Aquaculture - Exotic Reef Creations - Frank's Tanks - Puddle Aquatics - Reed Mariculture (Reef Nutrition) - Reef eScape - Supreme Reefs WAMAS Banner-Only Sponsors - Bulk Reef Supply - Cobalt Aquatics - Coral Magazine - Jellyfish Art - Maxspect - Two Little Fishies
gastone Saturday at 02:52 PM Saturday at 02:52 PM We are also trying to set up workshops to help fill the time prior to our guest speaker and to further provide opportunity for education and information. For this meeting, Morgan Hicks, from the Richmond area has agreed to come up to our summer meeting and show us how he cultures and maintains a number of different phytoplankton and copepod species. We haven't finalized all the details, but the hope is that for a nominal cost, participants will be leave with both information on how to setup and maintain their own cultures, as well as starter cultures. In the future we are hoping to do a workshop on controller set-up and use. If anyone feels like they are proficient in controllers, please reach out to me. The flip side is that I will start pinging people who I perceived as gurus. If anyone has an idea for a workshop, or something that they'd like to see or are interested in, please let me know and we can start looking into it. 1
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