WAMAS Spring Meeting - May 17, 2025 - Return of Todd Gardner - Biota Group

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Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Speaker starts at 3:00 PM)
Where: Green Acres Center, 4401 Sideburn Rd., Fairfax, VA

 

WAMAS members get in free. Guests are $10 each (paid at the door). Join WAMAS at this link. 

Refreshments provided by WAMAS.

Agenda:
2:00 Sign-in / socialize / frag sales
3:00 Club business
3:15 Speaker - Todd Gardner

4:15 Break
4:30 Raffle!

Directions to the Green Acres Center:
Green Acres Center is next to George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.

 

Here's a map from Google Maps:
https://goo.gl/maps/neGSWGJ2G8APuh5k8

 

Todd Gardner is a professor of Aquaculture at Carteret Community College in Morehead City, NC, and manages Biota’s NC facility where he raises Gramma dejongi and other aquatic specimens. 

His life and career have both been shaped by his passion for marine life and he has written numerous scientific and popular articles about his research and experiences collecting, keeping, and culturing marine organisms. 

Todd’s professional background includes work on a National Geographic documentary, commercial aquaculture at C-quest Hatchery in Puerto Rico, and an 11-year term at the Long Island Aquarium where he spent much of his time developing techniques for rearing marine fish larvae. To date, he has raised more than 50 species. 

In 2013 Todd received the prestigious Aquarist of the Year Award from the Marine Aquarium Society of North America (MASNA). In his spare time, Todd dives with his son Finn, photographs marine life, runs marathons, and plays in a blues band. 

 

 

Sponsors On Site, Selling

Coral Candy Aquaculture: @Coral Candy Aquaculture

Vendors On Site, Selling

Jason Fox Signature Corals

The Mushroom Man

 

Members On Site, Selling

@gws3

@jhOU

 

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

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WAMAS Platinum Sponsor Reef Nutrition is donating three gift cards to our February 1 Meeting:

• $100 Gift Certificate for Reef Nutrition products (with $40 bump-up for shipping)
• 50 Gift Certificate for Reef Nutrition products (with $40 bump-up for shipping). (2 chances to win!)

Thanks Reef Nutrition for your continued support of the WAMAS Club.