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 3:15 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

Blue Ribbon Koi

Vendors On Site, Selling

Jason Fox Signature Corals

The Mushroom Man

Capital Exotic Fish

Combat Corals

 

Members On Site, Selling

@gws3

@jhOU

@wildcrazyjoker81

 

 

Raffle Prizes:

• HYDROS Minnow Controller ($249 value).  1 chance to win!
• $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)
• Sicce XStream SDC pump.  $249 value.  1 chance to win!
• Supreme Reefs - $70 Mystery Coral Pack.  Pickup at store.
• $100 Gift Certificate (off dry goods) by Exotic Reef Creations. 2 chances to win!
• $50 Gift Certificate for Champion Lighting & Supply.   1 chances to win!
• DI color-changing resin media by Air, Water, & Ice. 1 chance to win!
• Chemi-blue nano (15-pack) by Boyd Enterprises.  2 chances to win!
• various coral frags 

 

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
- Champion Lighting & Supply
- ChemiPure (Boyd Enterprises)

- Coral Candy Aquaculture

- Exotic Reef Creations
- Frank's Tanks
- 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.

 

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FYI - Jason Fox Signature Corals will be on site selling their coral frags to attendees.  We also expect the following vendors at the meeting

Sponsors On Site, Selling

Coral Candy Aquaculture: @Coral Candy Aquaculture

Vendors On Site, Selling

Jason Fox Signature Corals

The Mushroom Man

Blue Ribbon Koi

 

Members On Site, Selling

@gws3

@jhOU

 

If you are interested in setting up a table at the meeting message me or one of the officers, or email to officers@wamas.org 

 

 

[Gatortailale]

Reef Nutrition is sending some TDO ChromaBOOST packs & Tigger-pod bottles. We will put some in free door prize drawing, and raffle a few off.

 

Thank you Reef Nutrition for your support!

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Meeting this Saturday.  Hope to see many of you there.

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