Sph2sail March 20, 2004 Share March 20, 2004 The Spring Meeting of WAMAS, The Washington D.C. Area Marine Aquarist Society, will be on Saturday April 17, 2004 from 2:00-5:00p.m. in Kensington, MD (immediately outside Washington, DC). Special Guests and Highlights: - Glenn Rosenbluth, VP, WAMAS presenting an interactive Reefkeeping 101 session - Robie Sayan, WAMAS member, leading a workshop on Reef tank photography - aka ROBZ Reef Central TOTM October 2003 - ROBZ and ROBZ's WAMAS gallery. - Dr. Mac of Dr. Mac & Sons Corals - Equipment garage sale, frag swap, and raffle This meeting will focus on educating our newer reefkeepers on tips, technology and trends in reefkeeping. We have put together a presentation called Reefkeeping 101. This will be an interactive presentation lead by Glenn Rosenbluth that will cover all aspects of reefkeeping from the basic setup questions to stocking your tank with fish and corals. "Interactive" means we seek the input of our advanced aquarist community during this meeting to improve this presentation and enable its use by anyone as an introduction to this fantastic hobby. Bring your digital cameras! Our special guest speaker is Robbie Sayan, aka ROBZ. Robie's tank was Tank Of The Month (TOTM) on Reef Central in October 2003. Robie's tank was also one of the tanks featured in the Washington Post Sunday Magazine article "Personal Oceans", in November, 2003. Robie will be conducting a workshop on tank photography. We will have a nano tank for members to practice on! Visit ROBZ's website to see more of his world class tanks and photography. In addition to the above mentioned presentations at the meeting, we also are encouraging members to bring in their used or unwanted equipment to sell or trade with other reefers at the meeting. WAMAS Members can post their equipment items in this thread to find a buyer in advance. Everyone and anyone can bring equipment to the meeting, but joining as a member makes it easier! Along with Dr. Mac & his traveling coral store & lots of frag swapping (member frag swap thread) and a great raffle, this is sure to be a meeting NOT to miss! For further information on WAMAS and the Spring Meeting, visit our web site http://www.wamas.org/ Who: WAMAS (Washington D.C. Area Marine Aquarist Society) When: April 17, 2004 (Saturday) Time: 2:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. (EST) Where: Newport Mill Middle School 11311 Newport Mill Road, Kensington, Maryland Cost: Members - Free / Non-members - $6.00 [Annual Membership = $20 - Individual; $35 - Family; $10 - Educators; Free - Students] Agenda 2:00 - 2:30 Sign in and Socializing 2:30 - 3:30 Reefkeeping 101 - Introduction to reefing interactive session 3:30 - 3:45 Break & Frag / Equipment swap 3:45 - 4:15 Robie Sayan - tank photography workshop 4:15 - 4:30 Break & Frag / Equipment swap 4:30 - 5:00 Raffle 5:00 Adjourn Miscellaneous - Light refreshments and snacks will be provided. - Raffle prizes: coral frags; gift certificates; Directions: Directions to Newport Mill Middle School From the Beltway 495 Exit Conneticut Avenue, Head North towards Kensington about 4 miles. Conneticut takes a fork at University- stay to the left to remain on Conneticut. Go to the 5th? light which is Viers Mill and Turn Right. If you get to Randolph Road., you need to turn around. From Viers Mill, turn Right onto Newport Mill. School is less than a half mile down the road. Here's a map from Mapquest Here's the mapquest map Steve Howard WAMAS President Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatortailale March 25, 2004 Share March 25, 2004 New Location - It's just down the road a bit from other school. Newport Mill Middle School 11311 Newport Mill Road, Kensington, Maryland Directions: Directions to Newport Mill Middle School From the Beltway 495 Exit Conneticut Avenue, Head North towards Kensington about 4 miles. Conneticut takes a fork at University- stay to the left to remain on Conneticut. Go to the 5th? light which is Viers Mill and Turn Right. If you get to Randolph Road., you need to turn around. From Viers Mill, turn Right onto Newport Mill. School is less than a half mile down the road. Here's a map from Mapquest Here's the mapquest map Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReefMon March 30, 2004 Share March 30, 2004 Here's the Spring Meeting flyer. Spring 2004 flyer (PDF) We need volunteers to take these to every LFS/Pet store in the region (PetCo's, Petsmart, Etc) If you don't have access to a color printer, let me know and I'll get some color prints out to you. Please post where you've placed them. So far I've hit The Reef Tank & Tysons PetCo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatortailale April 13, 2004 Share April 13, 2004 NOTE: REMEMBER there is a NEW location for this meeting - just up / down the road from other school we had a few meetings at in the past. PLEASE read directions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatortailale April 15, 2004 Share April 15, 2004 the Good News AquariaUSA will be bringing lots of livestock to sell. Coral list thread Geofloors is also trying to come and sell his aquacultured frags (fingers crossed) Still should be great meeting - with 6 pages of frag swapping, robz photo workshop, and a great raffle with VAreefman efflo frags, 4 gift certs. from The Reef Tank; some items from Premium Aquatics, & Dr. Mac gift certs. the bad new, Dr. Mac had to cancel. :( He had to attend industry meeting and didn't realize it was on same date as spring meeting when he confirmed a month ago that he would be here for the meeting. He plans to attend the symposium in June. See you all there! The Officers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatortailale April 18, 2004 Share April 18, 2004 About 90 people attended the spring meeting. Nice turn out considering the sun was shining and the temp. outside was 85. Thanks to all the people who helped make it a success and the companies that donated goods for the raffle. :D The officers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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