AlanM May 5, 2018 Share May 5, 2018 Hold the date for FragFest! Sunday, July 22, 2018 at the Charles Wesley United Methodist Church (McLean, VA)What is FragFest? Check out the FragFest FAQ here.Speaker: Ned and Anna DeLoach, Reef divers and writers extraordinaireTopic: The Mysterious Beginnings of Reef FishReef fishes start life as tiny, buoyant eggs spawned into open water by the thousands. The castaways are carried by the currents out to sea where they embark on one of the most perilous odysseys in the animal kingdom. Ned DeLoach, author of Reef Fish Behavior, takes you on a visual voyage of the offspring’s miraculous oceanic metamorphosis from vulnerable yolk sac larvae into fast-swimming eating machines, unlike any fish you’ve ever seen, bedecked with spikes, spines, billowing fins and streaming floats. Weeks later the few survivors make a second dramatic transformation before riding night tides back to the reef where they spend the remainder of their lives.After college Ned DeLoach moved from his childhood home in West Texas toFlorida so that he could do what he loves best—dive. In 1971 he completed his firstdiving guide to the state, Diving Guide to Underwater Florida, currently in its 11 thedition. Though the 1970’s and 80s he was active in Florida’s cave divingcommunity and writing dive/travel piece for underwater magazines. In the mid-80she began working with is longtime business partner Paul Humann as co-editors ofOcean Realm magazine.In 1989 the pair published their first field guide, Reef Fish Identification,Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas, which launched an extensive library of visual marinelife field guides for tropical oceans around the world.Acquiring the thousands of photographs of new and undocumented marinespecies for the guides in a never-ending quest that keeps Ned underwater for muchof the year scouring reefs, walls, sand flats, rubble fields, sea grass meadows, surgezones, algae beds, and often poking around dock pilings and occasionally beneathisland out houses. Currently Ned and his wife Anna, who reside in Jacksonville,Florida, are compiling a new edition of Reef Fish Behavior, first publish in 2000, andwriting a column entitled Encounters for Alert Diver magazine.*****This is a MEMBERS ONLY summer meeting SUNDAY, July 22, 2018, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m. (We're starting a little later because setup takes longer for this meeting.)* You can join WAMAS at the door for $20.00 individual; $35.00 family = 1 year of membership, access to member area of forum + free frags at this meeting.2:00 PM Doors open to WAMAS members (only)2:40 PM Club business3:00 PM Speaker Ned and Anna DeLoach4:00 PM Break4:15 PM Raffle!4:45 PM Frag Giveaway (Yes, FREE frags!)5:45-6:15 PM CleanupLocation will be:Charles Wesley United Methodist Church's all purpose room6817 Dean, DrMcLean, VA 22101***********Raffle Prizes*- 1-year subscription to Coral Magazine (1 chance to win) - From Reef to Rainforest Media- $100 Gift Certificate (2 chances to win!) - From Avast Marine- Mega MaxCap 90-GPD 5-stage RO/DI, $349 value (1 chance to win) - From SpectraPure- Reef Octopus Classic 152-S Protein Skimmer, $299 value (1 chance to win) - From CoralVue- Geisemann Professional Test Kits, 9 kits total (1 chance to win) - From SaltwaterAquarium.com- Complete Water Change Kit (1 chance to win) - From Marine Depot - $200 gift certificate for custom PVC sump at Pure Reef Systems. - Frag system with frag racks built by Pimped Out Aquariums - Two boxes of Reef Crystals (2 chances to win) - From Exotic Reef Creations - 12-pack (one year's worth) of Chemipure nano (2 chances to win!) - From Boyd Enterprises - Reef Nutrition: Samplers of their bottled reef food products! (2 chances to win!)- Reef Nutrition: Chroma Boost pellets (three 3-ounce bags raffled together) - LRS Reef Frenzy food: 2x nano Frenzy; 2x Reef Frenzy; 1x Fish Frenzy; 2x Herbivore Frenzy (7 chances to win) - From LRS Reef Frenzy - 1x 5 oz. Pro Breeder and 1x 5 oz Ultra Worm Medley flake food. - From Cobalt Aquatics - Mixed frag pack with 20 corals from FishnReef.com - Also donated frags from our sponsors and members selling Door Prizes: This meeting there will be multiple door prizes to win. Super deluxe fragging kits with everything you need to get started. 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- Avast Marine- Blue Ribbon Koi- Capital Aquarium- ChemiPure (Boyd Enterprises)- Dr. Mac's Pacific East Aquaculture- Exotic Reef Creations- FishnReef.com - LRS Reef Frenzy- Marine Depot- MASNA- Pimped Out Aquariums- Premium Aquatics- Pure Reef Systems- Reed Mariculture (Reef Nutrition)- Reef eScape - Reef2Rainforest Media (Coral Magazine)- SaltwaterAquarium.com - Supreme ReefsWAMAS Banner-Only Sponsors - Cobalt Aquatics- Coralvue- Jellyfish Art- Live Aquaria- Spectrapure- Two Little FishiesGet Free Raffle Tickets!We have a "bring your receipts" program where if you bought stuff from one of our sponsors since the last meeting you can bring your receipts to the check-in desk to get one free raffle ticket for every $25 that you spent at a sponsor. We don't need to keep the receipts, but would like to see them in hardcopy form (not on your phone because it takes too long) to give you the free tickets.Sponsors on-site:Dr. Mac's Pacific East Aquaculture Blue Ribbon KoiMembers selling on site:Mr ChalicePiper27coppsgws3 LeishmanmolcottWatch this space for more information to be made available as it arrives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM May 7, 2018 Author Share May 7, 2018 Abstract: The Mysterious Beginnings of Reef Fish Reef fishes start life as tiny, buoyant eggs spawned into open water by the thousands. The castaways are carried by the currents out to sea where they embark on one of the most perilous odysseys in the animal kingdom. Ned DeLoach, author of Reef Fish Behavior, takes you on a visual voyage of the offspring’s miraculous oceanic metamorphosis from vulnerable yolk sac larvae into fast-swimming eating machines, unlike any fish you’ve ever seen, bedecked with spikes, spines, billowing fins and streaming floats. Weeks later the few survivors make a second dramatic transformation before riding night tides back to the reef where they spend the remainder of their lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami May 7, 2018 Share May 7, 2018 I'm really looking forward to Ned and Anna's visit and to hearing about their adventurous life experiences that most of us can only dream about..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM May 7, 2018 Author Share May 7, 2018 I agree. The abstract sounds like a great talk. I'm not that familiar with them and wasn't part of the club the last time they spoke. Bump as a reminder of the free raffle ticket program with receipts from sponsors. Save your receipts if you bought from our sponsors since the last meeting. Every $25 spent gets you 1 free raffle ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM June 26, 2018 Author Share June 26, 2018 Bump for this. It's looking like a great FragFest! This is our biggest meeting of the year. It brings in lots of new people, and we're going to be giving away free frags. Also we will have a lot of members there selling frags. The door prize will be nice kits of fragging tools, plugs, glue, etc. Everything you need to up your frag game. It's a whole frag theme! We frag donated corals onsite and pack them for the giveaway so you're welcome to watch the operation and learn from that too. The speaker, Ned DeLoach, is probably one of the most well loved experts in our hobby and has taken some of the most well loved pictures from reefs all over the world. I'm really looking forward to meeting him (I never have) and hearing his talk. Kudos to John Coppolino for snagging him to talk to us. I'll be updating the thread this weekend with the raffle prize that we have received so far. There should be some really nice items. We're hearing about custom made frag tanks and new skimmers. I'll also be putting out a call for coral colonies that WAMAS members might have outgrown that could be fragged (rainbow birdsnest and montipora capricornis owners, I'm looking at you) and given out. Lastly, if anyone has a tank they want to throw in the trash that they know is made of tempered glass, I'd like to do a demonstration of what happens if you try to drill it and get it on video. I've heard it's way more impressive of a noise and mess in person than watching online. 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM July 8, 2018 Author Share July 8, 2018 Recognizing our support of the ADE Project, Reef to Rainforest Media, publishers of CORAL Magazine joined WAMAS as a Platinum Sponsor last quarter. We'll be giving away a free subscription at each meeting this year. Published every other month, CORAL Magazine is this hobby's premier publication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM July 8, 2018 Author Share July 8, 2018 Raffle updated: - $100 Gift Certificate from Avast Marine (2 chances to win!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM July 8, 2018 Author Share July 8, 2018 Raffle Update: SpectraPure Mega-MaxCap 90-GPD 5-Stage RO/DI System $349 value! Thanks to SpectraPure for being a WAMAS sponsor and for the great RO/DI donation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM July 8, 2018 Author Share July 8, 2018 Also got a great raffle prize from CoralVue. Classic 152-S Protein Skimmer $299 value! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM July 10, 2018 Author Share July 10, 2018 For Raffle from SaltwaterAquarium.com. Giesemann professional test kits. A full set of pretty much everything: CalciumAlkalinityMagnesiumNitriteNitrateIronPhosphatePotassiumpH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM July 10, 2018 Author Share July 10, 2018 From Marinedepot.com, water change kit containingCobalt MJ1200RefractometerDigital thermometer100W Eheim heaterVinyl hose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM July 14, 2018 Author Share July 14, 2018 Bump for the meeting next Sunday. I'm getting together our list of raffle items and will send out an email reminder tomorrow with what we know so far. We'll have 6 members selling frags as well as club sponsors: Pacific East Aquaculture, FishnReef, and Blue Ribbon Koi all onsite selling livestock and dry goods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM July 17, 2018 Author Share July 17, 2018 List above updated for the raffle items we have now and more coming in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM July 21, 2018 Author Share July 21, 2018 Platinum Sponsor, Reed Mariculture has donated sampler packs of their feed products to our raffle. Come on out! Two chances to win! Pack #1 ($84 value): Pack #2 ($73 value): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM July 21, 2018 Author Share July 21, 2018 From Larry at LRS Reef Frenzy. Thanks, Larry! We appreciate your sponsorship! - 4 ounce pack LRS Reef Frenzy Nano (two chances to win!) from LRS Reef Frenzy- 8 ounce pack of LRS Reef Frenzy Original (two chances to win!) from LRS Reef Frenzy- 8 ounce pack of LRS Fish Frenzy from LRS Reef Frenzy- 8 ounce pack of Herbivore Frenzy (two chances to win!) from LRS Reef Frenzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM July 21, 2018 Author Share July 21, 2018 For the raffle from our sponsor Boyd Enterprises: 12-pack (one year's worth) of Chemipure Blue nano (2 chances to win) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM July 21, 2018 Author Share July 21, 2018 Donated by Cobalt Aquatics for the raffle. 5 ounce jar of Ultra Worm Medley premium fish flakes (with black, blood and earthworms!), value $17 (1 chance to win) 5 ounce jar of Pro Breeder premium fish flakes, value $13 (1 chance to win) Thanks, Cobalt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilary July 22, 2018 Share July 22, 2018 Nadir at www.fishnreef.com is donating a mixed frag pack with 20 corals. Thanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM July 22, 2018 Author Share July 22, 2018 Last meeting bump. We will also have tubes of Handibond thick gel super glue, widely considered the nicest glue for mounting frags, for $5 each at the door and will be selling WAMAS polo shirts for $10 each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami July 22, 2018 Share July 22, 2018 Beautifully handcrafted frag tank from Pimped Out Aquariums. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami July 22, 2018 Share July 22, 2018 BRK donated an x3 ECO reactor kit to today's raffle. Thanks, John! Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami July 22, 2018 Share July 22, 2018 FragFest fragging is underway! Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM July 23, 2018 Author Share July 23, 2018 Thanks to everyone who came early to help set up and/or frag, who donated corals, who stayed late to clean up after. I thought it was a great meeting, and I wish Ned had been able to spend another hour showing us crazy pictures of baby fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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