Origami July 3, 2021 Share July 3, 2021 Sunday, 25 July 2021 Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (speaker to start at 2:15 PM) Where: Virtual - Zoom + Facebook Live (to the WAMAS Group Page) WIth life slowly returning to normal, we hope that this will be the last "forced" virtual meeting thrust upon us by COVID-19. Mark your calendars. We'll be updating this announcement thread in the coming days and weeks. Like the last meeting, this meeting will be streamed to Facebook Live with limited participation available on our Zoom platform. We will post details of how to participate in this thread, so please check back as we update the thread with details. As with our last two virtual meetings, a limited number of Zoom slots will be made available to WAMAS Members, and only by request and first-come-first-served basis. (Instructions will be provided later on how to ask for a Zoom slot. Please wait to make your request until AFTER registration has been announced.) This meeting will be free to WAMAS members and members of the WAMAS Facebook group. Keep in mind that, to view the meeting on the Facebook Livestream, you MUST be have an account on Facebook and must be a member of the WAMAS group. If you're not on Facebook, then you're going to have to request a Zoom slot if you want to participate in the meeting. Agenda: 2:00 PM Announcements / Club Business 2:10 PM Speaker Introduction 2:15 PM Speaker 3:30 PM Discussion / Q&A 4:00 PM Raffle/Doorprize (Featuring Typhoon III Extreme and Mighty Mite RODI systems by long-time WAMAS sponsor, Air, Water & Ice!) Speaker: Matt Wandell has been keeping coral reef aquariums since 1999. He has been a professional aquarist at the Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Matt has a keen interest in developing new techniques for the husbandry of advanced and difficult species of ocean animals. He is currently the Husbandry Operations Project Manager at the Monterey Bay Aquarium where he is supervising construction of an ambitious new exhibit focused on animals living in the deep sea. Topic: Matt will be discussing the care of nonphotosynthetic corals and other invertebrates, how NPS corals can be integrated into a typical reef aquarium, and how to set up a dedicated “NPS tank”. Suitable tankmates, pest management, lighting, automation, and similar musings will be discussed. Raffle Prize(s) - (Important: See below for the raffle process and rules) One Typhoon III Extreme RO/DI 150 gpd system for serious reefkeepers, get the best for less! One Mighty Mite Compact RO/DI - ideal for reefkeepers with a 50-gallon or smaller tank! Two $50 gift certificates donated by Blue Ribbon Koi & Marine (Catharpin, VA)! Two $50 gift certificates donated by Puddle Aquatics in Knoxville, MD! Grand Prize - Typhoon III Extreme, 150 gpd, five-stage RO/DI system. ($300 value) The serious reefkeeper knows that good water quality starts with good water. A quality RO/DI system from long-time WAMAS Sponsor Air, Water & Ice provides you with the starting point you need as the foundation for building and maintaining your reef tank. Providing excellent quality at a fraction of competitor's costs for both systems and parts, in addition to excellent service and support, AWI has been a long-time WAMAS favorite, providing both for many WAMAS old-timers. AWI even provides a 10% discount code (29439) for WAMAS members and even more on club group buys! Their signature reefkeeper product is the Typhoon III Extreme, five-stage RO/DI which features a high-volume RO membrane, sediment and catalytic carbon stages, afast-flush valve, and a built-in TDS meter and alarm. It even comes with your choice of three water supply connections so you can begin to use it the day you receive it. If you're in the market for a RO/DI system, please check out Air, Water & Ice for both quality and value! Raffle Process and Rules No purchase is necessary. The raffle is open to WAMAS members only. (You must be a member at the time of the drawing.) The WAMAS President is ineligible. The drawing will be held during the WAMAS meeting The winner must be "present" at the meeting (either through Zoom or Facebook) to claim the prize. If not present, we'll draw for the next winner. Members that sign up have an equal chance at winning. A week or so before the meeting, we'll start a sign-up thread in the forum. We'll post a link in this thread. Members participate in the raffle by posting once and once only to this thread. Duplicate sign ups will be deleted. If this rule is abused, a member may be removed as a partricipant. This thread will be closed the night before the drawing. No warning will be given to the thread closure. The WAMAS President will use an online random number generator to generate a number from 2 to the max post# in the thread and will announce the winning number. The drawn number identifies the winner by their post number (i.e., sequence number in the thread). If the winner is present, we'll mail or transfer the award to them. If not, we'll draw again until we have a winner. Thank You, WAMAS Sponsors Special thanks to these sponsors. WAMAS has deliberately avoided collecting sponsorship fees from them during these tumultuous times, but they need your support now more than ever. 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 - Aquarium Depot - Avast Marine - Blue Ribbon Koi - Capital Aquarium - Chemipure - Dr. Mac's Pacific East Aquaculture - FishnReef.com - LRS Reef Frenzy - Piscine Energetics - Puddle Aquatics - Premium Aquatics - Reed Mariculture (Reef Nutrition) - Reef eScape - Reef2Rainforest Media (Coral Magazine) - SaltwaterAquarium.com - Supreme Reefs WAMAS Banner-Only Sponsors - Cobalt Aquatics - Coralvue - Jellyfish Art - Live Aquaria - MASNA - Two Little Fishies Special Thanks Special thanks to Eureka Strategic Consulting of Columbia, MD, who (through a donation) are sponsoring our virtual meetings in 2021. Watch this space for more information to be made available as it arrives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami July 18, 2021 Author Share July 18, 2021 Meeting Raffle Grand Prize - Typhoon III Extreme, 150 gpd, five-stage RO/DI system. ($300 value) The serious reefkeeper knows that good water quality starts with good water. A quality RO/DI system from long-time WAMAS Sponsor Air, Water & Ice provides you with the starting point you need as the foundation for building and maintaining your reef tank. Providing excellent quality at a fraction of competitor's costs for both systems and parts, in addition to excellent service and support, AWI has been a long-time WAMAS favorite, providing both for many WAMAS old-timers. AWI even provides a 10% discount code (29439) for WAMAS members and even more on club group buys! Their signature reefkeeper product is the Typhoon III Extreme, five-stage RO/DI which features a high-volume RO membrane, sediment and catalytic carbon stages, afast-flush valve, and a built-in TDS meter and alarm. It even comes with your choice of three water supply connections so you can begin to use it the day you receive it. If you're in the market for a RO/DI system, please check out Air, Water & Ice for both quality and value! Thanks AWI! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami July 18, 2021 Author Share July 18, 2021 The raffle sign up thread was just posted. You'll find it here. Please read the rules and sign up once (and only once) to participate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami July 18, 2021 Author Share July 18, 2021 How to Attend: Zoom or Facebook Livestream? This meeting will be available to a limited number of members through our Zoom account, but the default means of attending should be the Facebook livestream if at all possible to ensure that we have adequate resources available to all of us. To participate through the Facebook livestream, you need to be a member of the WAMAS Facebook group. If you're not already a member of this group, you may want to request membership now because we may not be able to approve your request if things get too busy during the meeting. We'll also be livestreaming on Facebook, If you don't have a Facebook account, you can request one of our Zoom slots. If you're interested in attending the meeting on Zoom, please send me a PM with the subject "Zoom Request". Note also that I will not respond to requests until I have a full accounting of the situation which will probably be until just a few days before the meeting. If you don't hear from me right away, rest assured, though, that your request has not fallen into a black hole. Questions for the speaker are taken from both Facebook and Zoom attendees, so neither way of attending will offer an advantage in that sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami July 20, 2021 Author Share July 20, 2021 WAMAS Raffle Registration Closes Sunday at Noon - Don't Miss Out! Don't forget! We are raffling prizes (donated by several of our dedicated sponsors!) at this upcoming (virtual) meeting, featuring Matt Wandell who will speak on Husbandry of Non-Photosynthetic (NPS) Corals. The meeting will start this Sunday, July 25th at 2 PM. Signing up for the raffle is as easy as responding to the forum post located here and joining us at the meeting on Sunday. We have six raffle prizes to give away so you're chances of winning could be pretty good. As usual, key rules to note include: The raffle is open to WAMAS members only. You must be "present" at the drawing to win the prize. You enter the raffle by responding to the (linked) post/thread once and only once before the thread closes. The (linked) thread will close at noon on the day of the meeting, so sign up by then or miss out! The Grand Prize (a Typhoon III Extreme, 150 gpd five-stage RODI system valued at $300) donated by long-time WAMAS sponsor, Air, Water & Ice, and more. You can find details about all the prizes at the top of this thread and also in the raffle sign up thread (linked above). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami July 24, 2021 Author Share July 24, 2021 Zoom slots still available. PM me if you want to participate via Zoom. WAMAS members are prioritized, but if you're a non-member (e.g., BB Participant), send me a PM and I'll see if we can get you in. Of course, the Facebook Livestream will still be going. For those that have already asked, I've sent you a PM with Zoom instructions. If you've asked for a slot and didn't hear back, reach out to me again. If you've not already registered and you're a WAMAS member that will attend tomorrow's meeting, it's time to register for the raffle. (See post above for the link to instructions on how to participate.) You must register to have a chance at winning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami July 25, 2021 Author Share July 25, 2021 Raffle sign up closes in 13 hours (that is, at noon on Sunday, July 25th). Open to members that attend tomorrow's meeting. See this thread to sign up and for rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami July 25, 2021 Author Share July 25, 2021 Raffle sign-up closed at noon. 42 members have signed up. We have six prizes to give away so you're odds are pretty good if you show up and stay all the way through to the end! (You must be "present" - and speak up when your name is called - to win, otherwise we'll pull another number.) Thanks again, everybody. The meeting will start at 2 PM on both Facebook Live (Group: WAMAS) and on Zoom (by request only). See earlier posts for details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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