BAYMAC - Sun Nov 23rd - San Jose,CA

[GreshamH]

BAYMAC
Bay Area Marine Aquarium Conference
11am to 5pm - Sunday November 23rd
2143 South 10th Street, San Jose, 95112
www.TheBAYMAC.com (site will be up by this weekend)

Join us 11 am to 5pm Sunday November 23rd 2008 in San Jose, CA
for the first annual BAYMAC - Bay Area Marine Aquarium Conference
serving the Central and Northern California reef communities.

This first event will be FREE for everyone to attend and to participate.
You don't need to be a member of a reef club to attend.
All skill levels and all ages are encouraged to attend.

Frag sales supporting regional Reef clubs -
BAR - Bay Area Reefers and NCNRS - Northern California Nano Reef Society
will have aquariums with coral frags & supplies for sale.
All proceeds of these sales go to supporting the respective club.

Private Frag sales -
Other non club affiliated sellers welcome as well
Please contact sales@thebaymac.com for more details
or visit www.thebaymac.com/nonclubfragsales08

Guest Speakers -
Jake Adams (Flow Dynamics and flow devices explained), Rich Ross (Coral collections in Tonga) and Randy Reed (Feeding your reef)
For bio’s and more details please visit www.thebaymac.com/speakers08

Reef Gear Flea Market -
Got extra reef gear lying around, come sell it for CASH!!
Come sell your used reef aquarium related gear
Space is limited so please show up right before 11am to ensure you receive a spot.
For more details please visit www.thebaymac.com/usedgearswap08 or contact sales@thebaymac.com

Manufacturers on hand to answer your questions

Raffle -
Donations from companies like Reef Nutrition, CPR,
United Pet Group (Marine Land, Tetra, etc), TAAM (Rio, SEIO, etc), and more.
All proceeds will be split between BAR & NCNRS equally

Directions & Info â€"œ

11am-5pm Sunday November 23rd
2143 South 10th Street, San Jose, 95112
Close to the 87/280/85 and the San Jose Fair Grounds

 

[GreshamH]

This just in:

CVR (Central Vallery Reefers) will be joining in the Club Frag Sales and NVR (North Valley Reefers) sounds like they will be joining in as well.

Raffle update:

EcoTech has donated a vortech to the raffle.

Neptune Systems has donated a ACjr Controller

Reef Nutrition has donated a bunch of sample kits, "Giant clams in the sea and Aquarium" and 'The Plankton Culture Manual"

More raffle items will be released as they are made known to us

Here's a look into the venue BAYMAC is being held at. It's a wedding/event hall that was just recently finished

 

[GreshamH]

Raffle Update:

Aqua Euro USA has donated a Protein Skimmer - needle wheel with Bubble plate (590gph) rated for a 135g tank. Thanks Aqua Euro USA

The Aquarium Showroom has donated a tank and stand - size and style not indicated as of yet.

Sunlight Supply, Central Pets and Seachemhave all stated they donate as well.

 

[GreshamH]

Mobile Aquatics aka Wishing 2B Outside will be joining us in the private frag sale area. Glad to have you Richard

Wet Thumb Frags will be joining BAYMAC in the private frag sale area Welcome Wet Thumb Frags

If you've never seen either Wet Thumbs Frags or Mobile Aquatics frags your in for a treat. In fact, your in for quite a treat with all the frags being brought. People really have stepped up to the plate on this one

Raffle Update:

Wet Thumb Frags has donated a Pink Eyed Lava chalice frag. Beautiful piece I must say

NVR has donated a $50 Air Water & Ice Gift Card. I can't thank the club enough fro donating to the raffle. There will also be a special contribution from them to the raffle. This will be announced the day of at 3pm.

We'll have a special announcement in a day or two regarding a give away to the first 50 people in the door...stay tuned

We will have a food truck present selling food. We'd like to request that you help us decide what type of food they should bring.
Burgers, hot dogs, etc
Mexican
Asian
BBQ
etc

If we don't get enough input we'll default to Burgers/Hot Dogs/fries/etc.

 

[GreshamH]

Special Announcement

The first 50 people through the door will receive 2 captive bred Trochus snails curesty of Reef Hobbyist Magazine, www.MOFIB.organd BAYMAC. Special thanks to Jim (Bookfish) for making this happen

Raffle Update:

Warner Marine has donated a protein skimmer (model unknown at this point) to the raffle. Thank you Warner Marine

SuperBAC has donated some beneficial bacteria to the raffle. Thanks you SuperBAC.

Tene_core has donated a bio-cube to the raffle. Thanks Tene_core

Seachem has donated a bunch of products to the raffle. Hopefully it will be here by the event Thank you for the last second donation Seachem.

 

[GreshamH]

I'm sad to announce Randy Reed had a family emergency and regrettably can not make the show. In his place we'll have Frank Burr who's talk is "Marine Biospheres".

The new schedule is:

1 pm Jake Adams
2:10pm Frank Burr
3:20pm Rich Ross