BAYMAC - Sun Nov 23rd - San Jose

[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]

Update:

CVR - Central Vally Reefers will be joining BAR and NCNRS with selling coral frags and supplies to support their club. Welcome CVR, glad you could join in the fun

Raffle items added:

Neptune Systems has donated an ACjr Controller

EcoTech has donated a Vortech

Boston Aqua Farms has donated two Premium Propagation kits, 3x Reef Epoxy, Scalpel, Bone Shears and tweezers

Reef Nutrition has donated "Plankton Culture Manual", "Giant Clams in the Sea and Aquarium", numerous Reef Nutrition 6oz sample packs as well as individual bottles of product

A private donor has donated a Kill-A-Watts meter and 100x Coral Cradles.

CPR, TAAM, Caribsea, EcoSytem Aquarium, and United Pet Group (Marineland, etc) have all indicated they will be donating to the swap as well but no items have been specified..stay tuned

BAR members will be donating some LE corals to the swap as well.

All raffle proceeds are split amongst the participating clubs. This show that will be BAR, NCNRS and CVR.

 

[GreshamH]

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:

Caribsea has donated a bunch of product, and I mean a bunch. They put in ARM Coarse (Ca Reactor media), ARM XCS (Larger Ca Reactor media), Mineral Mud, Purple Up, Reef Cal, Buff +. Aquatic Biotic Boost and Phos Buster.

 

[bluemanta]

Gresham,
none of the links work.

Regards,
Steve

 

[GreshamH]

I've had trouble getting a webmaster as of late He's really busy ATM I haven't had the time myself to be able to teach myself Dreamweaver and get the site up. It shouldn't be hard and I downloaded a trial version

 

[bluemanta]

So the event is set to go right? Are we renting the space from Max or he is sponsoring this event? should bring good attraction to the new mermaid...

anyhow, let me introduce myself...I was a BAR member years ago and you'd probably remember that I was selling my frags at the club to give proceeds to the tsunami victims back in '04. did the same thing at Seabay...anyways, I'd like to sell some things at this event, some dry goods that i don't use anymore and some livestock since I'm getting out of the coral farming business for a while, at the same time i'd also like to donate some to BAR...let me know how this can work out...is it possible to line up a few guys to share some tanks for their livestock instead of everyone bringing their own equipment? Thanks Gresham.

Steve

 

[GreshamH]

Max and I are putting the event on. It is 100% a go. I just need to find a new webmaster to get the site up It's hard to find a volunteer webmaster :/

I've been in BAR since it became BAR.... from BARE I remember the selling of frags for the victims

 

[bluemanta]

I do remember BARE - are you the one explaining how BARE became BAR at a Seabay meeting? I think I can put a face to that. Anyhow, I spoke more to Jim Adelberg when I was at BAR...looking forward to seeing there at BAYMAC...yeah I need some web work done myself...just too time consuming to learn. How about Dave? the web guy for BAR? Anyhow let me know how I can drop off the frags to donate to BAR. Mostly aussie acans and micros.

 

[GreshamH]

Dave isn't around any longer

That wasn't me at the SEABAY meeting, sorry

 

[bluemanta]

That's cool,

Cheers.
Steve

 

[ebording]

i cant wait, this sounds like loads of fun .... i wonder how i can get out of going to that wedding on the 23?...reef stuff is way more fun

 

[GreshamH]

Well accidentally show up to BAYMAC and say you thought that was the wedding hall they where using

 

[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.

 

[raddogz]

Nice Gresham - I'm looking forward to going!

 

[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]

Raffle Update:

Warner Marine Research has donated an AS150 Advanced In-Sump Protein Skimmer. If you haven't seen these bad boys, check this out

 

[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