GRMAS Meeting June 5th @ 7:00PM

[Gerde]

Please join us for our next meeting of the Grand Rapids Marine Aquarium Society this Monday June 5 at 7:00 PM. Meetings are held in the Community Room, located inside the Family Fare at 6797 Cascade Rd SE in Grand Rapids. See www.grmas.org for a map link.

Agenda:

Old Business:
-Club Shirt update
-Website update
-July Picnic planning/spending
-Pruess Tour news?

New Business:
-Reef News
-Switching July and Aug speakers
-Open

Activity: Test Kit Testing and Comparison. Brian Vu will be providing some tank water as a "control", everyone else needs to bring in a variety of commonly used test kits to use on it (PH, Alk, calcium, phosphate, Nitrate, Ammonia, etc). Also, if anyone has a portable electronic tester for any of these that is willing to bring it in, please do. We will compare the results from the different brands and discuss.


Auction
-Bring in all of those overgrown corals, fish in need of new homes, used equipment and stuff to auction off. Anyone can buy, only current paid members can sell.


July Saturday event: Stingrays at the Zoo. Club to pay half of your admission per paid membership. We need to select a date, June 17th or June 24th.


If you have any additions you need to get on the agenda, please let me know and I'll add it!

Thank you,

Scott Gerdeman

 

[tanglovers]

We will bring along our Salifert test kits (alk, ph, nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, calcium, magnesium and think we have a couple more too) and our Hanna Phosphate colorimeter.