Hear ye, Hear ye... Your new presidents talking :)

Dragonvale

Dragonvale

New member
I don't know if I'm honored, or duped that the new guy is now your president? First, thank you Grant, Tom and Bob for getting the club to where its at! Now I don't know if you trust me or set the BAR so high that you know I will fail? As your president, I will do my best in the clubs best interest to keep setting the BAR higher. So the next president that takes over can have that much more pressure and fail (LOL JK not really).

So first thing on the agenda is a proposal to do a group buy on berghia nudibranchs? Don't know if other members have those pesky aiptasia's that can benefit from the group buy? Ron or Bob can you please comment on the proposal? I caught you guys at the end of the discussion so please elaborate on your idea. So if anyone needs these bad boys please chime in on the thread.

Next, would be what would you want to see presented for the next meeting? Its far from now but I'd rather get some ideas rather than last minute. If there's anything! I mean anything that you guys wanted to do in general or want, Fire away! I have no idea and looking to hear from a lot of you for guidance since its the overall club that makes this happen. PM me or post.

Thank you and looking forward to a GREAT 2013!
 
Congrats and welcome. Big feet to fill. :)

Grant and Tom have definitely helped make this a great group. I only joined 1.5 years ago to WCR and came for the generous and laid back group.

As for berghias, we bought a while back from Reef Pest Solutions. Very good prices and great packaging and if there is enough demand, we can order some. I am culturing some as a local source, but it will be a whole before I get enough momentum to share back to club.

The one challenge in my mind is to make sure your fish, shrimp, and pods don't try to eat the berghias before they power up on aiptasia. Berghias eat aiptasia and use their "poison" to keep potetial predators at bay. Your livestock need to be trained to recognize that berghias taste bad. That is my hypothesis why a few people I know (including me) lost our berghias once they were in our display tanks.
 
There was also talk about websites, and forums, and Facebook... If we ever need help with setting a website or Facebook app, etc, I can help out with that.
 
I would be interested in a group buy. I am starting to see the little aiptasia pop up and I am sure they will only grow more.

Just my preference not to do a FB page being as I don't do FB. But who knows maybe WCR will be the reason I will make an account
 
Actually there already is a wine country reefers Facebook page.... I do agree though that a website would be cool for the days reef central is down like today.
 
Well, I can help setup and run our own website if the membership & management really decide to go that route.

As for Facebook, agreed, I don't use FB all that much.
 
So what else do people want to learn? Newbies, intermediate reefers, and experts???

And if you like something below or want to learn more about it, reply so we can track interest.

Things we have done in the past include

-LED info & DIY design
-Pest treatment & dips
-Rock aquascaping

Some ideas off my head include:

-aiptasia, majano pest and how to eradicate
-types of reef safe wrasses and/or why certains ones mean no shrimp.
-Lighting & flow for various coral types
-how to photograph corals
-how to frag corals (zoas, SPS, anemones, etc)
-how to feed corals (what food for what corals)
-SPS and polyp extensions
-zoa care & gotchas (periodic closing & algae film buildup & zoa pox, etc)
-acan & dangers of long feelers/stingers
-strength of frogspawn/hammer coral stings (it's killed a few of my SPS in the past)
-common pests (how to identify & what/how they eat/attack)
-algal turf scrubber operation(?)

.... That's all I can think of for meetup info sessions off top of my head.
 
How about an 'All about quarantine' subject? This could be two presentations, fish and 'not fish'.

I read about a club that did a 'test the test kits' meet. Everybody brought in their kits and tried out different ones against a known sample.
 
Congrat Jason, I am sure your leadership skill will sine through. You will be great.

Aquanut, we did try the test the test kit meet but everyone prefered to chat with each others and we never got to the test lol. Maybe you guys will have better luck.
 
zeroinverse said:
So what else do people want to learn? Newbies, intermediate reefers, and experts???

And if you like something below or want to learn more about it, reply so we can track interest.

Things we have done in the past include

-LED info & DIY design
-Pest treatment & dips
-Rock aquascaping

Some ideas off my head include:

-aiptasia, majano pest and how to eradicate
-types of reef safe wrasses and/or why certains ones mean no shrimp.
-Lighting & flow for various coral types
-how to photograph corals
-how to frag corals (zoas, SPS, anemones, etc)
-how to feed corals (what food for what corals)
-SPS and polyp extensions
-zoa care & gotchas (periodic closing & algae film buildup & zoa pox, etc)
-acan & dangers of long feelers/stingers
-strength of frogspawn/hammer coral stings (it's killed a few of my SPS in the past)
-common pests (how to identify & what/how they eat/attack)
-algal turf scrubber operation(?)

.... That's all I can think of for meetup info sessions off top of my head.
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Wow Ron nice list! One thing based on today is how does everyone acclimate their corals? I say that cause their all in cup holders not air tight. And everyone uses diffrent salts meaning diffrent Alk levels. For instant I run at 8 where as someone using instant ocean runs at 10-11 (not sure what the dkh is but I want to say its in that range. I use neomarine and for some reason like how it mixes. Anyways, thats a topic I'd want to know.
 
woodnaquanut said:
How about an 'All about quarantine' subject? This could be two presentations, fish and 'not fish'.

I read about a club that did a 'test the test kits' meet. Everybody brought in their kits and tried out different ones against a known sample.
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I thought that was an AWESOME topic. Maybe concentrate on two items ALK and Cal, or one. Have a freshly mixed batch of fresh saltwater without anyone knowing the brand. Then have people write down what they got on a piece of paper. Give prizes to the top 3 closests. Again I'm just brain storming maybe everyone is that good so no one gets anything? LOL
 
Meeting subjects i think the ALK and Ca is a great one. This is definately the building blocks for a successful reef. I on Grant's reccoemndation dropped my alk to 7ish from over 8ish and it has really worked well. I know certain corals like a little higher alk.

Berghia's,sounds like we have the potential for a group buy. As Ron said they need to get acclimated by eating aptaisa. Im definately in on the buy. Anyone else?
 
northbay-reefer said:
Congrat Jason, I am sure your leadership skill will sine through. You will be great.

Aquanut, we did try the test the test kit meet but everyone prefered to chat with each others and we never got to the test lol. Maybe you guys will have better luck.
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Because everyone preferred to gaze at Grant's tank for that meet.
 
Working with acrylic... Building ATO/Alk/Ca/Mg dosing containers. Then raffle off the built product at the next meeting.

BTW Congrats to the new board.
 
AMAYEU said:
Working with acrylic... Building ATO/Alk/Ca/Mg dosing containers. Then raffle off the built product at the next meeting.

BTW Congrats to the new board.
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zeroinverse said:
Maybe also discuss how calcium reactors work along with the 2/3 part dosing regimens so people know how those work
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I'd want to make a ATO and dosing containers and learn about peristaltic dosing. I've operated a calcium reactor but this time went with the dosing pumps. Kind of scared even though it seems so straight forward.
 
I also am interested in building an ato, getting tired of topping off everyday by hand especial now that its cold I top off maybe 1/2 gallon everyday.
 
Those are some great topic and workshop ideas. I didn't know there was a facebook for the club. Looks like I'll have to add it
 
For ATO, if you have a controller, I put a DIY float switch to my controller and an aqualifter pump on a controlled outlet. It pumps my 5gallon topoff reserve into my sump as needed for topoff.

If people need discussion on electrical connection design, in a former life I was also an electrical engineer designing both digital controllers & industrial power control systems.
 
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