January 21st, 2012 OMAS meeting

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This months meeting will be held at Jason Weiners house. He has recently moved, so please make sure you use the address in this email and the RC forum board to find your way there. His address is 4507 S Gum, Broken Arrow, ok 74011. Its about a half a mile south from 101st and Elm in Broken Arrow. Please show up sometime around 7, and the demonstration will begin at 8PM after everybody has eaten. Jason has a 180 bowfront with LEDs, a corner predator/anemone tank, and a frag tank with a fuge in his closet.

Meeting Information:
This month, we will be having a make your own food class. We will be having a live demonstration on the how-to's and what to buys of making food. Also, the benefits and drawbacks of making your food, compared to prepared food. As im sure most of you know, different foods have their different purposes, and its always better to add some variety to your Fish and Coral's diets. The club will be providing the raw ingredients to make the food, so please if you plan on taking any home with you to try, brink a ziploc bag to put it in. Im sure people will be bringing extras, but as the saying goes, better to be safe than sorry.

The food theme for this month's meeting will be chili. Jason will be making a few different pots of chili. A spicy blend, and a very mild turkey chili so there will be something for everybody's taste. Please bring sides according to chili, like shredded cheese, crackers, sides, desserts, or beer is always a favorite fallback. ;-D As usual, the club will be providing soda.

I am also very happy to say that the club seems to have gotten back on the right track. We have become much more organized, and will continue to have informative meetings in an open discussion or hands on format. As stated before, we will begin the food preparation demonstration at 8PM and will stop all other discussion at that time unless it is about the topic of the meeting, and of course, informal conversation and questions are always welcome after the demonstration.

In other news, the www.OMAS.org website is getting re-vamped as we speak. Jason Weiner is redesigning our website, and we will be starting the member photos again. Hopefully this will lead to having another photo-of-the-month contest and some great giveaways to the winner. I also believe this will link our other forum, and once this forum is running smooth we should begin to use that forum. If you would like to volunteer your home to host a meeting, please notify myself or another board member. It does not matter how big or small your aquarium is, or how many corals you have, or whether they are frags or colonies, part of the fun is seeing a tank mature over the years. Most of the year is still open, other than the elections meeting and the christmas meeting.

Hope to see everybody there,
Travis Kirby
OMAS Secretary
 
Plan on attending (and joining) next week at the Jan 21 meeting. Looking for some Cheato or other algae for my huge. Just added a new huge with skimmer with the help of one of your members, running great!

Bruce
 
Jason said that he has both grape, and feather caluerpa that you can have as much as you want of. Just bring a bag or two for transporting.
 
I have a fish that is not fitting in with my tank very well .
I can bring him to the meeting if someone wants to trade me with a yellow tang or something else just let me know what you have otherwise I'll sell him if you like just make me an offer
you can e-mail me at kashbrener@aol.com
or call me at 9186986330

sorry for the picture size i saven them as 120x72 but they still look big


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No,he picks at my snails and my sps
I really think he would be more suited for a predator tank.
I think ill take him to Scott today an see if we can do a trade
 
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I gotta say... that was an AWESOME meeting. The food prep class was really good. I figure with that same $30 in stuff from the market, I could easily feed my tanks on it for a year.

Great raffle prizes, and lots of people showed up! Hope everyone had as good of a time as I did. :)
 
Thanks for welcoming us into your home. The chili was awesome and the meeting was very informative! We enjoyed it. Hope to see everyone at the next meeting.
 
GREAT meeting. I'm really impressed. The food making demo was awesome! I'm gonna save a ton of money making my own food from now on. JJ- can you post what ingredients you put in? Also what store do you go to?
 
I would like to thank Jason for letting us in his home and not minding that we used his blender to make the smelly stuff.I would also like to thank our sponsors Oddballs for donating the gift certificates and a T-shirt.I would like to thank DRS for donating the clam and Jason for the frags of candy canes.I would also like to thank Richard for getting the items from our online sponsors for the raffle.
 
I gotta say... that was an AWESOME meeting. The food prep class was really good. I figure with that same $30 in stuff from the market, I could easily feed my tanks on it for a year.

Great raffle prizes, and lots of people showed up! Hope everyone had as good of a time as I did. :)



37 bucks made 11 bags of food and I could have made more if I would have used all the items.Lets say the cost of food was around 3 dollars per bag made.In the past I have picked up nothing but frozen cubes and made a mixture as well.That one might have benefited the corals more but I am not 100% on it.Another option is to make the food mix and add some coral food..I have been thinking about making a type of frozen oyster stew.I am a huge fan of feeding oysters and oyster eggs to my fish and coral..I just would need a volunteer to bust open 5 or 6 pounds of oysters for me.
 
..I have been thinking about making a type of frozen oyster stew.I am a huge fan of feeding oysters and oyster eggs to my fish and coral..I just would need a volunteer to bust open 5 or 6 pounds of oysters for me.

I could do it. I was a chef in my past life. Plenty of time shucking oysters :). I also am a believer in oysters. After you told me I started feeding with reef nutrition oyster feast. I saw explosive growth to all my coral.
 
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