Joliet Area Reef Club 2010 Frag Swap - April 24

[JMalone81]

2010 JOLIET AREA REEF CLUB FRAG SWAP



Date: Saturday, April 24th
Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Location: Joliet Elk's Lodge, 250 SE Frontage Road, Joliet, IL

ENTRY FEES


$10 per person
Children under 11 years old are free
*** Anyone who volunteers at least one hour of time will be admitted to swap at no charge***
Volunteer sign up sheets will be available online soon & will also be available at the March 27th meeting.

Entry fee includes admission to all speakers & demos, frag shopping, & lunch (hamburgers, hot dogs, brats, chips, potato salad, cole slaw)

VENDOR & FRAGGER TABLES


Fragger tables $10 for half of a 8' table
Vendor tables $50 for a 6' table

***If interested in reserving a space, please reply to this thread. Payments can be sent via PayPal to memberships@jolietareareefclub.com or mailed to P.O. Box 3794, Joliet, IL 60434.

SPEAKERS


Jim Fatherree on clams
check out his website for further information http://www.fatherree.com/james/

Bill Donovan - LED lighting demo including pros & cons of LED lighting & PARR meter comparison

Mark Schick - Live Food presentation (Bio coming soon)

RAFFLES


Raffles will be held two to three times throughout the day (Full schedule will be posted soon). You must be present to win.

Door Prizes & Freebies

1x Be A Geek T-Shirt - M (Black)
1x Be A Geek T-Shirt - L (Black)
1x Be A Geek T-Shirt - XL (Black)
25 x Be A Geek Stickers
50 or so Premium Aquatics scrapers
80 Premium Aquatics pens 1/2 in blue 1/2 in orange
100 - Bottles of Sera marin Granule fish food
JARC 'I Glue Animals To Rocks' T-shirts
JARC 'Nice Wrasse!' T-shirts

Reef Geek
1 x ReefGeek 48" 2x54W Miro-4 T5 High-Output Retrofit Kit

DT's Phytoplankton

12(15oz) DT's Live Marine Phytoplankton

Hamilton Technology

Cayman Sun - 150 Watt HQI Reflector with LED lights
http://www.hamiltontechnology.com/sh...cat=Reflectors
250w 14k HQI bulbs
Nano tank bulbs

Aquatic Life

Aquatic Life ORP Controller/pH Monitor

Premium Aquatics

4 Osmo-Chek Series HD100st Submersible Digital Thermometers

Bulk Reef Supply

75 GPD 5 stage RO/DI unit
Deluxe BRS GFO & Carbon Reactor
2 lbs bulk GFO

Rod's Food

Rod's Food

Inland Aquatics

$20 gift certificate

United Pet Group (Tetra, Marineland, Jungle, Instant Ocean, Perfecto)

1 - Ocean Master Test Kit
3 - IO Full Range Hydrometer
6 - Instant Ocean Marine Conditioner, 100ml
1 - IO Pacific Krill, Soft Gel, 20 servings
24 - Marine .42oz
2 - Instant Ocean Salt - 25 Gallon

Auto Topoff

Auto Top Off unit

Seachem

TBA

*** Much more to come so check back often!

 

[poidog81]

Anyone ever been to a Joliet one before? How is it?

 

[goat585]

I was a frag seller at their event last summer. It was a very nice event. They had a couple of speakers, music and lunch. There was a good amount of sellers with nice stuff as well.

 

[fijiblue]

How is it compared to the CMAS swap? Sounds like it is pretty cool.

 

[joesfiddy]

it should be a good one!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mystery_reef]

is there a good showing of people at this one?

 

[goat585]

How is it compared to the CMAS swap? Sounds like it is pretty cool.

There was less attendees but I think it was do to being held in the middle of the summer. Otherwise the size of the event is similar to what CMAS holds.

 

[hounddog01]

Had a great time at the last one. I plan on attending this one!

 

[JMalone81]

Bump

 

[Piscinarii]

Looks like fun. Any way to see what times the raffles are and the items for that time since the event is so long?

 

[JMalone81]

You can go to jolietareareefclub.com for more info.

 

[ashtree68]

Bump, this one has a little more info.

 

[Piscinarii]

Got this from their site:

TENATIVE SCHEDULE

8am-10am Setup
10am Doors open
11:30am-12pm LED light demo
12pm-1pm Lunch
12:45 pm Raffle #1
1pm-2pm Speaker #1
2:30pm Raffle #2
3pm-4pm Speaker #2
5pm Final Raffle
Breakdown/Clean up

 

[Dana19620]

I'll be there! Looking forward to it.

 

[Dana19620]

Update on bio for Mark Schick


I have been working with marine aquariums for over 25 years, the last 13 of which have been spent working for the Shedd Aquarium. In my time at the aquarium I have been lucky enough to work with a wide variety of animals ranging from inverts and fish to lizards.


My infatuation with the ocean started on a class field trip in Hawaii in 3rd grade. While walking through tide pools the one thing we were told not to touch was an urchin, how was I suppose to know what Diadema were? From the moment my hand started swelling from having a dozen spines in it I was hooked.


Working through high school at the local fish store I went on to a double major in biology and marine ecology at the University of Alabama. Bouncing between internships and field work I eventually wound up at the Shedd Aquarium.


In 2003 I was responsible for the husbandry side of opening our Philippines exhibit that includes a 5000gallon live coral exhibit and 400,000gallon shark display. Currently I manage the Shedd's special exhibit hall, seahorse collection, and the live foods area.


My main topics of interest center around the SECORE (SExual COral REproduction) project, working toward breeding sea dragons, and live food culture. My first experience with any real culture of live foods was maintaining algae and rotifer cultures in the mid 90's. Since then I have expanded into copepods, mysids and a variety of other salt and fresh water live foods and continue to be amazed at how much there is to learn.

 

[1boatnut]

Any list or idea of how many vendors will be there?

 

[JMalone81]

Pauls Corals
Meisen
Sara B
Goat585
Plus many more...

 

[boxer385]

is there a good showing of people at this one?

i will be there

 

[JMalone81]

Great!I hope to see you there.

 

[boxer385]

Great!I hope to see you there.

my buddy Mark just join your club