March Meeting

[pwhitby]

The march meeting will be at UCO, 7.30 pm in the Atrium, on saturday the 11th.

I am hoping to have a presentation on reef micro-flora as well as a discussion on how best to redo the UCO tank.

This months meeting is sponsored by the Reefshop.

Paul.

 

[pwhitby]

Who is planning on attending?

Paul.

 

[ReeferRyan]

I should be there

 

[luvabunny]

I plan on being there.
I also have a mushroom frag to go to the next person, but have no idea who that person is. Help????

Also - Paul - I will be bringing you a red grape caulerpa start, and can have several more to go to the frag program. Are we ready for new donor threads - Travis / Greg?

 

[pwhitby]

Thanks April.

T/G do one of you guys want to get a donor list going for Aprils red grape caulerpa.

 

[mskohl]

I'll be there too. I'll have a red mushroom frag for the next on the list. Also, I'll bring a kenya tree frag, but I believe the previous list for it is dead.

Here is a picture of it from a few months ago. I can provide a better one for a donor thread if needed.

 

[pwhitby]

To expand:

I want to do a trial run at this meeting of one of the IMAC DVDs that we have in the library. The DVD is entitled:

Microscope Safari Through Desert Reef and is Presented by Sandra Shoup. Her description of the DVD is given below. Should everything work out, we will be showing more of the DVDs over the coming year. Once the DVD has been seen at a metting we will allow it to be borrowed from the library.


roscope Safari Through Desert Reef by Sandra Shoup.

Corporate controller by day and frustrated scientist by nightââ"šÂ¬Ã‚¦ I am but a lowly reef aquarist who got involved in this fascinating hobby in March of 1999. My 30-gallon acrylic ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"œhook tankââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ (as my husband describes my first aquarium) lasted eight months before being upgraded to a 90-gallon glass tank. Eighteen months later the 90 turned into a 220-gallon custom tank with a 30-gallon refugium sitting on custom cabinetry (built by my husband) and sitting where my formal dining table used to be.

Since that time I have amassed quite a library and have spent more time reading that reefing! I've taken Eric Borneman's Coral Biology class, Dr. Ron Shimek's Invertebrate Zoology and Sand Bed Ecology classes online through Reef Central. I've attended all the MACNA conferences since 1999 and the IMAC conference for the first time last year. I was the editor for MASNA's newsletter for a year and have written numerous articles for Reefkeeping.com. In all, my husband says I've been a model ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"œpointed-headed reef geekââ"šÂ¬Ã‚.

I've found that I have a special interest in invertebrate zoology, specifically microscopic invertebrates. This, of course, means that in addition to taking over the formal dining room for my aquarium, I set up a mini-laboratory in my husband's exercise room. With my dissecting scope and an Olympus trinocular microscope I picked up from a veterinary pathologist back East, I've spent hours studying and photographing microscopic invertebrates that I've found in my tank, sump and refugium.

So I'd like to welcome you to join me for a look at the beautiful and fascinating world of microscopic reef tank animals. Using photomicrographs and video clips we'll be examining animals that can be found in the most unlikely places, such as the crud at the bottom of my sump! While this program probably won't make the next issue of The Journal of Invertebrate Biology, it's ideal for the aquarist seeking justification for not vacuuming their sump every month.

 

[bwayne315]

I will be there since, I am bringing a projector.


B.

 

[MyMonkey]

I shall be there. I realize I say that every time. Although, I am optimistic this time. Also, for those of you who I had offered GSP, or some other Polyp. Please know that my tank is not really the best source of anything at the moment. Hair Algae is attacking on all fronts. Hopefully, within a few months it will be under control. Untill then, I think I wil keep my nasties to myself.

 

[2ras]

I'll be there.....

Ray

 

[indoreefer]

I plan on being there.

 

[swamp63]

I will be there
I also have a cabbage leather that i need to split that i can bring
i don't have the space to make several frags but if some one would want to take it and frag it for the donor program or put in the UCO tank or take it home let me know and i'll bring half of it. It would be half of this aprox. 3" by 6"

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/101147100_0794.jpg


Kelly

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

This sounds like a good meeting, I'll be there. I will also have a list of the updated threads. I would like to see everyone before they leave to double check what lists they would want to be on and are on, and to check on how any frags are doing. The lists that you will see at the meeting are what the donor lists will look like on the forum. I'm going to try to get those updated today.

 

[poke75]

I'll be in Dallas. Ya'll have fun!!

Steve

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

Will anyone be bringing a laptop or computer to the meeting?

 

[Serra]

I am planning on being there. I would like to be on the list for April's red grape caulerpa.

Sheryl

 

[Reef Happy]

I will be there.

 

[pwhitby]

i will have my laptop

 

[ReeferRyan]

Is the atrium in the Nigh University Center?

 

[DizziDezi2]

is the atrium where we were last time??