Maritime aquarium meeting
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fiddly_foo
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I'll let you know have plains to go to he NHRA National's at english town on Sunday not sure if I'm going to quilfing on sat. I'll find out and let you know thx's ..Brian
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Count me in. I'm not sure if I'll have a sitter so might have the 2 kids with me.
Oops! I didn't realize that this the 2nd day of the World Cup and I am going to a party for the USA-England game. So I won't make it to the Maritime.
Have fun and take some photos if it is allowed.
Didier
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OO yea thats right I'm a huge socer fan too. We should get together at a bar for a game or 2 who do you liket o win it all... Cant belive robben (dutch)got hurt at that expo. game and dorgba ( ivory coast) to hope they both play.. spain look really good torres and villa. On espn they have a free worls cup pickem I did it you should to I'll tell you what Group I'm in I started a room called "reef aquarium cup 2010" thats in espn come join the group and pick your winners.. Tell friends to join this group at espn too.. thx's Brian
Anyone? Yay or Nah?
Do we have a head count yet?
Trying to make family plans for the weekend, Is there anything else we should know? Admission/Parking Charges? Photos allowed?
If we do come down we will be coming from springfield, Ma and planning to make a day of it since its a 2 hour drive. Any suggestions on things to do in the area?
thanks
Goodness! Let's hope it does not come to that. But if it does, I don't think Joe can make it, so that grim duty would fall to Georgi, our "Lesser Poohbah".
And if we needed some form of tiebreaker - hopefully that won't be necessary - will have to be membership based... members getting first dibs, visitors after that.
But let's hope we don't have that problem. :thumbsup:
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Sorry I didn't make it to the meeting but I had a family event that my wife reminded me of and also had other stuff to deal with that came up. Hope all went well.
Awesome Meeting!
Awesome Meeting!
Well, we had very from people... Neil, RJ, Chris, a couple of wives, a few kids, and myself. But we had a AWESOME time.
Our host - John Lenzuiski - has been with the Aquarium since it's inception, and he was VERY knowledgeable. Really nice guy too.
I'm not sure if John ever told us his exact job, but you got the really strong sense that he was the top "fish guy", possibly all of the animals. There was nothing about them that he did not know. Same for the equipment that keeps them alive and healthy.
Our tour went pretty much in the order you see the aquarium, starting with the smaller LI sound tanks, onto larger coastal tanks, then the huge open water shark tank, then the jelly fish, and finally the reef tanks. But rather than looking on the outside, we went behind and/or over all of them! I'm a real aquarium plumbing geek, so I was in heaven.
I think everyone was knocked out to see the sharks up close and personal... leaning over the top of their tank. (Which BTW apparently no one is EVER allowed into). But seeing their various breeding tanks was cool too - jelly fish, sea horses, and more.
And it was a treat to listen to John's philosophy about fish keeping:
If I missed something, someone who went, please chime in.
The tour itself lasted 3 hours. We REALLY got the show.
THANKS for arranging this Neil! I'll pitch in to help show John our appreciation. It was AWESOME!
Awesome Meeting!
Well, we had very from people... Neil, RJ, Chris, a couple of wives, a few kids, and myself. But we had a AWESOME time.
Our host - John Lenzuiski - has been with the Aquarium since it's inception, and he was VERY knowledgeable. Really nice guy too.
I'm not sure if John ever told us his exact job, but you got the really strong sense that he was the top "fish guy", possibly all of the animals. There was nothing about them that he did not know. Same for the equipment that keeps them alive and healthy.
Our tour went pretty much in the order you see the aquarium, starting with the smaller LI sound tanks, onto larger coastal tanks, then the huge open water shark tank, then the jelly fish, and finally the reef tanks. But rather than looking on the outside, we went behind and/or over all of them! I'm a real aquarium plumbing geek, so I was in heaven.
I think everyone was knocked out to see the sharks up close and personal... leaning over the top of their tank. (Which BTW apparently no one is EVER allowed into). But seeing their various breeding tanks was cool too - jelly fish, sea horses, and more.
And it was a treat to listen to John's philosophy about fish keeping:
- Water conditions are important, but not as important as water stability.
- Sufficient dissolved oxygen is by far the most important water parameter.
- Number one thing to provide in a power outage is current and air.
- Keep support systems simple.
- Heavy use of reverse flow under gravel filtration instead of high dependence on external filters.
- Water changes generally at a rate of 15-20% a week.
If I missed something, someone who went, please chime in.
The tour itself lasted 3 hours. We REALLY got the show.
THANKS for arranging this Neil! I'll pitch in to help show John our appreciation. It was AWESOME!
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