MARS March 21 Meeting - Feeding the reef!

[MrMikeB]

This month MARS is happy to have Reed Mariculture's own Randy Reed come to speak to us on the topic of feeding the reef. From zooplankton and rotifers to copepods and microalgae - get answers straight from the source! Reed Mariculture develops and distributes the the popular Reef Nutrition product line where Randy has served as CEO for over 10 years.

Meeting location: Round Tabe Pizza, 9500-1 Greenback Lane Folsom, CA 95630
Meeting time: 7PM! The Board meeting will be an hour earlier for those who would like to join

Come and join us! Bring your friends and family - all are welcome!

Randy's Bio can be found here:
http://www.reed-mariculture.com/randy/
http://www.reefnutrition.com/

Oh, and Randy is bringing samples!

 

[kdblove_99]

Sounds good.

No Gresham, ey?

 

[tcoral]

I'm thinking on joining, what do you guys do at the meetings?
Raffle? Auction? How long do they run approximately?

 

[gem]

Awesome!!! That's one that's going to be good for me!

 

[Quasarlee]

Meetings

Meetings

Tcoral, Your Welcome to joins us at the meeting.
MARS has a Q&A session, Speakers & Great Raffles.
The meeting usually last until 10:00 to 10:30.
Come,Learn & have Fun.

 

[MrMikeB]

Membership can be arranged at the meeting, or you can sign up online at www.marineaquarist.org

For $25/yr, a price of a frag, you can support all the awesome events and speakers MARS is able to bring to you. Come, join us, participate and be active in the local reefing scene and enjoy in the festivities and good times to be had by all!

 

[bipolarbear]

Dang I'm going to have to miss my first meeting, I'm going to be in Seattle. I joined at the frag swap which was great btw!

Someone do me a favor and ask if he has heard of the Italian Blue Coral method, or 'pappone':

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1300777&perpage=25&pagenumber=5

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=9270360#post9270360

I'd be interested to hear what he thinks of it.

 

[Brian Prestwood]

Randy is a great guy. Looking forward to hearing from him.

 

[MrMikeB]

Bump!

 

[GreshamH]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12022990#post12022990 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kdblove_99
Sounds good.

No Gresham, ey?

I may come along. Randy is our public speaker but if everyone has their way (besides me) I'll be doing them very soon. I just hate doing public speaking though, but I guess it's time to get ove the lame high school fear :lol:

 

[tcoral]

bump

 

[tfp]

hey gresh, you coming up for the meeting? still got your reflectors and that frag if you still want to trade for it.

i gotta plan accordingly

 

[MrMikeB]

I just confirmed with Randy - they will be here!

Also, Randy has asked if any reefers wanted to open their homes up to a Saturday AM tank tour. They are heading to Marysville at about 11, so something earlier than that would be great. They can bribe you with some of their product line.

 

[GreshamH]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12026742#post12026742 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bipolarbear
Dang I'm going to have to miss my first meeting, I'm going to be in Seattle. I joined at the frag swap which was great btw!

Someone do me a favor and ask if he has heard of the Italian Blue Coral method, or 'pappone':

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1300777&perpage=25&pagenumber=5

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=9270360#post9270360

I'd be interested to hear what he thinks of it.

He hasn't. The question would be differred to me and I would be put on the spot to speak my mind about the effects of feezing stuff (bursted cell membranes,etc) and how it degrades the over all quality of the feed. Some things can be frozen just fine, others can't. I'm also not a big fan of HGH in general so all in all I am not a Pappone fan. Other then HGH Pappone is no different then any of the mash blends that people have been making for a long time. They work great for feeding fish and LPS but SPS are a different story.

One very large drawback Papponne has is particle size. You really have to blend it quite well to get the particle size down small enough to effectivelly feed SPS. LPS are no problem, but SPS don't take in that large of particles. In fact, if the SPS grab a too large of particle and reject it, that results in a "net negative" for the corals energy budget.

 

[GreshamH]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12120947#post12120947 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tfp
hey gresh, you coming up for the meeting? still got your reflectors and that frag if you still want to trade for it.

i gotta plan accordingly

I just sent you an email about this today. I will be there and would love to hook up with you there for the reflectors and frag. if you could pack the frag for a extended journey I would be very grateful. I won't hit home till saturday night. We're going to rob's 1 year anniversy for his store for the later part of saturday

 

[MrMikeB]

Anyone up for the mini tank tour Saturday AM? 2 days to go!!

 

[Brian Prestwood]

Hey Mike

As always, you're welcome to stop by my place.

 

[Brian Prestwood]

Calfo's ID Posters

Calfo's ID Posters

The frames for the five Calfo ID posters we bought are schedules to arrive tomorow. With any luck, we'll have them up at the meeting tomorrow night...

Calfo's ID Posters

 

[AJPACINO23]

bump for a good meeting tonight.

 

[MrMikeB]

See ya'll there! Good times!