Next Meeting?
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itZme
New member
Membership is $20/year. You can sign up HERE or just bring the $20 with you to the meeting. You can check out a meeting or two without being a member if you would like to be sure you are into it. The club has a website www.c-sea.org.
Depending on who is using the rooms at the zoo we have the meetings at either the aquatics building or the education building.
If it is at the aquatics bldg you park in the Fulton road employee parking lot and walk down the path to the bldg. If we are at the education bldg you can park in the main parking lot right near the front entrance and then head over to the left of the entrance where you will see double doors. You enter there and head all the way back to the last room. The zoo has other rooms there that usually have girl scouts and things going on at the same time.
Every year there is a Frag workshop which should be coming up in the next month or two. During the workshop you walk around to different tables and learn how to frag the corals which are already at the tables. There are tools, bags, water and help available at each table. You get to take some of each coral home with you that night. Just the one event is worth the cost of being a member. There are usually about 12-15 corals to cut up.
It is a great time and I have gotten a few nice corals out of those over the last few years.
The club has a nice livestock raffle at each meeting. You can buy tickets and then choose which items you would like to take a chance on winning. You put your tickets into the container in front of the item you want and if yours is pulled you take it home. There is usually one of each LPS, SPS, Soft coral, fish and a cleanup critter.
Then there is a "members only" raffle item. Each paid member will get a ticket at each meeting they attend and there is one ticket pulled. The winner takes the item home with them. I won a great 10-12 headed nuclear-green calaustrea last year that is still doing well in my tank! Here's a pic of the coral with my flame hawk hanging out on it. The green color didn't show up as bright as it really is though.
We have chips, pop and some other snack like donuts that are purchased with club funds and free to enjoy. Overall it is a very enjoyable way to spend a Friday evening. You can meet other people as obsessed as you are and learn quite a bit from the speakers and members.
Hope to see you all there this year,
-- Kevin
Depending on who is using the rooms at the zoo we have the meetings at either the aquatics building or the education building.
If it is at the aquatics bldg you park in the Fulton road employee parking lot and walk down the path to the bldg. If we are at the education bldg you can park in the main parking lot right near the front entrance and then head over to the left of the entrance where you will see double doors. You enter there and head all the way back to the last room. The zoo has other rooms there that usually have girl scouts and things going on at the same time.
Every year there is a Frag workshop which should be coming up in the next month or two. During the workshop you walk around to different tables and learn how to frag the corals which are already at the tables. There are tools, bags, water and help available at each table. You get to take some of each coral home with you that night. Just the one event is worth the cost of being a member. There are usually about 12-15 corals to cut up.
It is a great time and I have gotten a few nice corals out of those over the last few years.
The club has a nice livestock raffle at each meeting. You can buy tickets and then choose which items you would like to take a chance on winning. You put your tickets into the container in front of the item you want and if yours is pulled you take it home. There is usually one of each LPS, SPS, Soft coral, fish and a cleanup critter.
Then there is a "members only" raffle item. Each paid member will get a ticket at each meeting they attend and there is one ticket pulled. The winner takes the item home with them. I won a great 10-12 headed nuclear-green calaustrea last year that is still doing well in my tank! Here's a pic of the coral with my flame hawk hanging out on it. The green color didn't show up as bright as it really is though.
We have chips, pop and some other snack like donuts that are purchased with club funds and free to enjoy. Overall it is a very enjoyable way to spend a Friday evening. You can meet other people as obsessed as you are and learn quite a bit from the speakers and members.
Hope to see you all there this year,
-- Kevin
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itZme
New member
Looks like the 3rd Friday in September is the 21st. I don't know when the Frag Workshop is this year. Maybe it will be the October meeting. Hopefully a board member will step in and fill in the blanks. They try to plan out the meeting agenda well in advance so it is probably all figured out and just not updated on the website yet.
Meetings are at 7:30.
Also, I forgot to mention that we have a big Christmas party every year. Everyone brings a dish or dessert and the club buys some good food too. We all get together and there is a bigger than normal raffle that night
Good food, good conversation and good raffle items ... sounds like a recipe for fun to me.
Meetings are at 7:30.
Also, I forgot to mention that we have a big Christmas party every year. Everyone brings a dish or dessert and the club buys some good food too. We all get together and there is a bigger than normal raffle that night
Good food, good conversation and good raffle items ... sounds like a recipe for fun to me.
I was hoping it wasnt the weekend of the 21st. Work is moving & everyone is mandantory to work, hope fully we dont have to work that night & just sat & sun. So does the offical meeting place get announced on the forums or the group website?Jim_Leyland
In Memoriam
if the meetings were held on the weekend it would be alot better for me since i work 2nd shift and wouldn't be able to attend any of them! id like to join but as i stated i woudn't be going to them unless they were on the weekends
oldreefer76
New member
We are going to probably join this year also and hopefully they will have a meeting about FOWLR
Jim_Leyland
In Memoriam
maybe i can take the day off to come to the frag shop, is there any corals that you guys frag that will do good under vho's?
oldreefer76
New member
In general maybe a speaker that could cover the basics to advanced fowlr topics
oldreefer76
New member
My first tank SW was in 1974 a 15g with a hob filter,a box filter, crushed coral substrate, a large piece of what I now know was an Acro skeleton ,N.O put Fluro lighting, a 5 gallon jug of pre mixed sw that I had to dilute to 1.20 all with tap water, a floating hydrometer, was told after initial set up to wait 2 weeks then added a black molly the store had, then weeks later added a condy aneamoe and then a clown that did host it, was a nice tank and all did well , but work, girls and looking to go to college I lost intrest until 1998 after keeping and breeding rare cichlids for many years, we decided to do the Nano reef thing had some nice tanks and bad , for us fowlr is the way to go currently
Jasonf08
New member
Oldreefer, So in your opinion if i switched my dad's 110 to FO with a large skimmer i already gave him would i need anything else other than changing the substrate from gravel to argonite? The only other thing i could think of would be a denitrator since he doesnt have any means of using the nitrate up. Thanks
