BAYMAC June 13th, San Jose - 10:30 - 5:00

[GreshamH]

BAYMAC 2009
Bay Area Marine Aquarium Conference
Hosted by: Reef Nutrition
Saturday June 13th - 10:30 to 5:00pm
2139 South Tenth Street, San Jose, CA
www.TheBayMAC.com (goes live shortly)

*FREE ADMISSION*

*HUGE RAFFLE* - all proceeds are split amongst participating reef clubs

*Door Prizes*
All proceeds to be split amongst all participating reef clubs.

*Guest Speakers*
Jake Adams of www.************.com & www.CORALidea.com
Scott Fellman of www.wetwebmedia.com
Frank Burr of www.IMACwest.com
Rich Ross from the Steinhart Aquarium @ the California Academy of Science

Northern and central California reef clubs, private vendors from all around California and manufacturers will be on hand.

We will have a food vendor on sight if you get hungry.

We hope to see you at BAYMAC this year.

Remember, support your LFS

[GreshamH]

Current list of vendors:

Reef Nutrition (co-host)
Reef Builders
Mobile Aquatics
JenDub
Fantasy Corals
Wet Thumb Frags
Warner Marine Research
EcoSystem Aquariums
IMACWEST
BAR
Socal Tropical Fish
Northcoast Reefers
CVR
A local named Kyle (not sure of screen name)
NCRC
NVR
more TBA shortly.

[GreshamH]

We're proud to announce the addition of two more vendors at BAYMAC2009
Frag-a-Rack (http://www.frag-a-rack.com/catalog/)
and
Exotic Frags (http://www.exoticfrags.us/)

If you haven't seen the Frag-A-Racks yet check them out. I highly recommend them :)

[wet thumbs]

HI Gresham!
when is the set up time ?

[GreshamH]

With just over a week until BAYMAC I figured now is a good time to start posting the raffle donations and the schedule. All this and more can be found on www.theBAYMAC.com

Raffle Donors and Donations
Reef Nutrition - Lots of stuff
Warner Marine Research - TBA
Tropic Marin - TBA
Aquatic Life - Controller
IMACwest - 1 full registration to IMACwest July 31st - August 2nd in Long Beach, CA
The Aquarium Showroom - 29g Biocube, and more
Neptune Systems - ACjr w/ DC8
CPR Aquatics - Bak Pak Protein Skimmer and Aquafuge
EcoSystem Aquarium - TBA
Lumarc Lighting - 1 Stealth Lumenarc reflector
Caribsea - A TON of stuff (no really, enough to throw my back out moving it)
TruVu Aquariums - TBA
Brightwell Aquatics - TBA
Rod's Food - 10 packs
The Salmon Queen - 3 set of two tickets for a charter fishing trip
ESV - B-Ionic
Boston Aqua Farms - 2 Propagation kits, more TBA
Advanced Lighting Solutions - MH bulbs
TAAM - Calcium Reactor, Media Reactor, assorted pumps and more TBA
Marineland - TBA
Sunlight Supply - TBA
Vertex - TBA
Wishin2beoutside - Corals

and like I said more is being announced daily. Check the website (www.theBAYMAC.com) for updates on the raffle. Yes, it's finally live albeit minus some text.

Schedule for BAYMAC2009 - June 13th
10:30am Doors open, raffle tickets go on sale
11:30am - Rich Ross - REEFporn - A Journey to Papua New Guinea
12:45 - Scott Fellman - Your Next Reef Aquarium
2:00 - Frank Burr - Quarantine for Reef Systems
3:00 - Jake Adams - REEF Builders LIVE
4:00 - raffle ticket sales end
4:15 - raffle starts
5:00ish - doors close

[wet thumbs]

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