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11/06/2008, 12:32 PM
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BAYMAC - Sunday Nov 23rd - San Jose, CA
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Bay Area Marine Aquarium Conference 11am to 5pm - Sunday November 23rd 2143 South 10th Street, San Jose, 95112 www.TheBAYMAC.com (site will be up by this weekend) Join us 11 am to 5pm Sunday November 23rd 2008 in San Jose, CA for the first annual BAYMAC - Bay Area Marine Aquarium Conference serving the Central and Northern California reef communities. This first event will be FREE for everyone to attend and to participate. You don't need to be a member of a reef club to attend. All skill levels and all ages are encouraged to attend. Frag sales supporting regional Reef clubs - BAR - Bay Area Reefers and NCNRS - Northern California Nano Reef Society will have aquariums with coral frags & supplies for sale. All proceeds of these sales go to supporting the respective club. Private Frag sales - Other non club affiliated sellers welcome as well Please contact [email protected] for more details or visit www.thebaymac.com/nonclubfragsales08 Guest Speakers - Jake Adams (Flow Dynamics and flow devices explained), Rich Ross (Coral collections in Tonga) and Randy Reed (Feeding your reef) For bio’s and more details please visit www.thebaymac.com/speakers08 Reef Gear Flea Market - Got extra reef gear lying around, come sell it for CASH!! Come sell your used reef aquarium related gear Space is limited so please show up right before 11am to ensure you receive a spot. For more details please visit www.thebaymac.com/usedgearswap08 or contact [email protected] Manufacturers on hand to answer your questions Raffle - Donations from companies like Reef Nutrition, CPR, United Pet Group (Marine Land, Tetra, etc), TAAM (Rio, SEIO, etc), and more. All proceeds will be split between BAR & NCNRS equally Directions & Info – 11am-5pm Sunday November 23rd 2143 South 10th Street, San Jose, 95112 Close to the 87/280/101/85 and the San Jose Fair Grounds
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11/06/2008, 12:38 PM
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Be there or be square~!
-This is the address associated with Max's complex where The Aquarium Showroom is located~! AWESOME~! Last edited by bayareaquarist; 11/06/2008 at 12:52 PM. |
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11/06/2008, 12:53 PM
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Any option of car pooling?
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11/06/2008, 01:42 PM
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Interested in hitching a ride!!
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11/06/2008, 02:02 PM
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I would like to go, but hate that it's on a Sunday??
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A Reef Aquarium is a hole between sheets of glass, that the aquarist fills with money. "Sharks are naturally peaceful." Jack of all trades, and master of none. ~Steve~ Current Tank Info: 75G, 30 Gallon Cube, (2) 12G NANOs, 20G Garage Grow out, |
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11/06/2008, 02:16 PM
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I know my husband would let me go if it means getting rid of more fish equipment
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11/06/2008, 03:31 PM
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Looks good Gresham!
Thanks to those that have spent time putting this together.
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11/06/2008, 04:48 PM
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Quote:
 Do you prefer Sat. for future events?
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11/06/2008, 05:19 PM
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Sent you a email about the MARS Frag Swap. |
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11/06/2008, 06:03 PM
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But that's just me, I can't speak for everyone else. I will still try and make it for sure, but it will be much harder, and it will be a long drive back to Sac, and then have work on Monday Morning.
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A Reef Aquarium is a hole between sheets of glass, that the aquarist fills with money. "Sharks are naturally peaceful." Jack of all trades, and master of none. ~Steve~ Current Tank Info: 75G, 30 Gallon Cube, (2) 12G NANOs, 20G Garage Grow out, |
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11/06/2008, 06:13 PM
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good to know, I'll keep that in mind for the next one
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11/10/2008, 09:42 AM
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Update:
CVR - Central Vally Reefers will be joining BAR and NCNRS with selling coral frags and supplies to support their club. Welcome CVR, glad you could join in the fun Raffle items added: Neptune Systems has donated an ACjr Controller EcoTech has donated a Vortech Boston Aqua Farms has donated two Premium Propagation kits, 3x Reef Epoxy, Scalpel, Bone Shears and tweezers Reef Nutrition has donated "Plankton Culture Manual", "Giant Clams in the Sea and Aquarium", numerous Reef Nutrition 6oz sample packs as well as individual bottles of product A private donor has donated a Kill-A-Watts meter and 100x Coral Cradles. CPR, TAAM, Caribsea, EcoSytem Aquarium, and United Pet Group (Marineland, etc) have all indicated they will be donating to the swap as well but no items have been specified..stay tuned BAR members will be donating some LE corals to the swap as well. All raffle proceeds are split amongst the participating clubs. This show that will be BAR, NCNRS and CVR.
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Gresham _______________________________ Feeding your reef...one polyp at a time Last edited by GreshamH; 11/10/2008 at 09:48 AM. |
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11/10/2008, 01:17 PM
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Here's a look into the venue BAYMAC is being held at. It's a wedding/event hall that was just recently finished
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11/10/2008, 01:19 PM
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That photo looks really familiar
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11/10/2008, 01:21 PM
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It should. Some one named Phong took it and I borrowed it
Wanna take event pics for us?
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11/10/2008, 01:34 PM
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I will have the camera with me.. I do what I can..
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11/10/2008, 01:56 PM
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Who from Sac area is going so far? I am debating on going. Anyone want to carpool (assuming I can go)?
Gresh - thanks for putting this event together! |
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11/10/2008, 02:14 PM
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Thank Max as well as if it weren't for him it would never have happened
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11/10/2008, 02:17 PM
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I'm going to try and make it.
If I go my van is up for the trip, and it has fast track on the front bumper, so no stoppping at tolls!!!
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A Reef Aquarium is a hole between sheets of glass, that the aquarist fills with money. "Sharks are naturally peaceful." Jack of all trades, and master of none. ~Steve~ Current Tank Info: 75G, 30 Gallon Cube, (2) 12G NANOs, 20G Garage Grow out, |
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11/10/2008, 02:19 PM
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. Is anybody going to sell stuff? If so we need to go early. I have some stuff that I can sell if I don't sell it before then.
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11/10/2008, 03:16 PM
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so this is another raffel before ours here right?
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11/10/2008, 03:29 PM
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MARS has a meeting the Friday prior to BAYMAC but it is before the Dec MARS fragswap. So it's sandwiched in between two MARS events
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11/10/2008, 03:43 PM
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What time you think the raffle will be held? i really wanna go and i'll be headin down that way but only to visit my brand new nephew so my wife may yell at me if i try to sneak out to go to this.
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11/10/2008, 03:49 PM
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11:00am Doors open - raffle ticket sales start
1:00pm Randy Reed - Feeding Your Reef 2:10pm Jake Adams - Flow and Flow Devices Explained 3:20pm Rich Ross - Coral and Fish Collections in Tonga 4:00pm Raffle ticket sales end 4:20pm Raffle Winners posted - all will be announced at once on projector or printed on a poster 4:45pm Unclaimed Raffle items will be redrawn at this time. 5:00pm doors close
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11/10/2008, 03:50 PM
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jim just tell your wife your looking for a nice frag for the kid...gotta hook em when their young
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