Thought i would get a head start on this one since we have most of the details!
As i mentioned in the previous thread we will have Dr. Mac of Pacific East Aquaculture speaking for us as well as cordinating the group buy for this month! Im going to do my best to get back to the DIY technique and have a good one ready to go! Im also hoping to have the new ATO’s on hand and maybe we will have time for a quick demo! Since the chinese was VERY convienent for me and was destroyed within 5 minutes we will do it again next month! We have several nice raffles for next month. I just got a package from TB Aquatics today that will be the Golden Ticket item next month! It will be a dual media reactor(carbon and GFO) which will include everything you need to get started even a full pound of GFO! Thank you Brian at TB Aquatics! Also, we have our former VP taking care of our frag raffle this month! Im simply going to cut and paste a pm i got from him regarding the details but suffice to say we should have some really unusual frags next month!
Hey, for the frag pack... I can get large frags of "German Blue Montipora" and "Idaho Grape Montipora" if you are interested in them. The catch is the guy that has them grows them under natural sunlight. If they are kept under artifical lights they will color up, but they arent that impressive right now. I was thinking if you wanted I could include those, and if they colored up in time you could put them in the raffle, or otherwise hold on them. Up to you.
I already picked up a frag of these at the local open house:
wow sweet, im diggin those frags, especially the caps…been eyeing those up on the web…who cares if they are brown, they are beautiful when they color up. sweet gig, looking forward to it!
ohh yea cant wait to buy some stuff from dr. mac…lots of coral buying in the month of may. we got ECA, TFB, dr. mac, DVRC frag swap later on…wow fun filled month with and awesome meeting in between and chinese food GolfC.
And for anyone that has never had the honor/privilege of meeting Icy (and Keleigh) he (they) was an incredidbly active member of the club before moving to Florida. The nice part is he knows his stuff and you can be certain he will only send the nicest healthiest corals he can get his hands on.
Ok picked up one of the frags that I was planning on including today on the way home from work. Its a Montipora capitata (aka rice coral, this is a branching monti). The base color is a light green, with purple polyps. I’ll post pics later, but it looks something like the 3rd coral on this page:
i have horrible news for everyone. unfortunately the frags that Bellamy shipped did not make it and they will not be available for raffle next month but there is good news. coincidentally, i happen to have the exact same corals that he was going to ship and i should be able to grow them out and have them fragged for raffle by late fall! ;D
thanks again Bellamy! you da man! tell Kaleigh i said hi!
Content - Jcling presents his tank for VTTOTM
Content - ATO presentation and demonstration
Content - presentation by Dr. Mac
Raffle - 3 $25 gift cards and 8 unsual frags listed below provided by Bellamy
Golden ticket - Dual chambered GFO/Carbon reactor and 1lb of GFO provided by TBaquatics!
Food - Chinese again!
Small Blue Cloves
Green Hulk Cloves
Montipora capitata - green branching monti with purple polyps
German Blue Montipora
Idaho Grape Montipora
Carribean Zoanthids - Green with splotchy green markings. There are a few different colors that these turn under different lights.
Blue Ridge Coral
Green Merulina - This is a plating coral that seems to be LPS. Its unique because the coral looks like it should be a brain coral, but it plates.
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i have horrible news for everyone. unfortunately the frags that Bellamy shipped did not make it and they will not be available for raffle next month but there is good news. coincidentally, i happen to have the exact same corals that he was going to ship and i should be able to grow them out and have them fragged for raffle by late fall! ;D
thanks again Bellamy! you da man! tell Kaleigh i said hi![/quote]
LOL… Thanks for the sweet frags Icy. Maybe I will get lucky this month.
