Sorry it’s taken so long to get this up but I had 3000 pictures to sort through and still couldn’t find a decent one of Bill to put up ;D
The meeting started as they do every month … with dinner. This month we got to enjoy burger night. PBJ!
Some of us polished off 3 or 4 before the meeting even got under way:
Really can’t say I blame him too much - they were goooooood!!!
We learned about the new Farm Stand board that showed up this month in which some of our members will be invited to become “farmers” and help supply fellow hobbyists with good frags at good prices. This is one of the perks of being a premium member - it’s the only way to get access to this board.
Shawn introduced our first “Frag Farmer” - John aka Houndsbayman
This months virtual tank tour was Bill Robinson (billrob71)
We were all quite interested and increasingly intrigued by Bill’s 700+ calcium readings. (If I’m not mistaken the last cast I had on my leg only had measurable calcium at 650 ppm.)
Our big presentation of the night was by our very special guest speaker Steven Pro from Ice Cap Lighting.
Steven put on a great presentation regarding the various items in our tanks that sting, poke, irritate, poison, or create extreme discomfort. The best part? He brought pictures!!! PoM
You’ve got to respect a man that has 50 pointy things sticking out of his finger and has the good thought to grab a camera before pulling them out. You’ve also got to respect a man that has no problem standing up in front of a high school cafeteria full of people and admitting to not keeping his eye on the lion fish while armpit deep in a display tank.
Overall it was a fantastic presentation full of a ton of useful information - especially since all of us have at least one of the items he discussed in our tanks.
Oh and just in case you missed it…HOT water when poked or stung - not cold water!!!
The night wrapped up with our raffle. There were many frags raffled off this month - I wish I had the list we made of who won what but it appears to have gone the way of Ian (missing without a trace). Needless to say we had about 7 NICE frags that were raffled off including a spectacular blue Florida Ricordea that you don’t see too often.
There were many gift certificates to local and online sponsors - $25 to Delaware’s Premium Aquatics, Dr. Macs and many more. Gift boxes of food and supplies from Instant Ocean. included in the boxes were:
A bottle of Nitrate Reducer
Marine conditioner (to get the tangles out?)
Reef Accelerator (The Prius of aquarium supplements)
Seaweed grazing block
Gel food
Pellet food (2 kinds)
A golf shirt GolfC (I guess they think we have time for another hobby ;D )
Seriously though - wow what a box of goodies - I’m really glad I won one now that I’ve opened it and saw the contents PBJ! PoM YahoO
The GOLDEN ticket item this month was…
You can use the same cheesy TV announcer voice as last month here if you’d like
(but I’m going to use one of the heavily accented Victoria’s Secret Angels voices for mine)
A 5 gallon bucket of Tropic Marin salt, a gift box as mentioned above and a $25 gift certificate.
The winner this month (and the guy buying my raffle tickets next month) was 1st8Eer Reefer!!!
Once again another fantastic meeting - the good news is due to the delay in getting this thread published - there’s only 3 weeks left until the next meeting!!!
Please join us back at William Penn’s Cafeteria on April 19th at 7pm for the next fun-filled extravaganza!!!
