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Saturday, October 09, 2010

Iowa City Tank Tour
By bobsfish @ 12:32 PM :: 221 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: GIRS News, Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Area, Local Fish Shops, Tank Tour

Come join us for a tank tour in Iowa City on Saturday, October 16. We will meet at noon at Petland, Iowa City. There are 4 more stops on the tour…Alek, SlukBunWalla (Adam), Andy the Reef Guy, and Kylie.
The tour will run from 12:00 to 3:30.

Directions and phone contacts will be available at Petland and will be posted in the Members section.

As a bonus, we will have a RAFFLE at at each stop of the tour, thanks to Ryan Braumann.

Pet's Playhouse Gift Card
Coral Frag

KZ Potassium Test kit

KZ Carbon

Filter Guys DI Resin

2 Gallons of Jeremy's Greenwater

50 gallon bag of Reef Crystals

Drop me a PM if you'd like to join us...Bob

Thursday, September 30, 2010

DSM Tank & Central Campus Tour Oct 16th
By joe.stuetelberg@gmail.com @ 10:16 AM :: 261 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: GIRS Events, Des Moines Area, Tank Tour

On October 16th we will have a tank tour in the Des Moines region. We need to know how many people will attend as well as people to offer to show their tanks.

Central Campus downtown has 20,000+ gallons of saltwater in their marine biology and aquarium science program and are willing to give us a tour of the facility. This tour will beat most behind the scenes tours at public aquariums. They also desperately need your donations of eggcrate, skimmers, pumps, algae scrapers and anything you might have laying around and no longer need.

Please contact either Joe (Flyingmoray) or Gered for more information. You can post your RSVP on the thread in the DSM page.

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Cedar Rapids Tank Tour, April 10, 2010
By bobsfish @ 12:28 AM :: 194 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: GIRS News, Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Area, Tank Tour

The Cedar Rapids area tank tour is scheduled for Saturday April 10th, 2010.
We will be starting at 12:30 PM. We have a busy day scheduled, so bring your running shoes, snorkle gear, and cameras.
You will find the schedule for the tank tour in the club members forums link below.

Tour Schedule click here

If you have any question please do not hesitate to contact us...hope to see you all this Saturday.

Jeremy Orchuk              Bob Boone
CyberJester                   bobsfish
CR/IC Area Trustee       CR/IC Area Trustee

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Cedar Falls/Waterloo Area Tank Tour
By adampottebaum @ 12:00 AM :: 223 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: GIRS Events, Waterloo/Cedar Falls Area, Tank Tour

Our tank tour is going to be on January 30th, starting at 1:00.

Information can be found in the Members Only Forums
(Forums > Club Member Forums > Club Business > Cedar Falls/Waterloo Area Tank Tour)

This is a member only event. If there are any non-paying members who would like to attend, please contact me. Non-paying members can attend one area's event to see all the benefits of paying the small fee of $20 yearly fee to become a paid member will be.

There will be 5 stops. We will be having a Poker Run style tour, where at each stop, each member will receive a card. 5 cards=5 stops, so if you make every stop you will have a perfect poker hand. The person with the best hand at the end of the tour will receive a $20 gift certificate to their choice of any GIRS supporting sponsors. I will get the winners email and have the card/certificate mailed to their home.

I look forward to seeing all of you there!

-Adam Pottebaum

Friday, June 19, 2009

Iowa City Tank Tour, DIY Calcium Reactor, & Barbecue! 6/27
By CyberJester @ 10:25 AM :: 345 Views :: 1 Comments ::

:: Club Events (Non-GIRS), GIRS Events, Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Area, Club News (Non-GIRS), Tank Tour

Whats this, another big DIY event for the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City GIRS folks!

Event Info Link

It is true, we have gone crazy, Another DIY event is on tap for Saturday June 27th (2 in the same month ).

The general plan for the event will be:

Estimate a start time of 12:00PM

A small tank tour of 2 tanks:

Fawn - 1st Stop
Rick - 2nd Stop

This will be followed up by a DIY demonstration of Rick's DIY Calcium Reactor, several of the GIRS community is already running the reactor with great results. This is you chance to see how to fabricate one for yourself or to sweet talk Rick into building one for you (for a modest charge of course).

We will be following that up with a Barbecue event. Rick has said "I am the greatest griller in all the land!". Well Rick, we are going to put you to the test my friend. Alright you got me there, Rick did not say that, but, what the hey it was meant for impact. Hamburgers and hotdogs, with fix'ins will be provided at no charge.

So please, clear your calanders, get you car fueled an plan on joining us for the event.

The DIY food event held on June 13th was a great success, and we promise this one to be not so messy and smell a whole lot better!

See you all then!

Details of the time, event locations, and directions will be posted next week some time in the members thread. I will place a like to that thread here. So check back early next week.

Again if you are not a member of the club and would like to use this chance to use up your one free event pass please contact me and I will PM you the information.

Jeremy Orchuk
GIRS CR/IC Regional Trustee

Thursday, September 25, 2008

It's that time again: Tank Tours!
By jbrunken @ 6:03 PM :: 305 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: GIRS News, GIRS Events, Saltwater/Reef, Des Moines Area, Waterloo/Cedar Falls Area, Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Area, Tank Tour

Several of the areas are in the process or organizing tank tours. Tank tours are events where club members spend an afternoon visiting eachothers tanks. You don't not have to be showing a tank to attend a tour.

For more information please read the following forum threads:

We incourage you to join us for these very informal, fun events.

Friday, May 09, 2008

May 10th Tank Tour
By Steph1643 @ 7:24 PM :: 342 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Area, Tank Tour

Join us tomorrow for our Riverside/Cedar Rapids Tank Tour! Schedule

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Cedar Rapids Tank Tour Being Organized
By jbrunken @ 5:19 PM :: 357 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Saltwater/Reef, Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Area, Tank Tour

Josh (reeffreak3652) is organizing a tank tour in the Cedar Rapids area for Sunday December 9th. If you are interested in attending the tour and/or having your tank be a stop on the tour, please read the Tank Tour thread in our CR/IC regional forum for more information.