WHEN:
October 12th, 2019
12pm - 3pm
** Show floor opens 30 minutes early for Club Members **

WHERE:

National Cattle Congress
257 Ansborough Ave
Waterloo, IA 50701

Admission:
GIRS Members: FREE
17 & Under: FREE
All others: $5/each

More details to come soon!!​

 

Fall Fest 2019 - Schedule

Friday evening - 7pm-10pm

Reception hosted by Fall Fest Sponsor - Aquatics & Exotics
Food & soft drinks provided
Guests may bring alcoholic beverage if desired
Location: Aquatics & Exotics - 2823 University Avenue, Waterloo

Saturday

Speaker Marc Levenson - Critters & pests in the aquarium: 10-00-10:45 am
Speaker Marc Levenson - Aquascaping: 10:45-11:30 am
Floor opens - General admission: 12 noon*
Raffle: 2:30 pm
Floor closes: 3 pm

* Floor opens to Members and speaker attendees at 11:30

 

Final list of vendors and hobbyists

Coral Vendors:
Reef Deep
Ocean Man Aquatics
Coral Addict Corals
Fragcreation
Chummingham's Reef
Midwest Frags

Fish vendors:
Mermaid's Cove

Hobbyists:
Jeanette Becker
Ian Rahmatulla
RJ Medina
Shannon Jontz
David Wolfe
Aaron Brandt
Jeremy Dirks
Elliott Kelly
Chad Chapman

 

Speaker: Marc Levenson

Come join us for 2 great presentations:

Marc “melev” Levenson has been in the hobby since 1998, blogging his experiences about his own reef on melevsreef.com to help others learn husbandry skills. Most recently he’s become an online personality with tens of thousands of followers on his YouTube channel (melevsreef) also geared at helping other reefers through his personal experiences. His website’s articles, blogs, and Critter ID cover topics like pest control, feeding techniques, working with acrylics, reef photography and water chemistry to name a few. His online store carries many products like his RODI systems, custom sumps and even includes some items that he himself invented as clever solutions to make reefkeeping easier. Marc is a nationally recognized speaker, who regularly recommends supporting local club events, shopping local fish stores, and interacting with others via social media. His other hobby is diving, exploring natural reefs. His current tanks are a 400-gallon reef and a 60-gallon anemone cube, filled with captive bred fish and aquacultured corals.

Marc will present 2 topics. Each will be 30 minutes followed by 15 min for Q/A

10:00: Critters & Pests in the Aquarium - Identifies most of the good guys and the bad guys, and how to remove them.

10:45: Aquascaping - What looks best, what to avoid, bonding rock together, pre-planning for pegging, live rock versus dry rock, plus the value of natural filtration.

 

2 additional hobbyists added to the list. See above!

 

Here's a link to my thread with Frags for Fall fest
Fall Fest - Jeanette's Frags for Fall Fest

 

Check out the list of Raffle prizes: Fall Fest - Fall Fest 2019 - Raffle list

More prizes are being listed daily!

 

Members only door prizes!​

Again we are going to have a Member's only drawing. Each dues-paying member will receive one ticket to be placed in the drawing for Member only door prizes.

Ice cap 1k Gyre
Marineland Maxijet 900
Marineland - 1 gallon Black Diamond Carbon
1 16 oz bag of frozen Club DIY food
1 15th Anniversary Club T-shirt​

** Must be present to win

 

Concessions at the event​

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