Fall Fest [Nov 14, 2015] GIRS Fall Fest 2015!! (Pleasant Hill, IA)

A few more raffle donations:

From Turbo's Aquatics
Bud's Super Awesome-O Test Kit Package*
Milwaukee Digital Seawater Refractometer
Hanna Phosphate Checker (HI713)
Hanna Alkalinity Checker (HI755)
Salifert Calcium
Salifert Magnesium
Salifert Nitrate

From LRS Foods
(5) packs of LRS Reef Frenzy


Grand Prize Announcement tomorrow morning!!!

 

Provided by the Greater Iowa Reef Society:

Bulk Reef Supply Dual Reactor
1 Gallon BRS ROX 0.8 Carbon
1/2 Gallon High Capacity GFO

Maxspec Gyre XF130

the NEW EcoTech Vectra M1 Return Pump

...and the GRAND PRIZE:

Neptune Apex Aquarium Controller!!
Complete with
Standard Grade pH Probe
Temp Probe
Display Module
Energy Bar 8​

 

T-Shirts and raffle tickets will be for sale at the event. Tickets are $1/each or $20 for a full sheet of 25.

Clarification: The full-sheet tickets are what is referred to as "Chinese" style: you get a master stub which you keep, and 25 tickets that you can tear off and place individually in the raffle boxes (that all have the same number as your master stub)

 

I'll be there no later than 7am, probably a bit earlier

 

I have totally slacked on updating the speaker topics but here they are. Copy/paste this post all over Facebook @Armydog @Ray/Jen_Reefin or anyone else!!

Speaking from 10am - 11am:
Mark Callahan
"Mr Saltwater Tank TV"

TOPIC:
Strategy of Saltwater Fish Selection

Instead of thinking of fish selection as inches per gallon, I show people how proper fish stocking is really a strategy. Between fish behavior, color choices, feeding habits, schooling tendencies and taking risk with fish on the fringe, there’s numerous decision points that need to come together. I also go through my stocking strategy for my 450g tank as well as work 1:1 with audience members during the talk to develop their strategy

Speaking from 11:15am-12:15pm:
Todd Gardner

TOPIC:
Multiple Topics (Hybrid Presentation)

Todd will start out with his most popular current topic:

Drifters: a guide to the stray tropical fishes of New York. It's been updated most recently and it has a lot of cool video footage. It's about collecting tropical marine species far outside of the tropics (in a temperate climate). He addresses techniques for collecting and keeping them, provides a run-down of species found in New York waters, and discusses some potential environmental implications.

Then he will touch on a few other topics, if there is time:

Seahorse Aquaculture: It's a quick seahorse overview, followed by reporting on some of the findings on juvenile seahorse nutrition from his Master's thesis and work at the Long Island Aquarium.

Advanced aquaculture: This talk is about rearing basslets and other difficult marine species he's tackled over the past 20 years.​

 

One more donation to add:

The Coral Reef (Burlington LFS) is donating:

2 buckets of Instant Ocean Reef Crystals
2 buckets of Instant Ocean Sea Salt
1 box of Instant Ocean Reef Crystals

 

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