Our first Coral Club meeting!

[kiefers]

My wife and I decided to have our reef club meeting here at the house. It is the 2nd meeting of a revived club thst had dwindled over time. We decided to rekick it into gear with ideas and how to's.
Last night I got out of work at 11 p.m. and started working on my flat worm, algae, all around dirtiness tank that had been rather neglected for several weeks. I started taking out some of the coral at began dipping them in the flatworm exit and allowing them to soak it up. While scrapping the glass, my wrist smacked a rock and EVERYTHING came tumbling down! The shock and misbelief just did me in.
So,....... I took that as a sign and reaquascaped the tank dipping everything and rinsing well. Vacumed the substrate and along with it a four and a half inch bristle worm that shot out his little needles like he met buisness, he's toilet food now.
At 5:30 this a.m. I was done. Looks good and I like it. So at two this afternoon the club arrived. eight folks showed up, at chatted about the club and threw out some ideas, concerns and even thought up a community tank for maybe a nursing home or what not.
We raffled off some corals that everyone had and we gave away a crap load of maco that was LITERALLY over taking my biocube.
Over all, Paidey won a hammer, frogspawn, some zoa, and a blue mushroom. Michelle won about the same but a whole zoa rock, a pink or orange shroom, and some xenia. I for one did not win jack!!! Lol..... it was fun and everyone is excited about the next meeting. (oh and my tank was a hit) yeehaw!! Saw my tank under soe l.e.d.'s and Holy maceral!!!! The shimmmmmmmer!!
I know...... post pics! Well when I get batteries tomorrow, I will post pics.

 

[meowzer]

WOW.....sounds like fun and lucky you

 

[kiefers]

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Originally Posted by meowzer http:///t/390078/our-first-coral-club-meeting#post_3452140
WOW.....sounds like fun and lucky you
Lol...... lucky nuthin!! I won nuthin! My girls did. Lol

 

[meowzer]

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Originally Posted by Kiefers http:///t/390078/our-first-coral-club-meeting#post_3452146
Lol...... lucky nuthin!! I won nuthin! My girls did. Lol
Not only that, BUT I would love to have a get together like that......a group of people that share our passion for the hobby.....I'd be in my glory

 

[kiefers]

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Originally Posted by meowzer http:///t/390078/our-first-coral-club-meeting#post_3452147
Not only that, BUT I would love to have a get together like that......a group of people that share our passion for the hobby.....I'd be in my glory
OMG!!!! you would be the hostess with the mostess! I would even show up for that!

 

[gemmy]

Sounds like a good time. I've never been to my local reef club's meetings, but I am going to my first frag swap next week.

 

[kiefers]

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Originally Posted by Gemmy http:///t/390078/our-first-coral-club-meeting#post_3452159
Sounds like a good time. I've never been to my local reef club's meetings, but I am going to my first frag swap next week.

sweeeet. lOTS OF FUN.
We are looking into getting things to raffle off. I'm going to be in touch with some of these merchants and proposing a donation for buisness. Aquavitro is the one I'm worried about. Already been in touch with them last week ad so far they agree to partake in the festivities. I guess it helps when they are intrusting a petstore to sell their products and yet they won't carry the product. A little whistle blowing never hurt anyone, but I have been looking for the Salinity for some time now and unable to obtain it. So far so good.

 

[tirtza]

Yeah Keith! Sounds like the meeting was a huge succes! (even if you didn't win anything) hee hee
I'm impressed that you started working on your tank at 11 pm and continued until after 5 am! How in the world did you keep your eyes open!!?! I'm curious too, how'd you end up catching that enormous bristle worm? And how do you vacuum the substrate? Is it sand or crushed coral?

 

[siptang]

Man... we need to have that kinda things down here in SoFlo.... envy keith, ENVY.

 

[btldreef]

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Originally Posted by Siptang http:///t/390078/our-first-coral-club-meeting#post_3452565
Man... we need to have that kinda things down here in SoFlo.... envy keith, ENVY.
If there are LFS's in your area that sell coral, chances are there is a reef club nearby. Ask a LFS the next time you're in one. Some even silently offer discounts for reef club members.
PS: Check your PM

 

[kiefers]

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Originally Posted by tirtza http:///t/390078/our-first-coral-club-meeting#post_3452527
Yeah Keith! Sounds like the meeting was a huge succes! (even if you didn't win anything) hee hee
I'm impressed that you started working on your tank at 11 pm and continued until after 5 am! How in the world did you keep your eyes open!!?! I'm curious too, how'd you end up catching that enormous bristle worm? And how do you vacuum the substrate? Is it sand or crushed coral?
Well, I work evening shift (2-10:30) I just came home and already had the water made and circulating in the tub. I have aragonite so I just used the syphon out the icky shtuff Lol. Ig one has sand, as I did in my biocube, vacuming it did not work because it sucked up the sand too.
The bristle worm I got with a pair of hemostats that were in my scrub top. Al purpose, all the time, love those things!!
As far as not wining anything, those L.E.D.'s will be mine, They were freaking AWESOME!! This guy, names Corey as well, build them and they have a controller as well. Looks perfect. The par readings a gave earlier were lower than the actual readings. Wow!
Sip: Tommie is correct, many fish shops will have info on reefers in your area.
P.S. No PM sent. Lol

 

[tirtza]

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The bristle worm I got with a pair of hemostats that were in my scrub top. Al purpose, all the time, love those things!!
Awesome idea! My sister is a doctor....I need to ask her if she can get me a pair of those. What a great idea
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I have aragonite so I just used the siphon out the icky shtuff Lol. Ig one has sand, as I did in my biocube, vacuming it did not work because it sucked up the sand too.
I'm beginning to wonder if I should have gotten aragonite instead of sand when I first set up my aquarium. I can't vacuum the sand at all without sucking it up and I can hardly cyphon out the cyano without taking out a considerable amount of sand.
I definitely need to join my local reef club, I've just been procrastinating. Reading about your experience totally made me want to do it asap!

 

[kiefers]

You can join our club! although,...... getting up here would get expensice for you. Damb!

 

[shells1525]

That sounds really fun! Wish we had something like that here in LA(Lower Alabama) Hubby and I have to drive 40 minutes just to get to the closest LFS.

 

[kiefers]

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Originally Posted by Shells1525 http:///t/390078/our-first-coral-club-meeting#post_3452785
That sounds really fun! Wish we had something like that here in LA(Lower Alabama) Hubby and I have to drive 40 minutes just to get to the closest LFS.
you know, I didn't know what to expect after the first meeting. We talked about dues, and that was about it. The second meeting was much better (this one) and more people showed up and all of them carring stuff in, food, pop, frags, lights, PAR meters. My wife however was in her element. She was the greeter, food fixer, and all around topic starter. she came up with several good ideas, and in reward, she won some frags in the raffle. All I did was hang up jackets, eat, chat a bit, talked to my dad on the phone for around 15 minutes, (sisters baby is in the hospital in Texas) and he was asking for some advice anf thoughts on what could be wrong. So...... oh..... and droooled for around 30 minutes on this L.E.D. build this guy did! Oh my god!!! this thing is a monster. (it will be mine,... yes,.... yes it will) aaahahhhhhhhh
Sorry, but anyway, it was fun and we got alot to think about and stuff.