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06/12/2006, 09:33 PM
GRMAS June Meeting Minutes
·Next meeting: Wednesday July 5th. This will be at the regular location and meeting time (Family Fare Community Room from 7pm-9pm). This has been switched to Wednesday due to the long holiday weekend.
·Dues: GRMAS is now accepting dues for the year of May 2006-April 2007. Dues are $24/ year, and are prorated $2 less every month. Please see Ed, our treasurer if interested in renewing membership of becoming a member.
·Club T-shirt update: Chad and Julie Kirby brought in the completed T-shirts for sale. All members who were present were able to purchase their shirts from them at this meeting. Gerde will be bringing the remaining shirts to the next meeting for sale, please see him if interested in purchasing a shirt.
·Website update: Rob Macy is currently working on developing a member’s only section and other updates to the website. Please e-mail Rob with any suggestions/ opinions regarding website updates.
·May event: Sorry, the Pruess Animal House Tour was cancelled due to problems with the construction. We will be in contact with them about rescheduling a time to get a behind the scenes tour in the future, please watch MR and RC closely for updates regarding this.
·June Event: Please join the GRMAS on Saturday June 24th at 1am, to see the new string ray exhibit at John Ball Park Zoo. The club will pay for ½ of the admission fee for members who attend.
·July event: Member Picnic: The GRMAS will be having a picnic at Riverside Park from 11am-3pm on Saturday July 29th to show appreciation to it’s members. The picnic is a potluck, members and families please bring a dish to pass. There will be a sign up for dishes on the Reef Central forum to help ensure we do not all bring the same thing. The club will be providing live good, dry goods, book, etc to raffle off for current members present as a “Thank You” from the club. We made a list of items people are interested in during the meeting, we hope to have: fish, SPS corals, soft corals, LPS corals, clams, dry goods (test kits, supplements, etc), books, salt (instant ocean), inverts, etc present.
·The club voted to enjoy the picnic and get to know each other a little better and will plan to reschedule the fragging seminar for later this year. We are considering having the fragging seminar as a Saturday event in September, a date has yet to be decided.
·We are considering having a speaker stop in sometime this fall to discuss sea turtle research, please look for further information and times regarding this as we get closer to setting a date.
·The July meeting topic will be: Nano/ Pico tanks and the August meeting topic will be: Zeovit.
·June meeting topic: Test kits. Due to limited time Scott Yonkers and Brian Vu performed the majority of testing while items were being auctioned during the meeting. Thanks Brian for bringing water for us to test. You can compare the results between different test kits below.
oPH:
Whatman: 7.2
Red Sea: 8.6
Salifert: 8.5
Pinpoint pH meter: 8.61
oAlkalinity:
Red Sea: Normal
Salifert: 8.0 dKh
oCalcium:
Red Sea: 400
Salifert: 375
oPhosphates:
Red Sea: approx 0.05
Hanna colorimeter: 0.13
Salifert: 0.10
·Next meeting: Wednesday July 5th. This will be at the regular location and meeting time (Family Fare Community Room from 7pm-9pm). This has been switched to Wednesday due to the long holiday weekend.
·Dues: GRMAS is now accepting dues for the year of May 2006-April 2007. Dues are $24/ year, and are prorated $2 less every month. Please see Ed, our treasurer if interested in renewing membership of becoming a member.
·Club T-shirt update: Chad and Julie Kirby brought in the completed T-shirts for sale. All members who were present were able to purchase their shirts from them at this meeting. Gerde will be bringing the remaining shirts to the next meeting for sale, please see him if interested in purchasing a shirt.
·Website update: Rob Macy is currently working on developing a member’s only section and other updates to the website. Please e-mail Rob with any suggestions/ opinions regarding website updates.
·May event: Sorry, the Pruess Animal House Tour was cancelled due to problems with the construction. We will be in contact with them about rescheduling a time to get a behind the scenes tour in the future, please watch MR and RC closely for updates regarding this.
·June Event: Please join the GRMAS on Saturday June 24th at 1am, to see the new string ray exhibit at John Ball Park Zoo. The club will pay for ½ of the admission fee for members who attend.
·July event: Member Picnic: The GRMAS will be having a picnic at Riverside Park from 11am-3pm on Saturday July 29th to show appreciation to it’s members. The picnic is a potluck, members and families please bring a dish to pass. There will be a sign up for dishes on the Reef Central forum to help ensure we do not all bring the same thing. The club will be providing live good, dry goods, book, etc to raffle off for current members present as a “Thank You” from the club. We made a list of items people are interested in during the meeting, we hope to have: fish, SPS corals, soft corals, LPS corals, clams, dry goods (test kits, supplements, etc), books, salt (instant ocean), inverts, etc present.
·The club voted to enjoy the picnic and get to know each other a little better and will plan to reschedule the fragging seminar for later this year. We are considering having the fragging seminar as a Saturday event in September, a date has yet to be decided.
·We are considering having a speaker stop in sometime this fall to discuss sea turtle research, please look for further information and times regarding this as we get closer to setting a date.
·The July meeting topic will be: Nano/ Pico tanks and the August meeting topic will be: Zeovit.
·June meeting topic: Test kits. Due to limited time Scott Yonkers and Brian Vu performed the majority of testing while items were being auctioned during the meeting. Thanks Brian for bringing water for us to test. You can compare the results between different test kits below.
oPH:
Whatman: 7.2
Red Sea: 8.6
Salifert: 8.5
Pinpoint pH meter: 8.61
oAlkalinity:
Red Sea: Normal
Salifert: 8.0 dKh
oCalcium:
Red Sea: 400
Salifert: 375
oPhosphates:
Red Sea: approx 0.05
Hanna colorimeter: 0.13
Salifert: 0.10